Michael Hendrix
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I actually stopped watching around the 14 min mark. Too many, “that’s what’s best for my students.” I think the kicker was that USB 2 was perfectly fine for editing.
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More like, “hey we have a video we want you to do, and we will split the tips 75/25. You get the 25 because it was our idea. Sound good? Can we start tomorrow? And your responsible for equipment, crew, talent, locations and craft services.”
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I believe Prelude was also developed more for News Producers that are not editors. It was a product that was specifically written for CNN and someone else. They just through it in the CS6 suite.
My guess, when Prelude 2.0 comes out, it will be miles ahead (aka, Encore 1 to 2). The foundation is there with Dynamic Link, as even after a project is taken to Premiere, you can still make changes in Prelude and it updates through DL.
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We are thinking about the switch as well. I have been the only one to test, but it works well with Omneon/Harmonic, 36TB shared storage.
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The other “cheap” way, run your timeline, screen capture and put the capture over the video. If you are on a mac, it is built into Quicktime X, not sure what PC folks are using.
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I think “layering” is an interesting concept. People have talked about the “constraints” of timeline editing, but in my mind, it is just a part of the organizational process.
If I move clips, I want some control of what happens or where the clips that I move go. This problem in my mind really affects the audio portion more than the video. I can’t say, send all of my music/sfx to certain tracks and turn those tracks on and off. For video, I can’t put all lower thirds on one track and globally turn off that track to have a clean version.
My vision of “layering” would be, if you move clips and there is a collision, an option pops up in your program monitor to give you options, and with a modifier key, you can control what happens next.
For example, audio collides on tracks 1 and 2, option pops up that by pressing 3 and 4 on your keypad will layer the audio to tracks 3 and 4. Therefore, I have full control and maintain certain organization to my timeline.
Is this the basic premise to what “layering” would be?
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Alot depends on your system. Most people edit natively and then render to 4:3 (center cut, letterbox,etc). This way you always have a HD version.
The other workflow would be to setup a 4:3 setting in Media Encoder and that would be available to you in Prelude to get your footage in a 4:3 format. The downside is you are stuck in 4:3, no going back to HD without reediting. The plus to this workflow is your system should be able to able to handle these file better and you are editing in your delivery aspect ratio, so it is a what you see is what you get.
Without knowing your system, its hard to say what the best format for editing is
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The title thing can be tricky for a company as well. They may give it to you just to keep you happy for another 6 months, but they also know that it will still come back to money.
Most companies grade jobs, compare them to other job titles and that is how they come up with what that job is worth. Obviously, a Senior title would could force them to have to regrade your job and pay you more money.
In my opinion, the best way to get a better raise/pay, find a way to show how much revenue you have brought in, or saved the company. That’s something even bean counters understand.
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Joe, did you ever notice the decisions always seemed after the wine and dine (and private meetings) of NAB? Hmmm…..just sayin.
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Ed, most (if not all) big jobs with national companies go through agencies. Now you can sometimes get in through an internal communications department to do training, etc. but, I wouldn’t waste anytime contacting them for national ad work.
As far as local government, many mid-to-large governments have internal video departments. Best bet, see if they do and get in with them, sometimes they can throw you overflow work which can sometimes get you in with specific departments.