Ever leave a week of production with 60TB of data?? Yea… me neither. Marc Bach has a unique position creating original content for DirectTV and tells an AMAZING story about how his boss decided to let him usher in a new era of workflow for their environment with 12 edit suites making content for “Audience”, on DirectTV.

Sponsored by PremiumBeat.com

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Marc Bach –  interfacelab.net – @marcplanb

Our new sponsor is… you’ll have to listen. What happens when two podcasters walk into a room with mics on stands and headphones on the table. Ben Consoli was in California shooting a job and he and I went to dinner… eventually we ended up sitting down to record and we had a long discussion about the first sponsor for The Grill.

We also go into a deep discussion about 4K, Ultra HD and technology adoption.

Sponsored by Well… you have to listen don’t you?

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Ben Consoli – @benconsoli

 

A gifted trainer and prolific producer, Jem Schofield has been a power user of the Final Cut Suite for many years. A few months ago I caught wind that he was using FCPX and, given the prolific nature of his production training I guess it had never occurred to me to ask what edit platform he was using. Jem and I talk a lot about Motion and other workflow issues. We also may have discovered a recurring problem that a lot of FCPX users have been running into.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Jem Schofield – @theC47

“Reflecting and looking back and you see… it IS better, no matter how much you hated it.”

Reality TV may be a natural fit for FCPX with its vast shooting ratios and the need to dig thru tons of material to find just the right sound bite to further the story along. Scott Markowitz tells how they are slowly adopting FCPX, one show at a time at Shooters Inc. in Philadelphia. We also get into the new paradigm that Motion has created and we discuss the difference between “Making an Effect”, which can be recycled and making a timeline in AE which is a single purpose solution.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Scott Markowitz – @scottmarkdaddy

Shooters Inc

Shooters TV

Big Smack

Dive – NYC

NAB2014 recap of FCPX news. In this episode we met with Michael Garber and Sam Mestman. Michael and Sam were at NAB representing FCP Works and had finished two long days of demos and we got together in the DCC Hospitality Suite at 11PM to discuss what had been going on at the show. Sam gives us the rundown of the demo he was doing in the Red booth showing FCPX and Resolve and a roundtrip workflow.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Sam Mestman – @sammestman

Michael Garber – @garbershop

 

I wanted to call this episode, “Audio Comes After the Video” because I usually pick something the guest says that makes me chuckle but at the last minute I thought it would be better to let everyone know that Steve Miller is a hardcore Premiere user and self professed evangelist. There’s also a healthy dose of  “How to Wire a Podcast”  in the first few minutes but that is NOT what this episode is about. Steve Miller (not that one) is a MONSTER of an effects based editor. As owner of Steevco in Norther California, Steve travels all over the country doing, among other things, short turn around edits. Steve is also a hardcore Premiere user and I  thought it would be fun to chat about his choices and share some of mine.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Steve Miller – Steevco

Three weeks in the making, it took forever for Chris Hocking and I to find a sliver of time where we could chat. Chris is the post supervisor at Late Nite Films and he and I go in to great depths discussing his first edit in FCPX and what he liked and didn’t like about the software. We also spend a bit of time near the end going over some things Chris would like to see changed.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Christopher Hocking – @latenitefilms

 

 

We discuss After Effects, Cinema 4D and Motion and Alan Brazzell goes into great lengths sharing how he made drop zone templates for one of his clients to reduce work load. Looking for work can be hard, Alan talks about how he turned a few strategically chosen jobs into a lucrative and fruitful relationship with his clients.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Alan Brazzell – @brazzellvideo

Brazzell Video

Helmut Breakdown

Curves in FCPX

Devin Supertramp

Alan’s Workspace

Alan’s Folder Structure

Tad Wagner is an artist that inspires me. On this special episode of The Grill we’re going to do something a little different. I want you to meet one of my close friends who has inspired me for nearly 30 years. He’s a musician, a song songwriter, a painter, an editor and a photographer but most importantly he sees the world with a unique vision. We discuss the origins of “art” and find out what inspires my good friend Tad.

Tad’s Website

Tad’s Facebook Page

Tad on Instagram

Tad on Tumblr

Flickr

Merchants of Cool – Mentioned by Chris about PBS Frontline Episode.

It Might Get Loud

Dennis Miller Quote

“It’s just television, it should be bad sometimes. When it goes wrong it should go really wrong, not just a low level wrong. When it goes wrong it should be horribly wrong and cause you to sit up in bed and say, ‘Honey wake up, Cher just called Letterman an asshole'”

Dennis Miller on “Later with Greg Kinnear”

 

As we wrapped a multi day edit on Kona, The Big Island, Steven Luksic and I decided to chronicle our workflow that neither of us had actually used before. Two guys, two computer, one timeline, and we seamlessly were able to work side by side with Stephen feeding me selects in a fast workflow that allowed me to continue cutting while he was sifting thru 4 cameras worth of material for me. Excuse the audio quality, we only had one mic and had to share it.

Chris Fenwick – chrisfenwick.com – @chrisfenwick

Stephen Luksic – [email protected]