David Roth weiss
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So debe, did you get the Firmtek bundle???
Are you saying that you want to take your media drives offline temporarily so that you can put your old internal drives into your external enclosure temporarily to access them?
DRW
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[Shane Ross] “Stick to capturing with the NLE you will be editing with.”
You and Walter are such worry-warts. I think you’ve both been working on MAC exclusively for way too long. Get out in the world once in while., There’s a whole wide world of exchangable media out there.
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H[Bob Cole] “I’d really like to be able to pop in a drive or a tape, back up everything associated with a project (everything: scripts, graphics, After Effects projects, media, EDL’s, alternate edits, etc.), AND be able to reload it to the proper computers, drives, and directories automatically. If anybody has this mastered, I’d love to hear about it.”
Bob,
With FCP its a breeze to move everything in a job to a single directory on a hard drive. In fact, its the very best function of Apple’s so called “Media Mangler.” Yet another fine reason for you to start cooking regularly with FCP.
DRW
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Shane,
Just for the record (since your picture is up top and we now know what you look like), almost every PC based NLE can import QT movies.
DRW
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Jeffrey,
You did ask, and Seth certainly does not deserve crap for telling you like it is.
Fact is, hardware is the responsibility of the facility unless the client requires something extraordinary. If they ask for something special like a PAL deck, or maybe Digibeta that’s something to charge them for, but hard drive space is certainly not extraordinary in the least. With ATA and SATA drives now at only $125 for 300gb you could easily move media off of your SCSI drives overnight while you sleep and without supervision. Its really no big deal, and the hours and hours you complain about are computer hours not man hours. There is a difference. Try to remember, this is a service business…
DRW
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Will,
There are DVDs loaded with various pyro efx of all types and shapes and directional charges, that are made specifically to be composited. They come pre-built with alpha mattes, so you just drop them on layers above your main video trks and resize to match the size of your gun, cannon, explosion, etc. Bingo, just add sound effects and you’re golden…
DRW
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Will,
Much of what you are asking about is not actually done using editing software, but rather with EFX, paint, animation, and 3D compositing software. Adobe After Effects, Autodesk (formerly Discreet) Combustion, and Apple’s Shake will all run on the same computer on which you might run FCP, and they are all, in the right hands, capable of doing a great many of the effects you’ve asked about (including particle efx), and they are all tools used in Hollywood productions. However, the real heavy hitters of EFX work in Hollywood have for years been Discreet Fire, Flame, and Inferno. However, Shake is really fast becoming a major player on soem very big projects (i.e. King Kong for example). All that aside, FCP is very capable editing software, and many feature films and TV series are cut on it every day. Avid is no longer the first choice here for many.
BTW, muzzle flashes are one of the simplest of all Efx to create. A convincing muzzle flash can easily be achieved by simply animating a simple white shape that appears and quickly expands in front of a gun barrel over just three frames before cutting out. And, there are also realistic pyrotechnic flashes and explosions available on DVD that can be simply composited in the proper place on-screen.
Just remember, story is everything. Efx are just window dressing.
Good luck,
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Yes, that makes sense. I think you’ll have to call Apple on this one.
DRW
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Justin,
You haven’t mentioned what version of FCP you have, or whether you’ve reinstalled it, all you said is that you are “reformatting.” In any case, all of the features of QT Pro are installed along with FCP 5.
DRW
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