Brett Sherman
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THere’s only a handful of things I do inside FCP X with iZotope. Dereverb works pretty well. Dialogue Denoiser. Regular Denoiser is just to much trouble to get a noise print, so I always do it in the stand alone. Of course you can save a preset in the stand alone and have access to it within the plug-in. I’ll occasionally do that. I also prefer to take the real-time processing load off FCP X by doing it in the stand alone.
My process for external processing. Create a folder called Audio Tweaks in the Media folder. Mute other tracks (Keystroke v). Mark in and out on timeline. Export to AIFF. Right click AIFF to open in RX4. Process. Save RX Document. Export as .wav. Drag .wav into timeline under original clip. IT’s pretty fast.
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There is also some distortion going on too. A combination of circle wipe and Lens Whack would do the trick. Put the lens whack in an adjustment layer above the transition.
https://fxfactory.com/blog/effects-2/final-cut-pro-x-lens-whack-effect/
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Thanks. Another tool I use for squashed highlights is HyColour Pro: https://www.hyfx.tv/hycolourpro
Adjusting Exposure and Highlights in HyColour can give excellent results. I find it retains a more natural character than mine often does and than extreme curve adjustments in Color Finale (which is a great plug-in by the way and my go to for almost all color adjustment). It all depends on the particular shot. Sometimes one will work better than another. Of course mine is free. 🙂
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Definitely. Just budgeting at this point. Thanks for your help.
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It seems like the QNAP unit has the ports to do it without a switch. Are you telling me it can’t be configured to operate that way – NAS to workstation straight run? Or it doesn’t work as well as getting a switch? Not that the switch would break the bank. It’s just more hardware sitting around.
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Costs now are actually probably more like $20,000 for 64TB of storage. Yeah I think price point wise for at least the next two years it won’t make sense. I do believe at that point SSDs are going to become more commonplace than platter drives. I’m trying to decide if it would be worth the move from our GB Ethernet NAS to this. I would think response would be much zippier. I’d have to move up to the 8 bay version with an 8 bay extension to keep the space I currently have with 4 TB drives, although I wouldn’t mind doubling it.
Main workstation on TB, two secondary workstations on 10GB, and remaining utility computers on 1GB. Do I need a switch?
Are you comfortable with any 8TB drives on the market now? What drives would you put in it?
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BTW I’m pretty sure “manual transcription” provider rev.com does automated transcription which is then sent out for review and correction.
I know this because some errors I’ve seen can only be explained by phonetic misinterpretation by an automated transcription.
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[Andrew Kimery] “I know it’s still in beta but when the press release says “surprisingly accurate” that doesn’t really fill me with confidence. 😉
I hope they knock it out of the park though because an automated transcription program that’s accurate would be pretty awesome.”
Someday we’ll be there. But in the mean time there is also a use for not completely accurate transcription. Imagine setting it loose on your entire hard drive worth of material. Now when you have to find that one clip buried in a two hour video clip, you can turn to your transcription. Who cares if it’s 100% accurate if you can find it in seconds instead of 30 minutes.
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I understand the theory, I’ve been doing this for 25 years. I personally shoot either straight on or typical interview fashion. And I don’t shoot sideways interviews like this for a variety of reasons. But, what I’m suggesting is that your theory of the straighter the more convincing is not necessarily true. Especially in a montage like this.
In this piece there is the “cool” factor there too. You’re not going to subscribe to something just because people are asking you to. I don’t even know why I should care about these people. You’re going to want that content to be engaging, fresh, unique and exciting. Now, I’m not claiming that one particular shot does that. Or that it is framed correctly. Or that this piece was even particularly well-produced. There are problems with each.
My style tends to be rarely showing the interview subject at all, just 3-4 seconds to introduce and allow for IDing. Now your line of reasoning would suggest that this approach is somehow less convincing, because the person is talking off camera. But I find it quite the opposite.
Style is an evolving concept. I’m doing things very different than I did even 5 years ago. And it takes experimentation. While I wouldn’t consider this a stylistic success, I also wouldn’t consider it critically worse than a more straight on approach.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “My simple plea is for some intelligent and thoughtful appraisal of the way the viewer responds to different eyelines and the appropriateness of particular eyelines for evoking particular effects in particular contexts, and I’ve explained that above for one very particular type of example.”
I finally watched the piece in question. And I have to say that based on what this piece is, I’m not sure how much validity there is to the criticism. This is not an in-depth emotional video. This is quick-cut interviews – primarily talking head driven. And as such, having slightly off-axis interviews or different framing adds visual interest. In fact, I thought there should have been more of that kind of thing. And perhaps you are reacting to the, “One of these things doesn’t belong” element, which is admittedly problematic.
This is not to say there aren’t videos where the off-axis look doesn’t work well. It’s just not this piece. My .02.