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MillimeterApple iChat Theater Preview Collaboration
Aug 27, 2009 12:00 PM, By Jan Ozer
Brian Gonosey, Apple Final Cut Pro and iChat Theater Preview user.
One of the most prominent new features in Apple Final Cut Pro 7 is iChat Theater Preview, or the ability to share the Viewer window via iChat. Operation is simple: You connect via iChat, then click a couple of controls in Final Cut Pro 7, and press the space bar, and then your client or collaborator sees what you’re seeing in the Viewer.
It’s the type of feature that would seem most useful to those working under the tightest deadlines. To confirm this, I chatted with an editor who worked under some of the most demanding conditions imaginable: a weekly television show. Since Apple set up the conversation, I expected Brian Gonosey, editor on Leverage, the hit TNT original series starring Timothy Hutton, to be pretty high on the feature, but he sounded positively giddy when we spoke about it.
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The Schedule
By way of background, Leverage is shot with four Red Digital Cinema Red One cameras and three Sony XDCAMs, with the majority of setups multiple camera shoots. When the show is in season, it shoots continually with three rotating editors, of which Gonosey is one. There are also six rotating directors who work on the different episodes.
The show is shot in Portland, Ore., and edited in Hollywood—specifically at Electric Entertainment, a production company owned by Dean Devlin, the producer of The Patriot and Independence Day (see the upcoming issue of millimeter for more on Leverage's production pipeline). Dailies are copied onto FireWire drives each day and shipped overnight to the production facility. The editing schedule is very structured: four days to an initial editor’s cut, then four days polishing with the director, four with the producer, and then off to the network. The problem is that directors and producers aren’t always in the same city.
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