Nate Boston
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Funny you should bring up the oganizational part of this. As I said in another response on here, I think I’ve been thinking about this too much. I would say I have about 20 hours of footage, and I spent the greater part of last week just watching, taking notes, and labeling. I also color-labled the clips that had “really good stuff.” Now I’m sitting down to cut, and I sort of know where to go, but it hasn’t been flowing the way I’d like.
But reading your last post leads me to believe I’m on the right track. I just need to relax a little now and cut 🙂
Thanks for the words of wisdom!
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LOL, oh no it’s really okay! I’m a big fan of honesty! You can tell me I’m over thinking it! How else will I learn?
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I think you’re right about the collective. However, I’ve been deliberately trying to sway away from that. I sort of feel like I need to prove myself as an editor right now, and to do that I need to be able to cut great things on my own. My boss (great editor btw) always tells me of a former editor that worked for him. In his words – “I could hand off footage to Former Editor and it would come back better than I could have imagined.”
That’s what I’m striving for – making it better than expected. However, lack of experience is a factor here, and bringing in others looks like it might be the most beneficial. As hard a pill that is to swallow….
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I appreciate your suggestion about literature. I guess my original question wasn’t so much about reading the answers in a book, but more “how do YOU do it?”
I should have also clarified that my work is mainly documentary style. I’ve been watching down footage and finding common “themes” within different scenes, then trying to stitch them together and get something that just feels right. Your line “I try to be more intuitive and less intellectual” really just hit home with me. I think I’m thinking about it too hard. lol, you know?
I guess you could call this “editors block”.
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Hey thanks for the response!
So I don’t have another RS422 cable to try this with, nor do I have another deck to try. So I made a quick fix decision and bipassed the AJA I/O entirely. I just went straight Firewire from the deck to the Mac, and everything is working great. The only draw back is I can’t load the video in Uncompressed 10-bit, but they’re DVCAM tapes so the DV codec is just fine for this application.
Anyway, I think you are dead on about the RS422 cable (or possibly the serial port on the deck) being the culprit. Too bad there wasn’t an easier way to troubleshoot this problem 🙁
Thanks!
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Any of you guys find a solution? I’m having the same problem with a AJA I/O via SDI, and a Sony DSR-1500….
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Well thanks to the folks at AJA we figured it out! Apparently there was a bad install on the Kona Software. After uninstalling it via their uninstaller, then re-installing it, it worked beautifully! Hope this helps if any of you other guys run into this problem!
Nate
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Wow, just read this article….I never thought of moving the Attach Point! Even easier than my method!
Thank you!
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Tilt…yes I agree. It’s had been awhile since breakfast and my mind was working overtime to just get my message out….
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion. I did choose another frame that stayed within the entire shot, and tracked that. Then I applied that motion path to my still image. Next I moved the still image to where I needed it in the frame, and BAM – it works beautifully! The still image starts on frame and as it follow the motion path, it moves out of frame!
Thanks for your help!
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Thank you Dave!