Darren Edwards
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I disagree with the Windows opinion. Audition 1.5/XP SP2 is about
as stable as anything I’ve used on any platform; Apple still
haven’t sorted out their new operating system yet let alone
Mac/Windows, Mac/Windows software, Mac/Windows PC software
(Audition 2+) running on Mac/Windows operating systems.Windows users’ biggest hurdle is their inability to strip the
operating system of all the junk, bugs, and quirks etc. Sadly
nobody’s released the book on that yet, so it’s all trial
and error and/or a knowledgeable IT friend.D.
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1. Right-click on your track in the mixer window, scroll down to the
bottom, select Envelopes and check out your Pan settings. If you can
enable ‘Splines’ (the more subtle way of mixing but finicky for intricate
stuff) then your Pan control should be working fine.If you can’t see the Pan options Envelopes, still in the mixer window,
check your View tab to see if ‘View Pan Envelopes’ is ticked.2/3. I don’t understand the wording of these questions. When you record
a take straight into the mixer, and then delete it from the mixer, it is,
by default, still available in the Edit window. To keep on top of multiple
takes, it sounds like you should be deleting your unwanted takes from
the Edit View immediately.Murray’s correct about SM57s. 57s and 58s (for vocals) usually outlive
their owners. I’ve got a 15-year-old SM58 which has seen all kinds of
action.A great software tool for DI’ing the guitar and ditching the cheap amp is
Guitar Rig. Versions, 1, 2 and 3 are all great, great for experimenting with
too – vocals, bass, keyboards, anything you can input or mic up, really…Providing your PC and soundcard are upto it, you should be able to run
Guitar Rig and Audition simultaneously.
Guitar Rig: https://www.native-instruments.com/index.php?id=guitarlineD.
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Standard def DV footage captures (via firewire) at around 1GB per 3 minutes. It doesn’t matter how expensive the camcorder
is.For burning to DVD try using Export/Adobe Media Encoder first
and selecting MPEG2DVD from the pulldown. Afterwhich use
Encore (or a similar DVD designer prog) to make a DVD
with. Nero Express will do in a pinch.FAT32 hard-drives have a problem with files over 4GBS, so
if you’ve any of these in your system then PPro will have
problems exporting, copying, working, etc. with it.Darren.
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If it’s purely colour grading you’re referring to then a good
place to start is ‘S’ing the Curves’. This is the black/white
levels crunching process which gives movies that ‘contrasty’
look – a contrasty look which HDV lenses try to do in-camera.Effects/Adjust/Curves – in lower-left of the grid
click to create a pointer and then drag it slightly right.
Do the same in the top-right corner and drag it left. Work
1×1 block in so you’re able to create a slight ‘S’ shape out
of the co-ords. Basic Levels work will achieve something
similar. Don’t forget to keep an eye on your scopes,
especially if it’s a SD project.It’s possible to S-shape the curves in-camera but they’re
not because it’s impossible to retrieve the data (lurking
in the now crunched black/white areas) in post – it’s far more
prudent to supply the post guys with a slighter under-exposed
image so they have a choice. With HD this is imperative.Darren.
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There is no ‘undock’ option in PPro2, unless I’m
missing an update or something. The CTRL-dots things
worked fine, though, so I got there eventually. 🙂D.
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I see. Strange way to do things. I presumed it would be
as simple as right-clicking the palette’s top-right-hand-
corner arrow as in AE7. Then again, it seems that unless
one’s using an Matrox accelerated machine, it’s tough
going with the ol’CS range of PPro?Darren.
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Hi James,
Most of the vids at the myspace are British, yeh,
although our music vid director, Nick Small, used
to have an office in LA and so dealt with all kinds
of folks.I thought the ‘Time…’ video was quite charming.
Cool song, too.
I imagine the compositing must have taken quite
a while. A great site to check out the latest
oddities in the music vid world is industry
favourite, Antville: https://videos.antville.org/Re green screen: it’s probably worth shopping around.
I could link you to places in the UK I trust but
the shipping costs would be counterproductive.Aside from colouring a few white bedsheets and lighting
them properly, or even typing ‘DIY Green Screen’
into Google, there are alternatives.. A posh one
is a chromatte curtain. We’ve got one of these in
our TV studio. It’s quite easy to install, and a
lot more durable than the material
they use to make green/white cyclorama rooms.
https://www.reflecmedia.com/There’s also the classifieds over at Mandy where
you might pick up a bargain or two, or even some
work.
https://www.mandy.com/1/class.cfmCheers,
Darren.x-gf.com
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Bands like to look cool in their videos.
Keep them occupied on set – a games console normally
does the trick.Expect the video shoot to be as tedious and time consuming
as any other short film or corporate shoot.Don’t expect to make a lot of money for a couple of
years.Don’t expect the band to like the video as much as you
do, especially if it’s a low budget but you did the best
you could.View some of our videos at: https://www.myspace.com/xgfmedia
One example of how to pitch for a video is linked at
the new UNKLE competition website: https://unkle77.com/The pitch (which won, BTW) for Kaiser Chief’s ‘Ruby’ is
here: https://www.filmaka.com/unkle/unkle.pdfTo me it reads like an over-excited under-grad media
student wrote it. Childish hyberbole. Then again, it
won.In the end of the day, though, it’s a better life than
making a living from making business profiles.Darren.
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Soundbooth disappoints on just about every level, eh?
Then again, so does Soundtrack, it’s natural competition.D.
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You lose a percentage of the vertical resolution when
when deinterlacing not an overall loss. In layman’s terms,
it’s about 20%.Re deinterlacing for new televisions: there’s no yes or no
answer – a lot of the second-gen HDTVs have internal
propriety software (quasi-frame interpolation, for example)
which is impossible to predict in post. Best advice, as
always, is a little bit of R @ D. Test various edits on
as many sets as possible. What looks right probably is right.
And whilst your checking your fields, it’ll be a good time
to check your broadcast safe levels and audio levels too ;).Fast action such as sport is best left as interlaced.
Darren.
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