[Ben Oliver]

i also find it good to shrink down my edit window in fcp…so i can see what it’s going to look like on the web.

i edit a lot of lectures (https://athome.harvard.edu) and sometimes when doing text, slides, etc, you need to leave them up longer, then you would for tv.

-ben

[Ben Oliver]

thats cool, im just wondering if the data will be readable on both macs and pc’s.

[Ben Oliver]

so what he’d want to do, is get the universal version, install it on both computers, and work from there?

-ben

p.s. yes, i know that you need to have a version per computer…what if he installs it on a bootable hard drive that can move around?!?

[Ben Oliver]

early in my video editing career (im only about 5 years in) i borrowed a friends dat and a few mics and gathered all sorts of stuff, cars, horns, instruments, ambience, restaurant noises, all that good stuff.

also, i have an archive on one of my hard drives, where i always keep miscellaneous sounds from productions ive edited. got some awesome noises off some tapes from isreal, africa, south america, and vancouver (where i went to school)

I always thought going this route made the edits a bit more personal. I always got permission to do so from the oweners of the tapes.

when I am in a fix, and need something I dont have, i have a few sound mixer friends that usually gladly donate stuff.

when i am in a real pinch, im all about sounddogs.

also, a great investment to any editor out there, is a minidisc recorder, and a few really inexpensive mics. i travel with it almost everywhere i go, and at the drop of a hat, record just about anything. i have some great binaural sounds from the T here in boston, and in a few nightclubs and restaurants.

[Ben Oliver]

try using the hum remover filter…it works really well

[Ben Oliver]

awesome thanks

yeah, i just dragged the pdf into FCP, then used FCP to make still frames of it and was able to cut my presentation

thanks a bunch for the info

[Ben Oliver]

in the case of the guy who had to throw all the audio into STRack Pro, i would hjave just rendered out the audio itself, the ten seconds worth, and brought that in…

i have a series of lacie drives, together total it probably adds up to about 1 1/4 terabytes.

i basically just continue to add storage as i need it. i work mostly in DV, so firewire works wonders. on my g5, i have a few firewire cards, to help the bus speeds, but even if i daisy chain the drives together, and work from my ibook, i get very good speed when editing.

yeah everyone has there own system that works, and thats my main point, do what you need to do to get your project finished.

ben
http://www.benjaminoliver.net

[Ben Oliver]

well, at least in my case, the footage has all been gone through, except i did it on my computer, instead of off the tape.

i think its pretty poor to judge a production, whern you havent seen it, based upon how someone digitized there film…

[Ben Oliver]

well at harvard, its speed. its also uber-boring talking heads teaching classes on string theory 😉

you have to mix to two together, speed and quality, and choose your battles wisely. myself, knowing that i had 3 months to edit a huge documentary, i figured capturing all the footage was the best choice, and gong through it later, being able to cut out the trash, and make sequences of the usable material. its just easier for me.

by the way, i was able to edit this all using my IBOOK, g4, with 1.5 gigs of ram, and daisy chaining 5 lacie drives together. i never once got a SBBOD.

maybe i have luck, i dunno.

[Ben Oliver]

i hardly consider myself a kid. ive been editing for 5 years, edited on avid, fcp, linear 16mm steenbecks, all that fun stuff. heck, ive even processed film dailies in my bathtub.

the issue you’ll run into staying old world,is that in the new world of podcasts, internet television, and the ipod, is that speed with quality will matter. timing is key. trust me, on my current documentary that i am working on, i would love an extra 4 months, but we’ll miss the window, and the disc won’t sell as well, and not be relevent. i work at harvard university, we don’t even shoot on tape anymore. its all shot on a firestore, transfered on our uber-fast connection to our server, then edited, encoded, then thrown back on the server for web retrieval by viewers.

times are a changin’