Randall Raymond
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[Art] “That entire paragraph was written as a sarcastic joke to point out the extreme, blanket statement you made. Of course it’s not true! And neither is your statement.”OK. So what’s YOUR advice to the guy who wants to automatically cross-fade every clip?
…and no, I’m not going to ‘cross-fade’ into being politically correct here. Cross-fades suck – avoid them and look more professional in your edits.
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[Gary Kleiner] “Yesterday, I got chocolate all over my keyboard. Now THAT’S sloppy editing!”
Mine’s more like ashes and bourbon.
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[Art] “The best transistion is a crossfade. A crossfade most closely resembles what your brain does when switching attention from one object to another.(see persistence of vision — you can’t even “see” a straight cut!) While switching from one scene to another, time lapses, and so the denotation of time lapse is appropriate. Straight cuts are lazy editing and cause jarring, abrupt transistions. Straight cuts serve no purpose and are the most unimmaginative way to edit. ;)”
I don’t agree with that at all. There must a lot of lazy Hollywood editors – because I rarely see anything but start cuts in good movies.
The art is in where to cut. It’s the first thing I learned in school.
Pro editors rarely crossfade clips. For example, watch Million Dollar Baby – not a crossfade in it! A couple fade-to-black to denote time lapse, but no crossfades.
Was Clint being lazy?
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Watch any well-edited movie and count the number of straight cuts to cross-fades. It will be about 100-1.
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The best cut is a straight cut. Cross fades denote time lapse, usually. Cross fades are sloppy editing and serve no purpose.
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I had to stop Quicktime from auto-starting on my PC since 7d. (it was causing Vegas to crash every time I tried to encode to Quicktime) You might want to try that.
start> run> “msconfig” – uncheck quicktime from the start menu.
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[Ron Shook] “The other reason is that it is also an aid in archiving a project where you don’t need to archive the timecoded capture files because they can be recaptured from tape if you need to return to the project later.”
Exactly. It’s best to keep captured video (avi) files from tape on a drive or raid of drives separate from any rendering to…whatever that ‘rendering to’ may be. As Ron has noted, you can always back up the avi files from tape.
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[jsteinamite] “This is great advice. I’m going to practice using different bit rates..”
Just make sure you’re at exactly 60 seconds on the test clip. What should the test clip be? Average in terms of transitions and movement in the clip. Then multiply by your time line length.
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Should read: ‘It is impossible to encode video directly to swf.’ not ‘flv’
(Is there a way to edit our posts?)
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No. You need to render to a FLV file for flash video. On2 has, by far, the best Flash video encoder and it is included in ‘flash8 pro’. Short of that, you can use Riva – which is a freebie for encoding to flv. Larger files and less resolution – the same goes for sorenson, which is likewise inferior.
Any flash video PLAYER is a swf file looking for a flv file to play. Keep that in mind – two files. It is impossible to encode video directly to flv. I hope that helps.