Martin Curtis
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[Eric Pensenstadler] “A word of caution for the future, it is my experience both hands on and from online research as well as this CreativeCow forum that Final Cut Pro does not like SD footage from digital SD cameras (cards). “
From the PDF Sony NXCAM Product Workflows in Apple Final Cut Pro7(p.5) :
SD (MPEG2) Currently not supported in Final Cut Pro or QuickTime®
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[Mark Suszko] “You can’t afford to compete with that. The “answer” is to work harder to find the clients that will pay you what your work is worth. They could be in other fields, in more specialized niches.”
My next opportunity may be in Policy and Procedure shooting, particularly with a WH&S focus. It needs to be precisely done, is customised for the client (heck, it’s customised for each policy/procedure), requires expertise in analysis of the existing documents so you get exactly the right thing and can’t be done by a novice with a Flip and a netbook. This sort of stuff has legal ramifications so it must be done right.If one video prevents one workplace death, the whole program will have been worthwhile.
Just a thought.
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I have just finished recording an actor, who is playing a doctor, reading words to a camera. The doctor we had reading words to a camera was not very good. She was very obviously nervous, her pacing was bad and as time went on her neck developed red blotches. Our actor looks good and sounds good. The actor also took direction.
Two weeks ago I recorded a professional VO guy doing about 15 minutes of material. Last week I recorded to staff doing VO, one sentence at a time. The difference is chalk and cheese.
I love working with professionals because they’re effective. If I make something that isn’t effective, people look to me to ‘fix it’ rather than at their own willingness to spend a few bucks to get a professional to do the important bits.
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I’m just seven hours old
truly beautiful to behold.
And somebody should be told.
My feature set hasn’t been controlled.Now the only thing I’ve come to trust
Is an app store rush of lust
Steve tints my world – keeps me
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The first thing I’ll do is see if FCP X will open all my current FCP 6 projects. Then when I get bored with playing around, I’ll try to open them back in FCP6. Then I’ll come to this forum (or one just like it) and ask why my projects (which must be delivered by Monday) won’t open.
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Similar thoughts.
Is this any help?
I finally figured this out in case anyone needs to know. Randy was close above. Under the System Settings, in FCP, I had everything set to another drive, not the same one that FCP is installed on. After all sorts of trial and error I found that I had to change Audio and Video Render to my main drive, then it ran great.
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[David Roche] “Dear Avid,
It appears that Apple has decided to abandon professional users of Final Cut Pro. “
If Apple really decided to abandon professional video editors, they’d just abandon FCP, not bring out a new version. -
[andy lewis] “Will it steal my car and run off with my woman?”
Wouldn’t matter. You do have backups, right?
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Classic track, classic video.
I think Dave is on the right track: it’s shot that way. Some of the shots use a body harness on the musician with the camera pointing back at them. The ‘swing around’ shots are, I think, shot using a small camera attached to a rig that moves.
Although they didn’t have DSLRs doing the work then, no-one has suggested it was a “homemade rig”, but a rig just the same. I don’t think they had the luxury of large images to work with, but just had lots of practice and lots of people willing to stand around while they got the shots. Metal fans are up for it 🙂
Something interesting to look at is what people do with the Go Pro. Like stick it on a hula hoop.
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Alan, you forgot a plugin to make the horrible PowerPoint supplied to you and that they want you to use actually look nearly acceptable.
[Alan Okey] “- “Virtual committee” button for randomly generating up to 20 conflicting and poorly articulated opinions on an edit
“No thanks. Got that one already.