[Tony West]

[Shawn Miller] “Question back to you Tony, if the market for disk based media is shrinking so rapidly, how is it that DVD and blu-ray titles are so ubiquitous in retail?”

Hi Shawn, this a little bit different from what I was talking with Mark about. I was referring to corporate video production when in years past they would ask for a DVD to show employees and now they ask you to just put it up on youtube or their own site.

Like when I have to watch safety videos for FOX and ESPN remote work and they have thousands of freelancers around the world. You go to the site to watch. Crazy to try to send out dvd’s for something like that.

As far as people buying movie DVD’s, yeah people will be doing that for a while I’m sure we all agree, but even with that I don’t see people in the airport with portable dvd players as much as I see them watching movies on their iPads. Maybe that’s just what I’m seeing.

[Tony West]

[Andrew Kimery] “Making a DVD and having the end user only be responsible for putting a disc in a player is about as idiot proof as it gets. That’s a major advantage when the person on the other end of the line can’t give you any more information than, “Bob told me to tell you to send us a video so we can play it at our sales meeting.””

I agree with this to a point. If that’s the case, a sales meeting that folks are at I can see that.

Most folks got SD DVD players and when more and more stuff was being shot HD they where not gonna get the HD quality out of their SD player.

A friend just sent me a video he did for a company that was just this feel good employee video.

Shots of folks just having fun and the history of the company.

It was on Youtube. Years ago that would have been sent out I guess as a DVD or shown at a party once.

When you want to keep something long term a DVD is great for that also (until they stop making players).

I just bought Frozen because my brother worked on it and I want to keep it.

I see the need, I was just explaining why I don’t believe folks will line up to make DVD software in the future.

[Tony West]

It’s not me “making” them do that.

I would prefer that people not watch my work on their phones. You can’t get the full impact that way.

But it’s not about what I want, it’s about what THEY want. Folks tend to want to watch stuff where and when they want to do it.

Somebody is waiting in the doctors office and they flip out their phone and watch a safety video their boss wanted them to see while they are waiting. Happens all the time.

I don’t make the tends, I just keep up with them. That’s good business.

I can give them a DVD the same as you, I just farm that part out now if I need to.

I used to make my own labels and all that junk.

If there is such a huge market for it you shouldn’t be having such a hard time finding plenty of people to make what your looking for.

Right?

[Tony West]

We have a very strong union town here.

All of our stations are represented, so when I attend a meeting it’s a chance to find out what a great deal of folks are doing in the market here.

As I attended a meeting last week, X came up. While folks liked a lot of the features, they said they didn’t really have time to learn it.

Legend was working for them and they knew it and were fast on it. They are not shooting anything 4K so they didn’t feel any pressure to move.

I think that’s one of the main things X is up against. I don’t think they would take time to learn any new system unless they really had to.

Some of them have taken to it and love it and some feel like at some point they will get around to it.

I understood where they were coming from. Just keep on doing what your doing until it becomes a problem.

It’s just gonna take time.

[Tony West]

We are in that transition period where the DVD is a technology on it’s way out and everybody knows it, so developers have to be saying to themselves, should I invest the time and effort into making a product that has limited life.

Will I make enough money off it?

I’m sure if they thought they could they would.

Folks these days want to look at video on their phones and pads. They want to be able to be mobil and look when they want where they want.

I try to steer clients away from DVD’s (thank God many don’t ask anymore) and if they still want it I farm that part out to somebody else.

[Tony West]

I see you are in Missouri, I am also.

I have not had a problem with having too many projects. I currently have a library with 25 projects open and almost 60 events.

The projects average 10 min in length and everything seems to be working (no crashes)

I’m actually surprised I have not had more problems working this way.

[Tony West]

I like it going into the event, I just don’t want it to go to the timeline at the same time.

I label takes with the first 3 words of the paragraph of the script so I can find them and drop them in.

As it stands now I have to go back and delete the tracks that land in the timeline. An extra unwanted step for me.

I fought I was just overlooking an easy way to do it but I don’t see the answer so maybe not.

[Tony West]

Bill, I’m glad you mentioned the VO record.

I have been using that for a while now and have liked the feature. I was wondering if anybody knew how to keep the track from going down in the storyline automatically.

I want it to just go into the event that I choose until I’m ready for it to go down there.

I don’t want all the bad takes going down there. Maybe I’m missing something simple?

I like that I can drag right into that browser now and have items tagged. It’s a little thing but faster to hit that bigger target than aiming for an event since I do most of my organization in the finder then drag and tag

Everything seems to be working smoothly so that’s nice to.

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] ” Hard news is still Avid NewsCutter.”

Not in this market.

Two of them were coming from 7 and the NBC affiliate is Edius

That’s why I didn’t hesitate to convince them to leave 7

They are loving X

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “The issue is that at present, FCP X doesn’t integrate with any of the standard asset management and news script applications that are used in many newsrooms.”

That might be true, but that didn’t stop the stations here from using it. Nor did it stop the station that this article is about.