Scott Sheriff
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Mark,
“Needless to say I am insanely jealous and simultaneously admiring of this guy.”Brutal.
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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Two thoughts.
I’m not a lawyer. I don’t play one on TV either. Use at your own risk.
1. You might be able to complain to his web hosting provider. Some have TOS that don’t allow their hosting/domain services to be used for copyright infringement.
2. If all the parties are in the same city you might be able to go the DIY small claims route and at least get some cash for the use of the pic. Lots of these have a 5k damages limit. If he wins, and has a hard time collecting (always tougher than winning) you might be able to take that to the web host and force a take-down of the web site.
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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Peter,
Great post!
That’s what I call ‘winning’!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 think your going to need a bit more budget.
200 dollars barely gets a good still camera tripod and a decent light stand will set you back 75-120 dollars.
For 600-700 dollar range Manfrotto has some decent sticks and smaller fluid heads if your camera doesn’t weigh too much over 12 pounds or so.
Considering what a ‘real’ set of sticks and a head costs, this is a bargain basement price and probably the least you should consider spending if your buying new gear.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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Kenneth,
“So all you can do is comment on the video; you don’t know how to recreate that effect? It’s a wedding video – this couple doesn’t even know that it came from a lame music video. Anybody?”I’d build it in Motion, because that’s what I use.
But I don’t think the VFX will sell without the autotune audio to back it up.
You can get the autotune sound in Garage Band, if you don’t have the Pro Tools w/antares plugin.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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Mark,
“And now, I will also say Miss Black’s video is lame, but certainly her bank accouht no longer is.”I haven’t looked in a few, but early last week she was the 60-something most downloaded song on iTunes. Couple of million downloads.
That should be worth some ducats.
The whole meme wreaks, but I have to admit for the two grand mums and dads invested in the video, they are making the bank.“Also, why do all heavy metal singers’ vocals have to sound like Cookie Monster from Sesame Street??”
Not to sound like a smart a$$, but it’s not your garden variety heavy metal that features the cookie monster voice. It is more the mid 90’s on up ‘speed metal’, or ‘death metal’.
I always thought it was popularized by Lemmy Kilmister from ‘Motorhead’, and all these guys wanted to sound like him.
I’m not a huge metal fan, so maybe one will chime in with a better opinion.Ever seen “Metalocalypse”? Great satire.
Dethklok’s lead singer Nathan Explosion is all about “being brutal”. And his trademark cookie monster singing is part of the shtick, and they poke a lot of fun at it.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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Shane,
“God…this is worse than “rickrolling” us.”I’ll have to second that!
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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Wayne,
“Hi,Got a wide shot that was shot with a wide-angle lens – but I’m not crazy about the look.
I know there is an After Effects plugin that helps reduce or mitigate the lens distortion, but
is there such an animal for FCP?”There may be a dedicated plugin, but there is a Fisheye filter in FCP and Motion. It is biased to go in the ‘normal’ direction, but can be tweaked to go in the opposite way. One thing you will run into is a reduction in the image size and a pinched look if you reverse it excessively.
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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Joseph,
“So I edit interviews… the subject has a wireless mic and the interviewer is un-miked.I’m looking for a way to tell final cut to cut out everything EXCEPT where the volume is above a certain level so I can get a quick “edit” on my interview footage without listening to all the dead space and interviewer coaching.”
Nothing personal, but it seem once a week someone posts a question like yours asking if there is a plugin/automation to do tasks like this that are really basic functions of the editor.
If such automation, or ease of use becomes a reality in the future why will we need editors? And if we do need them, we will certainly pay them less since the software is doing the majority of the work.
My advice for all those in this situation is to make sure you charge enough to afford an assistant if you’re not up for the grunt work of the job. This is the traditional way this is handled.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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Jon,
“In response to an earlier comment, how would the time signature effect the way in which you would edit the video?”IMO.
Putting aside the tempo, different time signatures will give completely different ‘feels’ to a piece of music. This is part of why some music sounds like “space”, or “water” or “the passing of time” for example.
I can only speak in general terms, since it’s not just the music that influences shot transitions for me, but the visuals too. They have to compliment each other.
But for comparison, listen to a jazz cut like Dave Brubecks’s ‘Take Five’, and then listen to a typical classic rock song with a 4/4 pattern. The 5/4 shuffle beat of Take Five would lead me in a different direction on cut placement, shot selection, etc than the rock cut. Repetitive cuts on a downbeat (the one) wouldn’t work very well on something like Take Five, with it’s loose flowing feel. But a rock song might almost demand repetitive cuts in some spots.
It’s not just the tempo difference. The random loose shuffle feel of Take Five comes from the time signature, not the slow tempo.
There is a lot of waltz pattern music, that has the same tempo as a jazz song like the Brubeck cut, but yet they feel completely different.I’m not a musician, I play drums. So I’m not the best guy to ask how to explain this. There has got to be some editors out there that know something about music.
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…