Scott Sheriff
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Ty is right. Bugs won’t care about loud noise.
I have a ‘bird bomb’ pistol that they use in orchards and vineyards, and it will scatter pesky birds for about ten minutes or so. Very handy item.
But for crickets and locust I read somewhere that the chirping is related to air temps. Maybe the same for cicadas. You might do some googling on that and see if its true.
I think the problem isn’t just how loud they are, but the rhythmic/cyclical nature of the chirps will make edits stand out.Scott Sheriff
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[Walter Soyka] “Out of curiosity, are you guys doing predominantly direct client work, agency work, or a mix?”
I’m assuming you mean for post work. Direct clients, or myself as the Producer/Director. On a rare occasion I do some sub work which may originate from an agency. Haven’t really edited any agency stuff since the days of tape and the CMX. Most of them in our area have gone out of biz, closed the local office, or have downsized to almost nothing, years ago. About the same time big independent post houses started to fold.
Scott Sheriff
Director
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My experience is that neutral gray is a pretty good color for floors and cyc wall.
Depending on your grid height (actually angle your able to use the lights at) and amount of instruments, a white floor can either be a good, or bad thing. White floors can act as a bounce fill in small studios where steep lighting angles are common. But in a bigger studio, I prefer gray floors, I think it gives you more control.
I don’t think ceilings really matter, unless they are really low.
The walls behind the camera line should all be flat black, and the floor too if you want to go for overkill.
I’m not a big fan of permanent CK walls unless you have a reason. If you have to have one, it’s nice to have it in an isolated area so it doesn’t spill any green onto your baselight for other sets.Scott Sheriff
Director
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[Bill Davis] “However, in my current experience, ALL THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN FIRED ACROSS THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY.”
You hit it out of the park with that!
“So now we have to get used to the fact that there’s nobody left who has a CLUE how to supervise an edit session.”
You should read this thread.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/1133267Scott Sheriff
Director
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[Matt Callac] “Yes there is a lot of clutter on the boards, but a lot of it comes from people being Lazy by not.
A) searching the boards for similar information.
B) even attempting basic troubleshooting when they have a problem.”Amen to that brother!
And of course not reading the manual.
Typical problem, usually with a panic type subject line in all upper case.
Poster just loaded FCP on his system, after coming from platform X. Poster has big job, many hours of footage, and said job is due tomorrow. FCP is either acting weird, or taking to long to output footage, audio is drifting out of sync or any one of handful of problems that are operator error from not reading the manual and understanding the workflow.
A lot of us “old bitter people” learned to edit before there was such a wealth of easy and convenient info on how the gear works. You learned by being taught the basics and being thrown into the gig. If you were really lucky you could go to something like CMX school, but that didn’t teach you anything about the rest of the gear like big multi-bank switchers, or the DVE.
Long hours of ‘trial and error’, usually on your own time were the norm. No other editors were going to come in for free and show you all their tricks. If you wanted to discover them, you had to work at it.
This environment gave us some great skills, that are severely lacking in many these days.
1. The desire to read readily available technical information.
2. Troubleshooting.
3. The ability to reverse engineer what is on the screen, in order to do something similar.
4. How to gracious when someone does help you.
In my day, when you asked the teacher how to spell something, she would tell you “go look it up”, and not just hand you the answer.
I think we are doing a huge disservice to many newbies for providing way too many quick and easy solutions to common basic problems. A little bit of suffering will do them some good. It builds character.
And one of the things they need to learn is to not take on big projects until they know what they are doing.
When you encourage bad behavior, you just get more of it.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Aaron,
I think Bill Davis hit the nail on the head.
You at least need to charge a fee for this. Maybe one that is prohibitive.
There is really no reason the client has to be that involved.
If it’s a collaborative thing like a film, that is another story.
But for regular type clients, critiquing the work at various stages is more the norm.Scott Sheriff
Director
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[Paul Belanger] “This is a forum that is always filled with bitter old people who never answer direct questions.”
So whats your point?
When you don’t get your question answered, or it gets answered with a snarky remark, that should be the first clue that you have crossed the line, or it’s time to RTFM.What’s to be bitter about?
Someone that thinks he is qualified to teach others a skill which through his own writing he has demonstrated that he knows very little about. Oh, yeah. But he’s doing it for free. Like that somehow makes it better…
Or should I be bitter because he has so little respect for the rest of us that have put in the seat time to learn the craft.And for the record, this is a professional help forum, and I feel absolutely no obligation to help ‘non-professionals’ that haven’t put in the effort to become a working professional. And there is a big difference between “answering a direct question”, and training someone to be an editor via the forum. Even at that, I would be more that happy to answer a question. But I think answering a half dozen questions and helping create a training syllabus for someone to then use to pretend to be qualified, and teach a class with is asking a lot.
This should have gotten bounced to the basics forum where it belongs. That way it could sit and languish for days unanswered.
I’m really looking forward for the release of FCP X, and the ten-fold increase in these types of posts that will accompany it.
How’s that for being a bitter old guy skippy?
Scott Sheriff
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I’m amazed that you have condensed what amounts to a lifetime of work for many of us into a three day class, and are having a hard time trying to fill the third day.
Sounds like you have covered it all to me.
If I sound a bit pithy, imagine if I were to produce a few hours of classes on DVD called “How to be a High School Teacher, in three easy lessons”.Scott Sheriff
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[Michael Griggs] “Does this only apply to text? Or would anything….graphic, still, video clip, etc…. be affected by the loss?”
Anything that has a straight ‘hard edge’ like text, a squeeze back, photos.
Scott Sheriff
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Resistive loads like portable lights, are single phase.
In North America, the grid is three phase, and 120/240 single phase is just one leg of the three phase feed.
Three phase stuff is usually inductive loads like big motors like on commercial rooftop AC, Sawmills, transmitters, large ballasted lights like stadium lights, and is at least 277V.
Single phase 120/240 is often incorrectly referred to as “2 phase”, which it is not.
In modern North America it is either single, or three phase.Scott Sheriff
Director
https://www.sstdigitalmedia.comI have a system, it has stuff in it, and stuff hooked to it. I have a camera, it can record stuff. I read the manuals, and know how to use this stuff and lots of other stuff too.
You should be suitably impressed…