Don’t block the door.
I’ve been following the fallout from the release of FCPX with my psychology hat on. It reminds me of something… took a minute to place.
The first time I walked into an all-male tv news photog lounge. The guys looked at each other with a doomsday expression. It’s over. Really over. and not just because we have to take down the naked lady pictures from our lockers. The cameras are getting light enough that girls can shoot news. So much for hard-hitting journalism.
Believe me, I understand the concerns about the new Final Cut. I’m with you. I have 4 multicam projects ready to digitize and it doesn’t look like X has any support of that. Exporting OMF is crucial. Broadcast monitor? Must have. I won’t be upgrading today, I’ll wait and see. But there’s something deeper happening.
The democratization of video and film equipment has made my career possible. The first ‘pro-sumer’ cameras and the first release of Final Cut Pro were the reason I could escape from that news environment and start creating the work that interests me most. I can tell the stories that need telling, not the stories that can raise a million dollars for a production budget. And make no mistake, it was leveling that playing field, making the equipment accessible to consumers, that created the video explosion on the internet that keeps my business busy.
Those guys in the photog lounge were wrong. It wasn’t their jock itch and brute strength that made them news photographers. It was their eyes and their instinct. And my walking into the newsroom made them better. It challenged them, which made their product better. The people that hire me today don’t hire me because I have thousands of dollars of equipment and can read a waveform monitor. They hire me because I am a great storyteller.
That’s not going to change. What is going to change, is plenty.
But don’t block the door. It makes you look like a neanderthal. Trust me.
Don’t block the door.
I’ve been following the fallout from the release of FCPX with my psychology hat on. It reminds me of something… took a minute to place.
The first time I walked into an all-male tv news photog lounge. The guys looked at each other with a doomsday expression. It’s over. Really over. and not just because we have to take down the naked lady pictures from our lockers. The cameras are getting light enough that girls can shoot news. So much for hard-hitting journalism.
Believe me, I understand the concerns about the new Final Cut. I’m with you. I have 4 multicam projects ready to digitize and it doesn’t look like X has any support of that. Exporting OMF is crucial. Broadcast monitor? Must have. I won’t be upgrading today, I’ll wait and see. But there’s something deeper happening.
The democratization of video and film equipment has made my career possible. The first ‘pro-sumer’ cameras and the first release of Final Cut Pro were the reason I could escape from that news environment and start creating the work that interests me most. I can tell the stories that need telling, not the stories that can raise a million dollars for a production budget. And make no mistake, it was leveling that playing field, making the equipment accessible to consumers, that created the video explosion on the internet that keeps my business busy.
Those guys in the photog lounge were wrong. It wasn’t their jock itch and brute strength that made them news photographers. It was their eyes and their instinct. And my walking into the newsroom made them better. It challenged them, which made their product better. The people that hire me today don’t hire me because I have thousands of dollars of equipment and can read a waveform monitor. They hire me because I am a great storyteller.
That’s not going to change. What is going to change, is plenty.
But don’t block the door. It makes you look like a neanderthal. Trust me.
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