Monica F.p.williams
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Ciao everyone, Just my 2 cents.
One of the things about FCP is that clients sometime do their own rough cut (I know most of them shouldn’t) or in some post houses I worked the story producers
give their stringouts.
Most of this people will buy FCP X.
So what do we do?
Any takes on this?
I have not problem to change software, in 20 years I’ve been there done that.
I always liked Smoke.
I think that our clients will dictate the changes we will have to make.Monica F.P.williams
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Hi John,
Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
And yes it is a PCI-X , Even if it is an old boy ,sometimes I have clients that still(!)
use FCP 6 so I keep that system up for them.Monica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
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Thank you Michael but I did all you suggested already and still looks bad , any other project I open being in HD, Digibeta or Dv look good I am having this problem only this time.
I also looked at the recommended Easy setups and that is what I used to import the footage.
480i 60/480p 30 DV-NTSC or DV50-NTSC (tried both)https://images.apple.com/pro/pdf/L317074A_FCP_Wkflw.pdf
Thank you again for your help,I’ll think of something tomorrow.
I’ll post if I find a solution.
Ciao
MonicaMonica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
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Hi Michael
first of all thanks for you answering so quickly
I did that but the jaggies are still there, If I see the footage from the camera hooked directly to a monitor looks ok, but when I try to load it in FCP I can’t find the right codec .The DP told me that he shot 30P DF or 60i (?) but DF should be 29.97 so I am totally confused.Monica F.P.williams
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I take the same non linear approach that’s the beauty of technology!!!
In my old days of Linear editing we didn’t have much choice but to be organized and to know BEFORE start cutting where we were going with the story, also the professional level of Producers and Directors I worked with was much higher (sorry I don’t want to be mean but this is the era when a lot of people wake up in the morning and say “guess what! I am a Filmmaker”)
I absolutely agree with Grinner that the non linear approach is the only way to work when the lack of experience of some Producers/Director that shoot anything that moves will have to come to terms in the editing room.
A fine example is a documentary that I worked on last year. 150 hours of shooting, no storyline, tons of interviews, NO Transcriptions, the director told me “Do something with it”. The only way was to put everything on a series of timelines and start cutting down the interviews and try to find the story that was hidden: there was enough to tell seven different stories, so I start building sections by subject and after that sewing all the threads together with music, quotes,montages. It was a long, painful, fun, challenging, interesting process.
lt took 4 months to get to the final cut . Because of the lack of organization in the production part was also more expensive and time consuming that should have been.
Last, who should be credited as Director in this case?
My2 cents
MonicaMonica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
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Thank you Sean.
Ciao
Monica -
What a beautiful work, what an amazing team: from script to seamless camera work and editing.
Now I want to buy a house too.
Ciao
MonicaMonica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
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Hi Shane,
Very high class!
I am looking forward to see the show.
Ciao
MonicaMonica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
web: http://www.crocodileediting.com -
Hi there ,
I don’t think is a bad thing moving on to to the next goal.
As creative people we all need our brains to be stimulated all the time so when we find ourselves doing the same thing over and over we can become so miserable that we have to change environment.I have an attention span longer then Grin :4 years 🙂
I quit jobs that people would give an arm and a leg for but when I felt that I cannot give anymore to the companies I worked for (and I cannot learn anymore from them either) I left and looked for the next experience,I even moved to another country learn a new language start from the bottom.
It always worked out.
I have been doing this for 20 years, and loved every minute of it!!!!
The “Art of Editing” is this too: pushing buttons, learn new technology is not enough: our education came also from our life experiences, from what we read, from the art and the films that we see and from the music that we listen.
So Grin do NEVER give up your dreams, and if you do, might as well sell Insurance or get a day job you will be dead inside in no time,
I am not sure that you family will like to see you being that way.
My 2 cents
Ciao
MonicaMonica F.P.williams
crocodile editing
web: http://www.crocodileediting.com