Kylee Pena
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I believe MPEG Streamclip can do both of these things, and it’s free.
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If you have a lot of clients that want to see the raw files from a project and comment on them, a product like this might be worthwhile. Depends on how much time you spend encoding and emailing assets.
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Regardless of what you decide, the main takeaway in my opinion is that you shouldn’t ever use not having or not being in a position to get a degree as an excuse for not actively working toward your goals.
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I’m going to answer this a little differently than others maybe. For background, I’m 26 and graduated from college in 2009. I got a degree from IU that was essentially video production but covered multimedia in general. I also completed 3 internships in school. And I spent a lot of the last 4 years looking for jobs both for myself and others, so my “entry level” experience is pretty recent.
That said, the question of needing a degree or not is tricky. I think a lot of people will tell you absolutely not. That’s true. However, these days it’s a whole lot more difficult to find editing work without a degree of some kind — ANY degree. If you’re not editing movies or tv or documentaries, you’re probably working on a lot of corporate stuff. If you want a staff job with a company that isn’t strictly creative work, you’re going to have to get through HR, and they speak in credentials. No degree and you go to the trash. Comparable experience? Nope, does not compute. Also, a lot of these jobs want you to know a little of everything rather than just editing.
It’s totally possible to freelance, but it is pretty difficult to get started, especially when you have no street cred. Definitely possible without a degree. Also totally possible to work your way into a company doing anything at all and learn on the job. These opportunities are sparse everywhere but the major cities, and tend to get filled with interns sent from colleges in my experience. Priority to people who are committed on paper.
Editing is in an odd place as a trade. You don’t really need a degree. What you learn in college definitely helps you be a better person and editor, but it’s not a prerequisite. But you shut yourself out of a lot of jobs without any higher education credentials.
I would say the best thing to do would be to find an editor or five in your community and become their best friend. Learn as much as you can on your own, and do whatever your new BFF asks of you. They’ll help you figure out your next step, whether it’s going to college, shooting your own stuff, or dropping everything to go attempt to work your way up the food chain in LA or something. Depends on your expectations and what you’re willing to do, because editing work is very diverse and very difficult to get. But any way you go, you’ll find that these relationships are the actual key to your career.
I got way more out of my internships than my degree classes, including paid work after school ended.
So, needed? Eh, depends. Recommend? Eh, depends. Classes? Plenty of stuff to help you figure out the tech online. Just find stuff to cut and focus on that. Once you start, you can’t stop thinking like an editor. Everything is a lesson. Have fun never being fully immersed in a film ever again! But seriously, one good place to start is cutting your own trailers of popular films. Your own take, or changing the tone. Making it funny instead of scary, or dramatic instead of comedic. Do that, find a BFF in a post house, have them critique it, bond for life. You can decide if a college credential will help you get the job you want, but knowing people is where you’ll learn everything.
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Just wondering, what are the specs for the source file?
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Adding to this, I was getting this error when using insert/overwrite keyboard shortcuts after I had remapped the keyboard (changing those from F9/F10 to V/B). I reset the keyboard back to the Premiere defaults and it gave me no more issues. No other troubleshooting methods helped.
Luckily Premiere’s keyboard shortcuts are perfect and intuitive, and I’d never dream of remapping them ever again.
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I think you see cutting from talking head to talking head all the time in videos. I agree that it’s often more confusing to cut away while having a different voice start speaking. Sometimes it works, mostly it doesn’t.
Is this just a personal thing this producer always hates? Are the talking head setups in the same location so they look jumpcutty? If not, I wonder if it’s just that your cut is confusing to them. Maybe they THINK it’s the talking heads smashed against each other in the timeline, when it’s really that the content itself isn’t saying what they want it to say – or what you want it to say to the producer?
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No, you have to manually fix it.
When I first met my husband, we worked together as video production volunteers, with him “teaching” me FCP. The first task we did together, the one we bonded over, was to go through a very long slideshow of stills, moving keyframes beyond the duration of each image to get rid of that start-stop stuff.
This is our tenth year together so hey, maybe this tedious task will pay off for you too? 🙂
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Not to take the thread off track too much more, but I have a paper map anecdote. When I was like 23, I was in an unfamiliar city and state trying to find a hotel with a producer (who was 50 or so). His wife was driving, he was navigating with a paper map. He got us completely lost. I pulled out my phone to Google map an actual route, and he says oh, great idea!
He then proceeds to pull out his smart phone and CALL INFORMATION.
I’m just sayin’, the age thing has less to do with getting places on time than common sense and small doses of tech savvy.
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As one of the dreaded under thirties, I’ll say that most of us appreciate when older people take the opportunity to let us know when we’ve done something wrong. My schooling didn’t cover freelancing, and it certainly didn’t cover if it was bad form to hand out a business card in a situation. You seem to understand this education gap, so why not be honest and direct about it?
Because here’s my take: you say, besides the lateness and stuff, he’s a decent sound guy. If you took the opportunity to say something to people who seem worthwhile, you might end up molding them into exactly what you look for when you’re hiring a person — before they’re old!
Maybe not this dude, but in the future if you find yourself hiring some young people, something to keep in mind.
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