[Ed Cilley]

Right – sorry, two extra steps. Yeah, this is annoying. I don’t know of a workaround.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
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[Ed Cilley]

I haven’t done this, but found the following

https://cheesycam.com/canon-60d-external-monitor-1080hd-playback-480sd-recording/

He was able to view 1080p on a monitor with the 7D – while recording.

Not sure how that works with audio and the Ki-Pro. I guess you would have to tell the Ki-Pro audio is coming via XLR.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Here you go Brian,

[brian waz] “want to make those two mono tracks”

After mixdown, right-click and choose, Split Track to Mono. One extra step we are not used to – but not a big problem.

[brian waz] “it automatically creates a copy of the timeline”

When in the Audio Mixdown dialog box, deselect “Save Premix Sequence”

Hope that helps.
Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

The Hartford. They aren’t tuned into the needs of video production necessarily, but offer good general liability coverage. (And won’t charge for “additional insured.”)

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Shane,

You probably have enough info already, but thought I would throw this out there for you….

https://www.1099.com/c/ar/ta/twoheads_t018.html

I incorporated several years back for legal reasons. Several companies I freelance with wanted contracts as well as proof of liability insurance. I could do that personally as a sole-proprietor, but didn’t want to expose my personal assets to any risk. S-corp allows easier flow-through of profits to you. If you show a profit as a C, the company pays tax at the end of the year, then when you take that money out of the Corp you pay additional personal tax.

Hope it helps.
Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Yes, QT Reference is great, but you can’t use QT Reference with Long GOP formats (HDV). You need to export a full QT or an M2T file.

I personally use Avid to cut on my Mac, then use Compressor and DVD Studio Pro. But, Adobe Encore is really nice with some features (like making a Flash file) that are really nice.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

[Richard Sanchez] “Is it standard workflow to always video mixdown before an export?”

Mixdowns aren’t necessary – unless you have mixed formats in your timeline – which in this case you do. Usually a QT Reference would be the best option, but you need to create your file on another computer, so that won’t work.

[Richard Sanchez] “it was suggested that I either export straight out from the Media Composer to WMV”

The problem with exporting straight out of MC is interlacing. There isn’t a way to remove interlacing when exporting so any fast horizontal movement shows fields. (Even in MC 5.0)

Crashing to an external DVD recorder may be a good choice. If you don’t have any H.264 hardware to speed up the process, that will always take a while no matter how you get there.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

You are right. The location of the Project file has nothing to do with where the media is stored. Avid knows where to look for the media no matter where you save the project file.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Charles,

I have no experience with the OWC drives, but take a closer look at the details – that price doesn’t include drives. When they say 8TB of storage that means using 2TB drives in each bay. That scares me because the larger the drive (platter capacity) the more unstable they tend to be.

Price is not always the best factor – especially when you have to tell the boss we lost all the media and it will take two days to get back to where we were.

I’ve heard good things from a lot of people who use CalDigit and G-Tech. My small G-Tech’s are great and have done me well.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield

[Ed Cilley]

Benjamin,

There are way too many factors that enter into the equation to give you a definitive answer. Many of the people here have asked this same question with every edit we book, schedule or bid on.

– How accurate are the scripts/timecodes?
– Do you have transcripts in case the client wants to make changes? This will effect how quickly you can access footage.
– How is the b-roll used? Is it simple cuts, or are they looking for layered effects?
– Are the interviews green screen? This will affect edit time.
– Are you building an open and close to the program? An open can take a few hours or a few days depending on what your client is looking for.
– Sound. How is music and sound effects used?

I know there are at least a dozen other questions I would ask going into an edit like this, but this is a good start.

I have edited 10 minute interviews with b-roll and it has taken 15 hours. I have also edited 10 minute interviews with b-roll and it has taken 40 hours. Like Mads said above,

[Mads Nybo Jørgensen] “Your hours in the edit is defined by your clients budget and/or their dead-line.”

Sorry we can’t give you a better answer.

Ed

Avid and FCP Preditor
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Anything worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield