Alan Lloyd
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One of the things that is often not understood in the race to the bottom that our society (not just economy – we live in a society, and the economy is only a part of that) is seeing is the loss of the knowledge of how to tell a story well, and not only in the technical sense. I would also add that we’re seeing a similar erosion of the knowledge of why it’s important to tell a story well. And I couple that with the loss of interest in well-told stories I see at large.
We’re also witnessing an over-enthusiastic response to “shiny things” in general.
Part of a generalized hollowing out of the world we inhabit, I suspect.
As Yogi once said, “The future ain’t what it used to be!”
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What John said.
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Mirrors out of adjustment? Yours too?
Mine seem to have been miscalibrated to “gray hair” mode.
Who do I write to to complain about that?
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What is now called “River North” – the whole area from the Chicago River up to maybe Chicago Ave. was full of the edit facilities, sound shops, optical houses, at least three full service motion labs (Astro, Douglas, Cinema Processors) and a lot of production houses.
Ahh, memories.
We’re getting old, Mark.
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[Micah McDowell] “in your timeline, you’d likely need to scale down the HD footage using Motion under the Effects Controls tab when the clip is selected.”
“Scale to frame size” works. Right-clock on the clip in the timeline.
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Adobe does make a standalone Flash encoder.
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Mac people always say that. It’s their answer to everything.
And still, a look at the FCP forum here reveals people having all sorts of grief themselves, so it’s not a panacea.
Capturing and trimming ought to go simply enough with the proper (HDV) presets, though the program does need a fair amount of CPU to handle the MPEG comressed video.
The advice given you on DVD creation in Encore is good, or you can set things to “stop” and the DVD will stop at the end.
I don’t use Encore for much because just about every DVD I create using CS4 (at a client’s place) is a single show with no chapters.
Have you explored the Encore forum for more help?
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Google is apparently releasing On2’s VP8 to the world. VP6 was the Flash encoding standard for a long time. Maybe this will prove useful.
What was it again? Oh yes: “The wonderful thing about standards is there are so many of them.”
This sort of insane territoriality can only lead to paralysis.
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[jim brodie] “Why is it some of my best interviews are with the simple salt of the earth folks who are not weighing every phrase and always measuring every syllable to be politically correct?”
Had that happen with one of the very first interviews I shot as an independent. The producer/client was conducting “retail partner” interviews and the poor dude we were interviewing was absolutely terrified. At every question, he looked at his stack of index cards for something close to what was asked, then parroted it back in a halting, looking-down-at-the-floor manner. We got through it, somehow, and on the way down in the elevator, my client looked at us and said he didn’t think there was anything he could use, but that it had nothing to do with us – it was that absolutely petrified interview subject. And he tried, very hard, to put the guy at ease.
Some people are just not meant to be on camera.
In fairness, having been on the other side of it only rarely, it feels like the least natural thing in the world to me. So I do sympathize.
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If it’s something other than an interview, and the talent is not a trained actor, I would have them “do” something rather than “be” something.
Example: A while ago, I was doing a scene in a doctors’ lounge in a hospital, and we were illustrating that residents were as welcome as doctors. So we had a group come in and begin interacting.
Rather than have everyone just walk in and sit down, I told a couple of them to walk through, over to a far corner, out of frame, count to thirty, and come back in, then sit down. They did it, and it worked well on camera.
Asking non-pros to do something instead of be something works well.