Arnie Schlissel
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With FCP you can save window, keyboard and button layouts as separate files. You can then load those files whenever you wish.
For more information, I’d suggest looking in the FCP manual.
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Have your clients upload image sequences, rather than QT movies. This way, if you get disconnected 80% or 99% of the way through, you only have to pick up from the last frame number.
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I’ve never tried it, but you could look into Traffic from xmEdit.
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You can use a text generator to do this.
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You use a text generator to add that into the picture.
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[Adrian Fernandez] “So I’ve received 70 tapes-worth of .avi files. This footage was shot in 24p (or 24p advanced) on a Panasonic DVX100b, but captured in 30p on Sony Vegas. “
Stop. If they digititzed 24P tapes as 30P, then you need to throw away all of that useless crap and redigitize the tapes properly.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not try to convert the 30P material back to 24P in software. You will only degrade the picture quality.
[Adrian Fernandez] “I’ve tried the first option, but I’ve encountered a lot of problems with “timecode breaks” (I know they don’t exist because the first assistant editor had no problem with that). “
Since we’ve already ascertained that the 1st assistant screwed up the capture with the wrong frame rate, I wouldn’t assume that he dealt with the TC breaks properly, either. In fact, I’d assume that he did everything in exactly the worst way possible and forget about anything that he did to start with.
Have you actually checked to see that these tapes have continuous TC? If the camera was set to free run or time of day, then you will certainly TC breaks every time the camera stops.
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[Michael Freedman] “The film was graded at a post production facility in Colour”
If they’re using Color, then they can render out as an uncompressed QT or as ProRes. Have them deliver that to you instead.
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[Shane Ross] ” But I feel that a few of those people need to be ABOVE the line, Editors included.”
I couldn’t agree more. The location sound recordist, for example. Is what she (or he) does not as important as the DP on some films? Yes, we’re going to replace a lot of sound later on, maybe even build quite a bit from scratch in post, but the aural character of a city is impossible to fake.
And how many of us have seen a beautifully shot film and thought “It feels so low-budget indie” simply because the sound was crappy? Or seen a not particularly well shot film with great sound & felt that it was a professional piece of craft?
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I’m with you, Shane. In my experience, the editor organizes and orchestrates the entire post process, all while effecively re-writing the script, sculpting the performances of the actors and giving structure and form to the cinematography and sound recording.
We are not button pushers, we are film makers and artisans in our own right. We are collaborative artists, often without ever communicating even once with the other artists that we work with.
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