Alan Lloyd
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No, just trying to be helpful.
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A data DVD (not a video DVD) with short AVI and QT clips might be a useful thing if it’s for re-editing purposes.
Or you can make a number of each and ask people what their individual needs are. AVI and QT ought to cover just about any editorial need imaginable and will not involve horrible recompression/concatenation problems.
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If you have a reading light in the shot (a “practical” in production terms) there is no reason not to light things to make it appear that it’s the only light while the scene is in fact lit – carefully – to create proper exposure. Post-shooting color correction is a good friend here as well.
As Dick Reizner used to say (and maybe still does) “It doesn’t have to be, it just has to look like it is!”
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Good lighting, good sound, avoidance of excessive zooming and panning, careful composition, careful construction of sequences in camera – did I leave anything out?
Oh yes, avoiding the use of un-necessary effects.
Fix it in preproduction and production.
A film look is about devotion to the craft, video looks slammed together.
Probably not what you wanted as a response. An editing program is a tool, and can be used well or badly, in the service of good or…not-so-good content.
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I like.
Always hated having some disembodied voice coming at me from behind in an edit suite. Just about as much as I hated the truly malodorous client who insisted on sitting right next to me (in the old tape room days) and pushing switcher buttons during a sync-roll edit instead of switching from the controller – which would have made edits searchable and generated a list.
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I had to put together a series of small videos that members of a company would send to me, for their sales convention. I had to fix sound, music, put transitions, all that stuff. People would send me .Avi, .mpg, .vob, .mov…I would import them to Premiere but nearly 50 or 60% percent of the videos presented some type of problem, and Avis would not run at all (they were all shaky and with no sound, so I had to open them in AE). Some of them would run fine, but after opening the project 2 or 3 times they would start with the shakiness as well…(I know it has something to do with frame rate, or timeline rate…)
I am working now in another project for the french embassy in my country, and I had to download a bunch of videos from youtube (mp4). Premiere only imports audio…(Do i Need ANOTHER codec for this?)
GIGO. (Garbage In, Garbage Out.)
It’s not the file types, I suspect, so much as the quality of those files.
I use CS3 and CS4 both, on multiple machines, at home and at clients’ facilities, and with a good file of almost any type, they work fine for me.
You also did not tell us, by the way, what your “better PC” consists of – OS, RAM installed, chip, motherboard, drive configuration, etc. These things can make a big difference in stability.
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Well-put and nicely fleshed out, Mark.
The time to “fix” things is not in post-production, it’s in pre-production.
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What kind of keying? Greenscreen? Luminance? Difference matte?
I can often manage a decent greenscreen key in PPro simply by lighting it well (scopes are your best friends here) and careful tweaking. I even did a nice luma key this week for a client by using a locked-down camera and stopping down to grab enough footage out the otherwise blown-out window to composite it – in PPro, without touching After Effects. Took a few layers and a little twiddling, but it worked.
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Adobe is in the business of selling new software, not downgrading to their legacy stuff.
And one person is not a large enough market segment for them to even consider making an exception to that practice.
Shorter: Not going to happen.
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Agreed, Rick.
I normally shoot and/or light, though I have done sound on a few occasions.
When I do, it’s my responsibility to keep the boom and its shadow out of the shot.