Richard Herd
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You’ll have to go watch Blade Runner again.
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LOL.
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[Tim Wilson] “enough tiny errors that”
New technology will create more “tiny errors.” It will not end them. It will create new management techniques for those specific things — whatever they are.
The ethics are not the worrisome part, for me, per say, nor the tech itself. I believe in contract law and agreements between people and so on. So I think that it can be managed. I just can’t imagine a VO talent agreeing to those terms, unless it’s pretty expensive, and/or exploitative like the link Walter S shared about Siri.
In the hands of an artist, this tool could be fantastic. However, I will probably make famous people make fart sounds. 🙂
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[Tim Wilson] “the massive time savings”
What massive time savings? This will be a time nightmare and extend and extend and extend re-edits. “ok now try this.”
“now that” “Can i hear the first one again.” “i need to let so-and-so on this.” Folks will say “let’s iterate that one more time”This is the same kind of reasoning that folks used when they said “word processing will cut down on the amount of paper we use.” We all know what happened. It’s so damn easy to hit print.
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[Shawn Miller] “within the bounds of the agreements, of course.
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Imagine how much that will cost to have unlimited access to a voice for forever, but yeah I guess you could write a contract that way.
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Imagine the Intellectual Property law suits. This technology will get crushed in the market place because it’s too risky for regular-normalized operations to use. I can imagine already the change order coming in.
Client: we don’t like that phrasing, so we have a new script.
Me: Let me just type in the new script and use the talen’ts audio sample….ok done. New VO read.
Talent: Hey you! You stole my voice, you owe me MONEY.
Me: I’m sorry. here’s your money plus damages.
Client: We don’t like that phrasing, so we have a new script.
Me: Sorry. we have to re-record and PAY the VO talent.
Client: what about last time?
Me: Yeah about that, I got sued and lost, so now is there any way I can get that compensated.
Client: LOL.
Me: I thought so.
A couple of days later.
Me: Posting on creative cow: whatever you do: always get a deposit upfront and always use real human beings to record the voice over, don’t use a replicant, so you don’t get sued.
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I LOVE THAT!!!!
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[Nakean Wickliff] “I’m not charging them”
That makes sense to me — adding value to your service. Honestly the “work” is pretty easy, and I often call it a string out for review. Only 1 client has ever actually screened the whole thing, and he hand-wrote an EDL. haha. That actually made my job easier especially when it came time for approvals with bean counters and finance because it was his cut that he defended.
I’ve had other clients say, “Oh man. I cannot watch all of that footage. Just send me the rough cut.” Then after they screen the rough, they’re like “How did you do that?!” And it’s appreciative because they see how the string out became an edit, by me.
Having said all of that: I have been following Mr. Susko’s advice for several years now and I definitely burn the timecode, although I ran into a terrible dilemma when a creative director sent the string out to the client who had not the imagination to understand what they were seeing, and we lost that client. Based on that experience (a very bad experience), I much prefer to have the client screen the footage in the suite, sitting next to me. I can provide even better service, like coffee and snacks and explanation, and if the need calls for it, they’ll be all “oooohhhh I like that shot,” and can immediately mark it. I take the opportunity to discuss fonts and colors also.
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Last few months I’ve been using the Surface Book and Lenovo. The touch screen thing is not really helping me edit or mograph. There are a couple of reasons.
1. My hands can only be in one place at a time and they are usually on the keyboard because that’s where ALL the commands are. Sometimes you can touch the screen to open a twirly or something but…
2. The touch is still imperfect. Sometimes it registers the tap as a right click. Other times it’s a selection-click, and then sometimes it’s a click (properly). Once the computer registers the tap as one of the “wrong ones,” then it’s pretty tough to get back on task without either the mouse or esc.
The rendering times are abysmally slow. I can’t find a definitive reason why that is because I supposedly have the fancy NVIDIA card, but it’s not really that fancy — I mean it’s fancy for tapping a screen — but that’s the wrong fancy here.
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There’s a slightly hidden thing too. Right click a point on the path. Then Mask and Shape Path > Set First Vertex.