Tony West
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[Bill Davis] “Most of the editors that I know who use a lot of compound clips do so because they are accustomed to using “nests” in a prior NLE and see this as the FCP X equivalent. “
I use cc’s all the time. I love them because they allow easy transitions from complicated stacked layers. It also keeps me from having to scroll up and down all the time.
When done with the edit just break them apart if you have problems with translations in other NLEs.
When I make a cc I give it a name and add “cc” on the back of it. That allows me to find them all quickly in the timeline index. Select all and break apart in seconds. Ready for export.
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Looks like to me his focus was more on showing their collaborative workflow and may have just been roughing that grade in order to get to what he was really showing you.
Scopes or not, the production value of the video was nice. Nothing looked too blown out and they even handled the exposure of the one African America they featured well. Something I often see productions struggle with.
They had a natural ND if they had just pulled those blinds down a little more in the station shot but that’s minor.
They have found success with a set up that features no less than “5” iMac Pros, more than I have seen in the facilities I have been in and almost half a million views on that video.
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[Steve Connor] ” I REALLY missed FCPX’s save function when it did happen.”
I’ll will give X credit, in the times it has crashed I have never lost anything. It’s always come back up from day one.
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Your titles need to be touching before you add the transition.
Then playhead between
Then command + T
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Keep in mind Neil, while this isn’t LA, it is the home for the headquarters of some of the largest companies in America. Not to mention the birthplace of Fleishman Hillard who practically invented advertising and public relations. We aren’t exactly sitting around here
milking cows ; ) As the ad before some of yaaaw’s time used to say, “Don’t let the smooth taste fool you” -
[Neil Goodman] “the agency I was working at at the time who had the apple bid was not using X”
Yeah, that’s because apple was OK with that.
The client tells the agency what they want. Then the agency tells people like you and me.
The agency is not just doing whatever they want to do, unless the client lets them.
I was fortunate enough to often have the client go directly to me and ask for what they wanted.
Everyone at the bar just happened to be drinking the same brand. Just happened to be a certain ethnicity. They just happened to have the labels of their bottles turned toward my camera. No.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Demanding that venders only use Apple solutions”
Demanding is the wrong word. I don’t usually see that. They ask and very politely. “Is there any way we can…………..or, “is it possible to ………..and people are tripping over themselves to say yes : ) I think sometimes if they came in and said ” Could you guys drop and give me 20? Half the room would hit the floor hahaha. Seriously though, the biggest part of that piece was the animation and the building of the set. They got out of the way there. The next biggest part was the creation of the music. The talent and amazing voice of Billie.
What do you think happened there?
Do you think they showed up and O’Connell just “happened” to use Logic and their hardware? That wasn’t discussed in anyway before?
And what about Billie? Did she just “happen” to use an iPhone to create her music?
After getting all those great elements, assembling them was the easiest part. You feel like if they would have asked for X the wheels could have fallen off.
I don’t think so. I think given that kind source material most could have brought it home.
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I want to start by saying it’s a beautiful spot and I love it. Very touching and I don’t want to take away from all the hard work everyone put into it. It’s a great spot.
[Neil Goodman] ” I just dont think there are many A/V vendors out there using X. At least out on the coasts of the good ol US of A which is where most of the agencies are.”
I hear what you are saying Neil and that may very well be true, but I don’t believe there aren’t plenty of skilled people in LA that know how to use X even if it’s not what they use all the time. The program is not rocket science.
The narrative here is that they couldn’t have used X even if they wanted to because nobody out there uses it.
1. I’m pushing back on that assumption because I don’t believe it (I’ve listed examples on the thread why).
2. They helped reinforce that narrative by doing it the way they did it.
They shouldn’t be OK with that narrative and they should actively be working to change it. People with less power and money control their narratives all the time. Maybe work a little harder at it. That’s all I’m saying.
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[Oliver Peters] “Hopefully, we are all friends here.
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[Craig Seeman] “Or they don’t know of a single outside agency that uses their post production software. Perhaps that’s the case.
“I would just say Craig, it’s their job to find those people and there are plenty of them out there.
I remember years ago as things were starting to change the word would come down that they wanted some diversity on a certain job. I’m sure there were people who said “We don’t know any qualified people of color” Then there were those who said “We already got that covered, we got Tony. And just like that I was on that job. I was as qualified as anybody else they knew (in some cases more), as word got around “I don’t know anybody” was done, and that’s how things change.
Believe me, as an African American in this country and in this industry, I know all about the client saying “We want it this way” and it being exactly that way.
I’ve lived it.
