Gary Huff
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You have money to fly people in and purchase all this gear and yet not be able to afford a filming permit?
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You don’t need to use storyboards.
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Why don’t you just move to LA?
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[Melvin Chong] “There is always a render tax involved. You either take the time to convert to an editable format beforehand or have a painfully long render time at the end.”
There is no need to be transcoding AVCHD to ProRes. Sure, hard drives are cheap, but once you’ve done a lot of these projects, it can add up. I have a single client who has over 30TB of footage. Not so cheap at that level.
On a powerful system like the iMac from last year, transcoding is a waste of time.
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[Alan Norman] “What is the most efficient way to work with the files to transcode please ?”
The best thing you can do, on a Mac at least, is to get EditReady and have it re-wrap AVCHD into single QuickTime (MOV) files. This is really fast because it’s not transcoding, it’s simply re-wrapping. This takes the AVCHD content out of the directory setups and gives you a simple *single* file to work with. And if clips are spanned over multiple MTS files, it will combine those as well.
On a Mac, if you do any amount of significant work with AVCHD, EditReady is a must-have.
Otherwise, if you have FCPX, you can also import AVCHD into it and it will do the same thing, then you can pull the resulting QuickTimes out of the library bundle. However, FCPX will rename them all, EditReady keeps the original naming convention (not that it’s much better, 00001.MOV for example).
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[ryan elder] “There were times when I thought it could have been better, but other times when it seemed satisfactory at the time. But I am going by other people’s opinions, when they saw the final edits after, mostly.
“Then that is your fundamental issue, well before any zooms or lens choices or gimbals or whatnot.
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Did you think the actors were doing a bad job when you were on set filming them? Did you think your DP was doing a poor job when you were on set?
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[ryan elder] “Do you think so, and that it would be worth it”
No, it wouldn’t be worth it.
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Yes, you don’t need to do a snap zoom.
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[ryan elder] “The lens zooms were done on a tripod.”
Your tests, yes, however in your work samples there are a lot of shots that are unacceptably shakey. It doesn’t matter if you do all the tests in the world on a tripod, when it comes to producing your content, you must take the time to do it right.