Ben Oliver
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http://www.pro8mm.com is pretty good.
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make sure you sync and work with everything, you’ll be surprised how much footage you will use, even from “bad” takes.
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if you used a camera mic, just sync it to the waveforms. capture everyting at 48k, and you should be fine.
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exactly, everyone has there own way, no one is right. i’d listen to what some peopl ehave to say, and try a lil of everything out.
i’ve always found it hard to begin, find a way to start editing, once I get into that, i find a rythem and just need to sit and do the job. ive edited a bunch of music videos, and each of them required a slightly different approach.
youll figure it out
-ben
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while i do enjoy the multiclip aspect for many things,
for editing a “music video” i dont. I always tend to shift things about when i edit, on purpose. guitars dont have to be spot on a lot of the time. same with some drum hits. multiclip is great for “live” type things.
what i usually do, is exactly what you did, stack everything up, synced with the camera mic. I keep that timeline, and start a new timeline, and copy past everything n there. then, i just start to tear it apart. it can get confusing, but that I do, is as i cut, i start to tear the pieces i dont need away. I can always go back and grab it from the saved, “sync” timeline. Most music videos are under 5 minutes, so u can always back sync from the end, or sync from the begining.
eventually, when i get a good cut going, and nearng what I feeel to be the version i want to show the label or the band, or the person paying for it, i make an A/B edit. I cut out everything that isn’t needed, so I have two video tracks of alternating video, and that is it. no video hiding under anuything, everything, frame on.
as the band, label, whoever, etc, needs changes, I work on top of this, adding tracks as I need, and grabbing video from my saved, “sync” timeline” Heck, make a few copies of that timeline, its important.
thats pretty much how I work, it’s done well.
check out one of my newer videos,
shot with p2cards, 720p, hd!
-ben
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yeah, you basically import the data from the card, into fcp. run playback as the shoot goes on. it can get intense, and you have to be able to data retrieve too, cause data occasionally goes corrupt.
i’ve done a few music videos, make decent cash. basically your in charge of all the data on teh shoot, shots get lost, its your butt!
im just tired of draggin my monitors and my heavy g5 round
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Im really wanting to do on site p2card transfers, those guys are getting around 600$ a day in boston, i’d love to muscle in on that.
thanks for the awesome info!
-ben
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when starting a project i decide what my output will be to start with, and go from there. I do a lot of documentaries, and sometimes that means mixing formats. you have to find a way to stylistically make it all work.
pretty much tho, coing from 4×3 to 16×9, you’ll have room to work with the cropping. just dragginthe filter on, won’t do much, you’ll have to play around with it to get the correct frame.
heck, you can basically reframe those shots in your movie to your specifications. its kind of a good thing, sometimes.
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sometimes…the best way is to get a nice monitor and just shoot it off the screen!