[Chris Raines]

Just posting here again.. Has anyone experienced this problem before? Surely I’m not the only one. Still haven’t found a solution apart from not using MB Looks…

[Chris Raines]

No one has input on this? Surely someone has encountered this before.

I just want to make a sequence behave as a clip in the timeline. I want it to retain its original resolution and not zap me back to another sequence when I double-click. I do not want single channel mono audio to suddenly get pasted as a stereo track, as it does when you edit sequence-to-sequence.

Anyone?

[Chris Raines]

I’ve been using cageapp.com with some success. It’s $15/mo, and the only catch is you can’t host more than 2GB at a time. But if that’s not a problem then it comes out cheaper than Vimeo Pro. Clients log in with a password and can’t see anything else except their videos. Notes can be made right on the timeline, so it takes email out of the equation. Still a young service and they’re still tweaking it but worth checking out.

Chris

[Chris Raines]

Walter,

Thanks for the feedback. It’s good to know that some facilities are looking for editors. I can do motion graphics, but the truth is I’m not very good at it and I’m not super interested in it.

So when you talk about getting to learn a lot of gear at CNN, what do you mean? We don’t have a lot of extra “gear” at my station. It’s local news so it is pretty bare bones. How do you go from bare bones local news to high end post production?

Chris

[Chris Raines]

John,

Regarding trying to find a client who you can work for to build you reel and resume, any tips on how to do that? How did you do it?

Chris

[Chris Raines]

Wow, thanks everyone for your valuable input. I’m still sort of learning how the bigger world of production and post-production works, so your insight is extremely valuable.

Definitely gives me motivation to continue learning and expanding.

[Chris Raines]

Larry,

Would you recommend trying to switch departments? I will say that there aren’t incredible opportunities to be creative in the newsroom. It’s very much like a factory, video in, video out. And the tools aren’t there. Plug-ins, photoshop, AE, none of that is present. And I wouldn’t call my station “forward-thinking” I’m trying not to just make excuses, but that’s sort of the reality of things.
What kind of TV station were you working at where you had a massive amount of creative tools available?

Chris

[Chris Raines]

Rick,

Thanks for the comment. I have the same perspective regarding specializing. It is true that Walter Murch wouldn’t claim to be a motion graphics artist or a colorist. Truthfully, if he were an amazing colorist, then he wouldn’t be a great editor, because it takes time to hone a craft like that, and he would have had to devote that time to practicing color grading instead.

I believe in expanding your toolset, but only after you have achieved some level of mastery in one area.

[Chris Raines]

Ned,

Thanks for the tip. I’ve never heard of PR agencies doing that, but it’s worth investigating at least.

[Chris Raines]

I’ve actually invested quite a bit of time learning FCP and After Effects and Photoshop on my own. I already know MC because that’s what I use for my job every day.

Have I learned enough or do I need more skills?