[Dan Marlow] "As you point out it is up to the user to decide. But Walter Murch won the Oscar, not Apple. I agree, that an editor will use what he/she prefers, be that Avid, Final Cut, Steinbeck, Moviola or pair of scissor (but probably not adobe premiere)."
My point being that the film was cut on Final Cut Pro, as was No Country. Yes, the editor is being recognized as they should, but the tool used in the Post was Final Cut Pro.
[Dan Marlow] "Places like CNN will fill their buildings with FCP, because it is cheaper and because they are producing short newsreel pieces."
CNN was full of Avids in Atlanta and dumped them because of the poor tech support they were receiving. Obviously Apple is much cheaper. As for short newsreel pieces, they have units that cut up to 2 hour documentaries. The Environment Unit which I was a part of for three years, cut 30 minute shows and up to 1 hour documentaries. At that time, it was all linear, tape to tape based. So yes the bulk of programming for CNN is 2 - 6 minute stories, but there is plenty of long form work going on over there.
[Dan Marlow] "
Thank you Mike for reiterating my intial point that the marketing of Color is dishonest and deliberately misleading."
You could say that for just about every press release and marketing promo issued during the week of NAB.
To say the Coen brothers finished the movie in Color would be dishonest. To say the Coen brothers "used" Color in the movie would be honest. The reader could then infer that the film was finished in Color and this would be misleading, but I do recall seeing scenes from the film shown at the Apple Event last year and they looked very similar to the finished product. So the Coen brothers were definitely experimenting with looks in Color that they could not have achieved just using Final Cut Pro.
Thanks to Mike for that link to the article showing how the film was fully finished.
But back to the original question of this thread. Can that look be achieved in Color? Absolutely. Could that film be finished in Color? Absolutely.
Your choice of tools and budget are up to you.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
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