[Andrew Kimery]

I’m glad I stumbled on this thread as we are starting to use a Ki Pro for capture in the field and this definitely puts a kink in the plan as we media manage almost all of our projects for archiving.

Hopefully this is a simple fix for AJA and they can have an update out soon.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

Check out
Captain’s Blowout Fixer
.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

Handbrake is designed to make small files for viewing purposes only. It’s not designed to create files that are best suited for editing and post production.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

I know one guy who typically works on network shows (he’s been out here for over 20yrs) and he’s had a rough time of it lately. Another guy, a friend of a friend, is used to cutting movie trailers for FOX or Warner Brothers and is now doing promo work he never even would’ve considered doing just a couple of years ago. On the other hand a couple guys I know moved out here 3-4yrs ago and got work pretty quickly and promo houses, but both of those guys already had a lot of experience working in smaller markets.

Basically it’s a crap shoot, but the longer you play, and the more you play, the better your chances of success. Bob Zelin had a good post recently detailing how being good at what you do and being successful at what you do aren’t necessarily the same thing.

W/regards to your site, “resumé” is spelled wrong (it’s missing the accent over the ‘e’) and I’m not sure what to make of your Video Game, Web, Television, and Feature/Short reels. For the video game reel, are those trailers you cut for the games? If so, they’d be more suited under a heading of promo or trailer. For the other reels I mentioned, they all just look like montages set to music which tells me nothing about your ability to tell a story. A very short, very snappy opening montage can be a great attention getter, but you need to put in actual examples of what your editing can offer. Also, in your ‘Services’ section I’d change “I specialize in the following services” to “I offer the following services” because that is a whole lot of very different disciplines to claim to specialize in.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

Long story short, LA is always supersaturated w/talent and w/the bum economy the competition for jobs is just that much worse. I’d say there are 100 people applying for every job and that means there is always someone w/more experience going for the same gig (again, especially now because of the down job market). The traditional, Midwest mantra of go to school, get good grades, get a good job doesn’t apply to our industry and certainly doesn’t apply to our industry in LA. I moved out here in ’01 a few months before 9/11 and could not find work to save my life. I ended up back in the Midwest for a couple of years, saving money and building up my work experience, before coming back out to LA in ’04.

Speaking of experience, that’s all anyone really cares about. Degrees don’t mean much unless it lands in the hands of someone who went to the same school as you and feels like cutting you a break because you guys share the same alma mater. Getting frustrated is normal but don’t give up. The people that eventually succeed never gave up. Even if you have to get a day job working at Blockbuster or something thats fine. Pay rent, pay bills, keep your head above water and keep pushing on.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

[Mike Nax] “As for myself I’m studying video production, I’ve learned mostly from working on personal projects and the Apple certification book. “

The best way to learn is to get a job, any type of job, at a post and/or production facility near you and become a sponge. There’s no substitute for working in the ‘real world’, IMO. There is so much that you don’t even know you don’t know until you get out, start working at a facility, and go, “Man… I don’t know jack!” 😉

And once you’ve been out there for a while and seen what Editors do day in and day out you’ll have a better understanding of what you need to know and what you need to do to edit professionally.

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

Black Magic does have cards that do up conversions and limited cross conversions. It all depends on the model.

Matt,
A big difference between many of the cards is the number, and type, of I/Os that you get. For example, a card that is SDI only will be cheaper than a card that has SDI, component, and 12 channels of analog audio. If you mainly deal w/digital signals you might just want to go w/a digital only card and pick up a converter box if you ever need to input or output to analog.

-A

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[Andrew Kimery]

What frame rate is the FCP timeline you sent to Color and is your footage in that timeline all the same frame rate? There is a problem w/Color and, IIRC, 23.98 media in certain circumstances that causes Color to create black frames at edit points. Unfortunately I can’t remember the specifics of the problem but I would post this question in the Apple Color forum here and provide complete details about timeline settings, original media properties, etc..

-A

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[Andrew Kimery]

W/the camera connected and powered on go the Apple menu (upper left hand corner of screen), select About This Mac, select More Info, and under the Hardware heading select FireWire. You should see your camera listed there. If it’s not listed then the Mac is not seeing your camera. If the Mac is not seeing your camera either the FW port on the Mac is bad, the FW port on the camera is bad or the FW cable is bad.

If the Mac is seeing your camera start playing back an HDV tape and then open up FCP. I think the HDV devices, since they can be either HDV or DV, sometimes aren’t sending out a ‘clear signal’ to FCP about what format is in the device but if you are playing a tape back then it seems to solve that issue (at least in my experience).

-Andrew

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[Andrew Kimery]

W cycles through your Canvas viewing options. As matthew said you have it set to just view the alpha channel. Keep hitting W and your video will come back.

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