[Mike Cohen]

no offense to the organizers of the event, but the show’s website is pretty difficult to navigate, and probably difficult to make updates. I’m sure there is a job ticket somewhere waiting to be worked on.

[Mike Cohen]

we ran to this same problem ( spending too much time) when we tried selling stock footage. While it may be cool having our footage in Chicago Hope, spending 8 hours finding the right clip for a client to maybe use is not cool.

[Mike Cohen]

Looks from their website like our fearless leader Ron is currently listed to give the business lecture.
Perhaps the attendees could all take that hour to read the posts on this forum, and Walter’s series of blogs about starting a business.

Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

thanks for the tips

[Mike Cohen]

Back when I let someone else make my travel reservations, I used to lose checked gear periodically. It would usually turn up in time for the trip home. To avoid these problems, I book flights early the day before the shoot, so the airline has time to find my luggage before i need it. That said, i always pack tapes, batteries a lav mic and xlr cable in my carry-on bag, so if everything is lost I still have the means for a basic shoot. Tripod and lights can be rented in major cities.
Planning a shoot in a remote town in Germany – may go with UPS or FedEx for that one.
Have you seen the new Blue TSA uniforms – much more cop-like!

[Mike Cohen]

Interesting responses, thanks for the affirmation.

I used the “hit a bunch of buttons and preview the same edit” routine once or twice.

Another trick was to find a consonant sound from another word to fix a bad read of a different word. On tape to tape editing you had a slim chance of making it work, but when it worked it was a miracle. Today’s NLE systems make this kind of audio edit much easier. There were no waveforms in the linear days, and an insert edit was immediately destructive.

EDL management was so important back in these days. You could in fact extend an edit then ripple the remaining edits. I always tried to build in cut points, even a fade to black, so should I need to re-do a sequence, I would only need to go as far as the nearest cut. Given the poor head switching performance of our MII decks (you read that right) a cut point was a blessing, since match frames tended to be a field off.

[Mike Cohen]

Tim – how about comments in newer thread about changes to the interface and removed keyboard commands such as targeting tracks..?

[Mike Cohen]

hmm, I might think twice about upgrading, or at least delay the upgrade.

[Mike Cohen]

Re: Background Rendering

A typical project for me has 20 timelines. Each timeline is rendered out to MPG2 or FLV for DVD or web authoring. Not having to wait for one timeline render to finish at a time is BIG. Did I mention how BIG this is? It’s BIG.

Re: Text to Speech

If it works as advertised, 90% accurate for well recorded audio, that could be big. About 2 years ago we recorded a conference and first digitized then exported WAV files from about 36 hours of lectures and panel discussions. We sent the WAV files (transcoded to MP3) to our transcription service. I think we paid over a thousand bucks for all of these transcripts. That’s the price of Premiere and then some.

Re: Premiere vs FCP vs AVID

Makes no difference to most people we work with. This past week a video I cut in Premiere was played in a loop on the biggest LCD screen I’ve ever seen indoors and there was always a crowd watching it. If the client is happy, I’m happy.

Re: A casual user

Note to Perry: Perhpas your first post should have said: I use Premiere for X, Y and Z. How will CS4 help me?

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

here in CT we have a young mayor in Torrington, CT. He was elected at age 23 or so, and was then found to have some questionable words on his myspace page. Oops, he said, but I think he was reelected.