Michael Brassert
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Walter is entirely correct on all counts. I have been producing commercials for over thirty years and the AICP contract that we have been using for years clearly states:
5. OWNERSHIP Except as otherwise provided herein, all rights, title and interest in and to the commercial(s) which are the subject of this Agreement, including all copyrights therein as well as in and to all the exposed negatives, positives, out-takes and clips shall be the property of the Contracting Client.
Besides being fair this is just good business. The last thing you are going to want to do is start getting into a legal battle with your client over something that has little or no value to you. I would opt for a good relationship, give them their property, warn them about any rights issues, and keep the door open to more work and a good reputation.
And as far as I am concerned they can have my work product, project files, AE projects etc. even if not required. Ask yourself, if you were the client, who would you rather work with? Who would you give a referral to?
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I just asked Adobe about this and they said you must rerender your preview files every time you open PP. I wonder why all of the preview files are saved in folders if you can never link to them. I suppose there is a logical explanation for this but I see it just as a PIA. The more quirks like this I find the more I miss FCP7 and all the simplicity I took for granted.
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I just had a 2 year old Transcend 16GB Class 6 fail during a shoot. The camera indicated “Invalid Media” after shooting for 20 minutes. I now have a 3.7GB file that will not open and cannot be repaired by the Digital Rebellion software. Treasured will most likely work. I tested the card by reformatting it and recording over the full card again with no problems but I don’t trust it. I am retiring the card for file delivery. I am also going to replace all of my 24 Transcend cards with something else, maybe Lexar Pro cards. I cannot afford to lose footage. It has never happened to me before in over 30 years of shooting film, tape and digital media. This was my greatest fear in going tapeless and it has reared its ugly head.
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Extremis malis extrema remedia. 🙂
Shooting a monitor works better than you might think and I have gotten better results than many other methods and much faster. I have done this in the past when I was desperate.
I also recently achieved acceptable results downscaling in After Effects and compressing in Episode with some smoothing.
I just ordered a Cuda card as I have heard that downscaling with Cuda uses the much better Lanczos algorithm.
Often I wonder what they were thinking when they came up with HD, not to mention 160+ video formats. I just shot a show in DvcPro 50 SD 16:9 and it looks great. Most people think it is HD. It was shot with a Panny SDX 900. The images blow away my XDCam HD camera. This show looked better on a SD DVD than any hd material downscaled.
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That is what I am afraid of. It really slows down the work flow as opposed to clicking on a clip and have the selected clip create your in and out for your work area as in FCP.
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I had been agonizing for a long time on how to do a perfect hd to sd. I finally came up with a perfect simple solution that works better an anything short of a Snell Alchemist. I playback the HD movie on my monitor and shoot it with my SD camera. It comes out perfect.
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I also had an obscure app from ecamm.com that was used to record Skype calls. It injects itself in the Quicktime stack to trick things like iChat and can cause instability. I never would have thought of it if it wasn’t for a support person (Colin) at Divergent Media that emailed me after I had a crash of the new Scopebox 3 that came out yesterday. He had found it after scanning my crash log. I think it really helped a lot and it was really nice of them to point out some things I had going on that were bad. here is a lot to be said for keeping your edit box clean.
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Trust me, it has $0 value. I sold an up to date version in 2002 and the only buyer I could find was out of the country. I sold a system I had over $30,000 invested for under $1000. I still have 2 media 100 cards and the software in a box somewhere. It is not even worth the time to advertise it for sale.
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Trust me, it has $0 value. I sold an up to date version in 2002 and the only buyer I could find was out of the country. I sold a system I had over $30,000 invested for under $1000. I still have 2 media 100 cards and the software in a box somewhere. It is not even worth the time to advertise it for sale.
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You know what’s funny? No one is bashing Avid or Premiere Pro.