Michael Hancock
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You sly, sly devil. The mask finally comes off. 🙂 And all this time I thought I was soaking in the genius of two Avid gurus when it was really one with multiple personalities! Either way, it’s great to have you here and finally know who this oakmozart was (is).
Mike (aka Butcher in some parts of the internet)
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Thanks Grinner–pick away (although I’m not sure you’ll find anything there you didn’t already know).
Your tutorial on Animatte was the first tutorial I ever watched on Creative COW–tried it out that day in the edit suite. Made me look like a rockstar! 🙂
Mike.
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Did you try Precomping the solid before applying the pageturn? It might solve your problem.
Mike.
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Well, since you didn’t negotiate your rates upfront charge them $20,000 and go from there. 🙂
Honestly, you should have had all of this laid out before hand so there are no surprises for you or the client. Figure out how many hours it took you to do all of this, decide on an hourly rate that’s fair for your market and your level of skill, multiply the number of hours by your rate and issue a bill. You may need different rates–one rate for editing, one for your AE work, one for authoring the DVD, cost of material, etc…or lump it all together. Either way, get ready to defend your final number because it will probably be much higher than what the client is expecting–especially since they don’t know what to expect!
Always, always figure this out before you start, and get paid before you cut one frame–do a seach on these forums and you’ll find many people suggest 1/3 up front, 1/3 upon finishing the rough cut and before starting on revisions, 1/3 paid after revisions are made and BEFORE the final product is handed over. Or 1/2 up front and 1/2 upon delivery.
Good luck.
Mike.
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Thanks!
Mike.
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That’s odd. Have you tried restarting the Avid app to see if it works then? Sounds like Avid is losing trakc of the render files. You might want to shut down the Avid, delete the database files, then restart. Avid will rebuild them–maybe that will help. It’s a shot in the dark, but might be worth a try. I’ll see if I can find out more and get back to you.
Mike.
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Well, here are your options:
The first 2: Only use them when the edit is done and it’s effect time, because you’ll have a limited amount of time. If you do use them, though, and the higher ups love them–use it as leverage to get some cash to buy them.
1. Sapphire Effects from http://www.genarts.com They’re fully functional for 3 weeks–after that, buy them (LOTS OF MONEY but totally worth it) or you’ll have a watermark on your footage.
2. Boris BCC Effects at http://www.borisfx.com 14 Day trial, fully functioning. Again, after 2 weeks either spend the dough (MONEY but not as much as Sapphire) or you’ll have watermarked footage.
FREE EFFECTS:
If you haven’t already downloaded these, do so right now.Free blur effect: https://www.digitalfilmtools.com/cs-3/cs3dwnld.php Download the demo for “Composite Suite AVX”. It’ll put the whole list of effects in your Effects Palette–all of which will display a watermark until paid for–EXCEPT the CS_FastBlur. This one is free.
Duplicate your footage, Apply the CS_FastBlur ever so slightly, then your free Transfer effect, set it to Add, do some adjustments and you can get a nice, soft, blown out dream feel. Play around and come up with some other good stuff. Especially when combined with some clever Color Correction.
Good Luck!
Mike.
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Gotta love it when companies compete! It would be nice if there was an easier way, and there might be–but I’ve never tried it.
You say you have your Avid media an an external drive. No guarantees this will work, but you could give it a shot:
Go to the system you have your Avid app on. Select all your clips in your bins, then File–>Export all your clips as a Quicktime Reference (takes only a few seconds)–I’d put them all into 1 folder. Put that folder on your external. Hook it up to your Mac, transfer the folder with your Qtime Reference files to a different drive (you may not have to do this, but if you’re editing off a firewire I would). Now try to import these Qtime Reference files in FCP. It might work, it might not. If it doesn’t you’re going to be stuck exporting each clip or sequence as a self contained Quicktime, recapture in FCP, edit in Avid, or pony up the cash.
However, I heard that Automatic Duck only works for sequences. That means you’d have to lay all your clips out in an Avid sequence (select all in the bin and just drag the batch to a sequence–it’ll lay them out end to end), then Duck the sequence to FCP. Subclip them from there.
Come to think of it, that might be a fast(er) way to transfer your clips to FCP if the Quicktime Reference doesn’t work. Make a sequence with all your clips end to end, export a Qtime Reference file then use Sorenson Squeeze to make it a self contained quicktime. Import this into FCP, subclip your individual shots out and start cutting.
Warning Again: You will lose timecode regardless of how you go–Automatic Duck might help you keep it, but otherwise you lose it when you export a Quicktime–Reference or Not.
Good luck!
Mike.
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There is a workaround in Photoshop, but you won’t get as clean of lines on things like text if you use it.
The workaround:
Create paths around your objects–for example, if you want a rectangle, make either a rectangular path or make a rectangle–>Load Selection (or select the rectangle using the Wand tool thingy)–>In the Paths Palette use the Convert Selection to Path. Name the Path, then File–>Export Paths to Illustrator. You can now import these paths into Invigorator.For simple shapes it works fine–for more complicated stuff like rounded edges/curved lines and Text that has a lot of A’s, O’s, S’s and whatnot (again, curved lines), either make the paths by hand (Tedious!!) by using the Pen Tool or buy Illustrator. Illustrator is still your best friend in this scenario, and is a great app to have whether you use Invigorator or not.
Good luck!
Mike.
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C’mon, you already asked this question in a roundabout way and I gave (what I thought) was a pretty detailed and accurate reply. Check your original thread and post there again if it doesn’t work. You can find my answer to your original thread here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=45&postid=860664