Misha Aranyshev
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[JeremyG] “When there is a tc break, FCP just takes an eon to find it and make a new clip.”
Change Preroll to 1 sec.
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There are many flavors of CMX. I prefer CMX 3600. Avid EDL Manager defaults to CMX340 and to change that you have to dig around.
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Isn’t 844x very different from classic M100?
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What you mean is no Sony deck can convert to DVCPRO-HD. It is plain DV over FireWire from J3.
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[Ron Lindeboom] “When DV came out, people said that companies like AJA (who made video cards) were on the way out. They aren’t.”
AJA was making framestores not video IO cards back then. They introduced first Kona when FCP went Mac OS X and never fully implemented whatever processing hardware it their card had onboard. Pinnacle is out. Matrox is hanging on but compare the software choice for DigiSuite and for Axio.
On the other hand hadrware-assisted processing is still around. It is just moving to GPU.
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Turn audio scrubbing on — Shift-S
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The “no unsolicited submissions” policy is in place to save the studios, producers and agencies from any chance of plagiarism accusations. To make an unsolicited submission solicited send a query letter to the agency that tells them you are looking for representation and that describes your work in very general terms without revealing any plot or character details. Nowadays agencies sometimes accept query letters by email but most of them are still expecting a regular letter of the most ordinary variety with a self addressed postcard or envelope enclosed. There are companies like Jerrol LeBaron’s InkTip, trying to solve this problem in some other ways.
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[massachi] “To “save money”, the producers had the telecine guy make simple flex files”
Charge the producer all the money he saved and some more. 🙂
[massachi] “I would like to digitize this footage in such a way as to be able to make film cut lists at the end of the edit”
Run a small test. Import provided flex file, capture one camroll, synchronize with Cinema Tools. Create subclips for each take and arrange them on the timeline. Export the cut list but in the export settings choose Clip name instead of Scene & Take. It may work. I’ve never tried it though.
[massachi] “Is there a way to combine the info from the flex files and the sound EDLs to create a bin of clips with all the metadata included in each take? I was thinking that I could edit the text somehow using excel or something, or using Cinema Tools to gather all this info into some kind of ALE for import into Avid.”
Well, there is a hard way. Log every take on each tape in FCP, capture, synchronize with Cinema Tools and fill all the data into the database. KK, camroll/labroll should be on the burn-in and Sound TC on the digital slate.
Too be honest things done for the sound look somewhat backwards to me. Chances are sound takes on DVD-RAM’s are Broadcast WAV files and the latest versions of FCP read TC in BWF fine. It would be much faster and cleaner to import them directly into FCP, sync and export OMF’s of the cut.
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Autoselect shortcuts don’t go beyond track 9. If your timeline has 23 video tracks IMHO you should’ve been in AE or Motion 20 tracks ago. It is impossible to cut in Avid without a mouse. It is almost possible to cut in FCP without a mouse. I was making my living retouching photos in Photoshop for several years. I hate mice and pens.
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Command-A highlights a clip if Canvas is the active window. Using In and Out is more pricse and flexible especially after you realise it is not necessary to highlight clips for most of the operations.