Joseph W. bourke
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As Harry Nilsson said in his wonderfully foolish song, “The Most Beautiful World in the World”:
The most beautiful world in the world,
and though there are times when I doubt you,
I just couldn’t stay here without you…Joe Bourke
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Marvin –
I think you hit the nail right on the head! If indeed these tools can do the job, someone will use them. If I had a nickle for every person who thought you just bought editing software, and then you were and editor, I’d be rich. Every one of these tools should have a warning on the side saying “Talent Not Included!”.
That said, I personally use software which set me back over 2000 dollars (3DS Max), and software that cost me 39 dollars (CrazyTalk Pro). If it does the job, doesn’t cause too many workflow problems, and is a reliable part of a stable of tools that make you money, I say go for it.
The viewer can’t tell what something was shot, composited, or edited, on. It’s all about talent and storytelling abilities. That said, it’s also really easy to get hung up on the “if I only had…” syndrome. It can put you in a holding pattern forever, waiting for the grail to show up. Get the tools you can afford, and apply talent.
Joe Bourke
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Here’s what it does:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Duck
What it’s going to do for PPro is an open question at the moment. It was originally developed as a tool to import sequences to and from NLE software packages and compositing software packages which weren’t compatible with each other. There are lots of possibilities here.
Joe Bourke
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I agree with a lot of this discussion, and I disagree with a lot. A small camera with a crappy lens and a tiny sensor will never replace a pro camera with good glass and a huge sensor, except in some of the situations described above – ENG (maybe), location scouting (absolutely), music video (angles you couldn’t get a big rig into), and b-roll in productions in which the footage is heavily effected, and you wouldn’t notice the lack of quality.
Why didn’t the VHS camera get adopted over the 3/4 inch, beta-SP, and one-inch formats? Resolution. Why won’t phone footage and iPad footage replace A cameras? Quality.
But…in the News business, all bets are off. The worst quality footage in the world will make it to air if it’s the ONLY footage!
Joe Bourke
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The kicker is, if the footage is compelling, it doesn’t matter if it was shot on an oatmeal box with a pinhole in it. This is the decade of the self shot newscast.
You see it everywhere in the news – in the requests for viewer footage and stills, and in the shots of neighbor’s houses burning down, shot with a phone, when there couldn’t be a news crew there. If there’s footage, it will air, no matter how poor in quality.
Joe Bourke
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I think Rob has a good point here. With a low hum or buzz, you’re dealing with a fairly limited chunk of the sound spectrum, and with crowd noise, you may be getting parts of the noise which are in the same range as the speaker’s voice. The good news is that he has a deep, resonant voice, so he sounds a bit stronger in the bass end than most of the background voices.
Try both, since they are very quick to accomplish, and let us know your results.
Joe Bourke
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Since I don’t have Audition yet, I can’t tell you the specifics, but I can do this in Soundbooth, so it should be a no brainer in Audition (or Sound Forge, or just about any decent audio package).
It’s called “sampling the noise floor”. Find a spot where the talent isn’t speaking (just bgd noise). Select that. There should be a command to sample that noise (noise print in Soundbooth, I think). Once you sample the noise, there should be a command to remove that sample from the whole clip. Done.
Joe Bourke
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I think there are too many variables to quote at this point. If you don’t hire an actor, chances are that the cost to produce is going to go up, since there will be more takes, the “talent” won’t get every take right, which may require more post-production time fixing things, more time logging the good takes, searching for the good takes, editing out the mistakes, etc..
If you can get the client to nail down exactly what they want (to a point), in terms of the structure, then stick to that structure, I think that more like 200 – 250 dollars per spot might be a fair price. It all comes down to how much you think you think you are worth an hour. If one of those spots takes you three hours, including writing and shooting, then when you subtract the shooter’s price, you won’t be making much. That said, work is work, and it may be good to get this on your reel (or not, depending on the final quality). 250 bucks per spots is still a steal for the client, especially if you can show them I higher production value than the sample! A bad spot is essentially worth nothing, plus I can’t imagine the idea that makes it worth anyone’s time to produce a spot to sell a pen! Do you know how many thousands you’d have to sell to recoup your investment? Oh well…that’s not the issue here.
I think your safest bet is to give the client a range of costs, depending on whether you hire talent (highly suggested), how “cookie cutter” the spots will actually be (will they stick to format), and whether you are the writer/producer/editor, or the client is writing the script. At the very least you will need the client as your “content expert”, so that you will have final copy when the shoot date arrives. It’s much easier to fix it on paper than re-shoot.
So…it’s not quite as simple as it seems. And make sure you get a third of the total up front. Projects like this have a way of going south fast, especially when you’ve put lots of time and effort into it. Just consider the up front money “serious money”. If the client balks at it, walk away – they just wanted a freebie.
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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I believe that Adobe responds to bug reports (and fixes them) based upon the volume of bug reports which come in on any given issue. Todd Kopriva can answer this better than I can.
So, while people from Adobe monitor these forums and jump in with answers, it it important for the users to submit a bug report (or feature request) when something is found broken or missing:
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Joe Bourke
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Bourke Media
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Jim –
You can find it here:
https://www.fontspace.com/category/Nimbus+Sans+L
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com