Rich Rubasch
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Or try the Gain audio filter and a simple 3-band EQ.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Or….
Drag filter onto clip….adjust slider, render.
I’m looking for that one.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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My experience with round tripping to Color was not very simple at all. Especially for a easy quick fix.
Let me say way more cumbersome than dropping a simple effect on a clip and bringing down yellow saturation.
Color might be a great tool, but it cannot possibly be more simple than plopping an effect on a clip.
I have been round tripping clips to AE forever and do it in my sleep, but it is never as simple as adding an effect right in FCP if that effect does the job.
Anyone else?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
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Correction….if a simple yellow saturation plugin was written it would be waaaaaaayy simpler to drop it on a FCP clip in FC.
What if I make the change in color and the client wants 10 more frames on the shot? what if I replace it with another take and have to round trip again into color?
Rather have a simpler solution to do it right in FCP.
The guy who wrote Too Much Too Soon plugins wrote one for me a while back and it worked great. It was basically a saturation adjuster for all the colors, not just red green and blue but cyan magenta and yellow. Worked perfectly.
I’ll be looking him up again!
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
We have a DVD “logo” that we created…it does not look much like the actual DVD logo. All other data discs are just type.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
For direct to station delivery, H264 is the norm, but proRes is gaining ground.
We just did a test to take Canon 5D footage to an older Vegas system on a PC and a PC Premier system. Both PC systems have QT Pro installed. I encoded just about every flavor of 1080i footage, DVCProHD, HDV, MPEG-2 etc, and the final delivery to both was ProRes. Says a lot. I also have Media Composer on my PC and ProRes works fine in HD and SD.
So it is my hope that ProRes becomes the new PhotoJPEG so we can stop guessing at what format will work.
For now our local stations take straight DV, H264 for HD and MPEG-2.
As for DGs custom MPEG-2 format, it is an 18000mbps CBR MPEG-2 but they add 16 lines of “VBI space color” to the top of the file, meaning the encoded movie has an extra black bar at the top.
Audio goes out MPEG Layer II at 384Kbps.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
Ok, I’ll follow a Zelin post…
DG Fastchannel – Been using them for a year or so. Very convenient and reliable. Using Episode to encode to their unique MPEG-2 requirements. I charge same as a Betacam tape, however if there are multiple spots to a single station I charge a bit more. Quality is fine and their service has improved over time. Big plus…stations love them.
FTP site – We set up a Buffalo Terastation to hold about 1 terabyte of SD promos for BBC and American Public Television. It is local at our facility so getting files to it is a snap. We allow anonymous access via any web browser and set it up to be accessed via port 9000 or FTP port 21 with simple web redirects….in other words they type in our web url with a directory name and it takes them to the file list. they right-click to save. So far it has been working swimmingly. We only had to increase our internet upload speeds at the shop to meet the bandwidth requirements….we are at 4 meg upload.
Station’s FTP site – I have FTP folders on two network and one cable providers sites. I upload files to their directories with files to their specs (HD or SD) and they retrieve them. This system is ok, but not as bulletproof as DG. I have to make sure they got the file and have to make sure they QC the darn thing.
DG Fastcahnnel gives me most piece of mind…clients love getting the order from DG stating that everything has been delivered. It is like a Fed Ex tracking number.
Betacam still works locally, but if I send out spots statewide I encourage DG Fastchannel. If it only is going to a couple local stations I will try to use the “sneakernet” method of dropping a file on the local station’s FTP site.
Need more?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I’m dealing with banks right now to buy a building. I have a nearly 800 credit score and nearly 28% net profit on gross sales. They are still waffling even though this move could mean 3 more full time hires and one of the largest production companies in our fair city.
And I’m one of the little guys…what do the real movers and shakers feel like in this economy?
I’m fairly conservative fiscally, but I have to say that the banks probably caused most of this lack of growth right now. Don’t blame Obama that he can’t get the economy going because the CEO’s and top managers at our banks took all the money.
I believe there is money at the top and they are hoarding it so when the Chinese come to clean up in the USA, they will at least have something to bargain with. The rest can fend for ourselves.
This post got me riled up. Absolutely no excuse for this situation. We need to fix it. Put the power back into the hands of the innovators and the thinkers, the visionaries…then you’ll have your hope and change.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
And let me say that this is a cool way to have us critique someone’s wish list and at the same time giving us ideas. Not that we can find a single vendor to provide all the gear we need but it was cool looking at the list and comparing it to my own sensibilities.
Cool idea.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com -
I’ve been editing for 17 years. In the example you gave, we cut about 4-6 minutes of video in an 8 hour day. So for a 10 minute video, if I am not starting with a script, but rather only have a pile of interviews and Broll, but I know what the story is supposed to convey, and also assuming the footage is uploaded into the edit system, then you will probably find that from 8:30 in the morning until about 5:30 in the evening that you will have 5 minutes or less cut. Probably less on the first day. The next day you will have some rhythm going so you might get more finished.
On the third day you will be adding music, mixing in nat sound, maybe tweaking some edits and doing basic color correction.
So I would give myself a minimum of three days to cut a 10 minute video. Most of what we cut lately is much shorter. As long as there is not a huge amount of animation or compositing to do we an cut a 2-3 minute video in a day pretty easily.
We move pretty fast on the keyboard and we have a lot of experience, so mileage may vary.
FYI we also calculate anywhere between $500-$1000 per finished minute of editing depending on how aggressive we get.
Helpful?
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media Inc.
Video Production and Post
Owner/President/Editor/Designer/Animator
https://www.tiltmedia.com