[Dan Schanler]

The director, Greg Yaitanes, does an interview where he talks at length about the camera choice and their decision. (transcript)

https://philipbloom.net/2010/04/19/in-depth-interview-with-executive-producer-and-director-of-house-season-finale-shot-on-canon-5dmkii/

Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

Thanks Aaron,

whew, right after my post, my DVD burner pretty much stalled out on me all together, so couldn’t follow up…

It’s back running again and I think you’re right – I built a VIDEO/AUDIO TS in DVPSP and then copied that to a DVD using Toast’s DATA – not the VIDEO setting I was using earlier, and it seems to have fixed the sizing issue.

Appreciate it.

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

Out of curiosity –

Does anyone have a policy that if you, as the editor, has to cancel on the client an hour before the edit session, you’d make up the time for them? (explicitly stated or as goodwill)

Is the same argument made for giving them a freebie session?

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

I’ve used one frame of “Bars and Tone” (in effects / video generators) and that seems to work well as a 2-pop audio cue.

That’s the general idea, but I don’t know if that’s exactly what they want – see what those COW peeps in broadcast think.

Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

hey Craig,
missed your note earlier. X264 looks helpful, but as I’m not great with scrips or terminal stuff, I’m not really sure how to use it.

Another thing re: workflow – for a bunch of H.264 standard def clips that are different frame rates / frame sizes / audio rates – normally a real pain in the rear, the Compressor setting “DV NTSC” works well to standardize things.

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

If you haven’t had success already by recapturing, there are two things you might try –

1. starting capture a bit into the 5 min clip and not at its very beginning (a few seconds in), as FCP is having a hard time recognizing that it’s all one unit

2. and recapturing using uncontrolled device mode

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

Thanks Arnie,

I think he’ll be able to get us 16 bit tiffs, and I’ll use AE to make it into a quicktime before the import into FCP.

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

That’s a fabulous quote.

A few years ago I thought I was “an editor” just because I had rudimentary knowledge of FCP, and about six months of editing work under my belt.

Hah.

Creative problem solving and speed take a lot longer to learn than applications. Not that I’ve mastered either, as a sampling of my posts may indicate. 😉

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

I will do that.

Thanks for the good advice, much appreciated, David.

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Dan Schanler
NYC

[Dan Schanler]

David,

Thanks for the quick reply. Ah, right in the manual… humbled.

Actually, after trying it out more, yes, the “item properties gamma change” in the browser is definitely helpful for changing the gamma – but I don’t know exactly what number to change it to.

The proper darkness image just comes in to FCP as “source” gamma, and the problematic PNG looks similar at around 3.25 gamma.

Do I just have to eyeball it?

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Dan Schanler
NYC