Because Avid is sooooo hard

[Oliver Peters]

[Michael Gissing] “Here’s one for FCPX”

Nice!

– Oliver

Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com

[Claude Lyneis]

She has a wonderful accent

[Michael Gissing]

[Claude Lyneis] “She has a wonderful accent”

All us Australians do. 🙂

[Mark Suszko]

” I usually decide to end the shot when people are done talking.”

I LOL’d at this. Sign me up for her MasterClass:-)

Kids today, (the old man said), have it easier.

When I was seven, for fun we made photomatic flip-books out of Polaroid stills, and for junior high I got a super-8 mm camera and projector, with the splicing block built into the lid.

In High school, we learned to shoot on Sony reel-to-reel porta-packs in black and white,

manually insert-editing machine-to-machine between two reel-to-reel EIAJ half-inch decks without a controller, just a grease pencil to mark the tape, and the counters on the deck. “Pre-roll” both tapes manually winding them back seven seconds, start them at the same time, (like the launch keys in a SAC missile Silo), watch the counter wind down, look for the little tick mark on the edge of the tape, mash the DUB/EDIT button and hope you didn’t hit on a sync pulse, or you had to do it again.

I shot news packages and a one-set sci-fi short, based on a short story out of an Asimov Magazine. That was fun but also tedious, but mine wasn’t even the most ambitious project… we had one student in class that animated stop-motion cartoons that way. That kid was insane.

[Mark Smith]

Yep . I didn’t do animation on EIAJ decks but I definitely went through the school of makin 5 edits attempts to get one clean edit in the right place..