Debe
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But do you get timecode information, Kevin?
It seems to me that if iMovie discards TC info, then it’s a bad workflow.
Or I’m prepared to be accused of chicken-littleing it…
debe
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Oh, and one piece of possibly flawed insight…not knowing this woman of which you speak.
She may be afraid/scared/leery of learning something new because of perceived difficulty. It may be easier for her to say she doesn’t have time to learn anything new when in fact she’s afraid she will be hit with this huge learning curve and that she won’t be able to easily learn what she needs to do. Human nature.
It may be your job to convince her that since it’s so easy and it’s the right thing for the project, that it’s just plain silly not to take the hour to go over the basics she’d need. Heck, an hour would be over kill. I’d be surprised if it took more than 20 minutes.
debe
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The biggest problem I see is that iMovie doesn’t use timecode.
There’s really no way to do this that I can see.
iMovie is a consumer-level product, It’s not meant to do what you’re/she’s thinking.
If she already knows iMovie, and she just wants to move stuff around on a timeline, the learning curve for that on FCP is minimal.
Seriously, once she has her media captured (which I’d assume you’d do and give her copies, along with a pre-built timeline for her viewing pleasure), all she needs to know is how to pick up a clip in the timeline and move it somewhere else without blowing anything away. Pretty easy.
Find a diplomatic way to explain to her that what’s “easiest” for her is not the best practice. iMovie isn’t the right tool for this job for so many reasons. You’ll end up taking way more time to finish this project to cater to her “need”, and iMovie is destructive editing. Changes are not easy. You have far fewer options with graphics in iMovie, and bending iMovie to your will is not easy. You really have to do what it wants. Consumer-level products are usually like that. Limit the options to keep it simple for the novice and the home hobbyist.
Talk her out of it. It’s a bad idea, it’s unprofessional, and it’ll create a ton more headaches than her having to learn 6 new things.
debe
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Any chance there’s a wayward clip in your batch that doesn’t belong?
That’s happened to me a time or two!
Otherwise, when you logged, I’d guess you used the “mark in-mark out, log clip” method? Is there any chance the TC changed at some point on the BSP tape and restarted or anything funky like that? Do all the TCs in your batch “look right” in the browser?
If there’s nothing amiss in the logs, I’d just save and quit and restart first. See if that clears it up,
After that, it might be a trash prefs/repair permissions thing.
debe
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That’s why were all here! To help each other see through the technology!
Glad to help!
debe
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er, I meant line 21…
sorry for that silly line 26 business. That’s what I get for posting before I’ve had all my morning coffee!
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Honestly, Bob, I’m under contractual obligation to not share any more than that.
If you really need to know, I can refer you to the company that hires me, and perhaps if they do not see potential conflict, they might share.
aviddiva”at”pobox.com
debe
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With such a small handful of clips, I’d just note the in and out point, add 3 seconds on either side for handles, log them in and batch capture. Then I’d re-edit them in. Probably take a LOT less time than trying to force FCP to create new clips for you.
If it were 100 clips, I’d futz. For 6, I’d just make my own.
But, like Arniepix said, if they didn’t leave you with proper reel names, it’ll be an uphill battle regardless!!
Good luck!
debe
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Closed captioning on a DVD is a file included on a the DVD for the DVD player to read.
Closed captioning on a tape is on scanline 26 for the CC decoder on the television to read.
https://www.captionmax.com/captionmax_viewerinfo.php
This site has a lot of good information.
debe
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I travel off and on.
I have one client that does team building events. One of the favorite activities is making a commercial. I edit the commercials on-site and present them to the group.
Other event companies hire me to be on site to do a little bit flashier “faces” video to show at the end of the event than the usual slam-bam-it-together you generally get with an on-site faces video. More expensive, but the clients think it’s worth it!
Both these clients are local to me, it’s usually their clients who are not local, or local clients with offices all over the country/world.
debe