Glen Montgomery
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I’m with you. This fact was echoed by quite a few of the people at the viewing party I attended, who are not in the industry and didn’t know I worked in editorial. I was glad to have a couple “normal” people recognize the importance at least. I think it was even more of a blow because they did such a good job setting up the Sound Editing and Sound Mixing categories with the behind the scenes segment on the “Dark Knight”. Maybe the Academy thinks that more of the public already understands Editing and Cinematography, and therefore can be more playful.
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Hey Maggie,
I can’t say for sure if all the BCC effects are the same in Symphony as in MC, but I would try using the BCC Composite effect included in the 2 input category. A lot of transfer modes are included, but it does have a bit of a learning curve. Good luck. -
This is an early Michel Gondry video when he was still starting out. They talk about it a little in the special features on his director’s series dvd (which I think you can netflix, well worth it). From what I remember the zooms are a type of morph from one shot to another. Each shot was set up to be a CU within the previous shot or a continuation of the story “move”. Most of Gondry’s work is just preproduced to death, the amount of planning done to pull off amazing feats with otherwise normal effects blows my mind. Wish I could add further explanation, but thats the limit to what I know about the video.
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You have to realize that there are hundreds of other kids doing the same online research and sending emails, because its easy. To separate yourself you have do the hard stuff. You need to sack up and walk into every post house in your area. You have to sell yourself as if you are a politician. You have to make them want you in their company, to be someone they are comfortable spending 8-10 hours a day with. Yes a slick reel does help the confidence quite a bit, but you have to convince them that they should actually watch it. If you don’t have the slick reel (which I did not have when I hit the streets), you have to sell yourself as a go getter and someone worth investing in on the long run. I interviewed with the company I am at 3 times over a 6 month period, but I every time I made sure they knew I was dedicated to learning and was ready to be groomed. Eventually a place will give you a chance if they see that fire and then you go make the most of the opportunity. I know I am being a little harsh, but it’s because I wish someone had been hard on me when I started looking for work. The internet is a huge help, but it wont work as your only avenue for searching. You have to get face to face, and then you have to sell yourself. Good luck man, its hard but well worth it. As Grinner is always harping on, go get on the phone right now and talk to a real person or tear a page out of the phonebook and pound the pavement. Oh, and be nice to the receptionist, otherwise you wont talk to anyone.
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If you don’t mind sharing, Shane, what did you workflow end up being?
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Shane,
I think you can just go to your media creation settings and change you resolution to DNxHD 36. Do your 1 hour clip import and then change them back so that everything else you bring in is not at a lower res. Note, you can’t use DNxHD 36 on 60i projects though, just 145 or 220, so maybe use at 10:1 or something else small. Good Luck. -
Within Avid you could use the AniMatte effect. Take a section of the clip where there is no reflection and put it on a video track above your main clips. Use the Animatte to draw a mask around that window w/o reflection and it will sit above the other content. This could fix some of the problem, but if there are a lot of reflections this can be pretty time consuming. Also, if there is a lot of movement you will be tracking quite a bit. Give it a try, but also remember that if it is really subtle and does not happen too much, your audience may not notice at all. In after effects I would probably try the same thing, I like AE’s masks better than Avid’s. Good luck.
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You could always render the effect, then do a video mixdown on that track and take your freeze frame from the mixdown.
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I would say there are more and more projects looking for really good colorists. With the advent of Apple Color and Magic Bullet a wider variety of shows are doing more to create “looks” instead of just a color balance pass of color correction. Clients who didn’t know anything about the color process are now asking for it from the beginning. Now, there are not a lot of guys I know who “just” do color, but it is becoming a bigger part of their service offering.
Good audio has always been in high demand, due to the fact that sound quality will either cripple your project or take it to the next level no matter what your visuals look like. Also because audio is not as glamorous as some of the other departments there are not as many people getting into it, as say the camera department or CG.
Lastly I would say the job of data wrangler/manager on set is a new market due to the huge growth of tapeless workflows. There was a recent fxphd podcast all about this new department and how AC’s are stepping in and getting good work handling digital footage on set. At least worth looking into.
Most importantly you need to figure out what you “want” to do. Yes some jobs will always make more money or be in greater demand at different times in the industry but money sure as hell shouldn’t be the reason you get in and decide what to do. You are eventually going to be working 12 hour days, 6 days a week, so make sure its something you get off on. Or become an accountant. (as a note of disclosure, I have many accountant friends who make tons of cash and luckily buy me beers. They just aren’t very happy with the workday). Best of luck.
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Grinner, you are the man.
We have a a month or two, so luckily a good amount of time to make a long distance impression before storming the gates. I am trying to make a vertical move as well career-wise, either in quality or responsibility, so I am putting extra time into the research phase to focus the hunt. Your comments echo so much of what I have heard from editorial podcasts and interviews, that just as important as talent is fierce tenacity. I know i’m gonna hear “no” plenty of times, I just can’t let that be the last word. Also, I had to share your comments with the “shoe shopping-czar” and thought you would like her response, especially the call to action.That is one of the funniest things I have even seen and such good advice. With the time change it is still morning in Denver, did you take his advice and make any calls.
Guess it a great opportunity to use the lunch break to get on the cell.
-Glen