Alex Udell
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Premiere Pro Coin
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Hunter….
Don’t get down. At the time I started, the role of editor, was one of many in the world of post production.
You had offline editor/online editors.
You had people that worked in graphics.
You had people that specialized in audio.
You had producers/directors as an independent roles.
and more….The accessibility, and afford-ability of the technology has both allowed and necessitated that many of these roles merge and evolve.
You can do so much more now with so much less. It is truly amazing.
The evolution of digital also changed things a lot. Artistry and craft aside….the cost to maintain a high quality image from acquisition through final master used to have an astronomical price tag attached. Since the equipment cost more, the rates a post house had to charge to finance the equipment were a lot higher. In all there was a lot more money sloshing around in post…and a larger portion of that went to compensate the talent that was running the gear.Now it’s all done on the computers we run on our desktop, with greater speed, efficiency, and capability than ever before…at resolutions that none of ever imagined working at…now completely common place.
So the there are markets for the dedicated “craft of editing.” My guess is the feature film track. Today however, most of us are really digital content creators….doing lots of the jobs each of which used to pay a lot more….for the same or less than we used to make doing any one of them. Is it fun?..sure….is it creative….absolutely….I’m still very happy every time I get the green light on an ad that I’ve edited….and amazed that I was able to complete in just a few hours what I would have spent at least a day on in the past…
But I’ve watched my salary go up….and I’ve watched it go down….and my output quality is as good as it’s ever been…so that’s the frustrating part for me….
However, I will say that we live in an age where there will be more channels for content than ever before….so in the long run….as long as I can be creative and efficient and boost the quantity of output…maybe that will make up the difference…
Alex
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I’ve seen a few dedicated portable H264 recorders that offer SDI/HDSDI input.
This would make it as simple as recording the SDI out from the Axio.
Or you could get something like a Matrox Mini with Max Option.
I think this could accelerate the output from PPro…might need to be CS4 or later though.
Alex
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hmmmm….
That’s deeper into AME than I know by heart…and I don’t have it in front of me to test.
are the 4 channels all isolated on the source audio?
Alex
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This sounds tricky.
Importing material from XDCAM means not just files, but the whole folder structure.So you would need to create a duplicate folder structure (paths) and then for the video assets you’d need to create a duplicate set of media at 1440 x 1080.
The media conversion could theoretically be done thru Adobe media encoder, then you could edit with one set of media, but later reconnect to the original set of source….
I’d test taking some of the assets and just converting them to Matrox’s MPEG 2 I Frame. I think you’d be pleased with the quality…you’d get real time and not so much hoop jumping….
Alex
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Hey Mark…
So I ended up making a folder on the network called “motion templates”
in that folder I made a folder for each user.
then I made aliases of these folders and copied the aliases to local library of each user machine.
In this way we all unique places to write to (so we don’t over write each other)
and we can easily browse each other’s templates for our own uses.
so far it’s working well.
Alex
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1440 x 1080 is 1920 x 1080 just with a 1.33 pixel aspect ratio.
1440 x 1.33 = 1920
its part of a compression technique used by various codecs.
in other words file resolution is 1440 horizontally….but the display resolution is actually 1920 (when horizontally scaled due to the Pixel aspect ratio)
🙂
Alex
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Yes.
Sorry about that.
Alex
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Depending on the sophistication of the color correction there may not be a need to go to AE.
You might consider at the front end of a project:
1) Taking your clip, and putting it in a sequence…. then applying your look within the clip in that sequence…
2) use that sequence as the source to edit from.
In this way if you change the Color correction in the source “nest” it will change for all uses of the clip in your main edit.
so depending on what you are trying to do….this workflow can be useful….a lot better than having to search the timeline and reapply a color correction setup 100 times individually…
But…PPro also needs timeline searching like FCP and the ability to save selection sets as well….
Alex
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I wouldn’t say it’s a limitation….
I think it’s a question of understanding the underlying design of the software….
Better to be unconstrained and have a work around, then being constrained without a solution.
My opinion….
Alex