Tony West
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This is a good thread to show how many things Prp has copied from X
A tip of the hat should go to X for that for starters.
The connected clip structure of the X TL lets me move huge chunks of the story without even selecting them. In a doc where the story is not set I like moving lots of elements around the TL to get a feel how they will play. Stuff staying in sync and moving out of the way is a bonus but it’s moving huge chucks around with ease that I like.
They can copy the skimmer a bit but this one will be hard to copy with tracks.
X is missing some things but you are paying for only what you use. It’s the argument that has been made against cable for years. People who don’t want to pay for channels they don’t watch. for me I prefer it that way, that’s not a negative.
X you buy it and you’re done so it could wide up cheaper so to me the pressure is on Prp to be much better than X to justify the subscription. It can’t just be equal.
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[Helmut Kobler] ” I don’t know if the last version or two of FCP X took a step back in terms of performance,”
That’s how I feel. Earlier versions ran better on my same computer.
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[Herb Sevush] ” tempting despite the price”
I hear you. It is not a cheap program : )
I started with lite RX2 and lite RX3 and when 4 Advance came up they offered a discount to if you had 3 to upgrade. It still was more jack than I wanted to pay but I figured for what I was getting I couldn’t justify not having it. I will be doing my taxes next month and will be bringing in that reciept : )
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[Herb Sevush] “Well, to make it more specific, since you can’t access the spectral analyzer function from within X what exactly is the process – I’m imagining it’s open RX4, then load the video clip with the audio your working on, then find the part that needs fixing, make the fix, save the changed file, then reopen in X and the change is made. Is that it?
“Yes that’s pretty much it. I like to stay organized with all these clips I have in my doc so I have a folder called RX Work that I export it to out of X. When I’m done in RX I export that to that folder with it’s name “fixed”. Bring that back into X tagged.
It’s not a big deal to me because I remember how I used to do it. Trying find all these little noises and replace them with room tone if somebody did their job in the field and gave it to me.
The majority of the work I do with RX is cleaning up background noise and I use that filter right in X, which you could do with Prp also, but if you had audition I don’t think you would need to buy RX. The Declipper filter is amazing also that I use right in X.
For me Herb, I want the power of audition but I want to use X so RX gives me what I’m looking for.
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[Oliver Peters] “You’re talking about the individual filter. Right? “
I was talking about that because he said this “as a plug-in within X”
But Herb is a grown man. He can decide if I answered his question or not.
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Yes, I just want to clarify to Herb because he asked a very specific question.
[Herb Sevush] “Does RX4 come up as a plug-in within X?”
I just wanted to make sure he knew that it does.
This is important because it saves time not having to leave the program and in many cases you are working with the interface right inside X
I like being able to do that.
You don’t have all of it’s power inside X but a lot of it, and as Charlie said you can work outside of it quick.
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[Charlie Austin] “[Herb Sevush] “Does RX4 come up as a plug-in within X?”
Not at this point unfortunately, but it’s just a couple clicks to get to it.. Be nice if they could integrate into the sharing pane like X2Pro does now. I hope we see more functions like that in an update”
It actually does come up right in X with the other tools. I use it inside X most of the time. It’s dialogue denoiser is great in there. You can not use all of the tools in X though.
If I want to paint out a cell phone I have to go into the stand alone suite.
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I still say your situation is an outlier : )
Most of the country is like my town where I know of only 4 Epics in town and 3 Scarlets.
You can only rent it from one house and it looks like this.
Who knows, maybe our town will look like yours soon. LA always gets stuff before us. Good or Bad : )
[Andrew Kimery] ” “Sweet, it’s on Netflix! That’s awesome?” The reaction is more like “Cool. My buddy’s film is on Netflix too….” “
I would love to chat with you about these changes in the industry sometime.
Seems like that could be a cool forum to add. It could be called “The new industry” OK, somebody will think of a better name
My brother lives out there and works in the industry. The next time I plan on being out is as a fan with family when the Cards play the Dodgers in June.
Maybe we can catch up.
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[Andrew Kimery] “broke student filmmakers will just borrow a RED Dragon from their day job and shoot their student film in 6k”
Yes Andrew, I’m not surprised by that. People shoot stuff cheap all the time for their own reasons.
If I shoot my cousin’s little game with my gear for FREE that doesn’t represent the “legit” rate in my market place.
That’s not the rate for the Cardinals, that’s just me doing a favor for my family.
We are not really talking about the same thing at this point so I’m glad you gave those examples.I have worked out of your market and I know what I got paid. It’s not 150
If you are working on a “legit” job that somebody paid 600 for just the camera body before the pay for the glass, that’s gonna be a high end job. I’m talking about that kind of job, not a spec job or little league family thing.
The next time I’m shooting your LA Kings and they fly me out there and ask me to work for 150 then I will consider that your “legit rate”
And, I won’t be coming hahahaha
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[Neil Goodman] “And yes, there a dime a dozen in L.A and the operators to go with them. Even the surf industry/ community (ie, not a ton of money) is pretty much all exclusively using RED. Its a trip.
“What’s really a trip is I see camera rental houses out there asking 600 a day for the epic Dragon.
Odd that they could get that since everybody and their momma has a RED.
