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Larry Jordan
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Have no idea. Never got that far.
Plus, the navigation within the movie file was abysmal. And correct me if I’m wrong but there is no indication of how long the segment is while you are watching them. You just watch the blue bar grow and try to calculate how long it would take to get across to the other side.
You wanted feedback…this is all I’ve got.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
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Just for the heck of it I went back and gave the Avid training videos on the ProMax site that David recommended another shot.
Four minutes in they were still asking me to tell all my friends so they could keep making more of these. What is this, a pyramid scheme or training?
So far I haven’t watched a second of training in almost 7 minutes of viewing.
I say…redo. Or use the trim tool you were supposedly going to show me and trim the first 5 minutes of the videos.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage
Founder/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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It’s not about how many tracks you can have on the timeline – it’s how many you can HEAR at one time. Avid has never improved beyond 16 mono or 8 stereo tracks that can be monitored at any one time (yes they’ve added 5.1 and 7.1 in 6 but no increase in track count). I was really hoping this limit would go away in MC 6 but it hasn’t yet.
Lance Bachelder
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Anecdote signifying nothing really… or possibly everything.
My first serious VO demo reel a hundred years ago. I start by saying “Hi, I’m Bill Davis and I’ve been doing VO work for a few years… then I splice in a light toned spot, a high energy read, and then a really goofy spot where I had to do the voice of a cartoon style chicken (badly) – then a half a dozen other snippets, goofy voices and clips of narration. I think I spent two full days working my butt off to make it as perfect as possible.
Local agency hires me for a series of 12 spots largely off that reel.
We’re doing our third session and there’s a lull while the producer phones the office to check on some copy. Somebody mentions demo reels so I ask – “hey, did you guys hire me because of that great “chicken voice” on my reel”
The producer looks puzzled.
I say “the chicken voice I did for that fast food joint?”
He looks at me and says the following.
We had a stack of about 20 reels. I think yours was the second one we listened to.
I remember you said “Hi, my name’s Bill Davis” – and the client said “he’s okay, now lets get back to work on the copy…”
I’ve never forgotten that lesson.
“Before speaking out ask yourself whether your words are true, whether they are respectful and whether they are needed in our civil discussions.”-Justice O’Connor
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Rich,
With all due respect, I think you’re missing the point. I wasn’t involved in the editing or creation of these, and wasn’t really speaking about their prodution quality as standalone videos, afterall, they are recorded live webinars anyway.
The bottom line is, once the tutorial section begins, the lessons are excellent, and if you allow the other stuff to get in your way of that, you’re missing out on a truly superb, free educational opportunity that would undoubtedly further your knowledge of editing and, best of all, finishing, on AVID.
There’s a shell on a lobster too, but what’s inside is oh so sweet. I’ve given you directions to find lots of free lobster… I hope you can figure out how to get to the good part.
David Roth Weiss
ProMax Systems
Burbank
DRW@ProMax.com
http://www.ProMax.com
Sales | Integration | SupportDavid is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.
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“It’s not about how many tracks you can have on the timeline – it’s how many you can HEAR at one time.”
Got it.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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Well having been an Avid editor almost solely for a few years after Media 100 and before FCP I still feel it looks fast because you have to press 6 or so keys to accomplish one mouse drag and drop. So you get pretty fast at hitting those keys.
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And that lesson was what? Successful people are just lucky? Don’t bother to work hard, it doesn’t make a difference?
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“I still feel it looks fast because you have to press 6 or so keys to accomplish one mouse drag and drop”
On the health and safety side, mouse usage over long term results in wrist fatigue much more than keystrokes. Try a weekend of doing rotosplines purely with a mouse, or mixing with a virtual mixture purely with a mouse and your wrist will feel completely worn out.
Oliver
Oliver Peters Post Production Services, LLC
Orlando, FL
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David they are excellent but stop in the middle of the series (one said Webinar over – but there was no way to view it..) and the next one is March 20th.
Andy Field
FieldVision Productions
N. Bethesda, Maryland 20852
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