Tony West
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The article is saying that freelancers are adding X skills to their profiles faster than other NLEs on that particular site.
That’s good news for X period.
As far as freelancers over all, if X has sold 2 million seats how many of those people use it to freelance. I would say just about all of them. I don’t know many people in the biz that don’t do some type of freelancing.
Unless Pr has sold 10 million seats can’t be 5 x 1 overall.
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[Michael Gissing] “There is a whole world where the pressure and the bulk of the post budget is in the grade, VFX and sound, so to not look for speed and budget advantage in that area is bad business.”
Who’s not looking? I’m not narrowing it to the post budget, I’m talking the total budget.
The film festival is going on in St. Louis this week and I spoke with a feature producer during the Q and A, just this evening.
He said that the bulk of the funding of his film (shot in LA) went to pay the actors (SAG) and the rights to music. He didn’t mention grade, but he said the VFX were done by a guy that worked with them (in other words, cut them a deal) They looked great btw.
This film had a lot of actors with speaking roles so that’s where they chose to spend the money.
I’m sure it ranges all over the place.
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[Michael Gissing] “The whole reason for the choice to use Resolve on this film was to be able to finish the whole show in the one piece of software”
I know, I would just personally preferrer that one piece of software to be X.
The first thing he talks about in the article is shooting with BM cameras in ProRes 4444. Obviously that footage will play nicely in X since ProRes 4444 was developed by Apple.
He then goes on to talk about “organization” which for my money no program does it better than X.
The majority of the time spent is going to be in the timeline and in organization and that’s where I would put my priority. finishing is a small part of the overall time put in. I wouldn’t make my decision based mainly on finishing, but that’s just me.
[Michael Gissing] “But I am enjoying seeing people now argue for having more in the software and less reliance on third parties when Apple get around to putting it in.”
I just don’t get this. People are always going to use third party stuff.
I’m not going to use RX?
I’m not going to use Neatvideo?
Products like these help me finish “inside X”
The other thing that is left out of the article is any mention of sound. Did he mix the sound in R14 and if so what were the advantages of that if any.
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[Michael Gissing] ” For years I have been told by X users that the 3rd party model works best but now I see advocacy for what I said from day one. “
I don’t know, I think the argument was more nuance than that.
I think X users liked the idea of paying for third party apps as you use/need them if the tradeoff was getting all the updates for free and not having a subscription model like Pr.
If apple is going to toss everything in the app for FREE, I’m sure most X users will take it.
That argument hasn’t changed at all, from what I have seen.
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[Gabriel Spaulding] “What matters most to me —objectively—is HOW those features are implemented, and if that takes more time I’m happy to wait. It’s paid off so far.”
You are not the only one that thinks this way. If speed of development is top priority for most, there should be a lot more interest in BM. As fast as they move and as affordable as it is, I don’t see anybody in my town moving to it as their main ax. I don’t think people who sell it on here even use it as their main ax. And all the traffic is on this X forum. Crickets on theirs.
X didn’t have multi-cam when it came out, but it’s awesome now. It didn’t have Lanes when it came out but it’s awesome now. I like how the tools are implemented in X better than other programs whenever they get in there.
THAT’S, my top priority.I was getting it done in X before Libraries and I’m getting it done after Libraries. Not a big deal.
As far as this update goes, I’m glad they put 360 in there. Even though I don’t currently use it myself, I see it all over the place and I want to be ready if a client asks me for it. Heck, our local newspaper is even using it (online).
I’m glad they didn’t mess with my color board : )
Right now I feel like there is not much a client can ask me to do that I can’t get done inside of X.
I’m not looking to get out of it either. I want to be able to finish sound, and grade right inside the program. I know others need to send out, but I know going in that every producer of these NLE’s has as their goal to keep you in their program. I go about my work with that in mind. If I ever did send out to an advanced sound person I would be looking for a Michael Wohl type who understands sound and X, the program I started in.
Plenty of talented folks out there these days using X. I’d find them.
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[Andy Field] “it was a joke”
I don’t miss much
But you can back-paddle if you want to.
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[Bill Davis] “I mentioned your name to a guy I know who is going to be in St. Louis”
Great Bill, I look forward to speaking with him if he calls and showing him where to find great food in the STL
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You call a person out by name…………”Bill doesn’t need them, so no one else does either”
Then you call him defensive after he responds to you calling him by name
[Andy Field] “you can set defensive response time with a stopwatch
“Like he is supposed to just let you call him out and not respond.
Weak.
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[Walter Soyka] “We’re not just post. “
OK, so then you must have pre pro meetings with the clients then also. What’s discussed there? Do they just change it down the line? (They are free to do that)
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I wouldn’t have gone with his premise myself, and I understand Shane’s arguments against the “premise” of the article.
I actually enjoyed Ubillos’ description of his program better than this article.
Ubillos: – “FCPX broke away from the idea of specific tracks and just allowed audio to overlap as needed, letting the software figure out the details of how to mix it.”
” letting the software figure out the details”
That’s it right there for me. What I noticed about X right off the bat is how much the software is trying to handle the edit for you. “figuring out details” as he says saves me time because I’M not doing it. it is.
It’s moving clips out of the way for you.
It’s trying to anticipate which tool you will need next.
It’s trying to organize your footage for you with smart collections (rather you use them or not)
It’s trying to fix your audio (if you allow it, most of us won’t)
It’s trying to do things that you may or may not feel like doing yourself.People often describe the program as “getting out of your way so you can focus on the story.”
When actually, it’s participating in the edit with you like some sort of assistant editor.Ubillos: “One of my biggest goals in the software I worked on was always to reduce the amount of time spent in the mechanics of editing,”
YES. But how is it doing that? By doing some of those mechanics for you.
I could certainly cut my grass faster if I had an automatic mower cutting the back on it’s own, while I was cutting my front myself. I would finish in half the time.
So that’s the new title.
“FCP X, it’s two lawn mowers”