[Tony West]

[Peter Vandall] “I have read online that you can’t close a project. But how about at least hiding it? “

I wondered about this also.

What I have done is made another Library called unused projects. I just moved the ones I’m not working on to that and I can close that Library and poof

[Tony West]

It’s a classic Herb.

Pretty intense shot in the drug house scene of True Detectives.

[Tony West]

One of the first things I noticed when X first came out, was that the frustrating gamma shift from Legacy was gone.

And not just that, I thought the overall quality coming out of X looked much better.

I was surprised at first that more people were not talking about the quality of the look, but then again there were plenty of other things to hammer and the shock of the new change and all.

I find almost no difference in what I see in the canvas and what I see outside of it. If it’s QT or on Vimeo.

And Bret, you are not the only one : )

My Vimeo screen grab is from Safari. They look almost identical to me.

[Tony West]

Almost exactly the way I am doing it Jack.

I tend to unplug that 2nd external drive after a backup to protect myself in the event a power surge hits the main computer and the 1st external drive.

[Tony West]

[Andy Field] “if it Apple isn’t willing to invest the people time and equipment to support large operations….it’s not going to happen.
“

Well, I can’t disagree there.

[Tony West]

I still think it’s perfect for a news a organization.

The whole point of the library structure was to improve sharing.

How can X not fit in a fast pace news environment? That’s one if it’s strengths.

I’d have to walk into their studio and see for myself what’s going on.

What I see on air is like any other cables news network.

Live with talking heads on a desk all day long with pushed back b-roll of the topic played over and over.

Dissolve, dissolve, dissolve ……..push on still push push push. That’s all the “cutting” I see on there for the most part. Roll in some that stuff we stole from youtube and drop and youtube font on top of it.

The other stuff that’s creative is promotional (that looks great). I would be surprised if that wasn’t one editor and one promotional producer cutting the whole thing like most places. I can’t see multiple editors working on a promotion spot at a place like that.

Pr is a great tool and they like it better. That’s cool.

I’m not convinced that X couldn’t help them.

[Tony West]

[Andy Field] “Yes but networks aren’t islands of individual self contained reporters. They must settle on one platform across many bureaus where most of the editing happens on shared networked servers
“

Agreed.

One question though, what NLE was CNN on before?

[Tony West]

[Andy Field] “Network news is all about sharing and accessing material everywhere all the time in multiple far flung cities. This is Avid and now adobe’s strong suit. For this it doesn’t seem as though Apple is interested in this market.”

we just have different network experiences. sounds like you are talking about the studio.

I was always in the field, shooting and cutting and feeding back for network news.

What I’m saying is, I could bring my footage into X and tweak the sound and color and have bites ready before the uplink driver could park that truck and lock the signal : )

[Tony West]

[Jeremy Garchow] “[tony west] “In news when they want producers and talent to cut stuff and that’s something that’s never been their focus, they would be all over X (or should be)”

But this is what Prelude was built for, and then it plugs right in to Pr via markers.”

Dosen’t this assume there would be an editor to hand off to?

The producer ingesting the footage in Prelude for the editor?

I’m saying they are getting so money conscious that I could see them saying producer/editor

Then it’s X or Pr

I don’t like it, but I don’t like seeing talent setting up the camera and then walking in front of it either, but I’m seeing more of it : /

[Tony West]

[Andy Field] “Even if they might like FCP X a little better – the learning curve may have been too steep (read that as….you have to do it Apple’s way…not the way you know) for them to consider it.
“

I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but the learning curve on X is way easier than AVID or Pr

In news when they want producers and talent to cut stuff and that’s something that’s never been their focus, they would be all over X (or should be)

[Andy Field] “Everyone’s required to edit – even at the NBCCBSABC level…it’s done at desktops, not specialized edit rooms “

this to me is another argument for X