Joe Paolo
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My experience differs from Bugsys. I’ve been paid much better in larger markets, where editing is considered a skill. I’ve been in small towns where I’m sure I was the only editor for hundreds of miles and could not find work. This is probably because editing is not a marketable talent in the “boonies”. When I could find work, I was just considered part of the crew and was paid no more then the grips were. If you are in a situation where there is no comparison available as to your skills, then you will be treated and paid as if you worked at Radioshack. Your experience will have no value because there is no frame of reference for your potential clients.
You may be in a unique situation where a local company needs your skills. Then you may have some negotiating power. But beware of one client situations if your are a freelancer.
Now if you can edit and weld, then you’ve got something to fall back on.joe
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For best quality reidig to 16×9. Resizing your letterboxed video would look pretty gruesome.
joe
joe
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It will erase the captioning for the duration of the edit. If you don’t select audio on your insert settings it won’t record on the audio channels.
joe
joe
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It also could be your buddies’ deck is worn out. Since you got a new one with the same issues, that would cast the blame elsewhere. See if other folks are having trouble with his masters. Maybe you could sell him a used DSR-11.
joe
joe
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Just a thought. Is the deck switched to pal. The dsr 11 has switch on the back for ntsc or pal.
joe
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It’s not the deck. It’s FCP and its not a concern. It is only there to verify that you are digitizing something. We have a DSR 11, and digital betacams and the capture window looks equally bad for the $3000 deck and the $55,000 deck.
joe
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It should work. Make sure to keep the file names the same when you recompress to the offline codec. As long as everyone is at the same FCP version, this will make relinking effortless. Avoid nesting. You will have some aspect ratio hoops to jump thru when going back to HD.
No need for recompressing to online. They should be able to relink to their footage.
joe
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The capture preview always looks bad. Look at your captured clips on a video monitor to judge the quality.
joe
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Are you enabling channels 3 & 4 in the edit to tape window?
joe
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Do you have a lot of nests in your sequence? I feel it’s related to that. If you don’t, them I’m wrong.
joe
joe