[Lars Fuchs]

What happens if there are several editors editing several episodes out of the same pool of footage?

I once worked on a reality-show where they were shooting 2 cameras 10 hours a day 6 days a week. For months. over a 1000 hours of footage by the end. 3 editors were working simultaneously from an XSAN. Often the assistant editors would give poor reel names to clips, but I was reluctant to change them. I knew that FCP would update the QT files’ metadata directly, and I didn’t want to mess up the workflow of the other editors.

Deadline pressure on that job really precluded spending time figuring it out, because we were afraid that screwing something up might multiply the delay by 3!

Does anyone know what would happen in that situation, and how to deal with it?

[Lars Fuchs]

Could you perhaps post a link to the tutorial you mention? I’ve done several searches and come up empty.

Thanks!

[Lars Fuchs]

[Jason Porthouse] “Avid can link a script to shots but this is only really useful for drama cutting.”

Actually ScriptSync is very useful for doc’s with transcribed interviews. You can search the text for a sound bite using text search and it will automatically load the piece of footage you’re looking for. Its pretty effing awesome, and I wish I had it on the doc I am working on now.

[Lars Fuchs]

ExpressScribe is free. I used it on the doc I’m working on now and it works fine. As far as creating QT’s for it, I didn’t find it unweildy. I just created sequences of every interview in a jiffy, then did a batch export to AIFFs. I’m using a MacBookPro and I don’t remember that it took longer than a trip to the restroom or to get a coffee. Then I used Switch to batch convert them to mp3’s. I thumbdrived them over to the transcriptionist who used a G4 iBook.

I was very happy with the results.

[Lars Fuchs]

You might also want to visit Pond5 for footage (they don’t have stills, just video). They’ve got over 40,000 clips online and growing fast.

[Lars Fuchs]

Hi. While I haven’t shot with either the EX1 or the HVX200 (Im still shoot SD, dangnabit!), I did a quick search on Pond5 for footage shot with both. Its hardly a scientfic test, but it might help to compare the two with real-world shots. You can check out these two clip bins on Pond5:
HVX-200 and PWM-EX1

These are just a few clips I picked quickly, I didn’t try to find shots that are directly comparable, though that would probably be a cool project for later. When I did a search about the same number of clips came up for each, ~492 for the Ex1, ~505, so it might seem that they’re equally popular.

[Lars Fuchs]

I can’t endorse strongly enough Chris’ point of getting the habit of manually saving every few minutes. I try to do it every time I stop to think; I just automatically hit Option-Apple-S. (This saves all open projects, and I often have many open at once. Apple-S only saves the active project.)

I’ve been working with NLE’s for almost 15 years now, and I have been stung by ‘autosaves’ that don’t have a recent enough copy to be useful. It hasn’t happened often, but once is too many, IMO.

On a related note, you may already be doing this, but I recommend creating new versions of sequences as you try different editorial ideas. At a minimum, I make a new copy of the sequence I’m working on every morning. Clients often ask me to show them the version from yesterday, the day before, last week, etc.

[Lars Fuchs]

I use the Lyric Pan Zoom Pro plug-in. I generally like it. It isn’t perfect, but I find it much easier to use than StageTools. I have been thinking about using Motion for a while. I suspect that I may use Lyric as a ‘quick-and-dirty’ tool to handle 90% of the work and do critical stuff in Motion.

[Lars Fuchs]

I forgot to add – you can add slug on the A track in the gaps where the b-clips used to be, in case nesting only works on contiguous clips.

[Lars Fuchs]

Lift all the B clips into another track above the A clips. Then Nest just the original track with the A clips in it, and apply effect. I think that should work; I’m away from my system right now, so I cant be sure, but I will double-check later. I’m using 6.0.3, but I imagine its the same in 5.1