Comments on: SmoothCam is smooth, but slow

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By: S Simmons

S Simmons — Fri, 07 May 2010 19:48:40 +0000

Sure that’s one way to do it but that can take a LOT of extra work depending on how many clips you have to work with. Shorter story: Apple make smoothcam better and faster!

By: Tylor

Tylor — Wed, 05 May 2010 04:27:10 +0000

Short story. Export a managed project without (or with small) handles and none of the fat. Smoothcam the shorter clips.

By: alec

alec — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:38:58 +0000

Everyone knows that story and passion are unimportant/completely irrelevant, Frank; You’re just not mature enough to understand.

By: Frank Perrotto

Frank Perrotto — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:16:32 +0000

Re: Maartai

So I guess David Fincher and Walter Murch are being laughed out of the industry… you’re a jack-ass, typical response from a tech-head nerd who thinks it’s the tools that make something great, not the people behind them. What was it that Coppola said? Oh, and Kubrick too – one day the so-called ‘professionalism’ of filmmaking will be squashed forever and it will be a real art form.

By: editblog

editblog — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:07:08 +0000

Steven, that’s kinda what this whole blog is about. So tell us … what’s gonna come next?

By: Steven S.

Steven S. — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:15:35 +0000

FCP is setting a whole new revolution in post production. Your gonna love what apple does next…

By: editblog

editblog — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:21:33 +0000

Hey great comment Karl. That’s about the best I’ve ever seen when comparing Avid and FCP in a more free-flowing, abstrack kinda way. That’s almost worthy of a post on its own!

By: Karl

Karl — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:46:51 +0000

i started out on the AVID about 13 years ago and since then have been going back and forth between FCP and AVID depending on what the clients can afford.

technically, AVID is tits. she’s solid, flexible, and broadcast industry standard more or less. tight, sexy EDLs and producers love to sound boss hissing into their cell phones “steven, deal with that idiot DP youself, i’m in the AVID suite and this is costing me $350 an hour, jerkface!”. or something silly like that.

FCP is loose, funky in many areas, sloppy in the areas it’s not funky, unstable and sort of schizo. producers in the FCP room get more creative, buy me the best coffee and have muffled phone converstaions like “this render is taking forever, but i can’t believe how whe saved the footage that idiot DP gave us!”.

AVID gigs pay more, but by and large I actually enjoy my FCP projects. How many talking head corporate rhetoric pieces can you slice on and AVID before going brain dead and not caring anymore? For me, not many. How many zombie themed library commercials, blaxplotation valet training videos and performance art inside kinetic installations can i work and still stay interested? About ten years so far…

Comes down to personal preference, I think. AVID pays for my motorcycle and carbon fiber mountain bikes, but FCP makes me want to pedal fast and bunny hop into the suite.

My 2.97 cents.

-k

By: Philipe :)

Philipe :) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:38:12 +0000

Hey Maartai!

I can’t say you are wrong, but I think you lack a little bit of perspective and understanding of the industry and the reality of things out there…

Most productions that are created, both in the creative-narrative and corporate-promo-advertising world, do not have nearly enough budget to rent 40 000$ editing rooms.

Plus Apple users are not all kids whose parents have bought them a computer. You insult a lot of serious professionals by saying that.

Furthermore, you are attacking the democratization of video making: how are people supposed to get started if, in the first place, they need at least a 40 000$ investment or need to get hired by a big company?

Come on! Don’t be so frustrated: it’s a new era and the pie is more divided, however more people get to be creative and live off their passion!

Cheers to all video makers out there, whatever your platform is!
Philippe