[Mike Cohen]

As one other person has said, I have always recorded VO to tape, keep it rolling, then if you have to shuttle the timeline back and forth for a pickup, you get everything on tape, even the comments over the talkback, and you can edit it down later – and you have it with timecode for future easy use.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

is DV-AVI from the PC compatible with DV-QT in the Mac? I did not think that would work, even though it is inherently the same codec.

[Mike Cohen]

I would have duped off the tapes with fresh continuous time code – the time it takes to sync up the two tapes will be less than trying to get your system to digitize with tc breaks.

[Mike Cohen]

There was a time when I spent as much time looking at the scopes as I did my editing display – remember magnifying the sync part of the waveform so you could time the H-phase? Oh the memories.

Apparently they don’t teach these skills anymore at video programs, only engineering.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

ask about the noise of the robot arm – ours is very loud.

[Mike Cohen]

just found this site – has some great motion menu samples under the “work” section of their site

https://www.limerickstudios.com/html/index.html

[Mike Cohen]

The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams is a great book to have on your shelf.

[Mike Cohen]

A few years ago I walked into a room where some of my videos were being projected. When I got there the clients were flipping out because the video was all washed out. The inept AV tech was fumbling with the projector’s color settings while the videos were playing, much to everyone’s dismay as it obviously wasn’t fixing the problem.
When the tech had his back turned (can’t mess with their setup or make suggestions in this convention center venue) I looked at the setup, moved a terminator from an unused bnc input to the correct one, and problem solved.
Despite fixing the problem, the tech was ripped – he said I wasn’t allowed to touch anything and he could shut the room down yadda yadda yadda. That’s gratitude for ya.

Moral of story – termination very important.

Mike

[Mike Cohen]

In the Blink of an Eye by Murch – there is a great article on the Quicktime website about how he edited Cold Mountain on FCP – he edits without audio initially.
When I am watching concerts, I try to predict where the cuts will happen, sometimes they do it to the beat, sometimes to the lyric, sometimes it seems unmotivated.
Mike Cohen

[Mike Cohen]

As an addendum, I sometimes log the shots and then digitize (such as when using Premiere), or digitize the whole tape at 20kb in the Media100, make my shots on the timeline and then drag to the bin and rename each shot, basically logging in the computer, where you avoid lots of tape shuttling.
The other type of video we do are surgeries – in this case I digitize the raw footage, sometimes 6 hours’ worth, lay it all on the timeline, then cut out the un-needed bits, ripple edit, and 1st edit is done.

Mike