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You can start with a dude with a miniDV camera and a toaster and go all the way up to anal peeps with walkie talkies and over-billed ENG hooha.
Price will range from a couple of thousand dollars to the limit of your imagination.
I’ll do it for 15k, if that helps.
Your market will have a local production directory. Cold calling for prices through this directory can save you thousands and create some peace of mind.
Don’t hesitate to pay more for that peace of mind. You’ll need to go with a company ya click with in order for it to be fun/profitable.

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1:1 would be infinatly better… at least until ya use the 3D DVE.
You will always see articacts in dv25 titles/grafix.

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make sure you are not rendering at dv25.

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changy da font?

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If you have the correct numbers, you can make a sequence with those new numbers with the clip in it and then make a submaster clip of it.
I think, anyway.
Sounds like it’d be must less frustrating to just tear into a new project cold turkey. That’s usually quicker than sifting through others’ work.

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these are called overdone sapphire glows. 😉
Do you have any glow filters? Sapphire really does have a great glow effect. If you don’t have a glow effect, you can stack a blur and a brightness together.
I like to flicker it a little before the transition, which is a bigger flash. These are just keyframes with size, threshold and brightness. Fun to play with.
often, I will use a quick 4 frame dissolve with the glow on the track above it as a transition. Depending on light sources on a shot, you can really come up with some cool stuff. As with CSI, it’s a great way to play with jump cuts and chopped up dialog.

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there is the secret to freelance life.
The hours we have chosen are simply insane. I know you all know what I’m talking about. Because we can go two weeks without a gig, it’s hard, we sometimes feel impossible, to turn a gig down. Because life comes n peaks and vallies, this means we go from those 2 weeks of unemplyment to not seeing out families in a flash and if not kept an eye on, too dang much.
My first year on my own, I had the world to set on fire. To properly torch it, it required about 80 hours a week of my time. Man, it was prosperous. I paid off an edit suite in a year while overcoming a non-compete lawsuite and juggling an outragous rent. Because I built things so that these hours were truley required, I did it without a thought and within a year or two, even with no fires to put out at work, I was finding it hard not to go in on the weekend. With a concious effort to reduce my hours and a struggle to do it, I had indeed become what they call a workaholic.
I found placing other requirements on myself to be the answer. It started out by us creating family night that I simply would not miss for any reason. For the first time ever I was telling clients “sorry, gotta go.” at least once a week. That turned into my getting a life. I became a soccer coach, a cub scout leader, a teacher and ironicly, felt free enough to create more labors of love than I ever have. I cut my income into about a quarter of what is was. I cut my hours in half. I cut the strass into a wee small fraction and that and time with my peeps is what I purchased for that income hit.
money very well spent. I don’t live to work. I don’t even work much to live now.
I’m a bare-footed, middle-aged fella with a sideways grin. I make my own schedule and therefor, forfit the right to ever gripe about it. Aint much to gripe about. Think I’m gonna go biking today.

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thanks for sharing that, man. Drew some wonderful images for me.
I too am too dang comfy with the interface to part full time.
I’d not be beant out of shape at all if I had never worked on “a real Avid.” It’s the old Avid user in me that hates the sluggy and buggy new ones. Had I begun there, I’d be tickled with everything from their creative advertising to the price drops.

It’s simply amazing what we can do a production for now.
It was not that long ago when people stood in line to pay $450 an hour for cuts, wipes and disolves in rudementary liniar suites all over the world. Now, for what I use to get a show ready for online, I can pre-produce, shoot, edit and polish a finished product.
My lil FX-1 just rolled it’s 200th hour. It literally grins at me when I look at it like my old Quazar VHS camcorder did in 1984.
and I still have that camera.

I decided on the same for the adrenaline. It has no resale value. I’ll need to upgrade greatly to hang on to my current rate. I think it’s destined to be a second suite for lower-end projects and family home movies.

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I didnt see a need for an alpha channel (you mentioned millions of colors plus) but it won’t be whats causing the stuttering.
I didn’t see any in the clip you posted. If it’s a banding or interlacing thing, you’ll find many avid codecs not happy in other applications.
Do you need tc? Have you tried just capturing directly with deck control turned off? Just trying to skip the encosing step to see if thats the culprit.

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no but DV25 otta work.