Al Bergstein
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Great job Ty. I’ll recommend this even to my music producing sound friends, as they usually only think about stage mics. They rarely have the understanding of mics used for video production. Thanks for taking the time to produce this.
Al
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All good feedback. (email threads like this are so difficult to clarify sometimes). Sounds like you have thought through your needs clearly. Good luck on your new projects!
Al
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Good try Nick. I thought of that too. The problem is *prior* to getting the clips in the bins. The problem I have is that when I have a days worth of shots, and I have chosen the ‘metalogging’ window, I am trying to find the right clips in the media browser, prior to bringing them in. The raw clips, shown in the media browser, show no metadata other than file name (as shown in the upper right hand pane of that window. I want to have the fields filled out, either prior to getting them shown in the media browser, or at the least, when I click on them, I want to *act* on them by labeling them as I go. If I want, for example, to enter the client name in all the clips, I cannot do that, prior to actually importing them. I’m going to go explore using Adobe Bridge. There may be some hope there. It seems that the metadata is not the same as the vendor provides. I.E. Canon’s MXF utility does not have a field for *client*. Adobe does.
You are correct that once in the bins, you can do a lot more with the clip data. Either we’ll figure this out, or I’m sure Adobe will eventually get it right. With three cameras of shooting and multiple days of takes, I’m drowning in metadata hell right now, and have been needing as much help as possible to track as much data as I can, especially beyond the file names. As I search for relevant clips, I need all the help I can get to log what I find along the way. As a small shop, I can’t hire a full time meta logging person. That’s me!
Back to work.
Al
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I’ve occasionally encountered a corrupted timeline, which exhibets that behavior.not often,though. Dumping to new timeline works.
Al
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Add an external esata or usb 3.0 drive and you should be good to go. I think that model has both built esata and usb 3.0 built in. It’s one of thier laptops, right?
Al
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Thanks Dennis. I don’t mind spending on quality gear. I’ll give a look at the various models you mention. It’s a bit hard to know what quality you are getting from just internet shopping. I’ll drop down to Seattle soon and spend a day shopping.
Al
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I love it. When my band went into a studio for our little CD, we spent over $10k getting it produced? It’s considered about a minimum for a decent product.
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/backburnermusic
I bet these folks will be spendingthe same. Our engineering cost was about $35 an hour.you should at least be charging what they r paying for sound engineering, especially for the editing time. You are a camera engineer (g)
To expect to get a quality “music video” pro bono seems like selling yourself short. But if you are trying to build your portfolio then have at it.
Shoot with two cameras minimum.mount one (maybe high) and leave it run as an establishing shot.move with your second camera. That’s in lieu of two shooters. I’d expect to spend the whole shoot on one song, to get it right. Are you also lighting it?
A church would likely make a terrible recording studio, without significant rework.
That’s a starting point.Al
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Sort of figured that. It’s a real dilemma, as lighting gear seems like a much harder area to figure out high quality from just junk. I have used Lowell Lights for decades as they are true workhorses. The newer LED seem more fragile in general, and seem to have very similar mfg. characteristics, at least on the surface. The Flourescents I’m using are nice, but not quite as portable for general shooting. Their good, but I think that adding the LEDs might give me closer to daylight.
I’ll have to see about getting in front of these next time in Seattle, which is a day trip for me.
Thanks though.
Al
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One last question. If I’m using multi camera, and I have the ‘shaky’ part maybe once or twice mid way in the clip, should I run the clip through AE *before* or *after* I setup and do the multi edit. Meaning should I take the raw clip, process it all the way through, then setup multi camera, or should I setup the MC and apply AE to the final clip after editing?
Does the question make sense?
,Al
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Thanks Jeff. Being new to Pr I’ve not dipped into AE just yet. I’ll go check out what I assume are some decent web videos on it and give it a go.
Al