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Loved the reel, especially the “Scratch” spots.
Thanks for the tips. I have over 20 hrs of footage to search through; I’ll keep your tips in mind. It’s a mellow charater driven feature so I think focussing on bringing out quirky character traits (a la Napoleon Dynamite) rather than going for slam dunk “funnies” is how I’ll approach it.
And mark – indeed, timing is, um, you know… all of it. I mean everything. ; 0]
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Thanks Jon. They told me its an HD project, but that it has been assembled on a Mac Xpress version. Must have been downconverted, I guess…
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Hi Chip, didn’t come accross as smartass at all.
Got me thinking, though. Even though the director made the decision long before they even shot it, it’s still an editorial decision (imo). A film editor makes 24 decisions every second. Most of those decisions are “don’t cut here”. So the decision not to cut is an editorial one too. I bet you could copy that scene to your hard drive and re create a workable scene with edits. And if you had the out takes, it’d be even easier. So the fact that it can be done and they chose not to in the editing phase says a lot, I think.
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Shane – When I was at university in London (96-99) I wrote my thesis on the art of editing and included…. yup you guessed it, U-Turn! s an example of alternative editing techniques to form narrative structure (blah, blah…)
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RE: Sideways: Time slows down considerably when you spend a weekend in Santa Barbara. It’s meant to be a relaxing, comfortable stroll. Time to get away and spend quality time with good friends and good vino. That’s what you got. Swingers in ain’t. Another purposefully slow film: Withnail & I.
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Arguably one of the most thrilling scenes in Pulp Fiction was when Travolta dumps passed-out Uma Thurman with poor Eric Stolz and Rossanna Arquette. From the moment Arquette hangs up the phone to the moment they’re about to “stab Uma in the heart” there is not one single edit. Not one. (well two – the IN and the OUT ;o) The idea that we don’t HAVE to cut is something I’ve learned. The emotion of that scene determines the pacing without need for a single join.
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I have a Dual 2.7 here with 5 GIG of Ram, and it also struggles with 8-bit Uncomressed matirial. These files are very large. I always have to set my playback video quality to low in that case. As far as being “generally sluggish” yes, Ram is always the best addition IMO. Other things help like general maintenance etc. You could try trashing your preference files and repairing permissions. Try a general maintenence tool like YASU or Cocktail.
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Bought a Quad a month ago and I run AE 6.5. I use a dual 2.7 at work, with AE. My home mac runs it WAY better than the 2.7 – it’s really slick, especially when you’re gliding the camera around. Renders are quicker to, as you’d expect. good luck.
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At least use a tripod. Go for a shallow depth of field when possible. Think about how your angle complements what’s happening in the scene. That covers less than 1%. Good luck
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Hi Jandro,
I use MPEG Streamclip (it’s free!) when I have to do this. Works very well. Drag and drop VIDEO_TS from DVD, use the “fix time code” tool and output to many different formats, including Quicktime. Good luck.
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html