Quote Originally Posted by Craig Weeding View Post
but for many users who do not have more then a laptpop and REDCINE these tools are allowing a whole group of film makers to produce amazing 4K films for budgets that could not have even been dreamed of before the RED Revolution began...
That's all well and good, but: bear in minds your films are going to be judged on the same home screens and cable networks on which people are watching big-budget Hollywood epics, medium-budget documentaries, weekly episodic TV shows, and modest-budget reality shows... all of which go through very torturous post paths. There is no replacement for experience and good equipment.

I would say the same thing for somebody who bought a grip truck and a bunch of lights last week and expects to know how to light this week. Realistically, it takes at least 5000 hours to become "expert" at anything -- and I would include sound, color correction, editing, and cinematography in those categories. Each of them is a very difficult craft that takes years to master.

I would never assume that just because I own Final Cut Pro that this makes me an editor. The same is true of color-corrections software. I can dabble... but I'm not really an editor. I do know color and sound, and I stick with those areas because those are my areas of expertise.

Or in one sentence or less: you get what you pay for.