Marcel Valcarce
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Thanks for your replies. No it’s not a matter of framerate, the framerate is correct after adding pulldown. It’s that we did not take the change in timecode numbering from 23.987 which is essentially non-drop timecode, to what we need on our masters which is drop-frame timecode.
We laid out all our spots (over a hundred) in fcp on 23.98 timeline where each spot starts at a minute mark. When converted the framerate is correct, but due to drop-frame timecode the spots do not start on their mark (they slip 2 frames per minute). We should have accounted for that in fcp when laying out the spots, but we didn’t, so now I get to cut them all apart in AE and slip them to correct timecode locations.
Fun!
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A great resource for “real” looking photos is morguefile.com. Ordinary people post their snaps there, and the terms of use are quite clear about it being royalty and license free.
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You are caught in the age-old catch 22, no work to show in order to get work.
My advice: post on a forum and offer to cut some trailers for free. Find an independant producer who will gladly let you use footage in exchange for a free trailer. As they are not paying, you are likely to find people interested in this sort of thing.
This way you can cut a real trailer for a real film, and if you are good you can make a crappy film seem like it is much better (the true talent of a trailer editor).
I used to work in the trailer industry (doing graphics). While I find all the advice given here very good, I also know editors who got their first job by cutting trailers from real films. Just be very clear to a prospective employer that the trailer you are showing is not real.
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Hey, thanks for chimeing in guys.
DRW: that has always been my understanding eg. it’s a service so no sales tax. My bookkeeper has been speaking with a sales tax auditor who told her that CA considers the video services to be manufacturing. They likend it to someone who makes custom T-shirts and sells them, they must charge sales tax. There is an exemption for “motion picture production” but does not apply to corp video.
I was just wondering if others have heard the same…