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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I may snapshot v3 10 times during the day.”
This is an interesting conversation and maybe I am using snap shots the wrong way. Personally, I would never want 10 V3’s based on time of day. If I have a V3 and want to make changes, I take a snapshot of V3, and label that V4 and start changing (this is in my spot world). Usually I do two or three versions before the agency team comes into the suite. They pick one they like and start versioning from that. But even if they like the 2nd of 4 versions I present, I snapshot V2 and label that “V5_agency” and move on from there as it basically is the 5th version of the spot, no matter which version they originally liked. I’ve been up to 37 versions with one director…there’s a term for that, but it might get me moderated off the forum.
My versions can be very minor changes, but I don’t want to have to figure out what time it was when a 25 year old copywriter says “I like that version we did with the wide shots”. That version may be something like “V6_agency_wide shots”. Or it could be “V7_agency_alt VO”. After a while I will drop the ‘agency’ term from the version name. I try to be very descriptive on version names.
Most of my spot work goes on to audio, effects (if any) and color after picture and sound is locked. Final is never used until it is final…yeah right. 😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
But I could do a Smart Collection based on the word, “version”, correct? So my spots usually are (for example): “Lottery Giveaway_Version 3”. And then snapshots are made from each version based on what I or the client wants to try. I don’t keep the word ‘snapshot’ in there as it clutters up the title.
But as long as I keep “version” in the title, I am good to go, right? I don’t use smart collections enough as I should.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
Doing it this way requires you to leave that word “snapshot” in the project title?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Jeremy Garchow] “The advantage to chiclet view is to allow very large timelines to be viewed on one screen as well as to get rid of the performance slow downs of picons and waveforms”
Exactly. I was tagging spots for various locations around the country yesterday and chicklet view is perfect for that. The base spot itself is ‘locked’ so there is no need for thumbnails and the various end cards have unique names. Much cleaner timeline and a bit better performance. I just want to have to ability to size the ‘chicklets’ like you can in any other view mode (meaning adjust the clip height with that slider).
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Robin S. Kurz] “I wanted/needed that tiny size for editing, I’d use one of the first three display options and simply move the clip height slider all the way to the left.”
I use “chicklet” view often. But I would really like the ability to re-size the clips in this view like all the other views. Am i missing something?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] “These days, there really is no such thing as a simple cuts and dissolves film.”
Of course, but the majority of that comes after the story is cut…in the finishing process. While there may be a lot of VFX and image tweaks, the underlying story by the editor is mainly cuts and dissolves, correct? At least that has been my experience and workflow.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[David Roth Weiss] ” It’s simple cuts and dissolves, and could have been cut on any editing system.”
Yeah, right. So is the vast majority of videos and films. What’s your point with this?
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Andrew Kimery] “why toss a way of approaching things that is already accepted and widely understood?”
Does the “I would have built a faster horse” analogy work here? 😉
IMHO, those older terms we used in Avid, EMC and the like were pretty damn new too at one point, but we seemed to get over that pretty well….
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
[Oliver Peters] ”
I have yet to see a dissolve on a GPU-based system that seems to look right to me. FCPX is the worst offender.”I now realize that this group CAN debate anything!
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter