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Nest or stack an animatte effect. You have much more control over it than crop.
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ahh yess. Gettin paid the big bucks for previewing all day.
Amazing how folks use to stand in line to pay 400 an hour for cuts wipes and disolves and now it’s like pullin’ teeth to get 175 an hour for anything they can dream up. -
Exported files from Avid no longer dig black filler. It’s really just the same bug that doesn’t dig reference exports without mixing down first.
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You can have your original media on unity or export a quicktime… not a reference.
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The bare knuckles truth is managers simply cannot afford to do this today. It is not cost effective for them to hire an editor and then spend their time sitting over his shoulder as he edits all day. I am not talking about producers here, but the situation you described. The staffer sitting over you needs to learn what the buttons do or go do work as you do yours. They can come check it out at lunch and again at the end of the day with suggestions but any company paying two people to do one job… that is now getting slowed down, is waisting revenue.
As an artist, I this bugged me a little bit. As a business owner, this now bothers me a lot. These are the places that cannot afford to stay in business next year. Looking at it that way, it can take food off of my table. part of our job today is to not help companies waist money. Helping them do that is part of why the industry (and economy) is in the shape it is today. People just go along with the shuffle even though they know it is not a good idea in the long run.
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You need to be talking with production house owners, not editors. You’ll be starting for free or close to it so cold call everyone in town shaking branches to see what fruit falls. I got into places by doing everything from working as a tape librarian to painting walls, to taking out the trash. When my first real edit job was offered at 8 bucks an hour, I took it. I climbed ladders as my salary needs changed… usually with the birth of every new child and I simply got hired on elsewhere with a 10k raise. I moved my family to five states in as many years at one point and was able to make a decient living at it with just one job after a decade or so.
Understand that networking IS a fulltime job. Start with your local production guid and be willing to move when something is offered elsewhere. Do not be afraid to branch out beyond your current skill set. One of the best jobs I ever got was a result of saying “yes” on the phone when they asked if I knew the “NightSuite”. I was hired over the phone, moving arrangements were made, then I hung up and called everyone in my local market looking for one so I could learn it. When I got to the network I was hired at, I trained their staff on it.
I had never touched one prior to the phone call.
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Just duplicate the layer the tv is on, throw it up top and make it’s opacity 25%.
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Uncompressed quicktime using the old meridien codec is best for me. It’s clean, can fast import, and is alpha friendly.
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If you hop into your OMFI folder(s) and slowly scroll through, I bet you will find a currupt file… one with a (+) in the file name. Delete it and see if that gets you going. Outside of that, maybe go sifting through your attic for a date or time you could open it before the problem?
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I do hear ya on varying terms. I stil get asked for “a chyron here.” lol
Can’t do it. Don’t have one. Not gonna buy one.
The truth is, every piece, like every song has a different beat. Some somgs and pieces we edit have fast paces with quicker beats and others are slower with slower beats. You have to feel this beat and to me, it really is a very accurate thing, regardless of the piece being created. Dialog is what usually creates this (for me) and I have found a beat to usually be the length they naturally pause betweens sentences or thoughts. You are right on when you said this is often 7 frames…. but often it’s upward of 20 frames. Because if this, I usally gravitate toward Avi’d steb forward (or back) ten frames button then slide over a frame or two for starters. Makes me think they otta add a beat button that is customizable per show.