what do U think of the podcasts?

[Anonymous]

It has been a year now of fxguide doing the fxpodcasts!

So what do you guys think?
We’d love to hear from you. Are we doing too many film stories – or not enough?
Would you like more on the gear ? Or more on something else?

Is the current 30-40 mins, once a week the right format?

Good or bad – we’d love to get your advise and comments as we plan the next year ahead.

thanks

Mike
co-founder fxguide 😀

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

the current format of approx half an hour per week is perfect..the content is excellent..more..? maybe some more hardware and benchmark related stuff and definitely optimized workflow related stuff would be wicked.

[Anonymous]

good feedback – please keep it coming

Mike 😀

[Alesis]

Well they can become boring. Sometimes the interviewer talks too much (sorry about that guys) and slows the podcast to much.

Also I would like more precise questions and not so much essay type that you often forget what was the question.

Thanks. Hope I am not too harsh 😳

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

thats a cool idea…maybe more interviews with artists than vendors and maybe from around the world not just north america and europe..japan, china, HK as well.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the comments guys – you know we really respect and value your opinions.

I agree that sometimes it is just easy to talk to equipment manufacturers – except to say there are also times – such as when there are major annoucements – that we feel it is valid to talk directly to the source.

One thing I would welcome is the tech level we have been pitching at.. is it too complex, or not? On some lists we have bee praised and singled out for being extremely geeky – one reader said we pitch to high and assume to much from the listener ? Any comments? We have aimed high as personally thats whats interests us – we want to hear the complex stuff. I think people often talk down to you the audience – I know we could be more popular if we broadened the discussion – but I just hate dumbing down – Where can you go these days to really find out what algorithms and processes people use ? But hey that may just be me !
Let me know what you think… are we pitching the content with too much technical complexity ?

Re films – we will always end up doing more films during the Summer US blockbuster season – regardless of anyone opinion of the films themselves – these huge effects films do tend to push the State of the Art . But I agree TVC and film clips – plus films in other parts of the world are just as valid and perhaps more relevant to many of our day to day personal workflows.

So please keep the feedback coming – hey we may not ask again for another year 😉

Mike
(for Jeff and John)

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

maybe the content is at times too advanced for some people..personally with my tech background i LOVE the “geekiness” he he but yeah i can understand how some of the readers at times may wonder …. maybe stick to the technical details but express them in a more simplified way ? profiles of post houses who have developed new workflows would also be cool, technical details on inter-operability tween flame-lustre-toxik would be wicked…at the end of the day i think we all need to hear about new advances be it film, video,DI, hardware, camera or whatever and hence the latest technical stuff presented concisely makes a lotta sense…

[Saran Sirikasamsap]

a cool idea could be -> talk to the vendors when a product is about to be released or maybe as its being released and maybe a few weeks AFTER release talk to one of the post houses that beta tested it ? cos their non-disclosure would expire once THAT version is released right ? that way we get a vendors AND a users point of view ASAP

[kakutarvn]

I would love it if you also talked to some of the top people at post-houses and production shops. Being in brodcasting at a local level I would love to hear how the big boys do it with regards to commercials, and other post projects.

Things like… workflow, timeframe, people usded, gear used, how, why.

The 3 of you guys are probably the types I want to hear from, you all tend to go very high end in your pods for people like yourselves. But to me.. you are the higher end. Don’t forget about the little guys… give them something useful that they can later experiment at their level.

BKM

[maxrehan]

FX Boys,
Definitely don’t dumb it down. You guys built this as a site where professional fx artists could come together, outside of the pressures of clients and salesmen, and better ourselves and our industry. Sometimes pushing the envelope will not involve elements that not everyone will immediately understand. But a lot of us working in this, got where we are by catching up to to the bar quickly, if not raising it from time to time.
The podcasts are great. But maybe instead of talking to the sales guys at release time, make them get you you Helie’s of the world so as to grill/praise them as need be. And perhaps include another user in that discussion to get more of the round table feel that you had at NAB.

Later,
B22

[Alesis]

Einstein once said that if you couldn’t explain it to your grandmother you didn’t know what you were talking about. So maybe the podcast can leave very intricate technical stuff (not so much because we couldn’t understand it but because there is no point in talking about them within the context on the interview) and instead focus on what it will allow in real terms.

E.g. (Im making this up) So would you think that the 64-bit trilinearcomposedscan rendering engine can increase the amount of photons traced at a given time during the atmospheric…

Instead you can say this new rendering system can provide a better light handling…
An idea would be to include with the podcast a pdf with the technical data of the product or technique that is being talked about.

[Anonymous]

eltopo wrote:

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Instead you can say this new rendering system can provide a better light handling…
An idea would be to include with the podcast a pdf with the technical data of the product or technique that is being talked about.

good points all… to be honest… the real pdf teaching type stuff is what happens in fxphd. We can’t put that sort of effort into explaining the technical for the weekly podcasts – we can for the serious teaching stuff we do in fxphd. I am not trying to be negative but we are not resourced to provide that sort of in depth stuff here and I think fxphd is the right forum too – as it is all about explaining the technology.

As i said in an earlier comment – we have selected this level of serious vs stupid-goof off… technical vs simple – since it interests us and we feel that there are heaps of places to go for overview press release stuff. We wanted to offer a professional level ‘user led’ set of programs talking to key vfx people about the craft. So keep the comments coming – we are very much listening and taking it on board.

Mike
(for jeff and john)

[bnw]

I love all the high-end technical stuff but I kinda feel you could include more high-end creative stuff too. Talking about why they chose the look that they did and how they achieved that rather than what boxes were in their pipeline.

[Liam Farnham]

All of the ‘casts have been GREAT so far (both the fxguide and fxphd’s). The more technical/geeky the better 😀

And with my hour drive to work – the longer the better! An hour podcast suits me just fine…

The only critical comment is when an interviewee is on a cell/internet phone it can be hard to make out what they’re saying at times. Although I guess landline calls to other countries can be pricey!

Other than that… 8) as can be…

PLEASE keep them coming.

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