Tony West
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[Herb Sevush] “Apple came through for lanes”
Correct. Lanes took X to whole new level.
Their incentive is to sell you that New Mac Pro that’s coming and that new iMac Pro. Neither will be cheap and the only reason to buy a computer like that is to do Pro work on it, so you better have some Pro Apps to run.
The day that Mac Pro comes out they will have a picture of X in the window of it.
Anybody think different? (no pun intended : )Also I’d like to see that timeline scroll with the playhead. That’s gotta happen.
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[Oliver Peters] “It’s not a question of individual quality, but of objectivity. “
Many times it’s a question of money $$$$$.
[Oliver Peters] “Good editors who become directors and producers often never cut their own material.”
This is an opinion
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[Oliver Peters] “[Tony West] “Decades ago a producer hired an editor. Now they are the editor.”
Not if they are a good producer ☺”
They may be really good. You would have to put your work against their work to judge : )
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[Oliver Peters] “That’s nothing new. It’s been going on for decades. “
What I’m talking about is very much new. A combination of price and technology has taken things to whole new level at a faster pace.
If a person has been in the biz for 20 years and never owned an NLE and now they do because it’s so cheap that’s a change. If it wasn’t they would have owned one 20 years ago.
Decades ago a producer hired an editor. Now they are the editor.
The first edit suite I worked in cost a million dollars.
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[Oliver Peters] “So show production is happening all over and not just NYC or LA.”
Yeah, I pointed that out.
[Oliver Peters] “A good article, however, not unbiased. He owns the service designed to place freelancers.”
Good point, but I saw the trend before I saw his article. It’s not just him.
[Oliver Peters] “A key takeaway for me is that large organizations are hiring freelancers – not freelancers generating their own unique product. “
The take away for me is that things are being scaled down to independent individuals with multi talents.
I see more producers generating their own products here by pitching TV shows that they will cut in their house but hire freelance folks to shoot.
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[Andrew Kimery] “Not much scripted film/TV in St. Louis,”
Or in most states in our country.
[Andrew Kimery] “Studios are even building sound stages in Atlanta”
Those are likely the same jobs that would have been in LA or NY. They are not just looking for tax incentives down there but also that healthy anti union lower wage workforce. A trend that’s not new. It’s the south.
Here is an article by a person that has done a great deal more research into the topic than I have but our conclusions are pretty much the same.
Creative Industry Production Trends 2017
https://www.movidiam.com/blog/630/creative-industry-production-trends-2017“BRANDS: Large brands such as Unilever, Starbucks and BMW have already set up in-house production capabilities”
****”bypassing both the agencies and production companies by going direct to freelancers.”****
“PRODUCTION COMPANIES: 2016 was a tough year for most production companies. With agencies moving production to an in-house model and many freelance producers now more than capable of building their own teams and offering similar services”
‘A lot of production companies, especially in TV, have dramatically reduced their operational overheads and staff. A core team of producers are now hiring freelancers on a project-by-project basis.”
“FREELANCERS: Freelancers were the big winners in 2016.”
*** “Freelance workforce: We’ll all soon be freelance” ***
I didn’t really need to read this guy’s article to know this. It’s been what I have seen for a while now. I have friends that left StL to move to New Orleans for work so I know about that personally. I don’t just work in St. Louis, I’m a freelancer and I travel all over the country (not the world like this guy) working and speaking with friends in different markets.
My brother works in LA.Not saying that we won’t be working, I’m not getting less work, it’s just changing in the way work is handed out.
It’s an interesting article.
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To me it just seems impossible to ignore where the trend is going in our biz, and it’s to one person productions.
Production houses all over are closing left and right. The cost to do production has falling through the floor and it’s hard for a large production house to compete with a person working out of their home with almost no overhead.
People keep looking at job posting but that’s old school. It’s one person saying I can write, shoot and cut that thing all for one cheap price. In some cases it looks terrible and in some it looks really good. That’s it.
I know with NETFlix and others there is more high quality production than ever, but none of those shows are being shot in my town.
Another thing I see (and I know I’m not the only one) are people who have worked in the biz for 20 years that never owned a NLE and bought X because it cost 300 bucks. They may be a full time shooters or editor or both. They had iMovie for free on their computers and when they needed it they used it. X came along and offered them more bang for the buck and for that price they couldn’t justify not buying it. I think if X cost 800.00 90% of them wouldn’t own it.
I can’t tell you how many people I know who fit this description.
Production houses that stayed afloat went with Pr mostly, but people who never owned anything went with X
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[Herb Sevush] “For me the ideal NLE is the one with the most options – PPro with a “magnetic” option would be great.”
I agree. X gives me options with Lanes. If and When PPro gives you more “magnetic” you will have more options also.
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[Herb Sevush] “not when simply moving clips already on the timeline. “
But this is my top priority. Moving things around in timeline quickly.
[Herb Sevush] “Clearly this overlay function could be added to moving clips as well,”
Yes, so it could work and look even more like X : ) just kidding you Herb
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[Simon Ubsdell] “Ah, sorry – I didn’t follow you, “
Hum.
I don’t know why it’s that confusing, I’m just going by what you said in your video.
You: ‘By selecting the clips and hitting command G”……….and now those clips are connected”
When you say “and now those clips are connected” that says to me that they were not already connected.
Herb is saying “The only time you have to do things manually by grouping is when you want to keep items from different clips attached to each other.”
I’m saying I don’t want to have to do it manually then either. I’m not doing it in X because that’s the default setup.
You: “Why would you always want to make a clip connection?”
I’m saying I want it to always DEFAULT that way, then I can change it if I want to. The default doesn’t mean I have to leave them that way, as you imply. Default means it starts that way.