Simon Ubsdell
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[Walter Soyka] “Have you heard of Jeff Bezos’s two-pizza team rule?”
I hadn’t heard it before, but now that I have it makes perfect sense and chimes with actual experience.
Thank you!
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[Walter Soyka] “I say the best opportunity is in the middle because a small team has many of the same advantages described elsewhere for freelancers, but they have significantly more capacity for work. “
What sort of numbers constitute “a small team” in your view?
In my experience of a number of different size configurations, the “small” solution that seems to work best is when each member of the team is a strong player in their own right.
Above a certain size, this is rarely possible as other business considerations begin to dilute the ideal mix.
The “middle” often suffers from a weight of management considerations which are inimical to a healthy business.
Beyond a certain scale, however, other factors come into play that mitigate the downsides.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Wait… OMG… so you’re saying… they KILLED the titler??!!”
No.
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[Herb Sevush] “plus even the legacy version of the old title tool no longer opens up text templates”
For different reasons to yours, the discontinuity with the legacy version is very bad news for us here too, in particular because you can no longer export legacy .prti files.
I’m happy to sacrifice functionality for something very significantly better. This is not something very significantly better by any stretch of the imagination.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I say that colloquially and with exaggeration”
It does none of us any harm to get in touch with our inner Bill from time to time and just let rip ????
Another “cool feature” that I know I have banged on about in the past but make no excuses for returning to here is Premiere’s Group function, which allows you to assemble any clips in the timeline (whether contiguous or not, whether audio or video or both) into a single unit that can be manipulated as though it were a single clip.
It’s hard to convey how useful and widely applicable this is until you really start getting into the groove of using it and then you’ll find yourself really missing it when you move to another application.
Sometimes the very best ideas are those that look innocuously simple and this is one of those. Like so many things you really do have to immerse yourself in all the different ways you can use it to appreciate how powerful it is.
Simon Ubsdell
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Surely this is very simple unless I’ve misunderstood you.
Take your matted version and add a blur to spread the surrounding colours into the black areas. Then use the matted version as Track Matte (Alpha Inverted) to trim the result of the blurred version so it only appears over the black areas. Put the unmatted version beneath these two layers and then simply adjust the opacity of the blurred version.
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[Bill Davis] “So here’s their adherents chance to point out their cool new features!
“OK, here’s one from Premiere that I think is pretty cool.
Whereas in FCP X if a clip has been used it is simply marked with a Used flag that doesn’t count how many times or where it has been used, in Premiere you can see not only how many times a clip has been used, but you also have a list of TCs for where each occurrence takes place (across all sequences in the project) that allows you to jump directly to each location.
Now there’s metadata for you.
It’s easy to miss the innovative features in Premiere if you assume they aren’t there.
Edit: I’m not an “adherent” – I just like interesting stuff wherever I come across it.
If you look at the much broader picture, you’d have to say that Adobe was one of the companies doing the most to drive cutting edge innovation in the AV space. Not all of it immediately finds its way into the commercial products but there is no denying that extreme technological innovation is happening at Adobe all the time. Much of it is quite literally jaw-dropping, in the good sense.
Simon Ubsdell
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[Brian Seegmiller] “This looks like a good one:
https://www.klangfreund.com/lufsmeter/“
LUFSMeter is certainly a very decent budget solution. The reason I go with the Izotope Loudness Control (which is very far from cheap) is that unlike LUFSMeter which simply analyses the loudness and then applies a global level correction, Izotope uses its own exceptionally high quality intelligent dynamic signal processing to optimise the result.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “What I would like to see is simple kb shortcuts to move a clip up or down in stacking order (move to top, or move to bottom, or move up/down) so that it would make adjusting the stack a little more precise and quick and still fit within the magnetic timeline paradi …. format.”
^ This.
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[Brian Seegmiller] “Bill I agree. There are some features/fixes that I want but not that many.”
I hope you don’t mind my saying so but this to me seems like a curious phenomenon.
In common with I think most people, the more I like a piece of software the more I engage with thinking about ways that I’d like to see it improved. My interest in its future direction correlates directly with my interest in it in the first place.
FCP X seems to show an inverse correlation. The more you like it, the less you have an opinion about how you’d like to see it move forward.
I hope that’s not unfair but on the evidence of this discussion it does seem to have some truth.
[Brian Seegmiller] “Loudness control to meet broadcast standards.”
I can’t help feeling that this is the kind of solution that is far better left to specialist third parties:
https://www.izotope.com/en/products/master-and-deliver/rx-loudness-control.html
Simon Ubsdell
tokyo productions
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