Misha Aranyshev
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[Nigel Thompson] “Where do these idiots come from?”
You’re relatively safe for now. They all come from Kazakhstan.
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See, I’m editor. This is nothing for me. 🙂
OK. It goes like this:
A producer comes to me saying he secured the postproduction budget from a studio but all the post guys turn the job down with sound people using the strongest language. Turns out he has a DVD that was made from 25 fps DV shot off a screen of assembled workprint projected at 24 fps. He has workprint too and the original negative untouched. The film doesn’t need a lot of CGI but serious amount of rotoscoping, matte painting and retouching. I also feel that digital grading would help it a lot.
I tell him to order a set of DVCAM dailies with proper burn-in and reassemble the cut. Now the sound guys are willing to negotiate. The nearest film scanner is 3,000 kilometers away so I make pull-lists and cut-lists to cut the negative to reduce the shipping costs and customs. I get the assembled negative transferred to DV again to check against my cut, correct errors then take it to scan and back. The rest is just regular DI.
Here it is: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464239/
The other three were RED. They cut on–set playback. I take all R3D’s, make “digital workprint”, reassemble, generate EDL’s and feed it to Monkey Extract. Depending on whether our colorist decides to work natively or not I either tell Monkey to pull the needed R3D’s or render to DPX. It’s really smooth except BTC in RED videoassist output is always ahead of the TC in the actual clip by 3-6 frames.
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Just thirty per cent? The recent fashion trend is to cut video-assist footage. I did four features of 100% eye-matching conform.
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Well iPad and iPhone don’t have either PCI slots or FireWire so why to write the code supporting Video I/O?
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What basic things? Like the one they never thought to include any provision for Video I/O hardware into the thing?
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I asked a programmer to look into available AVFoundation docs and he said there is no word about video I/O in them. There could be something undocumented in this framework but that prevents third parties from using it just like it wasn’t there at all.
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I used Igniter. It was the only way to work with 24 fps footage in FCP and did a very good job. But it was built around Zoran chip that was obsolete even before FCP 1.0 came out. Aurora were nice little company but they milked their cow for too long.
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My memory is a bit fuzzy but didn’t it have Match Frame? I’m positive it had real Replace.
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AV Foundation is in Snow Leopard too. It’s just not open for third parties so no one knows how complete it is.
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Yes, I do. What I also remember is if you plugged in an external USB floppy drive it just worked except for “soft” eject. And last time I checked about year and a half ago it still worked. See the difference?