Shawn Miller
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[andy patterson] “It is one thing to have a Kong-Fu or Aikido practitioner practice wrist lock and deflections with friends in the dojo. However when they enter the real world the wrist locks and deflections do not work as they has practiced. In fact it does more harm than good.”
LOL – that’s a bit like saying that you can’t produce high end work using FCPX because casual users aren’t capable of producing great work with it. I think you should pick a subject that you’re more knowledgeable about to make your points. ☺
Shawn
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[andy patterson] ” Remember many people thought Chinese Kong-Fu was the best form of martial arts until the UFC proved that to be false. Some thought Aikido was the best form of martial arts but the UFC proved that wrong as well. “
HUGE OT SIDE NOTE: Most experienced martial artists would probably disagree. It’s been a common thought for centuries that there’s no such thing as a superior style, only superior practitioners. So called “mixed martial arts” works great within the confines of a UFC fight, maybe not so well in a knife fight with an eskrimador (just sayin’). I think the same is true for any art form. There is no ‘best tool’ or method, just the best tool for the artist, the project or the production.
EVEN MORE OT: Kung-Fu isn’t a style… it’s hard work over time, anyone with a high degree of skill can be said to have good Kung-Fu, even a master editor. Chinese Martial Arts encompasses hundreds of different styles with different benefits for different kinds of practitioners. So even within that broad art form, you learn that ‘best’ is a matter of need and perspective.
Shawn
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[Brian Seegmiller] “I did just like you told me to do . Add a feather mask to a color matte.”
So, what was it that you didn’t like about the result? It seems like you could adjust the shape and feather size of the mask and get the same result you showed in the FCPX example.
Shawn
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[Brian Seegmiller] “actually I just tried the feathered mask on a color matte and sorry I still could not create the look I wanted like this one created in FCP X”
What result did you get in PPro, and how did you get there?
Shawn
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Right, however I was just trying to use the title tool which was the topic of this thread.”
Why not use them together? It’s not like it’s a huge investment in time… which was your point, right? You spent hours trying to do something simple with gradients – I’m just suggesting a much faster way to do it.
Shawn
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[Brian Seegmiller] “I tried making a title the other day in PP and was not successful. I wanted to make a lower third bar for a title with a gradient that gradually went transparent on both ends and was solid in the middle. Could not do it. I spent a lot of time with the gradient option trying to figure it out. This title comes with FCP X.”
A feathered mask on a color matte would have been a LOT faster.
Shawn
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[andy patterson] “Competition will determine the fate of the CC. As I stated the CC is not super expensive but for video editing the competition is getting tougher and tougher and less expensive. For example BMD lowered the price for DR. I imagine BMD are still making money form DR. BMD and Adobe can make millions or billions depending on what they want to charge. Stating BMD sells hardware is a moot point because DR is competition for Premiere Pro. DR is getting better and better and also getting less expensive. The same cannot be said of the CC. Do you finally see my point about competition? $49.99 for the CC in another two years may seem expensive depending on where the competition is at.”
Well, that’s kind of the point, Andy. How does a software company compete with a hardware company that can give its offerings away for little or nothing? Surely, not by lowering it’s prices! Subsidized software shields users from the true costs of development, so non-subsidized applications will always seem expensive by comparison. I have two roaming licenses for Resolve Studio, yet I haven’t paid a penny for either seat or any subsequent updates to the application… yet, I think $50.00 for a monthly CC subscription is completely fare, and to be honest, less expensive than I would expect it to be. I can certainly see where they could be more flexible in their subscription options, but come on… Adobe isn’t exactly Autodesk.
Lastly, and even further off-topic, I’m just waiting for Maxon to announce it’s great new subscription model OR its acquisition by Adobe or Autodesk. Perpetual licensing isn’t dead, but I think it’s on life support. ☺
Shawn
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[Ben McCarthy] ”
A Microsoft Surface Pro costs which has a quad core processor:• 6th Gen Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM
• Ultra-thin 28-inch adjustable PixelSense Display
• Surface Pen, Keyboard and Mouse included
• Windows 10 Prois $5500 Australian
I’d take the iMac Pro for $6500 anyday of the week”
But the Surface Pro is a touch device aimed at graphic designers. The ergonomics alone seems to point to a different audience than the iMac. I assume the Surface Pro will get a GPU/CPU update at some point, probably sooner rather than later.
Shawn
EDIT: I meant the Surface Studio
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[Charlie Austin] “[andy patterson] “Charlie did not show how it was done.”
Bored again tonight, so here ya go.. 15 min real time, ~4 of which were spent creating the font to use, so 10-11 min., no rendering. I sped it it up. A lot. ☺
Again, FCP X is not 3D Modeling software and I’m not suggesting that it is. At all. “
That’s actually pretty cool, thanks for sharing Charlie. It’s like a much better version of 3D invigorator. ☺
Shawn
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[Bill Davis] “D) At least a decade behind Mocha which is licensed everywhere including for X for years already.”
Mocha shipped with After Effects CS6… how do you know that Adobe isn’t currently licensing Imagineer’s technology?
Shawn