Scott Cumbo
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i believe you can do this with ichat and FCP.
Scott Cumbo
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no, i hear you. I just take that as a given. Everything is influenced by something else. I was a musician for 18 or so years and i look at cutting being similar to writing a song…. of course you can find others ideas in the structure or in a certain riff or whatever. but i don’t deconstruct things like why a tempo change in this certain place. It’s just feels right. I’m all about feel and emotion. the “why” aspect makes things cold and lifeless to me.
In my mind their isn’t a “why” it dosen’t matter why. The only thing that matters is the client being happy and that the edit works. Sorry man, I don’t look at editing as “art” or anything. I love film, I own over 700 movies… many times I deconstruct the “How” they did that, but was never interested in the “why” aspect. I guess in the same respect, that’s why I’m not into art work. I’ll see something and say “that’s cool” than i’ll move on.
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I think my point was “whatever feels right and works” is the right way to cut it. That’s what i ment by no rules.
Scott Cumbo
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1st rule of editing… there are no rules.
Scott Cumbo
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codecs? I know guys with emmy’s, who been cutting for 30 years and don’t know a thing about codecs, nor do they care. That has nothing to do with editing. Though it is usefull to be well versed, but encoding something can be learned quickly where being a quality editor happeneds over time.
Best way to find someone is word of mouth. Ask around in your area and see who has worked with certain editors. Most pros have a decent reel so they really aren’t helpfull. But it also depends on what your needs are. are they working with clients in the room? on their own? or even off site? and what kind of work, broadcast? corporate? long form? spots? everyone has different experiances and may be better at certain things.
Good luck
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are the machines all macs or pc and mac? I know on the PC side, when you mount a workspace windows asigns a drive letter to that drive (ie. “E” or “F” or whatever) and this will effect AMA when switching computers because if you bring in footage using AMA on PC 1 and the partition is assigned drive letter “F” than when you go to your others PC Avid will be looking for those clips on drive “F”. so the way around that is you have to make sure you mount the drive is the correct order so that the AMA is always on drive “F” (windows will assign the next available drive letter, so sometimes you can mount other drives even if you don’t need them in order to get you AMA to “F”) Don’t know enough on the Mac side of things to give you any tips. hope it helps.
and i disagree with shane a little in terms of AMA, If your doing short form work like promo’s. AMA can be great. I’ve done a few jobs where we got QTs day of and i just AMA’d them did my cuts and just transcoded my finals once we got approvals.
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my 2 cents:
won’t comment on the script or shot selection cause you said it’s their script and i have no idea what you had to work with but…everything needs to be tighter, Vo needs to be faster, you don’t need a lot of the breaks between VO’s. a breath is fine but don’t let things uselessly hang. the testimonials (spelling? i know i spell like a 2 year old, thats what producers are for) anyway the need to be tighter. have the on screen for 3 or 4 seconds to L3rd them (if you have to) then cut to b-roll so you can clean up their audio. take out their “ahhs” & “umms”
you can easily get it down to 60 seconds…. which is still a little long for the content they actually have.
good luck
Scott Cumbo
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To me it’s that pole on the left that makes it jarring. your eyes go right to it. the second time isn’t as bad because you’ve seen it already. I would use another shot or zoom in a bit and try to get rid of it or at least minimize it.
good luck
Scott Cumbo
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didn’t know about the database into the bin trick…. nice one
Scott Cumbo
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usually it’s corrupt media. make a copy of your sequence, then narrow down the problem area by pulling sections out until you figure out where your problem is. than just get that media again (weather it’s a recapture or re-import)
Scott Cumbo
Editor
Broadway Video, NYC