Chaz Shukat
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I got an A.S. degree in Radio & Television Broadcasting in 1974 and a BA in Mass Communications in 1976 and learned nothing about editing. In 1979, while working in a record store (that’s what my degrees got me), a man came in with some “music video” type pieces that he wanted us to play on our big screen projection TV in the store. When I saw them (this was years before MTV), I knew this was what I wanted to do. So I went to work for him, for free at first. He had a crude, rudimentary, cut’s only 3/4″ editing system. I had total creative freedom. There was someone there to answer any questions I had about the equipment, but I basically taught myself editing. I just knew what to do. I assume it was from obsorbing what I had seen on TV and in the movies. I just knew when something worked and when it didn’t. As I progressed, I continued to teach myself new equipment (without formal training). I taught myself Avid and took classes after. Now after 25 plus years I am first beginning to “study” editing technique. I hope that doesn’t ruin my style.
Chaz S.
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I am not capturing HDV and interestingly, the next day there was video in the box, then the following day it was gone again. ?????
Chaz S.
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Anju, it’s hard enough going from PC to Mac with the whole “command”/”control” key difference, but to also switch from FCP to Avid, I feel for you. How do you get your mind to stop thinking in FCP and get Avid on the brain, well, it’s like getting your sea legs or your land legs, it just takes spending enough time in that environment. As for staying in sync, personally, I always work with sync locks on all my tracks, always, but that’s just me. That way it’s pretty damn hard if not impossible to loose sync. To move all tracks downstream, just do an insert edit with you sync tracks on or do a single roller trim. As long as the sync locks are on, everything will move down. As for using the “red arrow” or “yellow arrow” modes let’s call them, this is something that you have to get used to with Avid if you want to drag clips around on the timeline. You can access these modes using the “;” button for the yellow mode and the “‘” button for the red, or map them to whatever key you want on the keyboard. These icons should be on your keyboard. Lastly, if you can, wait to put the music in until last, it will make things a bit easier for you as far as sync is concerned in case you have certain actions synced up with certain points in the music.
Good editing to you. Hope that helps.
Chaz S.
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Yo Rap,
If the footage was shot as interlace, create an interlace project of the same frame rate. It’s always best to match the project to the footage so no conversion is necessary.Chaz S.
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Tom,
Thanks for the answers. As for the DVDxDV, we couldn’t seemt to find it available so we got CinemaTize. Is that good too? It seems to allow us to import off DVD for editing in FCP.Chaz S.
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I’ve never worked on newscutter so I can’t say for certain, but I can’t imagine it not having this ability, especially for a news environment where speed is of the essense.
Chaz S.
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As they used to say on “Laugh In” in the ’60’s “You bet your bippie there is!” Just click on the picture in your right “record” monitor. A small blank box will appear. Hit the plus sign or the minus sign depending on which way you want to go, and enter the amount in frames, or seconds and frames, or minutes seconds and frames, or even hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
Chaz S.
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Helloooooooo Jonathan! It’s good to have you by my side. I thought I was gonna have to fly this thing by myself for a minute there.
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debe, thank you for taking the time to write your very long, thorough and satisfying response. I truly appreciate it.
Chaz S.
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PM, this is quite interesting. I have been working on a feature in a similar fashion. The director is in Cleveland and I post my cuts on their FTP site for him to review. But my question to you, or anyone else is, how did you get this out of town client? Were you actively looking for work in other areas of the country?
Chaz S.