Peter Ralph
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Crossing the line may create confusion in some cases, but more commonly it breaks continuity, it interrupts the flow – in the same way as two scenes with different color castes interrupts the flow – both cause the viewer to be aware of the camera.
When two people are in converstion the line would be the eye line between the two.
Suppose you have a head shot of a groom facing right followed by a head shot of a bride facing right – what’s happening? Are they both talking to some third person? Convention dictates that two people having a converstion face in opposite directions on screen. Personally I try to avoid cuts where the bride is on the left of the groom before the cut and on his right after. Perhaps when switching from back to front you are also switching from close-up to wide-shot? As Doug explains this greatly mitigates the interruption.
Equally if a car is travelling from left to right in one scene and then from right to left in the next many of the audience may assume the car turned round and is going back to where it came from.
A big part of getting the “film look” we all strive for is achieved by following the conventions established by filmmakers. The 180 degree rule is a very strong convention. Breaking it carelessly can push you in the wrong direction on the home movie/feature film continuum.
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a lot of local TV stations will produce ads for free as part of selling a the airtime.
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Try locking all the other audio and video tracks and then ripple delete
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the advantage that commotion has over (earlier versions of) AE is that you can load a specified range of frames into memory. This makes is way faster. But maybe AE allows that now?
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There is some flakiness with g5s and FWHDs – I’ve had a few spontaneous disappearances but more commonly the drives will fail to mount on reboot (although they always power up) one time in 4 or 5 they don’t appear on the desktop. I can always make them appear by powering up and down , sometimes unplugging – but its not solid – I keep expecting a firmware update from apple
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I borrowed a GO video dvd burner from a client that had FW input. I could not get it to work with the FW input (worked fine with S-video) – the tech folks at GO said the problem was the media – that didn’t make any sense to me.
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I’ve used commotion to do frame by frame painting – it has onion skinning and automation features to simplify the task.
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hmmm – maybe you could try using fw 400 connection? My lacie 250 has both I assume the 500 does also? Do the folder sizes read as 0 if you go iew > show all sizes? If not maybe try copying a folder to an internal drive. Try sherlock – does it find the missing files?
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Yes Don is right. You should drag the disc to the trash before disconnecting it. The disc should power itself off and on as you power the computer off and on.
Don’t panic – I think your drive is just stuck in a loop. Power down the computer. Power down the drive – unplug the power cord if you have to if you have to. Disconnect the drive from the computer. Power up the computer – connect the drive – if it doesn’t power up automatically then press the blue button to power it up.
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It really depends on where the levels are on the original tape, and how much dynamic range there is within the audio track. If you know that +6 is too high then I would go with -6. You might check a section or two after dubbing and to compare how close you are to clipping and versus much noise you are picking up.