[Mark Smith]

I was just going to ask How many people are still using the old mac cheese graters. There is a computer that is like the Mars rover of computers. It had a certain anticipated life span and 14 years later its still ticking…..

[Mark Smith]

What am I looking for when I zoom into the wave form?

[Mark Smith]

I’m using XFAVC media – MXF wrapper and I do see waveforms

[Mark Smith]

I’m working with native files and have been working with native files for a few years and earlier versions of X. For what ever reason it seems like the audio skipping problem has gotten worse lately.
I would think that by now, given the amount of time I have had one particular project open, the audio wfms would be drawn, cached a hundred times over.

[Mark Smith]

Lets say that Feature film editing which many people here might hold as the pinnacle of the editing realm is like the NBA to a basketball player. How many jobs are there in the NBA as a ’player’ which might be analogous to being an editor? Number of NBA teams * players on team rosters = not that many jobs at the top of the basketball world.
Same in the feature film world.
Still there are plenty of people making a living cutting videos and that number isn’t going down…
If Casey Neistat cuts his stuff on X, I’m not even sure he cuts his own videos but lets say he does. You may or may not like Neistat videos, but he’s making bank off youtube with the videos he puts out. While not feature film editing, his case is clearly a commercial success which is inextricably linked to his use of an editing platform to tell visual stories.
There are tons of people out there editing videos these days compared to 20 years ago as the price of entry to making a video has plummeted to tiny fractions of what was in say the year 2000. The commercial opportunities have greatly expanded and while cutting a feature still might be the pinnacle for some, making a Casey Neistat type of living off of making videos is certainly a strong lure to many up and coming editors.

[Mark Smith]

Or you could expand audio components and J or L cut . You can roll back the video portion in a J cut, leading with the audio and back fill with B-roll as required. Once you detach audio as noted by a previous post , the audio is detached and there is no click or command to re atttach audio back in its original sync postion to the video.

[Mark Smith]

Your DVCAM deck doesn’t have Firewire 400?

[Mark Smith]

Finally, another Yuval Harari fan emerges….

[Mark Smith]

Was the original video captured as, P2 by any chance?

[Mark Smith]

You can tag on a hold frame at the end of the move which is pretty easy. I think Macbreak studio had a tutorial about mastering KB effect. The tutorial shows how to do a move, hold then a second move coming out of the hold .