Mike Cohen
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I cannot understand why people continue to criticize programs like Premiere, wondering why they do not do x, y or z which another more advanced hardware based system did better.
Understand what you are using and how it works before complaining about it.
Mike
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The best interface is, of course, the human brain. I can close my eyes and envision my movie playing out in my head, often before I even shoot it.
Once in the editing mode, I know I have a shot of a particular action from a particular actor from floor level, but I did not log the footage so I need to manually scan the bins to visually find the clip. What if the computer was smart enough to hear me say “find a clip of Bob throwing a pencil from table level…etc” and the computer knows which character is Bob, knows what a pencil is, and has a basic understanding of camera angles, and it presents me with my clip, or a few options.
Supposedly the government has face recognition technology, so I think the future will be computers identifying the contents of the video, so we can interact verbally, like you would with a film assistant back in the moviola days.
As for a visual interface, it should take the customizable interfaces of Premiere Pro and FCP and let you make any kind of window configuration you want, that is, make any kind of interface you want. Why conform to a standard designed by AVID, when you can create something which works the way you work.
Mouse, pen, touch screen? Every few years a new device is invented. Some are great, some are silly. The hand-computer interface will change over time. An eye-tracking screen might work.
Droidmakers was a great book. Everyone should read it!
Mike
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I would probably give him your quote AFTER the root canal!
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Perhaps you should see if Porsche has ever used images of the Space Shuttle in their advertising 🙂
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You should explore a postcard campaign. The cost of printing 1000 postcards and post-card postage should be manageable. Perhaps you could rent a mailing list of car enthusiasts.
Explore auto shows or local car conventions. Perhaps there is a way to get your postcard into the registration packets.
Have you put your show on YouTube? Put the first episode online and include a link to your website. If you cross-promote it with groups, channels and video responses you can get a lot of eyeballs.
Those are a few relatively low cost ideas. There is no free lunch!
Mike
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I have kept the ctrl + d and page down method, because my brain is hard wired to do ctril + t which was the unchangeable media 100 transition shortcut.
I have assigned the W E S D keys to target higher and lower audio and video tracks, since my left fingers are always hovering around there.
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if Premiere will be available for Mac, I may not replace my aging PC at all!!
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If it takes me 4 hours to find a vendor for xyz service, I need to pay for some of that time. Plus after I have a contract with a vendor for say, a piece of animation, I am managing the vendor. While this is within the context of my contract with the original client, the original contract does not consider managing a subcontractor.
Pay yourself first – that’s what my dad always told me! Actually he still tells me that.
If a client wants to find their own animation vendor and manage them separately and give you the final animation files to use in your project, they are free to do that without your permission – but they generally won’t because managing and selecting such a vendor is not their area of expertise. But they can do it if they want to.
Hence your permission to mark up services.
Mike
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If you look at the top viewed videos every day, they tend to be related to sex, football (soccer), the occasional tv show bootleg clip and perhaps one or two clips from the viral success stories. But to become a viral success takes a lot of luck given the 30,000 new videos appearing daily on YouTube.
I use it for my personal videos – it is thrilling to me to have 1000 views of my last vacation video.But relying upon YouTube for business success is questionable. Remember most of the large advertisers posting on YouTube are quite successful already (Sony, Panasonic, NBC etc)
And the others have pointed out that blatant advertising gets derided pretty quickly.
A video of words set to music sounds pretty boring.
Look at the viral top 100 on ifilm or the top videos of the month or year – if you can make something that either entertaining or clever go for it.
That being said, I have found some people using YouTube to host videos for use on their own website in niche areas. But that is primarily a matter of free hosting thanks to YouTube.
Post your video and link to it here – let the COW experts give you some guidance.
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why not batch digitize the original project – I assume you saved the Premiere project file and any graphics you used…?