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[Latrice] “I know that it is possible to go into livetype projects while also editing to tape (running off a 30min or plus show)but is the system design to handle such a big task(edit to tape)while also holding capabilites to create and render things in livetype at the same time. “
I wouldn’t chance it at this stage of hardware and software.
You’ll probably cause the EtT to drop frames and stop.
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[Ed] “On my own long form projects, me either. On my corporate gigs, there’s usually a requirement to review a draft, which as I’ve said can be a good or a bad thing. On my very first project we had a focus group for a 1 hour kids film. One filmmaker friend reviewed it and said “It’ll be great when you cut it down to 30 minutes”. I totally ignored him, and the 60 minute film went on to receive great acclaim (and 200,000 units sold!).
Ed “Oh, I don’t know, editing can help focus some things:
[Ed] “On my corporate gigs, there’s usually a requirement to review a draft, good or a bad.
My first project (1 hour kids film) had a focus group. One filmmaker said “cut it down to 30 minutes”. I ignored him, the 60 minute film went on to great acclaim (200,000 units sold!).
Ed “🙂
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[Ruby Gold] “what did you mean when you said that most of them are “completely masked by error-correction in digital formats?””
It means there are AWAYS drop-outs over the course of virtually any tape.
In analog systems, the “mask” is usually very visible, in digital formats the error-correction completely covers maybe 99.5% or more, so they go unnoticed.As to the software “registering” a drop-out:
At the digital import level, unless the TimeCode stops or the entire image is lost to a head-clog or severe tape problem (i.e. a crease) the computer doesn’t even “know” there IS a drop-out.
Only to your EYE might there appear to be something amiss in the video.And, trust me, if its just a frame or two with a “blemish”, do the “dance of JOY”!
We who have come from analog BetaCam (and earlier) know what simple tape drop-outs can truly “do” to a video image.
Again, without actually SEEING your “blemished” tape image, I am only speculating about it being a drop-out… but it sure sounds like that’s what it is.
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[Tom Wolsky] “Always leave something obviously wrong in it”
Ah yes, the old “hold-back” negotiation technique.
“In this new contract we want your guys to:
work a 40 hour week,
take a 55-minute lunch,
write a 100-word essay on job safety on the back of each timecard, and
take two 15-minute coffee breaks a day.”Hmmmmmmm.
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[Ed] “A variation on the “never show a work-in-progress: I’m doing a video for my biggest corporate client, with an approved script, and a small group of executives who have final approval. One of them sent the final version off to a dozen people in the company who had nothing to do with the project, and naturally he got back a dozen different responses.”
My biggest fear is always if the client shows it to a SPOUSE.
“HOW much did this cost?”
AAAHHHHHH!!!!!!
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[Ed] “1- Showing the drafts to people *not* involved with the project. Hearing those other perspectives helps me rethink mine.
2- Output a tape or DVD and take it home, or somewhere outside the edit room. It’s amazed me how different an edit looks when viewing it from my couch. “1- You must like to Live Dangerously.
RULE #1: Never show a “work-in-progress.”
RULE #2: If you ask for an OPINION from someone they will feel obligated to give you one, even if they don’t really know or care.2- Very fine idea. Puts the project in the same venue as other programming.
My alternative method is to just view yesterday’s work on the following morning.
This does NOT count if its still the SAME all-nighter session… and the Sun is just coming up 😉 -
BTW, you can “fix” this in editing by covering the “blemish” area with a matching section of the previous frame (or next frame) that is “clean”.
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It sounds like a “drop-out” and you avoid it by not using video tape.
Drop-outs are just a fact-of-life with magnetic media.Most of them these days are completely masked by error-correction in digital formats, but very occasionally one will be severe enough to show.
Just be happy you’re not shooing on analog BetaCam.
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There is not now, nor has there ever been a COW eating grass related to FCP!!!!
(Every knows its a YAK.) 😉
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First, remove the Widescreen Filter from your stills, then:
1. Create a new video track so that there is another track directly over your Stills.
2. On the new video track, directly over any stills, edit in the “Slug”
3. Add the “Mask Shape” filter only on the Slug.
4. In the Mask Shape “Filter Tab” click the “Invert” setting.
5. In the Mask Shape “Filter Tab” adjust the “Horizontal” setting fully-open wide.
6. In the Mask Shape “Filter Tab” adjust the “Vertical” setting to exactly match the WideScreen black bars.Now the images below the slug will be unaffected by the WideScreen Filter, but will still have the black bars at the top and bottom.
This method works for adding “Wide-screen” black bars to any kind of video without affecting the actual video tracks below the “Slug”.