Mike Cohen
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All good posts.
I have a basic omni light kit, which is good for 90% of projects.
Maybe once a year I rent an Arri fresnel kit and softbox for specialty projects, but as the others have said you need to know what you are doing primarily.
I like the idea of using a freelance shooter using equipment you think you want for a project, and then shadow that person the whole time.
A rockport class may be a good idea too if this is not your background.Mike
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We have been doing a series of lectures on DVD – our editor spends countless hours re-creating the powerpoints in Photoshop, allowing us to do graceful builds, maintain safe area, ntsc colors, avoiding ugly powerpoint backgrounds, and really improving things. Obviously graphs and charts and research data still look like too much information on the screen, but what can you do.
Mike
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If you have not done your day in the life shoot yet, I would try to get the doctor to submit to an interview at some point in the day, or during down time, even in the elevator or cafeteria – let him be his own narration – ask him questions baout his career, interests, passions, approach to patient care, his family etc – then just use b-roll of him, even some SOT segments of his interactions with staff and patients. Have him repeat the question in his responses, you may be able to cut it to sound like he is following a script. Also scan his office for awards, family photos, certificates, etc. Take good static shots of these items, which you could use as b-roll also – or take some digital pics which you could pan/zoom.
That’s what I would do giventhe lack of direction you described.
If you have already done the shoot, let us know how you approached it.
Mike Cohen
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As for workflow, I agree, time is key.
I set the keyboard commands in PPro to emulate the Media 100i as much as possible, so for doing my first pass on an edit, I can work as fast as in M100i, for the most part. I consider Premiere Pro to be my Media 100i plus all the features I always wished it had. The color correction is fantastic. The ease of doing motion and other keyframed effects is great.
So the lack of batch digitizing without first making subclips is a drag compared with the other systems out there, but I think a decent tradeoff considering the features available.
If one feels that a software program “doesn’t do what xyz software does” then use xyz software!Good luck to the original poster.
Mike
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I thought that was a feature of Encore – keeping you guessing until you burn a disc as to whether or not it will work.
It seems to good folks at Adobe put that in there as a free undocumented feature. Thanks.It does lead to the occasional BS line “oh, it won’t do that in the FINAL DVD” which is always a joy to say.
Mike
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But batch digitizing from the source with the subclips – will that work?
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I count on daily rendering to get my daily exercise not to mention my COW browsing time – for those of us still using a G3 400 mhz machine, or even a Pentium 4 with a 20 video track Premiere Pro sequence, rendering is a given, and after 12 hours in front of the machine, a sweet blessing. Would I trade those breaks for a kick-butt new G5 or 3 gigahertz PC, you bet I would.
Mike
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Not shown in my original post is my wall-o-shelves, containing raw footage for all active projects, some finished projects, some stock footage, reference books, catalogs and, oh yes, food supplies. I keep a good selection of soups, canned tuna, granola bars, powdered drink mixes, bottled water, instant coffee, plastic utensils, paper towels and the occasional Twinkie. Usually a jar of peanut butter and jelly and a loaf of bread in the fridge if I know I have a busy week.
These items are often called into play at 2AM while finishing a video, rendering or whatever.
As for eating, it is usually at my desk, but we do have several restaurants in our office park, so when clients visit we try to go out, or eat in the conference room.
It is clear that everyone works in their own unique way.
As long as the projects get completed…that’s goal #1.
Good point about remembering when the trash gets emptied (Saturdays) – a banana peel deposited Monday is a living breathing creature by the weekend!Interesting posts.
Mike
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not a problem – which reminds me, I have a rare editing session with an outside client, I’d better get some boxes 🙂
I think one reason it is so cluttered is this is my office and editing bay in one space. While it is nice to be able to swivel my chair to any of 3 computers, the non-editing tasks seem to use a lot of paper.
I like the decor Plasma. Very cool desk.
Mike
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I thought a visual thread would be an interesting idea.
Perhaps not.Mike