Michael Sanders
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Yesterday/today I cut a five min talking head corporate complete with complex chromakey, motion graphics, b-roll drop in’s etc.
It’s the same piece I’ve done for about four years three times a year. As of last Jan I’ve done it solely in X and we are doing it quicker and quicker every time because of the way X works. Having the power of a new MBP tuned to X also helps.
We used to start four days before delivery, shooting in the AM. I would then go home and do a story edit with just the presenter without backgrounds, keys, graphics etc. Then spend the next few days keying etc – usually right up to the wire.
We are shooting two days before the deadline, editing on site. Yesterday we finished shooting at 12pm and by 5pm we showed the client pretty much the final piece with background keys, all the graphics and music.
Because of the wonderful way compound clips work as well I’m able to make two versions, one for internal and another for external. This time they just differ in the ending. I cut the bulk of it and then made that into a compound clip. I then cut the two endings in the event, created two projects, dropped on the main bit to each and then tagged on the appropriate endings. Then if there are any changes to the main bit I can edit them in the compound clip knowing the changes will appear in both projects.
This morning instead of tweaking key’s etc I’m twiddling my thumbs waiting for the all clear to take the kids swimming.
I don’t know if I could do this in Avid but I know I couldn’t do this, at this speed, in 7.
Michael Sanders
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Yep… What a bugger.
Had to make a judgment call at 10am today – couldn’t risk it on a tight turn around paying gig so cancelled the camera and went for a PDW800.
Annoyingly I wanted to keep the F55 so I could shoot 10bit but couldn’t expect client to pay additional cost and not get the promised goods.
Michael Sanders
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Thanks for all the replies – most helpful.
How big a problem is this green bar issue? Looking on that it looks horrendous. Apparently Apple have fixed it but there’s no timetable for the update.
My issue is I’ll be up against it a bit so can’t have anything that slows me down.
Is it just a case of transcoding to Prores?
Michael Sanders
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To be honest I’ve got really good results just playing with the controls on the colour board on its own.
Michael Sanders
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Thanks all.
Turns out I just being silly and tired.
All working fine now!
Michael Sanders
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Clone the system drive (with Carbon Copy Cloner or something) and the data drive (updating a project and event to 10.0.8 format is irreversible) and then go for it.
You can safely go back with no problems.
You really have little to loose at this stage I reckon.
Michael Sanders
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Cheers Andreas. Look forward to using this soon.
Michael Sanders
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.1 was very buggy.
I would be sorely tempted to clone your drive with the X event and project, and your system disc. Upgrade to .8, trash the render files and see what happens.
Upto .3 had the really annoy bug where the timeline would zip around.
Michael Sanders
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Yes there’s that option as well :-))
FWIW Resolve seems to have come up trumps!
Michael Sanders
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In HP’s case its not incapable, it just has (like Kodak) management that sucks.
HP was one of the innovators with a company ethos based around R&D. Now, it has a management that doesn’t understand R&D and so goes into areas it does understand, like paper and document management.
In Kodaks case, the CEO understands low cost printers so that’s where they concentrated development.
And that’s why Kodak is now in Chapter 11 and how is it getting itself out of Ch 11? By selling off the work of those in R&D.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor