[Steve Connor]

We need a sticky at the top of this forum page saying “If you haven’t used FCPX then your opinion isn’t valid”

On an unrelated note https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcUBpgmHgcg

[Steve Connor]

[David Lawrence] “It’s not a storytelling medium like filmmaking. It’s something completely different.
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I’d love you to be wrong about this, It’s been a while since we had a new way to tell stories

[David Lawrence] “It’s the wild west and the field’s wide open.

There’s no better time to experiment and try weird new stuff. It’s a fun and exciting time!
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Yee ha!

[Steve Connor]

Some nice additions there! I look forward to seeing more detail However I really hope this has improved performance with 4K XAVC.

[Steve Connor]

Some interesting stuff but mostly a stand up sales pitch.

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “No quarrel with the idea that a more direct eyeline is more engaging. But my experience is that more engagement is not always desirable. A few years back I was shooting interviews of people who had (decades earlier) been early pioneers in treating the local AIDS infected community. One interviewee being honored was a woman who had lost her teenage son as the result of a transfusion back before the virus had been identified and who had spent the rest of her life fighting to improve things in the early “at risk” populations. Even tho I literally stopped taping three times to let her get her emotions under control during her telling her story, the pain was still so intense that The LAST thing I needed was the enhanced emotional connection a direct shot would have captured. That’s all I’m saying. Emotional engagement is ONE tool in a shooters quiver when recording interviews. Not the best or only one. I’m probably 500 interviews down the road and that’s my 2 cents. Feel free to disagree. But notice that while direct “head on” mirror boxes that allow easy interviews with perfect direct to the audience eye lines have been around for decades (one of my producer friends built a nice one in around 2005 we used for a while) you don’t see many of them in regular use. But you DO see constant interviews in the classic “near but off-camera” style. Maybe there’s actually a reason for that.
That’s all.
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Simon wasn’t talking about direct eyeline, he was talking about incorrect “off Camera” style

[Steve Connor]

[Simon Ubsdell] “Am I really alone in getting so worked up about this? Or am I just being a grumpy bastard as usual and nobody else feels this way?

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You’re not alone! The other thing that gets me is the current vogue for facing people out of the wrong side of frame

[Steve Connor]

[Mathieu Ghekiere] “I don’t really have a need for an assymetrical dissolve, but this plugin looks really fantastic. If I ever need one, I know where to spend my money :-)”

Creatively this plug in is a lot more than just an asymmetric dissolve

[Steve Connor]

[Charlie Austin] “Just use X David, it’s better anyway. :ducks and runs away cackling maniacally: 😉
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Yes David, don’t forget you can turn off the magnetic timeline 🙂

[Steve Connor]

[Bill Davis] “Don’t know how many of my corporate type of video clients will appreciate the distinctions – but that’s not the point.”

I agree, but the important part that I will

[Steve Connor]

Excellent work Simon, looking forward to using it