[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Mark.
Yes, “Classrooms and informal local gatherings in a hotel ballroom or something like that” is pretty much the target . . .
An important concern is file size — for a 25 minute film I have a ProRes file that is 44 GB and a .mov and an .mp4 version that is about 2 GB. The smaller ones are much easier to upload/download and load onto thumb drives and maybe are ideal for most purposes. I’m mostly wondering if there are any formats that would come in between 2 and 44 G that I should be aware of.
Haha to “client specs”
Cheers,
Roert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Tero. The decades flicker by so quickly. We used to spend a few thousand dollars with a film lab and purchase 16mm prints to sit on a shelf somewhere and go out to renters. Everybody used the same kind of projectors to show these standard release prints.
Now the distributors I’m talking with are willing and happy to rent digital files for streaming or on thumbdrives but they have no clear idea of what are the best file sizes and file types. So I’m asking about general practices, if there are any. 44 G ProRes seems too big, so what are alternatives for classrooms and small screening rooms? People show mp4 files and .mov files and I’ve only seen a few screenings fail.
Cheers,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Distribution to classrooms, small theaters.
Thanks,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

It’s my impression that many manipulations of Premier Pro projects are done as a manipulation or “effects” change to the project file and do not exist outside the project file code.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Maybe these are controls that are only available under the Color Work Space and not under the Edit work space. Will experiment with this next time. . .
Thanks for reading, though,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Hello all
Well, I couldn’t get anything to work to make a still image, like you would make of a single frame of a movie to us as a single image, not a freeze frame to run for a certain duration. Options are grayed out in Resolve 15. Nothing under View, nothing under Clip, nothing under Gallery.
Read the fine manual.
Also tried Option-Command-G.
Nothing happens.
Guess I’ve got to go back and put in my 10 hours to learn the interface.
Sigh,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Todd.
How do you trash the prefs in Resolve?
R

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

SOLVED! By resetting preferences and fiddling a bit more.

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Thanks, Marc!

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City

[Robert Withers]

Ty has a great perspective on all of this and I’m only going to add something short and glib because it’s late:
It’s great to be any kind of trainee or intern on a feature if you work closely with someone in a key position who is willing to spend time really training and educating you.
But feature sets and locations can be a really long slow slog with lots of down time that is sometimes hard to make good use of . . .
If you got this offer another will come up . . . definitely! You can go out and seek them, too. After you finish the degree program. It sounds like you have lots of experiences and time ahead of you.
I hustled to get script supervisor “internships” and found people really willing to share their expertise.
Do you find the school work satisfying and enlightening? I left a 4 year college after 3 years but I got my degree. It came in really handy in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
Best wishes if glibly,
Robert

Robert Withers

Independent/personal/avant-garde cinema, New York City