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Ultimatly, the client calls it and if there is time and money being waisted arguing about it between editor and audio dude, they’ll bail and go get it done some place it’s not so hard to do it at. If your sound designer is sticking his chest out on the edit, you may have to replace him with somone that actually adds to the mix, no pun intended. His job is to enhance, not reinvent. I have had audio dudes come in the edit suite (with the client in the room) with a “did you change the timing on what I already did!?” uhm yeah, it’s called editing. shew.
This is a big reason I like to just handle everything myself. Quicker, easier, better. Most places that have this done in one room, that done in another and even another thing done in another are not doing because it’s efficient or because it provides a better product in the end. It’s because it’s the opposite of efficient and billing 3 rooms at once for a longer amount of time than it should take makes em a bigger dollar per project. Not bad if it’s an ad agency never seeing that client again but ya gotta be on the level to have repeat business.
The editor drives the boat in an edit session. Thats his gig. He/she is to ensure the final product is the absolute best it can be with the elements/budget provided. If a team member aiding them is not actually doing that, they are of no use.

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totally. Not to work off of but as back up.
It’s a great affordable way to hang on to projects and media ya just can’t keep on the box all the time.

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do a video mixdown of your entire sequence then export it.
I know. what a bummer.

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editing and post-production are the same thing to me. In most cases, the post-production assistant will bleed into graphics and/or audio as well. Setting up graphic files for animation, ect. To me, this has always just been part of editing so I still call it asst editor.

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I agree. It should. I think this is why so many copies of premiere, FCP and Vegas are selling.

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try deleting all decks from your deck configuration and then reload em. Let it autoconfigure and see if that doesn’t fix it.
Firewire is still pretty funky in the Avid world.

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Basicly just to log/capture. Sometimes you’ll pull some selects and throw em on a timeline and sometimes you may even bust out a rough cut of the piece. Mostly, it’s a digitizing kind of gig.
It’s very good for you to scope out the finished sequences and ask questions after the fact. Other than time in the chair, it’s the best way to learn.

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Since the meridien line went to this new improved ism, media tool is just flat out buggy. Sometimes it’ll load clips and sometimes it won’t. About once a year, I simply have to throw my media folders in the trash and start over because I run out of drive space and can’t laod the remaining clips in media tool to deleat em.
The solution for me will be to move on to FCP. I can’t afford all these bugs anymore.

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video editor (it’s all editing to me)
digital video artist
vidiot
the dude (or dooder)
multi-tasking button-pushin’ fool

get creative, man. It’s just a title. Your business card will be the only place it’s on. Personally, I have always liked “the dude.”

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do a video mixdown of your sequence before exporting it and see if that doersn’t fix ya up. I have not had this with quicktimes but it exists with QT references and wmv files with all the new Avids lower than DS. This has been the case since the big downgrade from Meridien. I would have thought being able to export a QT reference to Avid DVD without eating up needless drive space with a mixdown would have been fixed before a first release…at least once reported. By v2 anyway. We continue to pay to beta test for em.