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79-1 is a very good track record. Inevitably there’ll be someone who just isn’t technically capable to troubleshoot their own system problems.
How about for that one person you upload the file to vimeo instead? Then your recipient doesn’t have to do any real work outside of clicking on the download button.
I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
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“I have no idea what you are talking about. It’s like having artists having a painting contest.”
It seems that for some editing is all about how quickly one can get to the finish line. I think for others the process itself is quite rewarding.
“My method has nothing to do with FCPX. I did the same thing in Avid, FCPLegacy, DS and Premiere.”
Amen.
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[Tony West] “I’m trying to imagine someone cutting the highlights of the baseball game and they drop the entire 3 hour game in the timeline.”
tony, sports is the weakest possible analogy since for the most part, sports highlights are pretty obvious and easy to put together. But hours and hours of b-roll in a random project that may have golden moments somewhere or anywhere within the footage is something completely different.
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[Simon Ubsdell] “I’d certainly agree that Media Composer doesn’t lend itself naturally to working this way, but for all that I still found it faster and more productive to do so and many of the editors I trained and worked with back then felt the same. “
I would add that Avid for me remains the single fastest NLE system. I’ve abandoned Avid now for several years but I’ve yet to be able to duplicate the editing workflow that Avid allows. It was considered the superior NLE for many years because of it’s phenomenal design and overall ease of use.
And even after several years of working on Premiere and some FCPX experience, I can’t duplicate the perfect efficiency of Avid’s user interface.
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[Tony West] “I had a creative consultant on my film and as I wrote the narration I would show it to him and to my narrator who read it.
they gave their input on it which was great. “As the filmmaker, you certainly have the right to create your films any way that you’d like.
My previous thoughts were speaking to the idea of the editor as a story collaborator since at it’s core, film making or video is a collaborative endeavor and that’s what makes it so rewarding. And it sure sounds like you made use of your creative consultant in just that way. An editor is also a creative collaborator or at least the good ones are.
I recall editing a doc many years ago that involved about 50 interviews. Quite honestly, if we wouldn’t have had a giant binder of transcripts from all of those interviews we would’ve never finished the film.
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[Tony West] “1. I don’t see how that’s faster 2. You can’t tell by reading if the audio is good or bad on the take. 3. I wouldn’t pay for transcripts on a small doc (because X makes it so easy and fast) 4. I wouldn’t pay you to sit there and read them.”
Tony, transcripts are an absolutely essential bedrock element for all video production from non-fiction broadcast tv to corporate promo and anything in between. Traditionally, the first stage of post production has involved a “paper edit”, which is obtained from the transcripts and which was usually created by a producer. This has changed over the years with the changing roles of producers and editors. Producers no longer sit with editors for the most part and so the paper edit no longer is a provided norm element. Editors now serve as producers by looking through transcripts and selecting the material that best suits the needs of the project.
I often work on projects where I do all of the story selection culling through the transcripts. In addition, I sometimes work with a client or producer who looks through the transcripts and makes their selects and then I also go through the material to see if there’s anything else that might work in addition to what has been previously selected. An experienced editor who’s forte is storytelling will be able to very quickly look through transcripts and pull the quotes that are gold. That’s our job as editors. And now with Digital Anarchy’s Transcriptive plugin the whole process is even more streamlined.
If you don’t make use of transcripts I would simply advocate that you give them a try on your next project. I think you’d be amazed at how much transcripts can streamline the entire post process of determining what material best serves a project.
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[Tony West] “I just don’t believe you are working with that many producer/directors who are that lazy or willing to waste that kind of money to have you log all of their footage for their films”
I don’t know many producer/directors who log any of their footage themselves. If you do, hats off to you but you are not the norm.
One of the many reasons to hire an editor is to get an objective opinion on the material that’s been gathered. Oftentimes, the producer or director is too close to the material to be able to assess it objectively.
[Tony West] “The only way you would know, is if you sat there “on the clock” and watched all of their interviews. “
that’s what transcripts are for. In transcript form, it’s possible to go through interviews very efficiently and much faster than real time.
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I’ll preface my suggestion by saying that I asked this forum a similar question awhile back and got the response that it wouldn’t work. I understand why I was told this but in my case it works fine.
I wanted to share a raid between a pc and a mac so that I could sometimes pass off rendering and other tasks to one machine while doing other editing work. I was able to set that up successfully but I’ll add that I don’t work on the same project on both machines at the same time. I often have multiple projects going on simultaneously, so when I do pass off a render to one machine, I’ll continue working on the other machine but on a different project.
My raid is connected directly to my pc through thunderbolt and then my mbp is connected to the raid through ethernet as a network share.
The two computers share one monitor, keyboard and mouse. The keyboard and mouse are shared by utilizing an app called “sharemouse” on both computers which works well. And my monitor has multiple inputs.
Not sure exactly how or if you can utilize this info for your own needs but it’s definitely possible to make use of two computers to aid in your editing workflow without buying a lot of add-on technology.
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