[Grinner Hester]

It’s taken over a year but I’ve gotten every thaid off to DVD and had to throw most of the tapes away. That was hard but oxide was all over the place. Audio is all I lost and that was only ina few small places.
Post is a monster on this project and that’s why I posted it here.
I selectively digitized directly from the source it was shot on. IN the rare cases the tapes only offered one pass and were done, I simply went back to those DVDs I mentioned.
It took months to sift through all of that and from the clips I digitized, I created one bigass timeline… again going selectively from those clips I pulled in selectively. I had to keep going through that timeline subtractively as I waded through the next clip because the Avid will start boggin’ down after more than a few hours is on a timeline. I tried to keep it less than 3 hours long at all times as I added more selects.
Today I have about a 3 hour rough cut. Biiiiig milestone with this project. I’m literally creating conversations from dialog from one your to the next year to tell a chronilogical story. I’ll be damned if it aint workin’ like I did years of pre-pro.
Some of the “predictions” in the fooptage are spooky spot on. I have footage of my wife and I on our wedding day. I finger painted our family to be on her belly and drew 2 boys and a girl. We spoke of where we’d be 20 years from then and stated I’d be a self-employed vidiot, she’d be a stay at home mom and we’d most likely be home schooling. Today we have two boys and a girl being home schooled by the world’s greatest momma with a vidiot daddy pushin buttons n the next room. I could go on and on with examples of this. It’s enough to let me know we all know where we are going deep down, weather we know we know it or not. 😉
Will keep ya posted as I wade. The hardest part is over. I just have to make a movie out of a 3 hour timeline now.

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Subplots came from the idea that viewers get bored with one plot. Ya build intrest then yank em away, ensuring they’ll stick around till ya bring that plot back. Meanwhile ya bait another.

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set acceleration to 100

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anywhere from 30k to 130k/yr

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that one was done out of frustration.
…after sending a rough cut, of course. lol

[Grinner Hester]

[Mike Cohen] “What bride wants to view her wedding dance with her husband without the actual song she danced to?”
just the ones who don’t wanna pay for the music.
I don’t see a toppling of the industry on the horizon so much as less pirating once one guy gets nabbed… and it’s coming.
Wedding dudes almost feel like free music is owed to them for no other reason than that’s what their competition does. If I were a drug dealer and tried to use that as a defense, I’d not have to take many days off for a trial. lol
There is no gray area here. People either steal or they don’t.
The good news is wedding videos will multiply in price when the man starts shutting down the pirates. Those of us in the video business will be able to bid on these otherwise cheap and poorly done videos.
This is a good thing. It’s crazy that many wedding vids come in less than the still photog who did a fraction of the work. This will have a trickle up effect. When fathers of the bride start realizing the video they want of the big day that will only happen a few times tops (lol) is worth well into 5 figures, he’ll hardly haggle later when talking to the same company about a corporate video.

The problem is not brides asking for an 8 hour shoot and a week of post with protected elements in it for 2 grand. The probloem, of course, is the people that so no problemo to this. This is what will change when they have to start paying for their elements.

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there is nothing you can do if the drop outs were recorded. Just clean your heads before the shoot next time. To ensure it lives on the tape, play it back from a deck or other DV source. If it is indeed there, you can only cut the drop outs out.

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Because you guys signed this without agreeing on what “it” is, I’m afraid it’s open. You’ll hand him a rough cut then go from there. He’ll either be happy or he won’t and you’ll adjust your plan accordingly.
While a rough cut was an offline years ago, today it’s simply the first draft more often than not.

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awesome resolution, man. I’ll subscribe to that one.
I seek fullfillment and the revoloves around my wife’s smiles.
Predictions? Man, I predict the industry will continue to change far greater and faster than I can predict. The economy will get worse, making video more creative than ever.
Bring it.

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Cut out principals and properties in PS than animate as desired in AE. I like just a liiitle bit od scale change while keyframming a blur on just the background.