Debe
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I certainly don’t disagree with you, Bob!
I’ve had a few projects where they were amazed it ended up as good as it did. Still, I didn’t get nearly the credit I deserved. When you polish a turd, the one who made the turd still thinks it’s the original quality of the turd, not the polish, that made it good!
Well, there was one. I edited a short film starring one of the cast members of MadTV quite a few years back. Everyone had high hopes for the project, but when filming was done, the DP just didn’t have the feeling in his gut that it was going to turn out as well as everyone had thought. I ended up missing the premiere for some reason, and later the producer told me the DP was so sorry I couldn’t be there, because he wanted to congratulate me on some damn fine work. The DP told the producer that I made some edits that he didn’t even know he’d shot for! The director, of course, had a hand in many of those decisions. However, had I not found the edit, she wouldn’t have and anything to decide on!
So, yes, it all depends on the situation, and each edit is a unique animal, Bob!
debe
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From the “Exemptions” section of the link supplied by Stan:
“locally produced and distributed non-news programming with no repeat value (e.g., parades and school sports);”
Is this a church service that is cable-cast once a week? I’d think that would qualify…but of course, the lawyers probably get final say…unless they dust ’em off and play them back a few months later.
I’d perhaps send a message to the contact person in that link.
debe
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While you are editing, are you monitoring on an external critical video monitor? You may catch the “smokey” problem a lot earlier. If you do have an external monitor, just ignore the canvas and trust the monitor from now on, as long as it gets calibrated! I don’t have an answer for why. There are folks here definitely more techno-savvy than I. Hopefully one of them will have a real answer to that problem.
Going back to a dead system is just foolish. Your boss just want to carp. Let ‘im carp. If he was really serious, he’d have dragged it back in by now.
Every system has it’s quirks, like you say. He’ll get used to FCPs soon enough, as will you. If you can, just let it roll off your back. Otherwise, call his bluff. And then ask for technical support for the dead system. Who’s going to reinstall it? If the manufacturer isn’t supporting the product anymore, what does he expect? For you to magically turn into an engineer? It’ll cost him more money to revert to a dead system than it will to just take the time to get used to the new workflow. This problem is NOT insurmountable, and it is NOT a failing of FCP. You don’t have to live with it. Hopefully, someone here will help you solve it!
Or, if his behavior is truly unbearable, perhaps it’s time to spruce up the ol’ resume and reel and go looking for a boss that’s more reasonable and flexible! Once the system gets it’s kinks flushed out, what will he obsess about next, and is the job worth it to put up with him?
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So, Craig Shields, if that is your real name.. ;-p
Is there a story that goes along with the reason you asked the question? You certainly can leave out any telling information that may get you in hot aqua. I usually find it interesting how things like this come about. Although most of the time such things are out of one’s control, the more stories one hears, the better prepared one can be if it ever “happens to them”.
Please, if it’s not too painful of a story, would you mind sharing a wee bit of it?
debe
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Double check the regulation. As a non-profit, you may not be required to supply the closed captioning.
There was a thread on this in the FCP forum a while back. I don’t recall the details, as it doesn’t directly apply to my work.
These may be hoops you don’t need to jump through.
debe
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Now there’s a case where a mediocre editor, or a good editor trapped by bad direction or producing, can destroy a beautifully shot piece!
I don’t remember if it even had a decent script. If it did, it was made moot by the editing decisions.
I good editor can do good things with good material. A great editor can do good things with mediocre material. A bad editor (or one not allowed to edit, just made to push buttons…) can make a decent script and well-shot film utter trash!
debe
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Steven brings up another good point! I use a Wacom tablet and a mouse. I think being able to switch tools helps my hands and wrists from getting fatigued. I’ve not used the ergonomic mouse, but it looks like a good alternative!
Stretching and activating muscles are always a good thing when sitting at a desk for extended periods. I do recommend taking micro breaks to stretch out the muscles. Also adjusting how one sits over any length of time is good. Even the best posture can be fatiguing, especially if you force it. Changing up how one sits is a great way to help with this. Even slouching is fine, as long as you don’t do it all day! 10-30 minutes is about the limit for slouching, sitting on one’s feet, or leaning to the side or forward or backward.
Heck, one of my clients just did a series of videos on this that I edited! They claim that taking the time (10 minute breaks three times a day) to pay attention to muscles and joints and such reduces injuries and time off of work. It saves them money on paid sick time when people are out with injuries related to cold-muscle events, and it helps keep medical costs down. If they can keep their employees out of the urgent care or emergency room with job-related cold-muscle injuries, eventually their insurance premiums will reflect that.
Or that’s the theory, anyway! They spent quite a bit of money on this program, both in the research and in making the videos. There is something to it!
debe
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Technically, no.
However, if you want to avoid many of the perplexing problems many folks have, the smartest, and eventually LESS time consuming thing to do is to completely start from scratch.
Backup your current disk (as I’m sure you would under any upgrading situation). I recommend using Carbon Copy Cloner. Or, if you really want to get fancy and be uber-vigilant in protecting your data, just get a new drive and put the current one in a very secure place. That way, you can revert quickly and easily. If you actually end up needing it, the expense of the extra hard drive will be well worth it. Drives are CHEAP these days, even the good ones!
After you’ve chosen your favorite backup method, initialize the drive, whether it’s new or the old one. Start with the freshest disk you can get.
Install Tiger. Apply the appropriate updaters. Get your OS working to your satisfaction before you start installing your Apps.
Repair permissions. Run Cocktail, MacJanitor or Yasu, if you have it. If you’re really fastidious, use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up all the work you just did installing the OS.
Then start installing Apps. Repair permissions after every few App installs. Some do it after EACH App. I think that may be too much, but…
With Tiger and FCP 4.5, I think you need to revert to QuickTime 6.5.2. QT 7 and FCP 4.5 don’t play well together. There’s a link on the Apple site under the QuickTime tab for reverting. Only do this is you have problems with FCP.
It’ll take you the better part of a day, but if you spend any amount of time on these boards, you’d likely start to see a pattern, and you may come to the conclusion that it’s well worth the investment of your time. Many of the folks who have odd issues, and there are so many that it’s hard to list, many of those folks did piecemeal upgrades. This System and these Apps are very complicated. It’s best to start fresh. It’ll save you a lot of future hair-pulling.
If you don’t have the time, then wait. If you don’t have the day to devote to this, you certainly don’t have the day to track down what went wrong with a piecemeal upgrade, either.
debe
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For someone under 5’8″, a lower desk height is a great thing. Doesn’t matter if it’s a great chair, if you’re feet don’t touch the ground, you get disturbed circulation in your legs, and if you adjust the chair so your feet can be on the ground, you tend to have to hold your arms at an angle, which is bad for the wrists and forearms. Yes, you can get a foot rest, but they tend to get in the way and end up pushed aside and unused, which puts you back in to the issue of feet not on the floor versus arms at an un-ergonomic angle. Neither is good.
To be “ergonomically correct”, feet have to be able to be flat on the floor, thighs parallel to the ground, knees at a 90
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Best thing to do is disconnect it completely. That way there’s no danger of anything happening…save your pet gorilla sitting on it!
debe