[Juris Eksts]

As everyone else has said, it’s a hard time to be in this business, and even harder to get in.
This probably won’t help you, but it may help others who read this thread, to learn that you don’t need your own editing set-up as soon as you leave school. (I’ve been editing for more than 30 years and still don’t own one).
Two years out of school, I’m afraid, is virtually nothing, you’ve a heck of a lot to learn before anyone will let you edit for them for a decent pay-check.

One of the things you will learn (If you don’t, you’ve no chance at all) is the right attitude to every one and everybody. Hopefully you’re not like this during the contacts to get interviews, but in this thread you come over as someone who is bullish and spoilt, and it’s not surprising that you get no further.

WHAT THE F&^K!!!!!! FOR A PA JOB!!!! AT ENTRY LEVEL!!!! I HAVE A GOD DAMN BACHELORS DEGREE!!!! DOES THAT NOT MEAN NOTHING!! I’m 30,000 dollars in debt to student loans I have yet to pay off I invested in a 8k Editing system! Am I doing something wrong? I don’t understand…

As Shane said, your degree means zilch, but don’t give up, and I agree, don’t work for free, sometime, something will turn up.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

First try Scott’s method above, but if you’ve already cut your sequence, try putting the blur effects on two filler layers above the multi-cam sequence, one set-up for one shot, and the other for the other. Then using add-edits at the cut points, cut both filler layers, then delete the appropriate un-needed sections.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

Create your new project, then (In Windows), open the folder where your projects are kept, and just copy the bins from one project to another.
Back in Avid – if the bins show in the bin menu, you can open the bin as normal, if the bins doe not show in the bin menu then you just need to open them from – FILE – OPEN BIN – they should show up then with the rest of the bins in the new project.
Alternatively, set up a storage space where you have a copy of the bins, create a new bin in the the new project, then – FILE – OPEN BIN from the storage space, and copy the contents (Alt + Drag) into the new bin.
Another Alternative: – there was a discussion in the Avid forum a while ago
https://community.avid.com/forums/t/67958.aspx
about making a project template, have a look at that, it may be useful.

Hope this helps

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

The most important work-related thing my father taught me (He was a painter – decorator and I worked for him during school holidays) was about this very thing!
If you feel it’s boring, and time is dragging, then work harder, faster, put more interest into it, concentrate more, find ways to do it quicker, do it more elegantly, beautifully, whatever, and time will pass and the job will get done without noticing it.

DON’T put on music to distract yourself, don’t think about other things. That way the job will drag more and more.
Rick’s advice about a bike ride or similar is good.
Mike’s advice about getting the job done quickly so you can do another project afterwards is the right approach.

Advice given to me from a different source was that – if you feel the job is boring, then it’s you that is the boring one, but you can change your attitude and your approach, the job can’t change its attitude. It still needs to be done, and deserves to be done well.

There are always interesting things about the way you can cut a sequence, you can learn from every single cut. No cut is ever the same as another, put your creativity back into it.

And have a nice time doing it!

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

Bins that are open in other rooms are automatically locked so you can’t make changes in those, but you can drag and copy sequences from them. That is often very useful, but of course that can also be done from the interplay window.
The way I often use it though is to drag sequences from older projects, even if the material itself has been deleted, and Media Management have deleted all references, to refer to how someone has done a sequence, or particularly the effects applied when a style has to be repeated.
I have a few bins in our shared storage space, where I’ve got lots of groups of effects I find repeatedly useful.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

I’ve been opening bins in other projects very frequently, no problems with that whatsoever. I’ve just been told by our technical support that they’ve not heard about that being a problem. (We’re on Interplay vers 1.5)
If your people confirm that it is a problem, let us know, and if you can find out why it’s a problem it would help us all.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

Hi Matt,
try Soho Editors, (I’m not sure if they just do FCP or Avid as well),
or try Skillset.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

hi David,
sometimes you have to render the effect before it shows, then re-adjusting, you can see the effect.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

I think that you absorb far more information from an interviewee when you can see their eyes, see the emotion with which they’re speaking.
And when they’re saying something emotionally, that’s the best reason to cut back to them.
When a B roll doesn’t give any more information than the speaker themselves, don’t use it.

Juris

[Juris Eksts]

Grinner is right, get dancing and drumming.
At the beginning, get the mark button onto the keyboard and use that to mark the beats. (Around the outgoing section and the incoming section.) Measure the distance between the marks and that will give you a guide as to the frames per beat. Work out which of the marks is at the beginning of a phrase or a new section of the music and cut there.
You can also try back timing from the end sting, – it may be easier to do a music edit at the beginning rather than the end of the music.
If you need the start and the end of the music, it may be possible to put in a double beat under dialogue, but keep a basic beat going.

Mainly you just have to practice, trim, adjust, do it again and again till it sounds right.
And sometimes it’s just not possible!

Juris