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Is it me?
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Actually, Paul has a great point. In the old days in Chicago, if I needed a graphic or a scene rotoscoped, I’d send it up one floor to the Harry suite where it would be fixed, dumped back to D-1 and then taken back into the edit session…usually a day or two later. These days, the editor (me!) is the One Man Band that has to retouch scenes, make graphics in Photoshop or After Effects, do the audio sweetening, compose titles and wear many more “hats” including being the engineer-in-charge. Add to that keeping up with all of the software upgrades that seem to change daily. Kind of like being the Captain on the bridge of an ocean liner. Call for Full Speed Ahead! -and then run down to the engine room and start shoveling that coal!
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Bob, I think reposting the rules would be a great idea! Maybe that will get those posting “noob question” or “simple question” posts in the FCP Basics forum.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
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I knew you’d chime in as soon as I posted that. I don’t know what part of the industry you’re involved in, but in commercial post production, the glut of $160,000 editorial gigs for a couple :30’s in the 90’s do not exist in 2008. That same job today would be at most a $65,000 gig. Agencies just don’t spend that kind of money anymore.
Finishing is where the money is still at. Not editorial.
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[Paul Ullah] “And that’s why I’m a camera operator!”
The first BetaCam I used (not SP jet) with that Anton Bauer battery was some 12 Kgrs or so. I’m 59 Kgrs. This is why I choosed be an editor instead of camera man:-)
What is clear is that few years ago a video editor new quite well what he what dealing with. Working in PAL land you needed not only to know all the specs of the PAL video signal, but also the NTSC. In the digital era many people refuse to understand analog concepts and technics.
I guess that the engineers that design the spaceships for the NASA they start learning how a steam machine works.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Ahhh the Grass 1600… cut my live directing teeth on that thing. Not only did it possess the all powerful “quad-split” but it blew up Alderaan in “Star Wars”.
As I wrapped up the 6pm news I’d call for the fade to black as “You may fire when ready” and make “dewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww” sound of the Death Star.
Anywho, back to your regularly scheduled reminiscing…
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“Kind of like being the Captain on the bridge of an ocean liner. Call for Full Speed Ahead! -and then run down to the engine room and start shoveling that coal!”
This line is golden, I may use it sometime.
Scott
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Winston,
if the newbies, weren’t asking their basic questions here, like “can I run FCP2 on my G3” we wouldn’t have any fun, with the upside down answers… I’ll bet most of us work in a small office (out of the house) of one to three people.. And I’ll bet the survey says they are one man shops more than anything……
I learn from the Cow and have fun with the Cow. Sure the newbies can be tiresome, but it is nice to try out the new (and old) jokes on them just to see what would work with the clients.
Every job has newbies to harass,, that is part of the fun. And they are usually the ones your bidding against because they can look the client in the eye and say “yep, I can do everything, it is just video, how hard do you think it is, I got a big college degree and I will do it all for ten dollar”
I don’t mind them swimming in my pond, somebody has to feed the Alligators :-0
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Nate, to each his own. 😉
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
4 GB RAM | Final Cut Studio 5.1.4 | Aja Kona LHe -
Who ever said to pull out a manual in an edit? You could get info AFTER the edit or if you were pressed for time you would collaborate with another in house editor.
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