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how to organize this monsterproject?
Sorry, this is somewhat of a doublepost but I am at a loss on how to tackle this music clip.
I thought multiclip editing was perfect but apparently it’s not. My machine can’t deal with a 20 angle multiclip. (‘old’ G5 Quad, 3,5 gigs)
Now I’m very tired and confused- how do I organize this? Stack the tracks?
The director does not have a tight plan, just wants to make decisions based on what she sees.
Anyone care to share his experience with editing music video’s?
thx,
Wolf
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I did multi take video shoot on an Avid by stacking the track. It takes lots of brainpower to keep it straight. The most I had was 10 tracks. I cut by watching each track, and then cutting and pulling the moments I liked down to the first track.
Once you stack it – don’t forget to dupe the sequence so you always have the original stack just in case.
I rec – having your producer get the Director out of your space for a rough cut or they will drive you nuts.
Unless the Director is paying you for the privelage of sitting with you for every decision – ask them to respectfully get gone and let you do your job.
Or, my favorite passive agressive mood, hand them the stack of FCP manuals and let them know that if they want to cut it – start with reading the manuals.
Just having them in the room to “massage” the cut is going to take enough patience – if they are really there for every second – you will likely want to kill eachother before long.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
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20 streams of DV is not a realistic expectation for multiclip editing. You might be able to do 20 streams with OfflineRT – use the Media Manager to recompress the entire project.
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Thanks for your input. I stacked the tracks and somehow was able to get a nice basis. Needs a lot of tweaking but at least my headache is gone…
Wolf
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