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to me it’s not unlike comedy. I have always heard that comedy is the hardest to cut as far as timing. I have never felt this way. It’s eter funny with a bigger or shorter pause or it’s not. Same thing here. Of course you want it as quiet and chilled as possible before ya rattle their cage but its notexactly using the force (which does have to be done from time to time). It’s waiting, waiting, not yet, noooot yeeet, Bwaaahaahahhahhahaha!. Freakin cat.
You cannot repeat this same timing in a horror film, where you can ina comedy. I mean, once one knows it’s a 5 second null then a whamo, they kind of expect a whamo after 5 secods of null. Ya gota hit em at 4 then 6, type of thang. You can think more abstract with horror. It’s not suppose to be imed perfect whereas a great p[unchline absolutely ha to be placed at the very pefect frame for it to b it’s best.

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I have found just turning off the adrenaline bob and turning it back on will often wake it up without having to reboot the pc.
I also have to delete my deck configurations and rebuild them each tie I swich from capturing from analog to DNA or vice versa. If I don’t these errors wil drive a brother crazy.

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I’ve never had a use for marquee but if tiffs are offerd, man take em.
I kant type or spel verry good and it’d be totally dangerous for me to bust out that many subtitles.

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you can’t. You’ll have to drag your keyframes accordingly.
Just hold down alt and drag em where ya want em.
Alternativly, if it’ll work with the clip, you can hop back one fram on that clip, add an edit then trim that last fram out. This will hold all those keyframes in place before that new cut. You may wanna then hop into that new stretched out clip and remove the effect or delete the kayframes after the first one.
that make any sense?

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‘priciate that, Mark.
Dennis, is is so great to hear from you again, man. I wondered what had happened to you.
Please don’t be a stranger, man.

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You may be surprised at what yu can find a used Symphony for. I’d venture to say less than 10k in some cases. Surf ebay from time to time and you will stumble into an awesome deal.
I know XpressPro isn’t bug free but becase it’s price is so much lowr than Adrenaline’s fewer people complain. PLus, many are graduating into it from a consumer application and really are impressed.

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you can also draw your grid wth the line tool in photoshop (or evn title tool) then use the DVE to scale it and repositio it. Unless you rotate it, you won’t have alias issues.

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you can use the chroma key effect instead. Nappy, I know but it’ll work for an offline.

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This is just not a 9-5 kind of industry. Very hard to meet deadlines, make all cliets or bosses happy and make it home each night in time for scout meetings, soccer practices or even bedtime stories. Communication is key. I like the assign a project to an artist and let em meet their deadline approach. When a client is in the house, the artist can’t really make their own schedules. They have to adhere to the client’s schedule. When gear isn’t available in those houses, a night or weekend shift is in order. If the house is big enough for two shifts a day, it’s best to have artists on either days or nights, not swinging them to and from. I had a wacky boss once that liked to book us randomly… one week on days two weeks on nights, three weeks on days one week on nights. We never knew what we were working next so nobody had a life, everyone was medicated and ultimatly, it was a rotating door of personell. Thats the only one who messed with people’s schedules like that. Every other place hasn’t hesitated to try to work a brother 80 hour weeks but it was always the same schedule and was as simple as saying, nope it’s time to go home. I’ve never missed a deadline and the truth is, I have missed scout events, soccer games and bedtime stories. I’m at an age now where I see this as bass ackwards and while most of it was required to get where I am today, all of it wasn’t and I do wish I had those evenings back.
So, to answer our question, artists are big people. Give em a deadline. Let em meet it and don’t make em kick down a fence by locking a gate. We all like freedom. It gives us responsibility, not rules that will sooner or later be broken. I guess I’m saying the boss is ultimatly the client. A good boss knows this. A temporary boss mico-manages his best assets away.

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your doing it the best way for best results.
Is it drive space you are trying to save? The render shouldn’t be killin ya.