Steve Crow
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I will ask them (good thought!) but because of the production schedule I may just have to work with what I have already captured.
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Thanks for all the advice….it was really too bad but the streets weren’t busy at all which is what really concerned me to begin with – that essentially was the whole problem.
I totally agree with the music and fast cuts but I didn’t realize that flash frames and speed ramping had become crass or cliche but I know they are used a tremendous amount and so could have easily fallen out of favor.
To be honest I was thinking about using both of those and maybe creating some in-editing digital zooms…too tacky?
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Ready for some irony?
Guess whom I’ve now volunteering to work with on a high visibility project???
The City government! 🙂
I will share details as I can.
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“Insert appropriate disclaimer here, but my understanding is that if someone rents the public space, that space isn’t considered public anymore for the duration of the event. Again, just what I’ve gathered from local event organizers. ”
Yeah, I think that’s the premise this marketing director was working on as well but I am not sure I buy it from a legal/constitutional perspective. I do hear all you people saying “phone first or ask first” and that’s all good and can’t really be argued against but my question really had to do with what the law says on the issues regardless of permissions.
I would be surprised to learn a public space can be converted to private in the sense of “new/different laws apply once you step across this imaginary line and enter our event space.”
Good discussion, what we really need is an attorney to chime in and set us straight.
(BTW, I did read the PDF linked to in the earlier post on photographers rights but it’s quite dated now and the author/attorney gave himself so much wiggle room on the topic that I wasn’t sure what info we can actually rely on and where the bottom line was. Oh and by dated I mean “post Patriot Act” – I would totally buy it if someone said that my rights to video had indeed changed after this particular act passed Congress.)
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The location is a mid-sized town in California and the marketing director was not a government official.
It occurs to me that maybe the Farmer’s Market was, in essence, arguing that the event was “private” since they had a city permit to hold it but I don’t really buy it.
A city can’t issue any kind of permit that would say “within the market the first amendment doesn’t apply” – my filming is protected as free speech and free expression isn’t it?
My viewpoint had been that anyone at the market could not have a reasonable expectation of privacy and so, technically, I didn’t need anyone’s permission even if I stuck my camera right in their face.
I know news organizations are given wide latitude but I am not affiliated with a news organization.
Like I said I wasn’t going to sell any of this footage or even broadcast it – but for arguments sake, had I wanted to sell the footage then maybe I could see an individual person who is recognizable in the video might have a fair claim to make that they should be compensated or at least give their permission.
I think even in those circumstances there is an exception made if the person’s appearance on the video is incidental as in they were just walking past my camera.
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Wow, if this works as advertised it sounds like a great tool to add to Final Cut Pro…
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Wow Tony, first of all I am impressed you wrote all that on your iPhone!
Yes certain elements of your story match mine because I also used the Finder to delete Render files that I thought I didn’t need any longer…I will try from now on only using the Render Manager to do this. I guess it explains why the project was looking for render files and not video files when it wanted to reconnect some missing media.
Steve
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No this project was on a firewire drive however I have worked on lots of video projects using USB 2.0 devices and haven’t run into problems…of course faster is better and I would prefer firewire but in a pinch….
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Thanks Josh for writing, yes I did the same thing but all it was looking for were the render files despite the fact that the media files had the red slash through them and so should have needed reconnecting as well.
I trashed both FCP preferences and the thumbnail cache with no success
I never did find a reason why this is happening or a workaround except for doing a batch import of the clips. It was a pain which shouldn’t have been necessary but it did work.
Obviously something went very very haywire with this project.
In a few days I will probably post a question about how to package together all the resources for a project once it is all done. I know the Media Manager can do this but I don’t know what the best practices are for using it. By the way, I am shocked how many external firewire and USB drives are cluttering my desk….I’m shooting 720p video and its eating through drives like nobody’s business! 🙂
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“When you choose THOSE files, FCP starts looking for RENDER files?”
Yes.
“It shouldn’t. Not unless you imported RENDER files as MEDIA files, like Walter mentioned.”
No, didn’t do that.
“In the timeline… when you scrub thru the sequence, can you SEE something on the Canvas? ”
All I see in the Canvas is the red background with “Media Offline” in white text. I also see the same red background/white text in the timeline.
“You can try to trash preferences, then relaunch FCP, then try again.”
I haven’t tried that yet. I did try trashing the thumbnail cache but that didn’t work.
“https://www.digitalrebellion.com get PREFERENCE MANAGER…free…and it trashes prefs for you. ”
Cool I will try that.