[Predator]

This isn’t really the truth. In some cases a studio will ask multiple shops to cut on a film, however in many cases you as the editor will cut the trailer and that will be what’s finished. In some cases the individual trailer house might have multiple editors on the job so that the client gets options, but because trailers cost so much to make they often pick a trailer house and stick with them unless they really screw things up.

Just like many of the other posters have said, trailer editing isn’t easy to get into, especially if you desire to work on theatrical domestic trailers (the cream of the crop in the trailer world). I would suggest that you put together the best reel you can, perhaps with some spec trailers (you can digitize your favorate film and use that to cut a version of a trailer) and get that out to everybody and anybody. most likely you will be up for an assistant position and if you do get one (these are also very hard to get in LA) then i would work your ass off and learn as much as you can from everybody around you. Trailer editing while a group activity to some degree is still all about the editor sitting in a dark room alone and cutting. Any good producer who’s got work on their table doesn’t have the time to babysit an editor and that’s why the best are paid well because they are trusted.

Good luck.
jason

[Predator]

Everything worked fine. I didn’t capture to the root, but it was not a problem to create a new project and deal with the conversion in there. overall it was a very smooth process.

thanks
jason

[Predator]

I’m actually going to be digitizing varicam footage that was shot at 720p in both 30fps and 60fps mode. I will be using the AJ-HD1200A deck to capture the native DVCPro HD clips using FCP’s presets for the 720/30 and 720/60 settings depending on which footage i’ll be capturing. I will ultimately want to ouput to digital beta 4×3 through my pipe card.

As far as i’m aware I will capture the footage into fcp using either of those two presets in the capture settings. I will be editing in the DVCPro HD 720/30 fps timeline (i assume this is correct since i’ll ultimately be exporting a final 29.97fps QT in the Aurora 8 bit codec so i can output to dbeta through my pipe. I will also be doing a size change becasue they shot it for the 4×3 frame.) Once the 30fps and 60fps footage is captured into one project i assume the 30 will play fine but the 60 will not. Do i still need to create a new project in this case to do the 60fps conversion or can i keep it in my original project ? What did you mean by the Root ? I guess i’d then use the frame converter i’ve downloaded to convert the 60fps footate so that the slow mo they were shooting for plays nice and smooth ? I will select 29.97 fps in the conversion tool i would assume. That new slow mo footage should then play nice and smooth in my DVCPro HD 30fps timeline. I hope.

Thanks in advance.
jason

[Predator]

thanks for the post. in fact the style of the site is similar to our reel. As for the sound a shark makes i’m not sure there is one. they are pretty silent hunters except for splashing sounds maybe. In the next incarnation of the site we’ll modify some sounds.

jason