Claude Lyneis
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I plunged ahead an updated and then realized it was a major upgrade as it had to update all libraries. After awhile it finished and looks fine, to my relief. My first impression is that it does a better job handling my 35 MBs, H.264 60 fps files, when editing. They look better in playback mode and timeline seems snappier.
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Even in the “rich” Bay Area, it is not uncommon for college grads to take jobs as interns earning minimum wage or less before they land a real job. So, if this is a first time job, it is not such a bad starting point. Making 40 and living back with the parents, could be a reasonably profitable beginning. In this economy it makes sense for 20 somethings to defer on the spouse, the kid, the house for a while.
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I would do it outside, because doing it with cheap equipment results in poor results. I have used Video Conversion Experts out of Arizona and they have different levels of quality. They claim that the below conversion to 2k, you will be losing quality from the super-8. I don’t know what film and processing costs these days, but high quality conversion can be had for less than 50 cents/foot.
Of course if it is just for fun there is always projecting and filming, I have used that to sort through large quantities of unknown film to decide what is worth doing a quality transfer.
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From what I know of Hitchcock. He had his scenes very carefully laid out and story-boarded with each shot included and then shot them exactly that way. At least from an example of the Birds, that is how it went. Not a lot of room for editing and extra cuts.
I hate the Bourne movies with shaking camera and super fast cuts to simulate drama in the fight scenes.
Great discussion above.
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Everytime I go to the multiplex I watch at the end to see if it was digital or film in the beginning. Just saw Focus and looks like it was done on Kodak and then immediately transferred to digital. A Million Ways to Die in the West was shot in 4k. It will be interesting to see how long film will last in this format. It all gets shipped out as digital media to the theaters, anyway.
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Thanks. That is so much easier. So many keyboard shortcuts, so little brain memory left to remember them all.
That sounded good, but when I try it cmd E just beeps at me. I can make it work by choosing Share and the format/destination “Export File” with video codec same as source. Probably more pilot error.
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I have been shooting 59.9 fps 1080 p on my Canon XA20 at 37 Mbs recently and FCPX recognizes it fine as above and it plays in X at the correct rate. It definitely improves sections where I use slow motion. On the other hand, I am not going out to broadcast TV, instead out to Youtube and Vimeo and I use compressor to go to 1080 30p before that.
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Bill. I will give it a shot on my next game project. Maybe I can get rid of one of my old FCP7 habits. The game clips are so different than the clips from the scripted scene we just shot for a film class. Those just fell together in FCPX. For me, the sound editing in x works so much better because I can cut up front and the back doesn’t slide around. The added audio clips stay with the appropriate clip.
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Great, that will do just what I need.
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Wow. If you read to far down in this post, you will never realize it started out as a discussion of the new movie FOCUS using FCPX to edit. An incredible high jacking. Fun to read, but it reminds me of the old school game of passing a sentence from student to student to see what comes out the other end.
SF Chron did care much for FOCUS, but I still have to check it out.