[Patrice Freymond]

What happened to good old log sheets and screening material before slapping shots together?

When cutting news I use markers for key statements, when cutting documentaries I use transcriptions and if prod did ot do them I do them and charge for that.

Methinks an editor should know his material, but maybe I am getting old, which leads me to think that if “It’s only a matter of time until the machines take over…” I will gladly be dead by then 😉

Patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

My choice would be MXF4Mac (a simple export) but then I already own that…

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

Zeit Anker, maker of a great subtitling application named Annotation Edit, bundles it with Annotation Transcriber which is just what you may be looking for.

Download the demo of AE and you will be able to use AT since it is free software.

Hope this helps,

Patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

“This benefit can be compounded by using ProRes422 HQ, because the HQ means that the footage is 10-bit instead of the standard 8-bit. 8-bit footage has 256 levels or gray in R, G and B. 10-bit footage has 1,024 levels in each channel!”

According to Apple’s own White Paper on ProRes codecs, all are 10 bit with the exception of 4444 which is 12 bit.

Also, I wonder how editing in ProRes HQ will have any benefit when “using lots of effects and processing”. I am assuming that to the contrary, bigger files with higher data rate will be even more taxing on your computer, not less. But I may have misunderstood, so please explain…

Pat

[Patrice Freymond]

with the current workflow I have to set 200 in points and 200 out points (once in L&T and then again to trim in viewer/timeline, etc

No you don’t,

you could just as well drag your clips in the timeline and then trim in either trim mode or by extending your edits, without once having to set another in point…

(Or so it seems to me from how I understand your explanation…)

hope this helps,

Pat

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi again,

what I meant by keyboard language was at the OS level, not in FCP…

also, are you on a laptop?

could it be you have the num lock activated somehow?

Pat

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

could it be that you keyboard is setup in another language?

The checkmark or exlamation point you get (in a warning triangle?) are your luma excess display which normaly gets activated by the ctrl-z shortcut…

Hope this helps,

Pat

[Patrice Freymond]

Thank you, this confirms in clear terms what I thought was hapenning.

Still the gain I get for the other exports by using Qmaster makes it worth doing the job in two separate operations with one dedicated solely to H.264.

patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

Helvetica was actually created in the late 50’s early 60’s in… Switzerland. Ubiquitous, but maybe not as much as Frutiger’s “Univers”.

Patrice

[Patrice Freymond]

Hi,

I believe there is a better way and it is called Annotation edit.

Not only can you screen a qt copy of your program and do your spotting right there, but you can import and export just about any titling format, import excel spreadsheets, AND, if you change your mind about the font, re export the whole subtitling file with new font in less than 10 seconds.

The exported file is XML and you import it as xml into fcp and insert it on the topmost track, et voilà.

Of course you’ll have to spend some time and efforts learning the software…

Patrice