Michael Thomson
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Hey
PIP is a compositing FX i.e. it will apply to the composite of the images below it.
To get around it.
On V2 add the animatte first, then once you have done that setp into V2 and apply the PIP.
Repeat for V3 and V4
Should work.
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Aaargghhh !!!
Isn’t it bad when you can’t remember something.
Apparently the AVID can interpret the pre-computes the same way as footage, natively but the kind people at AVID disabled it for some reason.
So you can load then to the monitor.
The way to enable it is through console. I can’t remember the command, but i know that it isn’t listed in the help list.
I was told about it by an AVID trainer, but unfortunetly i cannot remember…
Anyone else heard of this?
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Hey Grin
I hope everything works out well for you with this.
I admire your courage and conviction, theres times when every editor is forced to work out of his/her comfort zone, to make a living, establish a name, gain more experience, or whatever but we all have our own private utopia. The place where we want to edit, with the material we want to edit with.
I hope that you’ve found yours !
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Amen to that Charlie !
Isn’t editing great because of that.
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Grinner
Im kinda similar, pain in my lower back – hurts like hell.
Think it comes from sessions when im leaning forward too much, almost hunched over my keyboard like quasimodo, scared someone will steal it from me when im making good ground!!!
Seriously it hurts though, and i’ve never found a cure, tried chairs by the dozen they didnt solve it.
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Hey
All in all its very good, facinating subject – was Kubrick really involved?
On the cutting front….
The transitions in and out of black, are nice however unsustainable over a longer period, so as the doc progressed you would have to find a way of breaking free from that style.
Music, its always hard to make the music add something to a doc, and by that i mean for it to be something other than a bed for the narration to sit on. In places your music came in too late and ended too soon, it seemed as though you were toying with the idea of using the music but weren’t too sure, and again as Mark said it was fighting the narration when it was used.
The footage you used is great, jeez thats an expensive clearance job $$$ lol, however the clip from Dr Strangelove had a pause before the dialogue began, which when i watched it jarred a little, i think it was because we cut to this scene from the film and waited til he started talking, then mid sentence the narrator started again
Dont take my comments the wrong way, i enjoyed watching it and would want to watch the whole doc, so you achieved the ultimate goal in documentary making – you captured the interest and imagination of the viewer. The rest of my comments are purely my opinion.
Well done 🙂
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Hey Grinner
Cheers for the advise, makes perfect sense
🙂
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Absolutely true Oliver, blink of an eye is an excellent book as is:
the conversation, walter murch and the technique of editing film
cut to cut by gael chandler
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Chip
What a difficult post to reply to!
The technique refered to with moving still images is what we call “rostrum” over here (UK) because like Shane explained a camera was moved to create the illusion of movement in the still image, now a days we do it all digitally of course, and “stagetools” is a great plugin to use for this, and incredibly simple to use (available for discreet and avid systems, after effects and most likely FCP)
Other things useful for docs are: (sorry im not great at describing)
Split edits / L edits etc
Where the audio from an interviewee is heard before or after we see the person in vision – if that makes sense. An example: your seeing a montage of hospital shots in a medical doc and the surgeon says “blah blah blah” about the hospital while we see the end of the montage, before he appears in vision for the rest of his interview. It doesn’t need to be long (it can even be a few words) but the effect is to help ease the viewer into a new section of the show or a new theme. Think of it as a subtle technique that makes the doc more professional overall
Cutaways
Every doc that relies on testimony as so many do, need cutways.
lets use the surgeon one again, when he’s going to be in vision talking for 2 mins then you need to help sustain audience interest/attention by showing cutaways relevant to what he’s saying i.e. he may talk about childcare at the hospital so you could show some shots of kids in the hospital getting treatment/playing/smiling etc. Also doc interviews like this aren’t scripted so your going to cut bits out etc etc so using cutways at these edits will remove discontinuity problems.
Sure theres more but my minds blank at the moment.
I think that being concerned with what type of cut or who its named after is probably not that important, if your tutor / lecturer whatever is any good and knows anything about editing, then he/she would most likely want to hear about what you’ve done stylistically (rather than mechanically) and what impact that style has had on the theme and delivery of your piece. Focus on the ways in which, what you’ve edited will be interpretated by an audience and why.
Hope that helps and good luck
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Hi
Open the video imput tool. push the buttons to expand it to show the vectorscope and waveform then click in either the source or record monitor. once you’ve clicked in one the graphic display in the video input tool will reflect whats in that monitor.
🙂