[Tony West]

[Andrew Kimery] “For an historical doc I’d say the minimum info is who, what, when, where, temp/master, rights holder and original file name/tracking number from vender.”

Thing is I just did a “historical” doc, and when I say historical, not an event that happened 20 years ago but 70 years ago thru current day.

Things like rights holder information on photos and clips and music is not necessary “inside” the NLE for me. Those are things that need to be organized in the finder. That information is important when it comes to who I owe money to, but when I’m cutting I just need to find the elements quickly.

[Tony West]

[Shane Ross] “1) If you spend months keywording and organizing media, it’s easy to sift through and find what you are looking for.”

I think this may be a little overstated Shane.

The way I did it was to organize in the finder first. I like to find elements outside of the program anyway.

Let’s say photos, I would put all of Denise’s photos into a folder called just that. Ray’s Photos and so on.

I would import the folders into X and it would tag everything for me.

I found that I didn’t really need to go through and label every photo individually. It wasn’t necessary.

Even though I had thousands of elements I was never looking through more than 20 or so at a time.
You can get as detailed as you want to but I found that I didn’t have to do that.

I have never worked on anything so big and I have never found things faster.

[Tony West]

[Herb Sevush] “Adobe Anywhere – This is one of the places editing is going. Virtual teams. I’m supervising my current team from an office 60 miles north of NYC.”

Yes, this is where I see editing going also, but not to NY, to some country where the rate is a lot lower.

“We don’t need you anymore. We got (fill in the blank) over there in India cutting for a third.”

Too cynical? : ))

[Tony West]

[J.Patrick Southern] ” used Neat Video on nearly every single one of our archival clips.
“

I really liked this program’s ability to clean things up but did it slow things down for you Patrick?
It really worked my nerves when I worked with it.

In my doc I cut in 10 min sections and when I was almost done I strung all sections together (108 min)

That’s when it really got challenging for my older Mac.

Did you guys work in sections in the timeline or just string it all together from the start?

[Tony West]

[Steve Connor] “I know several Camera Ops of varying ages who are using it, some of which have never edited before “

Oh I don’t doubt that at all Steve, in fact I’m surprised I don’t see even more of that here.

I think it’s a great tool for a lot of people and I tell folks that but I was also giving the lay of the land in my area.

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] ” I wonder of others see this same thing.”

I haven’t really seen much of that. The people I see are all in on whatever NLE they chose.

Not a lot of hoping around and back and fourth.

The folks that I see on X are older and more established editors with a firm grip on their client base.
The young folks I see use whatever they were on in college.

To me it would seem like a pain to start in one program and then transfer to another. I wouldn’t want to do that personally. Seems like too much work.

[Tony West]

Good info Oliver, thanks

[Tony West]

[Oliver Peters] “Connected titles and generators – these seem to cause me more grief”

A big yes from me on this also. Titles seem to slow it down a bit for me and when I got to the closing credits it really got slow.

I don’t know if anyone has done a long credit roll but I’d like to know how that went for you.

(I’m on a cheese grader though)

[Tony West]

[James Ewart] “Some editors seem to feel using a mouse slows them down. I’m lucky, I’m never in that much of a hurry but found it more tactile and intuitive using a mouse.”

This may have been true before X, but for me the skimmer changed that.

In editing you do great deal of moving back and forth through footage and the skimmer does that faster than JKL for me or dragging the playhead up and down the timeline.

I work with the mouse in one hand and I have remapped many of my most used keys that are two key options to one key. So I’m just hitting one key most times and skimming.

My only beef is that the skimmer should be in Motion also.

[Tony West]

[Michael Aranyshev] “I don’t “scan” or “skim.” I watch it. Carefully, many times.”

I do that also while I’m logging it.

Once I know what I want I scan to find it.