| | | | Re: BBC Specs
by Darby Edelen on Apr 21, 2012 at 7:00:02 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I've never produced assets for the BBC, but it sounds like they want you to produce something that can be easily panned and scanned. Meaning that they'll use the same video for 16:9 and 4:3 broadcast so don't put anything that the audience HAS to se | | | | |
| | | | "Jumping the Shark"
by Greg Andonian on Apr 21, 2012 at 6:52:59 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
This may or may not relate to FCP, depending on your point of view.
But I found it very interesting, and since it had to do with a show that was broadcast on TV after being edited (probably on a steenbeck or something), I thought I'd post it here. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Losing NLE Market Share
by Franz Bieberkopf on Apr 21, 2012 at 5:27:32 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Craig Seeman] "52% of "something" in broadcast and professional facilities have FCPX installed."
Craig,
It is murkier than that.
52% of new installs in some facilities (does that include free trials?)
Except that the 52% is a guess based | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Losing NLE Market Share
by Craig Seeman on Apr 21, 2012 at 5:11:09 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Franz Bieberkopf] "I mean, personally I think we're looking at coffee grounds here, but if these numbers mean anything then surely that is the real headline."
Short of paying $1500 for the report, we are looking at coffee grounds. There's a lot t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple Losing NLE Market Share
by Franz Bieberkopf on Apr 21, 2012 at 4:58:39 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
Craig, Philip,
I really can't believe this fluff made it back onto the board here.
MYSTERY
I'm surprised that Philip would say he "understands the methodology - this seems to be a dubious claim to me along with the the claim that there's a | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Herb Sevush on Apr 21, 2012 at 2:55:22 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] "even if 80% of consumer computing happens on phones, tablets and maybe ARM desktops in five years, there will likely still be a viable market for high-powered traditional desktops and laptops. It's not just pro video customers -- it's | | | | |
| | | | Re: One year later...
by Chris Kenny on Apr 21, 2012 at 2:38:00 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Michael Gissing] "Again wishful thinking and observational bias. Just today on this forum issues like keyframing, auto saves, opening multiple sequence, copying file attributes were mentioned. For me I add lack of machine control, the fact that the | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Chris Kenny on Apr 21, 2012 at 1:49:06 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Herb Sevush] "I do understand mass market economies of scale. As I have written in other threads I believe that the era of high-end video riding on the coattails of mass market computers is coming to an end. My guess is that many of us will be worki | | | | |
| | | | Re: One year later...
by Dennis Radeke on Apr 21, 2012 at 12:04:26 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] "Adobe wouldn't suffer all that much without Premiere. After all, it hasn't been taken very seriously to date, and they've been doing just fine. It's not clear how many additional copies of Creative Suite Adobe can even sell by improvin | | | | |
| | | | Matrox MXO2 with HD Monitor
by Matthew Stewart on Apr 21, 2012 at 3:42:40 am
in the Matrox Video Systems Forum
I was wondering if anyone knew about this, While I was messing around with some footage on FCP, I noticed on my HD monitor which is connected via matroxmini expresscard that the outside edges of the picture are lopped off. Is this just the normal res | | | | |
| | | | Service: WASSEL & COMPANY MOTION PICTURES, INC.
by John Wassel on Apr 21, 2012 at 3:10:28 am
in the COW - Services Forum
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| | | | Re: Pixelation when video is shrunk to be smaller.
by Raf Erosa on Apr 21, 2012 at 1:58:50 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
ok.. i tried track motion...It still became pixelated. Text and video are both pixelated.
I am shooting in 60i. But I only need SD for the broadcast. So, I am rendering to the standard MP2 that the CW requested.
side note: When I am shrink my | | | | |
| | | | Re: Sony ex1r/ex3 refresh?
by Don Greening on Apr 20, 2012 at 11:20:49 pm
in the Sony XDCAM - EX & Related Forum
Michael, the big news about this camera, other than its small form factor is that it shoots MPEG2 4:2:2 @50 Mbits per second. This makes it broadcast legal and even the F3 doesn't do that without an outboard recorder like the Nano Flash. The other th | | | | |
| | | | Re: One year later...
by Michael Gissing on Apr 20, 2012 at 9:56:47 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
One year later it seems clear to me that FCPX is further behind the competition. The past 9 months has seen a lot of improvements but mostly in the area of re establishing functionality that was already there.
The Apple 52% market share stats mea | | | | |
| | | | WASSEL & COMPANY MOTION PICTURES, INC.
by John Wassel on Apr 20, 2012 at 8:10:28 pm
in the Forum
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| | | | Re: Editor's Dilema
by John Moffat on Apr 20, 2012 at 7:09:12 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
And in the meantime the 'Hollywood Editors' jobs have been outsourced India, Avid has went bust and we're all counting down the days until the broadcast transmission signal get switched off ;-)
Seriously... It is a big planet. If anything Hollywoo | | | | |
| | | | Re: Premiere CS5 Choppy/Skippy Render Issue
by Bill Boyer on Apr 20, 2012 at 7:01:32 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Well, I gave that a try and it does work. However, it's an extra step that should not be necessary. My point is Adobe/Microsoft should do something about the situation. I can sort of understand why Adobe has neglected the situation because all the | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Aindreas Gallagher on Apr 20, 2012 at 6:13:42 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
It's too early for premiere - maybe FCPX too really, but its definitely far too early to judge the level of impact PPro 6 is going to have - I think there is going to be a pretty significant shift to PPro: I mean it looks fit for purpose, almost ever | | | | |
| | | | News: Canon U.S.A., Inc. To Provide HD Broadcast Equipment For NBCUniversal's Coverage Of The London
by Cow News Droid on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:24:59 pm
in the NEWS: Product News Releases Forum
Canon HDTV Lenses, PTZ Cameras, and Canobeam To Enable NBC With Exceptional Optics and HD Video Quality During Coverage of the London Olympics, July 27, 2012 - August 12, 2012
(New York, NY--April 20, 2012) Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital | | | | |
| | | | Editor's Dilema
by Glen Hurd on Apr 20, 2012 at 5:17:29 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
For those confused by the angst over FCP X, I offer the "Prisoners' Dilema."
We have two players: Apple and the Hollywood Editor.
Each player has two choices.
For Apple, it is to support the Hollywood Editor by providing tools that make thei | | | | |
| | | | Re: HDR-AX2000 2-way radio Anomaly
by Jim Mickol on Apr 20, 2012 at 4:36:56 pm
in the Sony NXCAM Forum
Here is what Sony Support says: "I'm sorry to inform you that the Camcorder may not be able to record properly near strong radio waves or radiation. Similar is the case with the magnetic fields and mechanical vibration. Please avoid recording the Cam | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Herb Sevush on Apr 20, 2012 at 4:25:48 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] " I didn't believe Apple would abandon the high-end market. "
I feel abandoned. My MacPro tower recently died. For the moment I'm getting by with a loaner. I would like to stay with OSX, at least for the near future, but they don't s | | | | |
| | | | Re: One year later...
by Craig Seeman on Apr 20, 2012 at 3:57:15 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
Interesting. It would seem for you the issue is lack of roadmap. It seems Apple is beginning to change in that regard. This has been the case since they posted that they were working on multicam and broadcast monitoring. Now they're talking about MXF | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Chris Kenny on Apr 20, 2012 at 3:42:30 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Herb Sevush] "I find AI's analyses more on target than yours. They brought the app to market to suit this new demographic and took almost a year to bring to market the other features desired by the less important "higher end" of the market."
I co | | | | |
| | | | Re: One year later...
by Jason J Rodriguez on Apr 20, 2012 at 3:00:49 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] "Will a significant number of high-end FCP 7 customers for whom X is a good choice on its merits really choose something else as they finally do start to migrate away from 7 just because X had a rocky introduction that's now more than a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Apple are hilarious
by Walter Soyka on Apr 20, 2012 at 2:31:46 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] "I was making a somewhat different point. The specific lesson of these numbers, I think, is "Just because a narrative (about e.g. FCP X's failure) dominates Internet discussion of a subject doesn't necessarily mean that narrative has an | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Herb Sevush on Apr 20, 2012 at 2:22:03 pm
in the Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Forum
[Chris Kenny] "I did in fact predict major changes arising from questioning standard assumptions about how editing worked, and a feature set that wasn't a strict superset of FCP 7's"
I stand corrected, you were very prescient on this matter. Not b | | | | |
| | | | Service: Erron Dawson
by Rokett Sprokett on Apr 20, 2012 at 1:25:08 pm
in the COW - Services Forum
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| | | | Erron Dawson
by Rokett Sprokett on Apr 20, 2012 at 6:25:08 am
in the Forum
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