Music Video shot on Red Cam 3K and 5d editing on FCP

[Steve Watkins]

I am in the LA area and have worked for MTV as well.

Look I’m just trying to make the best music video I can. a lot of friends donated their time on the shoot and this will go on all our reels.

The color house is a pro place that handles features, commercials and other well funded productions. My producing team and I have banked a a lot of favors, with local pros, over the years and we called them all in for this.

So I’m sitting here with beautiful footage and a non intel G5. the DVCProHD files play back wonderfully on my system. If it’s possible to up res on my system, great. If not I’ll find a work around. maybe even the color house, if they’re feeling generous.

I will call the color place and ask what format they would like the video in. I was wondering what frame size my final should be.

When my master’s colored can’t I convert it from there to DVD quality, web quality and maybe blue ray?

[Shane Ross]

Ok. Finish 1080 psf 23.98. You can encode to BluRay and DVD from there, and output to multiple tape formats.

Shane

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[Steve Watkins]

will do. A good looking, versatile master, sounds perfect.

I have taken your advice about working backwards to heart. with the exception of color, I am the entire post team and the G5/FCP is my post house. it’s very different from the TV production i’m used to. So i’m learning a lot, to say the least. thanks for the help.

[Steve Watkins]

they there. since we last talked. I have become the only (or lead) A.E. on a reality show for VH1. this show is a mother. we shot 5/7d and hd vercam. we had two audio mixers recording to stand alone units. the director shot jpg sequences in rapid fire succession on the 5d, that play back like time-laps. We also have editors that work in house and remotely. We’re working in MC 3 (no a2a). before this job i had never worked in avid. so as you can imagine, I’ve been thrown into the fire.

I just wanted to write you and let you know that with a greater understanding of the whole process, i see why my question to you was vague at best.

thanks for taking the time to answer and help me out.

– Steve

p.s. i’m on the hunt for a good program that will let me screen capture (.mov not still) in HD. can you recomend anything?