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That’s all the new breed needs, man.
You and I were story tellers long before we were around tools. If you are like me, you were editing as a teen but aiming the ole Quazar VHS camera at the boob tube while playing previously shot vhs tapes in it…. sometimes with a boombox next to the camera to add a music bed. lol
I started linear editing in th late 80s. By the mid 90s, the best editors were, of course, the ones who knew their room the best. Ideas come cheap. Executing them is where skills come into play.
FF to today. Dope-smokin’ 20 grand-makin’ MTV-watchin’ kids have had FCP in their basement as long as many editors in the market today. They know AE like the back of their hands and can crank out anything desired in a short amount of time… or don’t mind staying late because they don’t have to tuck in any kids that evening.
Does that threaten you or I? I gues it could if we elected to see it that way. We could also see it as exactly what justifies our rates.
Don’t doscredit em though. They are fine story-tellers… they just still have to have the story fed to em. Once they realize they don’t require that, we can set em up with some gear and some freedom and let em make bank for us.
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That’s why a phone call paves a lot of freedom. Seeing a camera that was not planned puts many, perhaps most in defensive mode.
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We just don’t bail on bookings.
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I think we are.
You’re suppose to work less for more as ya go, man! 😉 -
Are you using keylight to key with? Spectramatte still works pretty well unless you have something like keylight to lean on.
An uncompressed QT will work fine. -
I think people are either great story-tellers or they are not. Art is not something that can be tought… technique is. Nobody can write in a book the technique to properly edit any of my shows… unless they worked on one of my shows. The art is not the pacing or the structure of shots, the art of editing is making the client feel like these decisions were their idea.
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The rule is get permission or ask forgiveness.
… or pretend you beling there to a point you require neither permission or forgiveness.
Y oudid the right thing by saying okey dokey. Never hesitate to offer free promotion in cases like these but really, making a phone call before hand is no big deal. -
Just book guests around your schedule and once booked, stick to it.
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man, I dunno.
Do your capture settings show DV25 while capturing but you see 1:1 in yuor bin stats after the fact?
Have you tried setting your capture settings to dv25, deleting some media and batch capturing? same thing?
Outside of deleting your database files, I have no more suggestions. Don’t hop right to reloading the software just yet. I gotta think someone else here has seen this.
good luck and howdy from STL. -
reminds of of toyota drivers.
“soooo, when your cruise software hickuped and your car accelerated, what did you do?”
“weeeeehhh, I called my husband cuz I thought I was gonna die!”
“you made a phone call instead of taking your car out of gear?”
“wha?”