John Burgan
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For short films there is an inexpensive plug-in from Digital Heaven, but for any serious ST work you need to check out standalone app Belle Nuit.
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_subtitle.php
https://www.belle-nuit.com/subtitler/index.html
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For short films there is an inexpensive plug-in from Digital Heaven, but for any serious ST work you need to check out standalone app Belle Nuit.
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/fcplugins/dh_subtitle.php
https://www.belle-nuit.com/subtitler/index.html
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Depends very much where your skills lie. On one hand, as has been suggested here, there is the learning of technical/creative skills (color correction, graphics, compositing, sfx and DVD authoring). Alternatively there are editors who focus on, say, long-form docs. Their skills may be less in motion graphics than in forging a coherent story from well over a hundred hours of footage – not everyone’s forte. Of course there are talented people whose skills overlap, but I think it’s not a bad idea to identify your particular talent and focus on what makes you different.
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Kevin’s article has many useful hints. Also, keep an eye on the size the size of your project file. If it’s above 20 Mb (easily achieved on docs with multiple versions), you should slim things down and adopt a different workflow.
Break the project down first into Media/Edits, then further down into chapters/acts/interviews, whatever seems most logical. Also weed out redundant edits by archiving them, keeping the project with your main edit up to date and as lean as possible.
There’s no problem for FCP to have multiple projects open simultaneously, you can copy, cut and paste between them.
Also, make sure that you regularly save your projects using the “Save As…” dialogue, forcing the whole file to be re-written from the ground up on a regular basis. Apparently months of saving to the same file is a recipe for corruption, and simply backing up a buggy file is no insurance against losing your work.
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DSR-30 has same in/out as DSR-11 (firewire, composite, S-Video). It’s a solid workhorse, much larger footprint and DVCAM only whereas DSR-11 does NTSC/PAL and DV/DVCAM.
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Good advice and useful article, Kevin. It’s surprising how many folks seem to embark on long-form projects without doing their homework first and mapping out a workflow – and then post here when things start to go wrong.
Cheers
John
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For long-form keep an eye on your project file size, the larger it gets the more sluggish it can be. Best to break it into at least two separate projects – Media & Edits – or even further down into acts/chapters/characters or whatever makes most sense. You can have several projects open simultaneously on FCP and copy/paste between them as you wish.
Regularly weed out redundant edits and archive old ones to keep your whole project lean, mean and snappy.
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Database protection – asking whether you really want to delete an item from the browser – is an advantage of the Avid over FCP. Should be an optional setting in FCP.
John
(Avid since 1992, FCP since 2000)
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Timely article – but it’s “etiquette” with one “t” at the beginning, according to the dictionary.
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Just for the record, irrespective of the fact that your client has permission to use the clips, they most definitely do *not* have permission to circumvent Macrovision copy protection – you should bear this in mind when posting on a public forum.