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Panther and tiger are used.  As is OS 9 on many occassions (I am using an Avid right now running off OS 9).  Windows NT is also used in the pro editing environment (Avid Symphony) as is Windows XP (Premiere, Vegas).

It isn't the OS that drives the post process, it is the NLE.  And they run off all kinds of Operating Systems.

Digital Droo wrote:

bizzie wrote:

i just saw corpse bride and i was interested in what technology they used.

While this doesn't really answer your question regarding Panther/Tiger, I thought I'd link to an article about shooting Corpse Bride.

http://www.editorsguild.com/newsletter/ … bride.html

They used Nikon lenses on Canon bodies? Oh noes!!

::twitches in a ditch::

do you guys know of any advantages panther has over tiger?  im considering downgrading to panther because my steinberg system 4 doesnt work with tiger.  i mostly video edit with fcp4.5, audio edit with cubase sl2, and a lot of photoshop work.

If you're going to talk "professional" as in, feature film editing, then don't even talk about FCP.  Only a tiny tiny fraction might use it on a lower budget film- and Corpse Bride is definitely not an example of a normal production.

I've been running 10.4.2 w/FCP 4.5 with pretty good success on my home mac.  If a major project came along where I had to work at home I'd probably go back to 10.3.9 though... We're still running 10.3.9, FCP 4.5 and QT 6 on all the edit systems at work.
IMHO  Quicktime 7 has been nothing but a disaster...  And the problems I'm hearing about in FCP 5 are keeping me away.
I've also had a terrible encounter with Compressor 2.  It installed when I installed Soundtrack Pro to try it out...  I can not export a clean MPEG-2 file with it.  The MPEG2 export component for QT Pro seems to work still though.

I edit national commercials and documentaries for The History Channel using FCP.  Plus, every movie trailer you see was cut using FCP...

Small market share..yes.  Growing market share...yes.  Not professional...no.

fingerjello wrote:

If you're going to talk "professional" as in, feature film editing, then don't even talk about FCP.  Only a tiny tiny fraction might use it on a lower budget film- and Corpse Bride is definitely not an example of a normal production.

Boy aren't we high on our horse! I'd consider anyone getting paid to edit video or film a "professional". Whether they possess the skill sets necessary to compare their work to high-end feature film shops, then I doubt they would come close. Hell even I don't have enough mad skills to compete with what feature films churn out, however, I do believe my work could easily pass for broadcast TV. My work is all for live productions and/or taking live show recordings and doing a final edit. I guess by your standards I am not a professional.

Oh and BTW, Fox Sports uses FCP and AJA Kona II gear to edit HD material for highlight reels and such, which in my opinion, easily passes as "professional" use. Used for Major League Baseball and the Super Bowl.

Professional does not automatically mean "Feature Film Use Only".

-mark

Last edited by avkills (2005-10-03 11:57 am)

I would consider people that use FCP for feature film editing professional, and I know at least 3 people that do. Why would you say they were not professional because of the software they use? The tool is only as good as the people using it, and just because it has a smaller market share means nothing (Thats like saying your not professional because you have an Apple).
Those filmmakers that are using it to edit their feature films are just leading the way with a different non linear system than what was currently being used (Avid) and for a cheaper price. It gives hope to the low budget filmmakers out there.

shaman04 wrote:

Depends Droo, do you compose music for a company that then sends a hard drive and a music sifting program (Pump Audio I believe)?  Twice I have used them.  For THE NUCLEAR FOOTBALL and HELL: THE DEVIL'S DOMAIN.

I do use Pump Audio's service to shop my music, in fact. Their statements indicate that my tunes have been used on The History Channel, but not those particular titles.

CaptKevMan wrote:

I work as a Mac support tech for a broadcasting company....

I failed to mention that the company I support has 31 Final Cut Studio workstations on the local campus (more overseas), and they produce TV broadcasts around the world.

So I guess you could say they're "professional."

Althought the Compressor 2/MPEG-2 issue is a concern, it only affects a handful of the people using those systems. About half are on Tiger, half on Panther.

Last edited by CaptKevMan (2005-10-04 6:08 am)

Hey Droo, is that Noise Pump?  FirstCom Music has that library, so I imagine tons of high-end guys sample and use that stuff. BTW, FirstCom is the library I use at work.

Hmmm, just checked it out, looks like a different service. Looks good though.

-mark

Last edited by avkills (2005-10-04 11:31 am)

Digital Droo wrote:

avkills wrote:

Hey Droo, is that Noise Pump?  FirstCom Music has that library, so I imagine tons of high-end guys sample and use that stuff. BTW, FirstCom is the library I use at work.

Hmmm, just checked it out, looks like a different service. Looks good though.

-mark

I don't know what Noise Pump is, but Pump Audio is a company that shops indie artists' music to agencies, production houses, etc. and takes care of the licensing headaches. They're not a library--they are generally about getting "real" artists' music to film and broadcast. By "'real' artists" I mean, as opposed to buyout or stock music.

Cool. Yeah, FirstCom is kind of like that (although they market themselves as a stock music library), you don't buy-out your music, but rather have a multi-year, however many discs agreement in which you can cycle discs in and out.  It is pretty cool.  but I will be checking out Pump Audio over the next week.

-mark