Joseph W. bourke
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Yes it is. Just import the other project, and keep whatever comps you need from it.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
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Hi Angela –
Looks like it was Nexus/Mighty Nice Productions in Sydney, AU:
https://www.bestadsontv.com/ad/31770/The-Girl-Effect-The-Clock-is-Ticking
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Hi Frank –
The following tools just might allow you to become your own Hyperfocal master:
There are several options on the site. I hope one does the trick.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Malcom –
Also start thinking about the whole hard drives/raid vs. tape backup issues. I am currently going through the same quandry you are, and have not yet decided upon which route to go.
The only thing I do know is that all hard drives die – some die 5 days after you buy them – some die 5 years after you buy them, and you never know which it will be. So find the most secure (in terms of catastrophic failure) technology you can find.
If you go the RAID route, my feeling is that you have to find a way to charge your clients for long-term storage – they can’t expect you to have a project on your working drives forever, unless of course, you charge a fee (whether it’s built in to your production budgets, or is a monthly/yearly storage fee). I have a client who is doing a project a month with me, and I have no problem keeping the projects on my active drives, but I’m beginning to run out of room (who would have thought a terrabyte would not be enough), and have to make some decisions myself.
I’m kind of thinking out loud here, and I hope my musings are giving you some sort of direction, even if it’s to read more, and look further. I don’t have the answer for myself yet. I have read a fair amount about cheap internal hard drives and docks, but that’s also putting your data on something which could, and ultimately, will, fail. It’s a cheap way to do it, and I’ve read that some of the big Hollywood distributors do just that, but have someone on staff who spins the drives up on a weekly basis, so as not to let the bearing lubrication dry out or get off-kilter (I have read that this too can be a problem).
Enough said. Good luck, and if I find the aha moment for myself, I’ll post it here.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Hi Matt –
The standard way to do this is to find a spot in your track where there is only the “noise”, in your case, the brook. Sample the noise, and use it as the “noise floor”. Then remove this from the audio track – it should work quite well. I’m not sitting in front of Soundbooth, or I could be more specific, but this is the standard procedure with all audio software.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Hi Dan –
I don’t know how affordable they are, but they have a very good reputation:
https://www.scad.edu/motion-media-design/index.cfm
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com -
Hi Gilad –
I think you need to render a master from Premiere at the highest quality you can (for example, if you’re working in 1080, render at 1920 x 1080) in uncompressed format.
Then use an external encoder, such as Adobe Media Encoder, or Squeeze, to render to your delivery format. I do this all the time from Premiere, and the Flash I send to clients looks very good. I render off a Quicktime Animation Uncompressed, then do the final encoding in Adobe Media Encoder.
Joe Bourke
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Hi Corbin –
It appears that Soundbooth will take standard VST plugins (a plugin architecture pioneered by Steinberg), which are available both for free, and for sale. Do a search on “VST plugins”, and also take a look on the Adobe Soundbooth forum to see if anyone has tried them and used them.
I looked at my install of Soundbooth CS4 and there was a VST Plugins folder, which bodes well for their use. Of course, not all of them will work with SB, but I’ll bet that many will. Good luck!
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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Hi Joe –
You definitely want to check out Terragen – it’s made to do just what you’re talking about, and will take DEMs (digital elevation maps) if you want your flyover to be “real” places, or you can create some wild topographies from your imagination. There’s a free version or you can purchase Terragen 2 for pretty cheap. I think the freebie is limited as to the size of output, but the feature set is close to the same.
You can’t do better for real looking sky and atmosphere effects, and it’s pretty quick considering what it’s doing pushing those pixels around. Check out the gallery:
https://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/f/tg2/
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
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I’m having great luck with Adobe Bridge, presently managing hundreds of client projects, stock footage, stills, audio, and more – my last job was at an ABC affiliate, at which I managed literally thousands of files, for News, Promotions, and Commercial Production using Bridge. Through careful structuring of the network folders (and strong naming conventions), and a carefully thought out category/subcategory system, I was able to put my hands on anything I needed at a moment’s notice.
Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media