You’re right there are a ton of folks doing video professionally in between, it would take a long time to list them all so I just tend to say from broadcast to weddings videos to quickly cover the gamut.

As for home videos, have you seen this? http://www.magisto.com/ Automatic editing. And it doesn’t require the metadata that Philip’s app does. Of course it isn’t as good an end product as Philip’s app, but it is a form of outsourcing.

Terence, In discussing outsourcing with Philip I noticed that you went from broadcast to wedding videographers. Just a gentle reminder that in between is a wide range of corporate, educational, and industrial markets. I’ve made a reasonable living as an editor, producer, and videographer since the 1980′s in that arena. It’s not hard to imagine outsourcing in those markets. I imagine it will be most likely in post as you can’t shoot a tour of a corporate facility or interview the college president overseas.

Thanks for the excellent and informative programs.

Lee

(Great show guys – I enjoy the intelligent discussions – keep up the good work)

I agree, selective pasting of attributes is very much needed, a sync indicator would be nice. True Multicam is coming. Your insight into the design I think is spot on.

why can aperture do and FCPX cant
to me the 2 seem similar
that apple have crippled deliberately

audio mixing beats avid (which is properly crippled on audio)
the audio sync indicator is a big issue yes

the one problem I am having on FCPX is trying to do track type work (thinking fake multicam, total nightmare once i configured) or working on a less powerful machine.

everything else has been very nice so far and training others has been a lot easier than fcp7 ever was.

the training side and how easy it is for non techies really enthuses me, it will mean what you get for onlining is looked after in a way it never was with fcp7. in fact fcpx is doing what an assistant or tech department was doing for a lot of compenies and this is key to understanding how well designed it really is.

@Ben Balser:
Steve Jobs “changed society” with the things you listed? The GUI was invented at Xerox PARC, Jobs just licensed it. OS X, yes, was a good improvement – it finally made Mac computers useful (yes, I’m a little biased in this – every Mac OS before OS X was, in my mind, a pain in the ass).

The iPod, the iPad, even the iPhone – cool products, yes, but changing society? At best, the iPad, but it was an inevitable development; indeed, Apple had tried a tablet before; the success of the iPad had much to do with waiting for tech to advance to the point that a tablet was viable, not to mention the advantage of the iOS ecosystem.

As for podcasts, Steve Jobs had pretty much nothing to do with them, other than the marketing monster behind the “iPod” leading to the term “podcast.”

@Andrew Richards:
First, the wrongs.
The Personal Computer’s broad usage is thanks to Steve Jobs? Really? Please back up this claim with some data, because actual history would credit the boom of home PCs to Microsoft and Bill Gates. We may not like Gates’ tactics, but the effect can’t be denied.

As for the Internet/World Wide Web, I really hope you have more to your argument, because it reads like “Tim Berners-Lee used a computer built by Steve Jobs to invent the WWW – therefore Steve Jobs was partly responsible for inventing the WWW.”
I hope that’s not your argument, because…. really? If Steve hadn’t created NeXT, Tim Berners-Lee would have said “screw it, I’m not inventing the Web”?

Andrew actually hit it right on the head earlier: Steve Jobs was like Edison in that, while he may not have had an inventor’s mind, he could tinker with ideas to pursue an idea of what a product should ultimately be, and he developed a cult of personality to associate all inventions and developments from his company with himself.

And, just for fun, some people whose actions had an affect on society:
- Philo Farnsworth (Yes, I know he was mentioned)
- Hedy Lamarr
- Henry Ford
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Bill Gates (as mentioned above)
- Franklin Roosevelt
- Lyndon Johnson
- Richard Nixon
- Osama bin Laden
- Alexander Fleming
- George Pincus

and I’ve tapered out now…

I don’t get the laying of flowers at retail stores, in fact I find it disturbing. But I’m not going to toss Steve Jobs into the dustbin of history because other people have elevated him to something more than an important industrialist.

Remember where this discussion started. You argued on the show that Jobs would not be widely remembered in a few decades, and I think he will be. It doesn’t take an Edison-sized legacy to be remembered.

Certainly does in some cases. And this is one.

We are moving to a new facility and it looks like the digibetas won’t make the move with us. Currently we produce plenty of Masters for Air/backup/audio-superless x 2 (8 tracks) and OMFI on disk. All in real time with confidence on. Pretty straightforward post.

In the future I guess we will be rendering loots and playing back files to check muxing and file integrity. Who knows about archiving! We still have afilm library and some 1 inch as well as mountains of beta sp.

Thank goodness for the future it looks so bright from far away, but the lustre dulls the closer we get to it…

Edison gave us the motion picture camera, the phonograph, and the light bulb. It doesn’t matter who was working on various parts of those inventions, he delivered and made them available to the masses.If you are comparing the refinement of a smartphone to the cultural impact of motion pictures, you are arguing a point I just don’t get.