[Brian Mulligan]

How do you manage your speed?
Experience and knowing your software inside and out. It is your main tool.

How do you avoid distractions?
Sometimes distractions are good, but save them for when rendering happens. Focus.

How do you explain to your boss the time wasted on technical problems and computer freezing and conversion problems…
You have to work through that. There are still deadlines.

Are you ever satisfied with the final edit?
You never finish editing.. you just run out of time. There are always things as you look back that you will hate. But you know every frame… the viewer doesn’t. If the end product is good that’s all that matters.

What do you do when your taste is “simplicity” What type of projects are you editing? Motion graphics work is and isn’t editing.
If you are more of a long form editor… spot work may not be your thing.

How to become more technical, what to read, what softwares to use?
Follow the industry and find a few good forums online. There are better resources than the COW.

Motion graphics ….
Spot editing does demand some motion graphics work. See above.

[Brian Mulligan]

So are you both shooting the same format? MiniDV tapes can shoot SD or HD if the camera is shooting HDV. Or miniDV can shoot DVCPRO.

And current LCD screens are designed for HD, so any and all SD usually looks bad on them.

[Brian Mulligan]

Looks like an intern did it. 🙂
Nothing special here, and the camera moves are a just OK.

Could have been done in a variety of programs, but most likely it was After Effects.

[Brian Mulligan]

This is nicely shot, and the jump cut isn’t horrible, but it isn’t right either.

I would almost, like to stay on the tight shot, I like the intensity. Especially for the subject matter. But I know it would be impossible due to the length of the piece. He needs to be looking at the camera, and not off, because he is speaking to the viewer. Interviews style would be less effective.

My suggestion would be to separate the cameras even wider, almost 90 degrees. Then he can do a head turn from one camera to the other. Cut on the motion/change of thought. This will help the jump cut. Not sure if your location and lighting can accompany this idea.

[Brian Mulligan]

[Gary Hazen] “Many broadcasters are using 1080i.”

Doesn’t mean you have to shoot it.

No, but it does mean that you have to deliver it in that format.
You can shoot 24P as well, but you may still have to deliver in 29.97.

[Brian Mulligan]

Sounds about right to me. The editing term is “Speed Ramping”, based on how the timing curve looks in the editor.

The overcrank will give you a cleaner slo-mo than normal fps.

[Brian Mulligan]

Back in the late 90’s early 2000’s I used a Lightworks VIP editor. It was built around a Textronix (Grass Valley) 4 ch Profile DDR.

It was a great and fast content editor. Wonderful. The controller was unique and fluid. No effects work at the time. The workflow on this version was like this. You could playout 3 channels of SD SDI in to a production switcher and DVE, add some chyron and mix composite in real time. Then as these 3 streams played out and you triggered your switcher effects, it would record back on the 4th channel and then drop the “composite” clip into your timeline.

Wonderful UI.

I miss the Shark, and am glad it’s not dead.

Early versions running on DOS were the first multicam editors and cut the TV show Friends for years. I also believe it was used on Law & Order.

It was very big on both US coasts for film and TV, back in the day. it was then bought ans sold so many times that it lost momentum and faded away.

The early UI looked very Fisher-Price, but it made up for it in speed and flexability.
I was a beta tester in it’s last years with Grass valley. V3.01

[Brian Mulligan]

Well, I did install… I think.

Whyen I doenload the v4 drivers on the MAC it does yell at em that there is a application. I hit continue and I am left with a folder that has a PDF and the 2 componet files.

The PDF tells me to copy the files in to /library/quicktime.

BKM

[Brian Mulligan]

My spelling/typing is as bad as your reading… add an extra ‘0’ on the end. I need the HPX2000 not HVX200.

I think I have my answer as the chip size is only 960×720.

BKM

[Brian Mulligan]

So how does it magically go to proper HD playback? And how do editors handle the video to make it “standard” HD rez?

BKM