Alan Lloyd
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“Now if we had 3 different, mutually exclusive ideas…”
…then you’d be economists.
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If I was hiring an editor, I’d be looking at two things. First, I’d be inclined to think storytelling skills. I’d presume anyone who considered himself an editor could operate a chosen software platform, though sadly, that’s where a lot of people end their progress.
It’s the beginning. Using that platform to get from here to there is far more important than just clicking and dragging.
The other thing is…wait for it…patience. I’ve sat in online rooms with groups of people making decisions by committee, and it’s not pretty. Sure, the meter’s running, still, it’s difficult to keep from getting edgy when four people go back and forth about something that really needs to be decided. Keeping a steady hand matters.
Since I cut my own stuff, I won’t have this decision to make, at least for a while.
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Tell them to start processing the check and you will hand them the DVD in even exchange.
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They’re giving good advice.
I’ve done live internet and live TV and it takes some doing. And some hardware. And some people, and lots of money to do it well.
Something to consider: TV gives you what you want, how you want it, when they want to give it to you. The internet gives you what you want, when you want it, but you may not like how.
With time, the drift will inevitably be to the internet – bandwidth will not decrease, processing will not get worse, and the range of content will not get smaller.
It’s not quite there yet.
Best of luck to you, seriously. It’s going to be a lot of work. And then you – or someone – will have to promote the show itself.
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Jesse – this may be well outside your puppet range, and quite possibly price range, but go have a look at some of the “interior” stuff on https://www.transylvania-tv.com. The set is considerably larger, there are no human interactors, and the show has no connection whatsoever to the “real world”, but lighting puppets is something I do know about from experience.
You’ll definitely want a good rim light. The director there like it really “butch”, and is also pushing the show to go more noir-style for the future.
We are using quite an assortment of instruments and controls there, obviously, and while it’s not perfect (it is a weekend “pet project” for a group of us) it does make good use of puppets.
Oh, it’s shot film-style.
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Glass panes? Moonlight? Punch some blue through there – and put a cookaloris in front of it for breakup. And maybe a branch-a-loris in front of that with a PA waggling it a bit. And remember – moonlight is a point source, don’t diffuse it at the head.
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Some good suggestions above, and Mark hit it with his comment that we need to know a bit more of the flavor of the work to comment in detail.
That said, here’s my $0.02:
Set a low, even base light from overhead – maybe slightly blue? – and keep it low enough to just barely be able to see the actor(s). And enough to keep the pic from going too noisy if yo’re shooting HD instead of film. Add just a bit of fog – not enough to add “fogginess” (that takes a lot) but instead just enough to diffuse/scatter the light some.
If there is a door (or two) then blast a powerful light under the door to add some atmosphere and make it look as though life is going on offscreen. The fog will also pick this up and accentuate it.
If you’re dollying backwards down the hall, consider a couple low-wattage instruments off to each side, and move them along with the dolly, so they’re in constant spatial relationship with the camera yet not directly in front of the talent.
If there’s any space for a “practical” or two in any way, use them.
Some or all of these may be useful, or none of them. Again, knowing more about the script nad setting would be very useful.
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Maybe look into a hosting service and put it online? Saves on the duplication and mailing of coasters.
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“The only option I can think of is to import the final video into my NLE, export the audio track, import it into my DAW to render it to mono, export it and then bring it back into my NLE. Is that correct?”
You can double your single channel audio in most editing applications without going to an outboard audio application.