Chi-ho Lee
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I’m an old time automatic driver. Been driving an automatic for years now. But now I need to drive a stick. Instead of hiring someone who knows how to drive stick shifts to spend a few hours with me showing me how it work, I just jumped in myself cuz I know how to drive a car. Man, what’s wrong with these stick shift cars??? They don’t drive the way I’m used to driving it….
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
With all due respect to Jerry, a lot of his advices (and they’re very helpful, don’ tget me wrong) are workarounds. I’m afraid we’ve been so conditioned to workarounds that we numbed to the original problem that caused us to discover workarounds.
One example is that we’ve been numbed to or have forgotten what was once a very top priority for the FCP wish list for several previous years – Undo History List! I still have one have like Marco have been only asking for it since version 2!
I also want a better Marker system like Motion.
I was the tabs of each window to be easily re-arrangable like DVDSP.
Customizable Font size for the ENTIRE interface, not just the Browser and Sequence (it should include menu fonts and timecode windows, etc).
Boris gives you decent result but the interface is clutzy. It’s time to make the FCP titler more elegant.
Realtime Scopes’ resolution is too low – it’s hard to see it in realtime. Need to make the readout brighter or higher res.
Make system settings attach to a project.
Make Capture Now force you to name a clip first before capture – so we don’t get 1000 untitled clips.
I personally do not want to see a separate FCP Extreme version – the one big advantage of FCP over Avid is that there is only one version. You learn one version is that’s all you need. I know a few Avid trainers, and they all think that all the different versions of Avid ridiculous. Avid has actually phased out Xpress Pro training in training centers. You must use their new online training system for Xpress Pro training. Training centers will only be able to train Media Composer. And what’s the difference between Xpress Pro and Media Composer software? Not that much.
I think it would be a mistake to have separate versions of FCP. Perhaps they can hide the advance features like the old days of choosing Cutting Station or Advanced Editing (or whatever it was called back in v3). Similar to how DVDSP is setup now – choose Basic, Intermediate or Advanced.
On another note – I wish all camera and deck manufacturer would use 6 pins on their cameras and decks like the high end 1200A. I’ve seen two many people bust the 4 pins in a hurried attempt to plug a firewire in.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Cinema Tools will be all you need. I used this same HDCAM to DVCAM offline workflow for a HDCam feature I edited. No problems at the online.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Krisi,
Work backwards. What is their delivery? Would their final delivery benefit from HDCam 1080p? or Will DVCPro HD suffice?
There is a significant cost difference here. Renting a $1000/day HDCAM deck vs a $500 DVCProHD deck. If HDCAM fits with their budget, then go for it. You’ll need a traditional offline/online workflow, which you can avoid if you go DVCPro HD. As others have said before, if there are heavy duty compositing or effects work, then uncompressed HDCAM for the online is best. But if it’s a mostly straightforward drama, then DVCPro HD will certainly be great.
Again, what is required for delivery.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Delete the waveform cache files. This should do it.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
There need to be more Editor’s conference, workshops, retreats for just plain old storytelling/editing. Not NAB, not DV Expo on techy stuff. The Maine Workshops in Rockport Maine (full disclosure: I teach FCP there) runs the Master Editor’s class which brings in a big time Hollywood editor. I had the fortune to attend this class with Donn Cambern teaching (Easy Rider, Romancing the Stone, The Bodyguard) and it was a tremendous experience.
We looked at scenes and discussed in the morning. After lunch, we cut scenes from actual films and shows and then critiqued our cuts at the end of the day. It was awesome.
I know some people are going to say Hollywood sucks, blah, blah, blah, I don’t need to learn from sellout hollywood editors. I can’t stress what an experience it was to hang out and learn from an editor with about 30 features under his belt and several blockbusters and one pivotal film of American cinema.
They had Tom Rolf (Heat, Black Rain, The Right Stuff, Taxi Driver) for this summer but unfortunately, the class didn’t meet enrollment numbers to run. I was pretty bummed.
I would encourage all you guys to check out the schedule next summer and think about attending.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
How bout dubbing those JVS tapes to Sony HDV tapes and rent a deck for the capture?
Not ideal but it’s a relatively inexpensive workaround.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
You should be able to use Cinema Tools to convert your 29.97 EDL to a 23.98 EDL for the online.
-CHL
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Woops. Posted too soon. Agencies want to be wined and dined like they’re royalties. They don’t want to sit in your home studio. They want a pool table, fancy lighting, and someone at their beck and call the entire time they’re at your facility.