Steve Connor
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Hats off to Wes Plate, XSend Motion looks fantastic!
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[Bill Davis] “I’m pretty sure in the modern NLE era that all the programs can cope with anything you throw at them just fine.
“Thank you for the clarification
[Bill Davis] “I want to be excited.”
I think even beyond FCPX it’s a pretty exciting time for Cameras and Post_Production as well
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Performance, I’m getting close to real time playback, previously I was only getting 15fps maximum on HD AVCHD footage. 4K XAVC performance is slower, but still better than PPro. I haven’t tried ProRes or using Proxies yet
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[Oliver Peters] “Is the performance there yet in the Edit mode?
“Not for me, but I’m only on a Mac Pro with ATi 7950 car, it has definitely improved though!
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[Robin S. Kurz] “You forget, Bill. You can’t have an opinion OR ask questions (especially the uncomfortable ones) before running it past Steve! 😉 Do it, or feel the righteous wrath!
“Yep, that’s what I meant, you’re not missing the point at all.
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[Bill Davis] “Can’t we have one little corner on the web where we get to argue with a little passion occasionally?”
Sure we can, it could be the same place where people are allowed a negative opinion about FCPX, who haven’t used it extensively, without being jumped on every time they say something.
and for the record I enjoy using FCPX as much as you do 🙂
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[Bill Davis] “No you’re right. No reason to look beyond “good enough” cuz at that standard they’re all just the same.
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No reason to differentiate.
Preferences are for suckers.
Or… we get to have a preference. And that preference can be informed by not just what CAN succeed for us, but what we actually might enjoy.
I’ve stopped promotion the idea that anyone else might be more productive or happier editing in X.
Because all that really matters to me, is that I am.
I was digging through a bunch of the disconnected, messy partial start and stop multicam clips from my recent shoot just tonight. Matching and watching various synced camera arrangements appear and disappear after the initial prep,and rejecting the heck out of the master multiclip to remove the stuff where nothing worked.
And while I was doing it I was actually grinning. I truly hope other editors on other systems are having as much fun. Because it WAS fun. And when work is fun, life is good!
That’s enough for me.
“Good for you but it doesn’t answer the question, you said;
“So Its no longer good enough to use the same tools, because the game has changed so much.”
What “same tools” did you mean? were you referring to other NLE’s that couldn’t cope with the mixed footage workflow you were describing?
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[Bill Davis] “Absolutely agree.
The biggest thing that’s changed in my career over the past few years, are the goals my clients present to me. THOSE are what have changed most.
My most recent shoot involved six locations, three wildly different cameras (often all shooting at exactly the same time.) A cast of administrators, teachers, students, and community members across a diverse geographic area in high, middle and elementary schools. The pools of content, interviews, b-roll, shooting styles, cameras and sound capture devices were constantly shifting.
Managing all that simply wasn’t the same as what I’ve been doing for the past 20 years when I used to go out with ONE camera with two fixed audio tracks and build everything EFP style. Yesterday it was Clip A arriving in as h264 with a single stereo track. Today I sit down to work with clip B arriving as MXF with 16 embedded audio channels. It’s more complex now. Period.
So Its no longer good enough to use the same tools, because the game has changed so much.
“So what NLE wouldn’t have been “good enough” to cope with the scenario you described above?
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[Bill Davis] “Hard enough to find that.
So excuse me if I let my FANBOY flag fly as often as possible.
Not to would kinda mean that I’ve STOPPED looking for things that excite me and that feel special and that I can maybe grow to love.
And who the f*** wants to live like that?
“Good grief, lighten up Bill!
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[Herb Sevush] “Just the same, every other NLE maker actually wanted my attention, they sent me e-mails for months before NAB and provided all sorts of information and opportunities to learn what’s new with their products. But Apple is not like other companies so if I wanted to learn what they are up to I would have to research it on the web, then wait in line to beat out other interested parties, and then sign a NDA.
I am not worthy.”
Bazinga!