[Bob Cole]

Thanks very much — I agree but I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

bc

[Bob Cole]

[Pablo Hill] “I want to avoid all the rendering that I’m doing when switching apps.”

Unless I’m missing something, you shouldn’t have to re-render. Choose a new default rendering codec in AE that is compatible with your FCP set-up.

Bob C

[Bob Cole]

[Bob Woodhead] “Home Cheapo flo bulbs”

what are these?

bob

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[Bob Cole]

[Trey Gregory] “90% about connections and about 5% what you can do. That last 5% is luck”

get some experience in a sports broadcast truck. They need people by the hundreds.

If I were hiring Olympics-type editors I would ask my colleagues in the big broadcast trucks that produce football games etc. for the names of some terrific, reliable, FAST, non-drug-abusing, fun-to-be-around editors. These folks have to edit under pressure, hour after hour. Some of them are pretty great. They don’t even use FCP, as I understand — something called “Elvis?”

good luck. nice to hear from someone with a dream that lights her fire.

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[Bob Cole]

Thanks David. Actually I did read your post, and I should have mentioned that. Too bad Soundbooth doesn’t work well; the concept is terrific. It’s worth tracking to see whether it improves.

Bob

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[Bob Cole]

It would be great if someone could develop software that would transcribe from a Quicktime file. It seems to me that a file would offer a lot more time for software to use contextual cues to improve word recognition. Rather than computing “on the fly” as from a live voice, file-based voice recognition could use as much time as necessary to translate sounds into words.

Just a dream? or is there someone out there who is working on file-based voice recognition?

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[Bob Cole]

In my experience (but with a Powerbook) I needed the express port in order to ingest video while capturing it to an external firewire drive.

bob c

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[Bob Cole]

Here is the Clint Eastwood “Unforgiven” trick. You will save tons of money because you won’t need to buy, rent, or build ANYTHING.

3 steps:

Step 1. Become a world-famous movie star.
Step 2. Don’t use any lights or scrims on your exteriors.
Step 3. Sit back and listen to how artistic that was.

I’m stuck on Step 1.

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[Bob Cole]

I agree with Todd. A good comparison of fluorescents would be valuable.

I’d be interested in hearing experiences with punchier fluoro’s like the Parabeam or Image 80.

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[Bob Cole]

DRW turned me onto Production Transcripts, about $2/minute.

re: The technique of listening and simultaneously talking into a speech recognition program. I have tried “Naturally Speaking” Nuance/Dragon software, ver. 9. I wasn’t thrilled with the results from version 9 but I remain hopeful. David Pogue gave the update very high marks recently.

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