Tony West
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[Walter Soyka] “What is the marketing message expressed here for FCPX? “You don’t need an editor to edit a film. Forget that niche specialty.””
It’s a good question to kick around. I think it’s more, if you had not been as involved in the hands on end of editing in the way you wanted in the past, maybe you might want to with this product.
I noticed that when she asked the director what’s next, he said to go and get Jan for the next one.
He didn’t say, after using X I don’t need him anymore.
It’s like the analogy he used with the DP of film. You had to trust him more in the past but now he can see more of what the shot is going to look like on a monitor, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need a good gaffer on set anymore.
As X has simplified some of the nuts and bolts of editing, you still will need top end talent to cut. People who that’s their main thing.
There are still a great deal of nuts and bolts to editing and things that you come across if you are not a full-time editor that will trip you up. There are still parts of editing that people just don’t want to do.
I think they will say, “you can do this part” for years to come : )
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[Andrew Kimery] “Justified”
i have recent gotten into this. Really good : )
I don’t mind paying for the seasons because it’s worth it. Also True Detectives.
The thing about YT is, it started off free and people expect it to stay that way.
The up side for us as professionals is that things that people are willing to pay for like Game of Thrones are super high end professionally done. That will keep us working and getting paid for a little while longer : )
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[Lance Bachelder] ” Dean Devlin is cutting his next feature on it also.”
Lance, is this the same guy that was on Leverage? Wasn’t that an X show?
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[Neil Goodman] “No one ever says specifically what made it faster ?
Was it all the front end prep, was it the the actual timeline? What specifically? “
I think primary difference remains selection. In track based editing you must select things individually each time to move them. The app cannot read your mind. It has no idea what you want to move until you select it.
X assumes that you want the audio from the interview to go along with the video, and the majority of the time I do.
The video below shows exactly what I’m talking about. People get caught up in the “rippling’.
It’s the connections more than anything. Keeping things in sync is just a bonus of that.If you had to select 10 items that’s 10 clicks. With items connected you are moving 10 things all at once.
It’s just like when I go to the store. I don’t want to move 20 items to my car individually, I want them in one bag.
I’m going to work hockey tonight and we will put a bunch of stuff on one cart and move it all at once.
We move a bunch of stuff at once every day in life. To me it’s consistent with what I always do.It’s not consistent with how I used to edit but I can get past that.
Couple that with all the other things like that skimmer and I just prefer it. I prefer not dragging the playhead around the timeline anymore.
Apple! Get that skimmer in Motion. STAT
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[Andrew Kimery] “I’d rather have distinct products from Apple, Avid, Adobe, Blackmagic, etc., rather than all of them try to created muddled clones of each other.”
Indeed
The worst thing you can do is mess up what you got chasing after somebody that doesn’t want you anyway.
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[James Ewart] “Why can’t Apple keep us updated on their plans for the development of the software?”
In fairness James, I don’t think Dennis does that either. He basically comes on here and knocks down misconceptions about their products. (Apple maybe should at least do that also)
He is not going to give up any “plans” for the future, and in that sense they are not much different than Apple.
“Sorry guys, we don’t (and I can’t) comment on what we are working on. ”
Just above.
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[Herb Sevush] “What I was commenting on was the idea that knowledge of a particular tool, in this case a video camera, trumps talent and experience.”
I’m not completely disagreeing with you here, but I’m old school like you and have seen the changes in the technology come a long way. I remember shooting with those betacams with all the switches on the side of the camera that you could easily get to.
Now, these cameras are so menu driven you could get lost on one or hold up the shoot if you don’t know your way around it.
These new cameras are coming at us in waves.
A 7 year talented DP that had used the ALEXA many times might turn in a better job than the 30 year DP that had never used that camera before and doesn’t know how to maximize it’s strengths. Providing you had an experienced gaffer there.
Talent and experience don’t have to go together. Janusz didn’t have much experience but he had a great deal of talent.
Maybe this editor is in that boat.
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[Herb Sevush] “Any producer who hired a DP because he was familiar with digital as opposed to a film DP who was familiar with lighting and would trust his assistant to figure out the digital details, deserves what they got.
“Sometimes what you may get is very good when you give an unknown a chance.
Any of you guys know Janusz Kaminsky?
My brother went to film school with him. When Spielberg was setting up for Schindler’s List he want to shoot it in Black and White and he wanted somebody that knew their way around Poland.
Janusz had shot a small film in black and white and was born in Poland. He was not some A-list DP at the time, far from it, but Steven took a chance with him.
Janusz, as many of you may know won the Oscar for that beautifully shot film.
Just a cool little story that fits perfectly in this thread.
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hehehe yes
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I don’t see the word “cheerleading” in there but I do see “puff piece”
Not sure who was “cheerleading”
Noah started the post with no fan fare at all.
“For the folks who’ve been curious about how this went:
https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/in-action/focus/
Noah
It looked like you started by responding to Bill, who I’m not sure was really “cheerleading”