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What have you done in X lately?
I really enjoy seeing what people that post here, especially the long-time pros, do with FCPX (or any NLE for that matter). Occasionally, there is a link in the signature to click on that takes you to Vimeo or a home site that has a demo of completed work. (I took a look a few months back at David Battistella’s work and was very impressed. And, some of his night shots gave me some good ideas for future music videos I need to put together.)
If anyone is willing to share links to their stuff at Vimeo or elsewhere, I’d love to take a look. I have no idea if this goes against some sort of un-written forum politics, but I thought I’d ask.
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https://vimeo.com/oliverpeters
Nothing edited in X yet, but will post some spots done in X in the next couple of weeks.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Nothing special but I’ll throw it out my first X project. https://vimeo.com/bretwilliams/videos
The top video, “Know Your Numbers: Employee Testimonials” was an h264 native multicam shoot with zoom audio. Not particularly exciting since its a follow up featuring employee soundbites, but the logging in X was exceptional for it since we asked them the same questions and could group keyword bins by question, person, camera angle etc. and of course linking up the audio to the camera angles was flawless. Having worked with plural eyes this was just amazing. Just highlight the clips and the zoom wav file and create multiclip. Bam, done. CS6 would’ve involved the slates and such.
Used the color board on every shot, as well as the stabilizer on the “floating” camera shots. Color correction is years ahead of 7, and the stabilizer works on a cut level instead of clip level (like 7) so that was great. I found mixing basic audio levels to be easy too since I could just visually adjust the waveforms and Keyframe the levels without even listening for the most part. Grabbing a range to edit audio Keyframes was pretty sweet as was j and l cuts at the audio sample level. It was a great first project that focused on the strengths of X. We’ll see how it goes if/when I attempt a more heavily layered graphic piece.
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Oliver,
Very cool! I only got a chance to watch about 6 or 7, but I’ll watch some more tomorrow. The “Give Kids The World” was too good. I could only watch a couple of minutes of it.
I really like the overall color look, which except for maybe the “Crooked Pine Band” video, there’s a overall slightly saturated look to the videos which I like a lot. Am I reading something in that isn’t there or is that your preferred coloring style? I noticed that some of the grading you did in Color or with Colorista and some was done at New Hat (a few miles from where I live).
Maybe it’s me, but it seems like whenever I watch on Vimeo I need to start the video, pause it for 30 seconds, and then start Play again or it stutter. Are these uploaded at 720p or 1080p?
Again, it’s very nice to put a face and video work behind the forum posts.
Thanks,
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[Bret Williams] “The top video, “Know Your Numbers: Employee Testimonials” was an h264 native multicam shoot with zoom audio.”
I saw the first “Kick-Off” video a couple of days from your reply to my post, so it was fun to see this “sequel” video. Were the blue-white right to left moving numbers done in AE? Is the orange/blue/green split screens at the end also done in AE?I’m glad you pointed out the J and L cuts in the audio. It’s done so simply and smoothly, I don’t think I would have noticed without watching a few times. (I’m much more a viewer than an editor.)
It was cool to see the “Georgia Hall of Fame Music Awards Intro 2010” video. I realize it’s just part of an editor’s job, but the amount of work that must go into an intro like staggers me. Even though you were able to use the basic graphics for a few years in a row, how long did it take you to put them together in AE and LiveType?
Sorry for all the questions, but I guess I’m at the stage where I’m able to do about everything I need video-wise in FCP7 or FCPX, but the more I understand about editing, the more I become a fan of the industry.
I look forward to watching more of the videos tomorrow, but I’ll try to keep the questions to a minimum.
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I’ve been using FCPX since June 22nd last year and the difference between the first version and 10.0.4 is profound.
Crashes are now rare occurrences, now maybe that’s also due to me learning what causes crashes, but on the whole it’s much more stable and responsive.
I both shoot and edit the films my company makes, working with a producer / journalist, and for me FCPX and Motion do everything I need. the only part of Final Cut Studio I still use is DVD Studio Pro, and that is very infrequent because as Apple have correctly predicted nearly all end delivery is now file based.
The first 3 items on my vimeo link were produced in FCPX and one thing I am particularly impressed with is the ability to create fairly complex composite graphic sequences with comparative ease. I also find the color correction very easy to use although I’m still missing the ability to re white balance an image as we could do in FCP7 and if I’m honest would prefer color wheels. However plenty of 3rd party plugins have color wheels.
We recently completed 16 short films for a conference within a 2 month period and I had every confidence in FCPX and really think it helped us complete the work before the deadline.
I’m really looking forward to the next update as I believe that there will be substantial improvements on the audio side.
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This is a short doc about the record store scene in LA.
https://vimeo.com/35334800This was cut in 7 by another editor. I used 7toX and brought it into X to color correct. Also did the 4×3 center crop in X, using some custom settings. Then sent it back to 7 to place back in GFX and present back to client… all in 3 hours. It was a crazy day.
https://vimeo.com/43755855This is a news story, and also the first piece I cut in X.
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/february-3-2012/farmworker-justice/10207/Michael Garber
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Hi Michael,
just watched your Tomato piece – great programme, well balanced, informative.
The fact you cut it in X is of interest within the context of this forum but it is the skill and judgement of an editor that creates a good piece.
And I’m sure that anyone watched that film will have learned a lot in a short space of time and possibly had their opinions challenged.
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Dave,
Thanks for the kind words. You might want to start on the last page and work your way forward. The oldest page has some of my demo reels, including some of the long-form stuff (features, etc.).
As far as the color correction, a lot of these video – especially commercials – have gone through a standard agency, high-end workflow, where I do the edit and a colorist, like Bob Festa at New Hat, does the final color grade. Clearly you get every bit of quality out of the image, but in general, most TV spots go for a more punchy and saturated look than a feature or documentary. I edit and grade, but I certainly don’t have the chops for grading as an A-list guy who does it day in and day out. That being said, a lot of the web-targeted clips (GKTW, the Brevard NC pieces, the wine videos) are all ones that I’ve graded, using either the built-in FCP or Avid tools, Color, Resolve or with plug-ins like Colorista. I did some of the grading on the spots, too, like Honda (Colorista) and Nickelodeon Suites Resort (Apple Color).
If you are very interested in grading, here’s a link to the blog posts I’ve done specifically discussing color correction/grading with various tools:
https://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/category/color-grading/
As far as Vimeo, most of these newer uploads are 720p. Sometimes there’s some buffering and sometimes it’s very fluid. I just wait until the buffer gets a bit ahead of where I’m at when that happens.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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That’s funny you feel it’s all file based. My wife used to work at UPS where nearly every production they did was distributed worldwide on DVD and translated/subtitled/cc’d into 15 languages or something like that. Home Depot, while having a satellite network, still distributes much of it’s work on DVD and the FCP X project I listed above for Cox also had to be distributed on DVD as well as file based for intranet/facebook/youtube, etc.
But those are small companies. Probably exceptions to the rule. 🙂
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That started as a budget piece back in 2007. Not very long at all. Maybe 2 days for the full package of backgrounds, lower 3rds, and titles for 6-7 videos. But the titles were all the same, just different artists. It’s really just some LiveType, Digital Juice elements, and GA State flag mashed together. The intro you’re seeing was just a plugin for the montage of artist photos. Actually I’m not sure why that’s up there. It’s really not that interesting and was done with stock elements and plugins. Maybe just to appear I do some broadcast work. 🙂 I do like te Black Crowes piece. Actually did all the montage panning in FCP 7. Just made a 3500×3500 sequence and laid out the grid of photo/videos, then pan around that in a 1080i sequence.
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