Mike Fernanandes
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YES!!! Bill you might be my favorite person in the world right now. If your ever in NYC lunch is on me.
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For the Record I didn’t post this on this forum so the title of the article isn’t up to me.
It’s not about the brand. If any other company came up with this system I’d still want to use it.
AVID is tried and true right… been used for ever
Adobe is basically what FInal Cut 7 ( i mean in theory not actually I’m aware of it’s differences )X is a different mind set. You have to think about how you cut very differently. And I felt that if a major NLE was going to go this route it would be dumb of me not to learn it enough to be comfortable.
Think of it this way. 3 years down the road. Smaller houses looking to save money might be using it. Networks might adopt it. Maybe one day a feature film wants in. And that job comes across your table for a project you really want to do but their rigs are all X. Isn’t it better to know how to use it than to say “it’s not for pros’ and miss out on opportunities.
It’s not about making it work regardless of limitations its about being able to work anywhere and on anything. And that in my opinion is the definition of a professional.
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What do you do when it’s more than 4 cameras?
I shrink the scale down to 33% and adjust accordingly.What do you do when it’s an entire show?
The content we’ve produced has never been a full 30min program with multi-cam the entire 30minutes we produce live shows as well but again those are switched. but if it were I’d probably do it the same way.I understand that this type of cutting suits your limited needs
( really.. is that constructive in anyway? )for multi cam but why encourage your employees NOT to learn something that might prove useful?
I show people every way and every possible thing you can do. People I’ve hired have moved on to other shows with in the company and they continue to not use multi-cam and that’s 100% on there accord. I’ll poll them for you if you’d like.So lets disparage something you’ve never used while in the middle of an article complaining about people who disparage something (FCPX) they never use.
I have used it. I’ve attempted to use it in X as well. In cutting this episode I started with multi-cam and then recut it with just synced clips ( the video layers stacked ) I prefer just having them stacked. And as you said it’s not as accurate to use so why use it?But let me suggest something to you. If your going to do it stone age style ( again insults not constructive )
set up your repo layers the way you do but then export it as a file. Now take that “quad split” file and lay it on the highest track, on top of your repo video. Now delete all the repo attributes so that the underlying tracks are full size. Now blade away to your hearts delight, covering over the quad split with whatever angle you like. This way you always have the quad split reference no matter what you do later and you don’t have to constantly undo and redo the repo settings.
Right here- THIS IS AWESOME. I’ve never thought about exporting a clip and having it play as a master. If i ever run into a larger multi cam situation and my machine is having a hard time maintaing playback rates that will for sure be a huge time saver and easier on the machine. For this sir I thank you.
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AMEN brother. See this is what I was trying to get at. Instead of harping over what it doesn’t have, spend some time with it and you’ll be impressed.
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Totally I’ve dabbled with it. Its a nice feature. I’m just not down with the multi-cam.
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I get it but also I’m not dismissing it. I was saying what works for me. I didn’t say forget protools and how dare you color correct anything.
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No i brought up the Emmy simply because I wanted anyone who read my page ( of which i really didn’t expect anyone too ) to know that I wasn’t some kid in high school with pimples on my face and my head in the clouds. Your jumping to a few conclusions of my intentions though I stated that I wasn’t posting that fact to brag in any way just to let you know this isn’t my first day.
I agree with you 100% winning something for work you did is great. Work you do way more important.
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Hi Gary
I don’t think the world revolves around my workflow. In fact I often tell people that work for me. “Most other people probably don’t do this” My point was more so that the tools inside the program are pretty sweet on there own. And you can now go x to protools so problems solved.loudyeti.com
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Hi Herb
Multicam – I do see the value in multi cam editing. I am not trying to discredit it and if you your self do use it awesome. I myself just have never gotten the hang of it in any sort of way. I’ve always felt it was a bit more work than stacking footage and razor it. Like running a switcher on a live shoot sometimes its not as accurate as I’d like it be. (i’ll blame that on reflexes being not up to snuff) and my train of thought is if i have to watch it live switch and then go back and re-tweek I haven’t really saved any time. Our show uses at time 3 – 4 cameras simultaneously if you were doing say a concert or sporting event SURE Multi-clip that up but I’ve just never really felt it was efficient.
And Up’s the direction with the clouds right?
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Hi Gary.
We actually shoot on Panasonic HPX-170’s but of late myself and other station groups have actually been adding footage with Canon DLSR’s. Our sister station in San Diego produces a show called SoundDiego which shoots almost entirely on a DLSR. The graphics for my show as well are all shot on a DSLR. And especially as more and more things go tapeless and the addition to IPTV becoming more and more mainstream compression rates are being improved everyday. So the difference in an image between camera’s more and more starts to dwindle. Top that with it being fed over your cable or antenna its actually very easy to get a great picture with inexpensive gear.loudyeti.com