Christopher Travis
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That sounds promising Andy. I’ll check it on Monday.
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Update: I gave my colleague a project file of mine that had worked, and he was able to replace the footage and export successfully.
We can get by from here using this project setup but out of curiosity id still like to hear some thoughts. I guess it’s not an export setting since the last one worked. Can anyone think of a reason why one would get a blank export when the comp looks fine in the canvas?
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woops. Quite right I forgot the link.
That’s clearly a UK site. Not sure if they have a north American branch.
I’m a big lad and I can handle Bob’s “style”, but I do find it funny that he is allowed to dish out insults and accusations made on the basis rash assumptions, but the second I give a little back I’m being unfair. I guess that’s seniority for you though.
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Thanks for your sage words Bob,
You’ve really made me think about this in a whole new light. But to save a sliver of your precious time, perhaps in future you could just provide links to other posts you’ve made where you’ve generously offered up multiparagraph rants saying exactly the same thing without actually bothering to think whether you could provide any specific insight into the OPs situation. Although I did enjoy the ever-so-slightly racist allusion to cannibalism towards the end of this particular bespoke response.
I’ve been here a while Bob, so I’m well aware that you make 2,000 calls a day, send 100,000 emails, as well as simply shouting loudly at every person you pass in the street asking them to give you work. I understand the importance of hard work and determination, however I was hoping I might be able to use my time more efficiently than just dialling numbers at random and barking at whichever poor soul picks up at the other end.
Which is why I came here and asked a couple of simple questions, hoping for a steer in the right direction. Maybe someone knows of an organisation that arranges placements like this. Maybe someone has experience with a particular charity that they’d like to share. Maybe someone has tried and can tell me *from experience* that I’d have to wait in line for 5 years to get a chance to do it. You know, like helpful advice or something.
Perhaps you do have extensive experience volunteering your skills to charities abroad but I’m afraid I couldn’t pick any of that out from the torrent of bile and accusations that I think I’m a rock star or something.
For anyone else reading this interested in my original post. I have found an organisation calls VSO which places skilled volunteers on projects in different parts of the world. They apparently do have occasionally places for people with these skills so I have been encouraged to apply. Beyond that I suppose it’s time to draw up a list of charities to approach directly.
Also, Mark, thanks for your response, it’s given me some things to look into. (And may I take this opportunity, if I haven’t already, to say that you are by far my favourite poster on the Cow. I always read your posts with interest. It never ceases to amaze me how on-point your advice is on basically any subject. Subjects for which there are no user-manuals, and for which there is no simple google-able answer. I’ve also seen you very generously provide pretty fleshed-out pitches and proposals for people that may well have earned them lucrative jobs, without batting an eyelid. Keep up the good work guy.)
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Thanks everyone for your responses. I’m going to try to find time to watch a few of these over the weekend.
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While in many ways its clearly not ideal in all situations. There is something to be said for receiving notes by email. I like how it (sometimes) forces the client to distill their thoughts into a series of bullet points that can be ticked off, as opposed to a face to face viewing which can lead to a rambling stream of consciousness. The other benefit is that it can easily be filed away and kept as a reference for future projects. Before you send the next WIP to them, you can quickly look over the notes they gave on the last project and see if you’ve made any of the same mistakes again.
Perhaps a nice system would be to send a first WIP by email, recieve their main comments by email. Then invite them back for a fine cut viewing to iron out the remaining kinks.
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Same here. For the record, I needed to sign up as a member before I could access the old webinars. It wasn’t very clear, and even when I did sign up and click the link, it didn’t send me the download link.
Lots of nice looking content on there, it’s a shame the website doesn’t work very well. However I did get good helpful responses from the support email address.
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As interesting as Bills upcoming webinar looks, I’m actually interested in some of the older content, most of which doesn’t seem to have any purchase options, for example:
https://moviola.com/webinars/surviving-in-the-broadcast-editing-world/
I can’t find any mention on the site of when this membership option will become available.
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Looks like a good site, I see some interesting webinars on there. However I can’t seem to access them, it says membership is “coming soon”. Does this mean there is currently no way to access old content?
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Hey Oliver,
Can you explain how FCP X is lacking in this department compared to Avid and/or FCP 7?
I’ve never used FCPX, so I’m curious.
Thanks,
Chris