Jeremy Doyle
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[Herb Sevush] “You are who FCPX was targeted at. I am not. I used to own a Harley, I took it into the shop and my mechanic turned it into a moped. It works for you, your commuting to work, you can save some money. It doesn’t work for me, I’m going cross country.”
That is awesome.
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Thanks for the feedback and suggestions.
It’s all 1 camera shooting, so no multi camera synching to worry about.
[Mike Cohen] “I believe CS5 has scene detection so that might help as far as when the camera starts and stops.”
FCP will create a new clip on start stop with HDV, which does come in handy.
[Mike Cohen] “I would charge your client a producer fee since they clearly did not have one.”
I work for a bigger company so It’s all in house. The shooter is more of a field producer, unfortunately so is the guy in front of the camera. We don’t have proper producers. I do have a PA that will load my footage, but he doesn’t log it. And since he’s the only PA for 5 editors in our building I can only use him a limited time.
Since I never know where the footage could end up, I need to capture it all.
[Mark Suszko] “Mine might be to erduce wasted editing time, spend a little more effort up front, on a script person”
I end up crafting a story out of the footage and then it goes to script guy to fill in any holes. Usually there’s not a lot of script written unless the shooter some how screws up or I’m just not feeling creative that week. Since the script writers are full time magazine editors which are connected to the TV show they wouldn’t have time to look at all the footage.
[Shane Ross] ” They didn’t log a thing. It was up to me, the editor, to chisel down the 60 hours of footage into a rough cut by the end of the week. And there were sections of nothing on those tapes…”
This is how we work, except it’s all one camera and no multiclip. There aren’t many sections of nothing on my tapes unless the cameraman double pumped the button or left it recording accidentally.
Again, thanks for the tips and taking time to answer. It’s always interesting to hear about other people’s workflows who may be in similar situations.
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And yet it’s a great time to be a video editor
https://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110114/top-10-careers-for-2011/slides/10
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[Eric Jurgenson] “I perceive all of these to be in decline.
I think it’s time for you to get your perception checked.
[Eric Jurgenson] Quality TV is slowly being replaced on cable by trash TV and reruns. PBS is on the skids. Local broadcast’s days are numbered.
Trash TV still needs an editor and reruns still need a first run. If PBS gets axed I’m sure Discovery will pick up the slack. With the growing number of Cable stations, maybe broadcast days are numbered, but there will continue to be new networks and shows on satellite, cable and internet.
[Eric Jurgenson] DVDs are on life support.
Good thing you learned something about compression then, because with all the electronic deliveries your going to need it. I certainly did like the the day when I could make a DVD and be done with a project. Now I have to make the Blu-Ray then the DVD then the iphone/ipad version followed by one for the youtube then a flash version then a…
[Eric Jurgenson] Corporate video down maybe 90% from the early ’90s.
I would say they are up 90% from the early 90’s. At least in my world, gone are the days a salesman can walk into a meeting with a powerpoint presentation, now they need a video. Intranets are filled with training videos and development videos, the internet is full of what this company is about videos. Heck, walk into a Walmart recently? I’m bombarded with monitors playing ads and talking about products.
[Eric Jurgenson] Wedding videos becoming passe.And yet they are still becoming more and more important to the bride and groom.
[Eric Jurgenson] No real way to make money with internet-based video.
It certainly isn’t a get quick rich scheme, but you can make a decent living producing videos that will never air anywhere over than the internet. -
[Isaac Brillant] “Incidentally, I’m not sure why this is, but I AM able to play the analogue tape using the Log & Capture in FCP, and watch it in the preview. But underneath the playing video, it says “waiting for timecode” – which I assume doesn’t exist, and it wont capture. “
As was mentioned earlier, in your capture window under the capture settings tab, change to uncontrollable device and it will stop “waiting for timecode”. Then all you have to do is hit capture now and you won’t have to bother with dubs.
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Our campaign was for 15k which in no way covered our time, just our hard costs of production. No one was compensated.
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There was a thread a couple months ago that talked about it.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/17/872493I was part of a team that was successful with Kickstarter. We ran a 45 day campaign and put in the equivalent time of a full time job to raise the funds.
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[zeke meginsky] “Is there a way to make sure I’m going straight across without ultra precise mouse dragging (which is close to impossible)?”
Holding down the shift key will lock you down horizontally or vertically depending which way you are dragging with your mouse.
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[Steve Eisen] “Just to educate you on what would have happened if you were to burn a DVD from an MP4.
Take a blank piece of paper. Crumple it up real good. Try to un-crumple that piece of paper. Paper doesn’t look to good does it?”That is a great analogy!
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I’m staff for a company, but when I do freelance (3 or 4 times a year) I charge 1k-10hr day editing on my equipment or $600 a day + expenses to edit on yours. Those are my costs for editing, shooting or graphics.
I should also mention that my cost of living expenses are no where near what they are in DC.