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bouke thats one awesome lil tool, man.
If Avid would have consulted with you, they’d be in much better shape today,man.

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I use reference files but learned the hard way that you have to make video and uadio mixdowns of your entire sequence first. Not always possible (seldom as a matter of fact) with an hour-long uncompressed show.
Unless you mixdown and export reference files, a same as source QT is your best bet.
It’s times like this I wish I were on a higher end system… like premiere
lol

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Paul, a simple color effect will squeeze ire levels down to 100. You’ll only need to being down chroma with these effects.
You really need to be monitoring with scopes. You can pick some up on ebay cheap.
Unless you are exporting reference files, there is no need to confuse the issue, deplete quality and waiste time & disc space with mixdowns.

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oh good call.
will have to begin building that asap.
She’s actually my 78 year old mother-in-law. She adores me like I adore her.
granny is gonna hit the underground freestylin’ circuit this season. Otta be fun to watch “granny” ride a wheelie down the freeway with a mess of cherries behind her. There is a group of stunters here in town who do this as a way to pass the time.

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track lighting up top and a lamp or two for daily-driving. brightass flourescents for engineering.
dont forget the lavalamp, man

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great link, man
thanks for posting it.

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if you are just wanting to save some effects you have created, drag the effect icon in the effect window to a bin.

you cant copy/paist key frames from one effect to the other. They will be for the effect they were copied from and wont apply to other effects.

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thank ya, brother!
I am having fun. Took me a while to learn life’s biggest secret.
or to realize it’s not a secret at all, I should say.

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I have started marketing these. I made one of my dad before he graduated to the next life and it was priceless:
https://grinnerhester.com/Dad.wmv
I don’t look at this any differently than any other production, price-wise so they begin at $5k and go up to $50k.
This is budgeted on time that will be speant on it.
Now, 5k sounds like a lot to the average mom and pop. A demo is required and they have to now they are buying a piece of time for their money… not a DVD. Putting dad back in the living room for a half hour is what their money is going toward and that can be split up amongst family members easily.
I have a $1500 day rate. A sit down interview is a day, impoirting images and famiy footage is easily a day and then a few days of cutting, folowed by at elast one day for revisions. There will always be a sister who does not want preference to a certain story or whatever. You can’t please all so please the one who hands ya the check.
These are not wedding video montages. Don;t looka t em or treat em as such. This is a documentary. A full production. If you sell yourself short, you will not be able to kep making them. I have also found old rich peaople often have what I call Neimen Cmarcus Sendrome. This is where they really do want to pay a lot for something so they can brag about howe much thay paid to a buddy who will call you wanting to pay more than they did in prder to one up them. Old school country clubs are a great place to market but you will find funeral homes will market this for you if you offer them a kick back. They mark it up ungodly (no pun intended) and people finance it, not really caring the total. Whatever. Stick to your prices and you’ll be all good.

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I’m only 38 but I have learned that “studies” are for people who sell what they are studying.
As a fine axample… Avid’s studies have proven they make a HDV native software with untouchable image quality and awesome realtimeness. By this, you can see it certainly revolves around who is doing the studying.
I kinda laughed the other day. An article on yahoo mentioned that studies show that regardless of increased public awareness, premarital sex is not down at all. lol
go figure. They did not alter human insticts.
so glad out tax dollars could go to such “studying”.