Michael Mcintyre
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I just want to echo what’s been said here. That is some serious change, even w/o expensive NYC rent on top.
May sound counterintuitive (given your experience) but going the assistant route can prove invaluable. Your increased experience will readily translate to increased responsibilities. If you find a good mentor to cut under, even better. Of course, you can always all into traps with jerks or post houses that take advantage of you but a great editor can easily pave the way for you with overflow work or outside gigs.
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Not to confuse the workflow but I also got it to export just fine from “MPEG Streamclip”.
Great app {and it’s free}…..
Many choices as to how you want the export.
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Excellent addition, Rob… Especially the cable -> camera conundrum.
Also – that Sennheiser 100 setup looks very promising.
Michael
Fever City Studio, LLC
1035 madison
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Hey, Bob:
Just tryin’ to bring some levity to the heavy news as it were. To be honest, I’ve never fully understood the FCP <-> Avid one-upmanship. That’s a whole other thread / book altogether. Both apps pay my bills (Avid a little more).
For whatever it’s worth, here’s to Nancy and whoever’s left! Don’t forget to turn the lights out…
Michael McIntyre
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Col. Kurtz:
Not sure if you’ve seen these LCD ‘clingies’ but they work great….
https://www.aspectcorrect.com/
If nothing else, they do protect the screen. I’ve got the 4:3 TV Safe w/ 16:9 version.
Having typed your name, it just dawned on me that you’re Col. Kurtz… “the horror…. the horror….”.
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Mr. Zelin:
Your mockery has been noted. Please report immediately to Teleport Tewksbury for consolidating and decomposing. Your media shall be orphaned with no chance for relink.
Sincerely from the Avid Empire….
END COMMUNICATION
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I hear you and I know what you mean. I really wanted squeeze to do its job – going so far as to ignore all of the tech info (including Barry Green’s tests). I liked the idea of doing a 16:9 DVD and I have a switchable monitor so it would’ve been great.
I started a doc as well and shot a bunch of material over a few days in all sorts of conditions. It was much softer than I would’ve like and was a pretty noticeable difference from the letterboxed footage I usually shoot.
Worst case, it’s pretty much a no-brainer to edit it together with normal 4:3 letterboxed footage later. I don’t know what you cut with but Final Cut Pro automatically scales it when you drop it into a standard sequence. At the end of the day, it’s not terrible or anything, but you may notice some loss in resolution with SQUEEZE.
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Depends on how much vertical resolution means to you versus the DVX’s electronic ‘fake widescreen’.
This has been an ongoing debate but Barry Green showed in camera tests from his book that letterboxed has more lines of resolution. This doesn’t necessarily address all future widescreen delivery options (unless you’re going to blow it up).
Not sure if it applies but James Longley shot his documentary (“Iraq in Fragments”) in letterboxed mode. Oh, yeah… it was nominated for an Oscar too.
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Too funny, Steve. As always. I wish you the best. Not sure if you’re back on the bike but looks like business is good! We’re all rootin’ for ya.
Your friend in Colorado,
Michael McIntyre
Fever City Studio, LLC
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Why not loan him your CineAlta? He should probably get the picture right while he’s at it. No harm, no foul, right?
I believe the $20 to the board wizard will suffice. Call me crazy but something tells me that if the budget allowed for an audio tech, it probably wouldn’t be getting shot on a DVX as the ‘A’ camera.