Sam Zimman
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I’d start by picking up this book. It comes with a 30 day trial of Shake. I would also recommend a Wacom Tablet (I use a cheap-o-Graphire 3) because you need a 3 button mouse. A large screen also helps.
If you are use to compositing with DS and AE then what you do is not any different. It’s just how you do it. You have to start thinking of effects working in nodes and trees instead of stacking orders. And there is no composition size so to speak. Shake does render like lightning and works very well with distrubutive rendering and proxies. This is why it’s so big with 2k and 4k film effects. Tracking, Keying, and Color Correction is a lot better than in AE. The program is more mathamatical than AE.
I still use AE for most of my work because I’m more efficent setting up my comps than I am in Shake, so the faster renders never help me.
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I’m still editing on FCP4.5, but I’ve cut a bunch of Multicam stuff on Avid and the following is what I found to be the best workflow. Most of it involves giving whoever the production company is detailed specs. If it is shot right Multicam is helpful, otherwise sometime it can be easier to just forget it.
1) Slates – nothing makes syncing easy like a good old fashion clap.
2) Let the camera run – Don’t turn the camera off, and if you do shoot another slate.
3) Subclips – Bring in all the footage and then subclip out the different takes. If you just let the camera run you are going to end up with a lot of stuff you don’t want, so subclipping will speed up your editing. Also, everytime a camera gets shut off and a new slate is shot, that is also a new subclip.
4) Timecodes – Camera 1 should have timecode starting at 01:00:00:00 while Camera 2 should have timecode starting at 02:00:00:00. If you know that you are shooting more than an hour bump up the TC so that you don’t have overlapping hours.
5) Reel Names – come up with a naming process for your reels so you know which one is Cam 1, 2, etc -
I had weird problems like this too. One thing that always did work was making a QT self contained movie and re-importing that. If you want to be super carefull do it in a new project.
Once your project is finished I would recommend wiping the system clean and reinstall everything.
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We had a similar problem with dropping frames on Edit to Tape, and the only thing that got rid of it was reformating the computer and reinstalling FCP. We tried everything from fiber cables to firewire cables, permissions to pre-binding, firewire drives to firmware.
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So when you go into Log and Capture you can select Video + 4 Channel Audio? Please explain this in greater detail. My company was just going to wait for a few months and get FCP5, but if we can easily get 4 Channels of Audio just by upgrading to QT Pro 7 that would be super cool.
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It will playback DVCPro-25 through SDI, but not through the optional Firewire board. This means you can not edit in native DVCPro-25 codec. So, if you get a lot of DVCPro-25 footage, you should realize that you would have to capture over SDI to Un8, or DV, or DVCPro, or whatever codec you want to get with. You will not get an exact duplication of the data on the tape. It will be decoded, played over SDI, and FCP will encode it to whatever codec you want. This sounds like a lot of room for encoding errors, but it’s no worse than what you do with a Digibeta.