[Tony West]

” Surround is left to the audio professionals who can ACTUALLY do a proper surround mix”

That assumes everybody has the money to take it to them and pay for that.

I think that independent film makers on a small budget will use this if they can’t get the cash.
That’s an opinion, we will see if I’m right.

“”3. Motion. Why add it? It just intimidates newbees.”

“They didn’t add it. It is a separate app”

I guess I didn’t spell this out.

Add it……in the sense of the the drawing board.
Like…….don’t make it………..like…….don’t offer it….at all. This new version of Motion…..don’t bother to MAKE it. Get me?

If you are marketing to skateboarders they won’t use it anyway right?

“So Apple made an app that was more than iMovie, yet not confusing for them when they move up.”

Move up to what?

To the “pro” level?

I’m just looking at it from what I have seen in the business world in the past.
When companies want to get out of something they get out.

I’m from St. Louis, and when AB got taken over the new folk said they were OUT of the theme park
biz.
And they sold all that stuff off.

They didn’t keep a few animals or parks.

OUT. PERIOD.

I agree that they want people to move up.

What we are debating is, to what end?

Tony West

[Tony West]

David, once again you nailed it!
When I saw X I thought back to my days in the late 80’s when we used to only have machine to machine cuts only edits in the field remote trucks for ABC and NBC Nightly news.

I’m talking Network, before all the cable news 24 madness set in, when 6:00 ruled.

I remember when you could first do a dissolve in the field and we were jumping around dancing because we could do a DISSOLVE.

We would have killed for the power of something like X back then. Fast forward to today and X is looked at as a toy or kind of mocked a little.

My, my, my have things changed : ) the leaps and bounds of technology are kind of taken for granted
these days, but that’s cool, it just makes me smile a little when I think back.

But YES David it has news written all over it in my mind.

News breaks, and you are on the scene shooting and then cutting and ready before the uplink drives up.

And Neil, I would like them to be even faster. I was telling them years ago to get
all their crap off of tape and on to a server. All clips should be named by what they are so when
an editor comes in they just type a player’s name in.

I’m impatient, I HATE waiting to find shots. I want to spend my time in the creative process, not looking
for stuff or waiting on rendering.

In all the Fox Sports affiliates they are sitting on piles of tape.

One day they will stop making the machines and then what will they play their stuff on?

It’s kind of funny for me because I was thinking of this way of working before X even came out.

X kind of turns the edit into google. That’s how you find what you want on the net right? You type it and it’s there.

Type the player’s name (get all clips on that player in a second) narrow to defensive plays or offensive plays, postseason play or whatever, but get the stuff FAST.

That way of working might not be for some, it’ s just how I want to do it. Everyone has their own way
of working. Down to the way people customize their keyboards.

Apple did what I was talking about years ago. I wish I had done it first : )

Tony West

[Tony West]

I don’t work outside the States in sports so I will take your word on that side of the lake.
My focus was here and Fox Sports and TBS.

“Certainly in that scenario FCPX could be used quite well, however the current lack of any kind of meaningful monitoring rules it out.”

The point is, it’s not being ruled out. We are using it now. It’s not a question of rather it can be used,
it IS being used.

If you watch the WS tonight you will see it.

Tony West

[Tony West]

You are right about that David.

There are going to be many who go a different way than X for many valid reasons.

The early debate on this product was that it couldn’t be used in high end broadcast or feature work.

I just wanted to let people know that it is being used in ways that they might not be aware of.

There are many people who are trying to decide if this is right for them and I would like to give them as much info as possible to help them decide.

There are so many ways to get paid in video these days it’s hard to keep track.

Web based video, corporate video, independent film projects you name it.

I’m pretty sure this product is going to fill many gaps.

When we started David there weren’t this many paths, but now………..it’s just different.

Tony West

[Tony West]

“Needs video out, though”

That would help, but the EVS can be set up to take in .MOV files so that’s the option we use.

I would bet any money that whatever is missing in X, a third party group is working on right now.

That’s how you get paid in this country, find a need and fill it.

Tony West

[Tony West]

I went to Share menu and then export media, and then I left the codec settings as current.

That put the file on my desktop but it was too big to up load to the net (870mb).

I opened the file in QT pro 7 and then exported again as a smaller file (228mb).

Then I uploaded that.

If I’m understanding you right you have the project in X and want to get it to the net right?

I hear you with the frustration. You just want stuff to work like it should. Then it’s hard to get help because it’s so new. I’m sure someone knows better than me but I didn’t see a post so…..

Tony West

[Tony West]

I got that 50 error also with the last project I did.

It’s strange, I have done maybe 5 projects and had never got it before. I would use my compressor settings and then post it to vimeo.

The last project was a bigger file so maybe that was it. I don’t know.

How I got around it was I shared it out of X as current then I opened it in QT 7 pro and exported out again as a smaller file then posted.

I don’t know why it’s doing that but I hope this helps.

Tony West