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Prime Versus Zoom
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Haha… that\’s one of those instances where you wait until she goes to grab a cup of coffee and reach over and crank up the brightness and contrast on the client monitor. 🙂
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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The smoke filter and smoker filter plug-in.
Client says, “It’s just not quite right,” and waves their hands in the air because they don’t have any technical language.
I say, “Oh, let me try the smoke filter.” And I run through a bunch of menus really fast, too fast to follow.
Client says, “Good job.”
(The smoke filter works in-camera and in-editing!)
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Closely related to the “undo” edit, where you agree that the sequence isn’t quite right, make three random changes, hit the undo button three times, and suddenly, it’s perfect.
Not that I would ever do that.
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I would never do that either, Bob… at least not more than twice daily.
We have one particular commercial client, who after seeing my edit, or take selection, or effect, or some such visual decision, always gives us the “Hmmm… instead, what if you tried….?” which leads to three or four different attempts at something different. After which he invariably goes back to my first edit, with a “Yeah, you were right.” Invariably. Never once has one of the “What if you tried…?” stuck.
On the downside to him, his edits sessions take about three times as long as they would if we were just left alone to cut it solo.
On the upside to us, his invoice ends up being about three times as much.
For exactly the same results… right down to the frame.
Some people just have to put their hands on things, no matter if they are qualified to do so or not. A million years ago when I worked in broadcast television, we would purposely build in a “mistake” or an obviously needed aesthetic change into a production because the general manager was never satisfied until he had made his one “suggestion” after seeing the otherwise-finished project. “Just change so-and-so and it’ll be great.” Unbeknownst to him, his “suggestion” probably had already been made on the real master he hadn’t seen. 🙂
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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