Blub06
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I thought that the National Geographic channels 4 part series called Galapagos was even better. I want a Blue Ray player just to watch that show over and over.
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I have had this issue recently and all I did was choose to save to a different drive or volume. It sound odd and not related to the error message but, thats computers.
Chris
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Holy smackola, you are still shooting and he is still shooting it!
I thought you had all the footage in hand…
You only have one or two goes at solving this as the shoot goes forward. After that no one will want to listen to the complaining editor they have other things to deal with. Get the Producers on your side, that includes the line producer. Get the Director on your side, get the first AD on your side I would even get the lab guys on your side if you are shooting film. By this I mean make your case and have all of them share their opinions about the way its being shot. Then tell them all that needs to be done is more head room. IF there is a need for a creative visual treatment they should want to make their project viable for both markets not just the art market.
Argue that shooting it in a more traditional way would let you have it that way and then if you needed do some dramatic cropping after the fact for the full flower of creative expression you could have it that way too.
Depending on how unknowledgeable the folks are you might slip in a little fib, when you do the film transfer you lose some of the frame, the way its being shoot will only be worse.
I wish I could make strong arguments FOR the Cinematographer, after all this is the cinematographers forum, but I have seen this kind of stuff before and sometimes even the DP is wrong. I think we all know there is clever creative insightful fresh vision and then there is a total emptiness of vision mixed in with no skill and little experience. The two can be confused for each other, but only by the person that is in position of the later.
As Gordon Willis (DP for all the Godfathers, Annie Hall etc) has said, its easy to make pretty pictures its hard to tell a story (with the camera). Its always disappointing to see a film where the cinematography has a odd ball vision that gets in the way of the story.
Chris
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First things first, edit the thing. After that do the reposition with blow up. As you know music and all the layers of story telling can mask bad stuff enough that what seemed a joke actually fools some into thinking its the real deal.
If the Producers are freaked, you might want to cut a scene or two with all the sound and visuals and reposition to show the producers what you can do. In other words, you get to imply that you can save the day. Will anyone other then the French guy know the image is degraded somewhat?
You could use a popular and modern technique of using several shots on the screen at once. I think the show 24 does this as well as others. You can reposition blow up and then reduce and keep the quality.
You could also go Cinemascope. Dramatically reform the frame so it is crazy wide. Sometimes it works.
Chris
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You could also use the 4 or 8 point garbage matte that comes with FCP.
Put a copy of the shot on the top layer, lower the opacity to the lower layer copy and put the filter on the top clip and adjust as needed. You can even key frame the thing for effects over time etc.
Chris
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Thanks for the feedback, it looks slick!
Chris
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I wonder what flavor of Cool Aid they will be feeding those at the show?
Chris
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From what I can tell, Apple did not update any CPU at MacWorld. It was an iPhone event with a little of this and that thrown in. For some time Apple has been updating their CPUs twice a year, I think they might be a little behind at this point.
I have a sense that by NAB the Moon and stars will align and we will get CPUs a new OS and some updated Pro Apps all in one glorious regurgitation. Can you imagine the fun we will all have trying to understand where our new issues (problems) are coming from. Is it the OS, the new CPU or the new Pro App? Is it one thing or is it all things. I guess I prefer one thing at a time, maybe Apple will undo my logic and do exactly that, one thing at a time.
Chris
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Have you ever thought to select all the clips in the time line with the Apple A function, copy and paste into a new bin called something like, decompose?
Upon batch dig I think you can select the handles you might want.
Just a thought.
And by the way, I think FCP6 is fantastic especial since it has all the features we all need and want, Next time out I think I am going to ask Apple to take some features away just so we can ask for them in future updates!
Chris
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I am SOOOOOOOOOOOO ashamed of myself.
I thought it was the Apple site but it was in fact a rumored site.
This whole internet thing has got me confused.
Chris