[Tony West]

[James Ewart] “I go way back to when we shot over cranked 35mm and 16mm film cameras at 50, 100 or more fps.

I am not entirely convinced video cameras absolutely replicate this process or do they?
“

You can overcrank certain video cameras like a SONY EX1 and they look pretty good when you play back the slo-mo, but I don’t think a Go Pro has that feature.

I’m not certain though.

[Tony West]

[James Ewart] “these higher rates should result in better slo mo no?”

You are correct James. The higher the speed you shoot at the smoother and cleaner the slo-mo

That’s what we do in sports. We use high speed cameras that can shoot 4 thousand frames per second.

If you have some time before the shoot try shooting some test footage at different rates and see which one you like best.

[Tony West]

[Andrew Kimery] “Jeez Tony, your missing out on half the fun of editing if you aren’t swearing at the footage and wondering if the ‘camera guy’ was really just a Jack Russell Terrier with a GoPro strapped to his head. ;)”

hahahaha Well done Andrew

No kidding. We really earn our money when we are called in to fix messed up work, and with the price of cameras dropping like they have any and everybody shooting, there’s plenty of that out there to keep many people employed : )

[Tony West]

[Gabe Strong] ” I have absolutely no compelling reason to spend more on
Adobe’s CC than I get with Apple’s tools. “

I don’t either.

I think CC has some great tools, but I feel like I do also.

I cut in X, and I part a little here with you Gabe, I like that timeline and don’t miss tracks at all.

I use Motion for all my MO GFX, I can pretty much do anything I can think up in that program.
(we talked about this before on the forum. People who are diehard AE users might want to go CC. I’m not one of those)

I use RX 4 to clean up any really bad audio problems (that program is amazing)

I do all my grading right inside X. I shoot most of the stuff I cut myself and I get what I want in the field in the first place so all I’m doing is tweaking. I don’t blowout the background and have to fix it.

People ripped those looks early on saying you didn’t have much room to adjust them. Not true. You can layer as many corrections on top of those looks as you want. Looks are just a way to give you a short cut to a certain look faster than you would if you were starting from scratch. Apple is not making anybody use those looks. If you want to build your own look go right ahead. I prefer for things to look natural myself. I don’t like to be distracted by an odd un-natural look. Kind of like I don’t want to notice the umpire in the game either.

I have a paid for version of Photoshop.

Stabilization is a nice tool, but as far as I’m concerned, you should either be on a tripod or with a Stedi-cam or Stedi knockoff in the first place. A professional shouldn’t hand you a bunch of shaky footage.
If you are doing a run and gun doc you should have a shoulder mount camera or a rig.

I’m pretty much good to go to do anything I need to do with these paid for tools.

[Tony West]

[Neil Goodman] “My diva ass needs room!”

One of the funniest lines I have seen on here in a long time : )

[Tony West]

[Sebastian Alvarez] “Yet, in less than a day I was editing on it like a champ,”

I had the same experience. I didn’t bother to even read or watch anything on it. Just jumped in.
(I wish I had though now)

[Sebastian Alvarez] “I have no problem at all with using that Color Corrector as opposed to the 3-way one found in most NLEs,”

I found it about as straight forward as could be to use. Something looks a little yellow, slide over to that color and drop it down.

The other thing that I noticed right off the bat was how good the quality out of it looked. They had made improvements on that and it showed.

There was also this belief by some that Apple was walking away from professionals in this field.

That somehow they wanted 2 iMovies

I never believed that for a minute. I felt like they were going to add stuff back over time. Like they did.