Rebecca Gillaspie
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Now is a very bad time to get an agent. There isn’t a whole lot of work out there, and even people with really great track records are scrambling. An agent won’t be able to do anything for you right now.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
Rebecca Gillaspie
Producer, Editor
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We call that the hairy armpit trick.
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You can upscale it and then crop it.
I had this issue on my last project where I mixed pretty much every format, but most of the footage was a combo of DV and HD 1080i. Our original intention was to deliver an anamorphic SD version, which went to DVD and I was incredibly disappointed with the way it came out. Final cut did a great job with the up-rez. But the down rez looked like doo-doo.
Fortunately my hubby works at WB and uprezed everything to HD.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
Rebecca Gillaspie
Producer, Editor
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Go to your autosave vault.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
Rebecca Gillaspie
Producer, Editor
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That’s awesome.
My life story.
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein
Rebecca Gillaspie
Producer, Editor
rgillaspie@gmail.com -
Trial and error Rich, It’s the Saluki way! 🙂
How are you, my maiden name was Rebecca Stroetzel and I remember you from RREE. I’m in LA now, doing the freelance thing at the moment and am getting all to well acquainted with difficult clients that put me in positions where I should sacrifice quality to save time and money. And for the most part, I won’t sacrifice. I’ll put in the extra time or expense to do things the right way. That’s the way I was taught. Kind of “do your best” NO MATTER WHAT IT TAKES.
But then I wind up feeling resentful and disappointed. Bottom line, if you don’t own the work you’re creating, you gotta kind of suck it up and compromise. Not everything you output is direct reflection of what your best work is. Particularly, if the client doesn’t give you the budget and time you need. Really if they don’t care, it’s not up to you to demand that you polish their turn. They just want it done. Those are the projects, where you gotta just push through, and then move on to the next which will hopefully be better.
My best work is reflected when I care. That’s what makes me a better producer. But when you get a pain in the ass client that’s making your job difficult, they don’t deserve your best work.
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Thanks I’ll check it out.
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Try going to the subclip on the timeline and then use option, command F and reinsert the edit from the source clip.
Not sure if will work, but give it a shot.
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Bill Davis “Actually, its too bad having six extra unskilled people on a working set is more hassle than help.”
Exactly why what’s going on with all these posts is so rediculous. These people are actually trying really hard to save money. And she’s basically going to throw away a few hundred bucks, plus waste time, and in the end it’s going to cost her more. It’s better to pay a competative rate. Or, if you go with a rookie, you better have all the time and patience in the world. Because those people only work out if you hold their hand. And on topic of the intern/volunteer thing. I think it’s a fair trade off if you’re going to invest a lot of time and act as a proper mentor. Those relationships can be mutually beneficial if you get a smart person that’s up and coming and nurture them and teach them your tricks. They’ll go above and beyond. And at some point you’ll either have to pay them properly or they’ll move on and be your competition.
Bottom line, is there’s a price you pay for everything. Perhaps it’s not such a bad thing that’s happening. I have a theory that the idiots on both ends (the people looking for slave labor, and the ones looking for their big break) will burn each other out.
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You have to read the spec sheet. Each network can have different guidelines. Where I was at last time they wanted everything peaking at -6DB.
Ralph where are you at? Places like Alpha Dogs offer digital workstations that you can output at for affordable rates and they’ll answer your questions as well.
For the down conversion output, there are several ways to do it, depending on how you’re outputting and the system you’re working on.
https://www.digitalservicestation.com/rates_services.html
Of course if you’re in London, I’m out of ideas of where to take things.