Scott Sheriff
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Mark,
Do you mean you’re seeing jitter when you convert to 29.97?
If so that’s because progressive 24 to 29.97 pulldown is 2-2-2-4 since there is no ‘half-frame’ like in interlaced to do 2-3 pulldown.Scott Sheriff
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Whats not to get?
It’s unproven.
For some it seems to be ‘solving’ problems they are not having.
Or not solving problems they are having.Now based on a limited demo, there are some who think this new version will not only solve all there problems, but much more, without any unwanted side effects.
I think that jury is still out on that.
Get back to me in August when you have personal experience using it for a while.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Ye be warned!
Nesting is evil, never works as advertised, and is the cause of much crashes, sync loss and other anomalies.
Bake your sequence, and re-import it.Scott Sheriff
Director
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[grinner hester] “It aint the tools… it’s the artist that makes the art.”
Right. Thats why were still all using flatbeds, or going machine-to-machine.
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[Juris Eksts] “Allow me to disagree!
Editing is about rythm as much as anything else, feeling the rythm of the subject and the pictures and the feeling you want to convey in the cuts. In that case having an outside source which must influence your internal rythms must be a diversion.I would only listen to music if it is a part of the subject being cut.”
I guess I’m just not all that New Age, touchy-feely about my editing. And there’s this annoying little thing called ‘the script’ that interferes with my ability to feel my way around a project.
OK, seriously.
Sure there are times that listening to music is annoying and occasionally you have to shut it off or maybe listen to something else. Maybe if there is quiet or difficult to hear/understand dialog, or what you’re cutting involves music. But most of the time, it really doesn’t interfere with my ability to match the action, or knowing when I want to cut. Compared to cutting something live where there’s no ‘undo’ like a hockey game with 6 cams plus replay, listening to the chaos of producers, studio, and AD talking on the intercom at the same time listening to the announcer/color, giving cues and keeping up with the game, sitting in a quiet room editing with a little music going in the BG is no big deal. With the exception of cutting to music or doing a final mix, I have no problem having other sounds going in the BG.
Plus many of us do a lot more than just edit, We build mographs and FX, color correct, build menu’s and author DVD’s, etc. Doing hours of roto without tunes? I think not.Scott Sheriff
Director
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“I recently discovered that I was leaving my editing CPU running just for the white noise. ”
Wow. Is it really that noisy? My Mac Pro is so quiet I sometimes look through the fan slots with a flashlight just to make sure all the fans are working.
“I recently discovered that I was leaving my editing CPU running just for the white noise. Today I googled “white noise generator” and found numerous sites which will generate white and brown noise for you.”
Some researchers say that listening to white/pink noise for long periods of time can desensitize your hearing. What you are doing is training your brain for a new threshold of what ‘quiet’ is.
I know what you mean about listening to music while you edit, there are a lot of times that it’s distracting. I have found that talk radio in the background is not as distracting as music. I actually have a desktop SW receiver and sometimes listen to foreign language broadcasts as well.
Scott Sheriff
Director
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Carlton,
This type of thing can turn into a flame war, but I’ll try and address the FCP angle with a few highlights.
My editing background goes back to linear online editing on CMX, Sony and Paltex. When I decided to buy my own gear, I had used the Avid and Media 100 some, but eventually went with FCS. And I’m not one of these drooling Apple fanboys that live at the Apple store and have to buy everything Apple releases on day one. My Mac Pro is the first Mac I have ever owned. And the only other Apple gadget I own is an iPod.Final Cut Studio is actually a suite of applications, one of which is Final Cut Pro. Each one of the apps has it’s own use with an optimized workflow and UI. Each one of these apps has unique selling points that when combined together make the FCS package a bargain.
Once you’re inside the Mac family the list of ‘qualified hardware’ to run FCS is easy to meet and understand.
FCS gives you the Apple Quicktime Pro and ProRes codecs.
There are a lot of I/O cards for Mac/FCS that allow the use of calibrated monitors to do serious color correction.
The UI is enough like the other guys that it isn’t hard to move to FCP.
FCP has a unique, but seldom used feature called FXScript. This allows you to write your own plugins, and modify a lot of existing plugins. This is why there is so many plugins for FCP.
FCS has a lot of third party control surfaces for those that prefer ‘real’ controls.
FCP is super easy to configure the ingesting of new material with a ton of preset formats, and the ability to design your own.
There are a lot of things that FCS does well, and some things that could be better. But in the long run the Mac/FCS combo does what I need it to do with almost zero maintenance and downtime.
Scott Sheriff
Director
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These are great little folding step stools. Very light weight and fold up to about the same size as a set of 2K barn doors.
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Good quality knee pads should always be in the kit. Extended kneeling when shooting handheld is much easier with pads. So is gaffing down long runs of cables. For places where this wouldn’t be fashionable and you’re not moving around a lot, one of those door mat sized carpet samples is nice to have on hand.
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.
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I don’t charge extra for after hours gigs. They are almost always less hassle then trying to shoot during business hours for a variety of reasons.
Bankers hours are for bankers.Scott Sheriff
Director
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Sui,
“I’ve decided to learn FCP. I’d like to buy a 15′ macbook pro. However, I heard that FCP X will be released in June. So, should I wait for the release to see if there any special tech requirements for FCP X?”Should I wait:
Now FCP 7 aka FCS3-$999 usd
Now iMovie-$14.99 usd
June ’11 FCX-$299 usd target price
August ’11 Lightworks for Mac-$free-open source**free open source currently in beta. If you are not tied to staying with Mac Lightworks for PC is available now.
If it were me, and I had no experience with FCP, I would go with Lightworks and see how much I like to edit before I commit to spending money on software. A second option would be to just go with iMove for 15 dollars. Once you have done all you can with these programs, you can always move up. And who knows, by then maybe Final Cut will cost even less.
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…