[Steven Gonzales]

There is also a forum on the COW which is demo reels, and you might get some good links and/or comments there.

[Steven Gonzales]

Maybe you can write them yourself:

https://www.fxscriptreference.org/

[Steven Gonzales]

Good prep for you interview would be:

read the book Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing by Vincent LoBrutto, and see which type of questions and responses you found valuable.

For a longer format exploration, check out The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje

[Steven Gonzales]

According to tech info on IMDB, No Country for Old Men was shot on 35mm film (Kodak Vision2 100T 5212, Vision2 200T 5217, Vision2 500T 5218) using Zeiss Master Prime lenses.

And most importantly, it was shot using Roger Deakins.

https://www.rogerdeakins.com/ has a forum where he posts frequently.

[Steven Gonzales]

I second Shane’s suggestion. Figure out your final product (will you cut negative? Will you create a digital intermediate? Will you online from a high quality telecine, such as HDCAM?)

Then find out what you have to deliver (including how sound will finish). Once you know what you have to deliver, then you can plan your workflow.

If you know where the finish line is, you can plan your racing strategy.

[Steven Gonzales]

You could use Automator to change file type and creator quickly:

https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/changefiletypeandcreator.html

[Steven Gonzales]

I have synced video from HVX with audio recorded separately, and I didn’t have a problem.

I had slates, so I marked the slate in the audio, brought it into a timeline set for HVX format (should have 16 bit 48kHz audio). Then bring in the video and match them up. Link them and drag them to the browser, and you should have a merge clip that works fine.

[Steven Gonzales]

Audio doesn’t really have a fps. It could have been recorded with 24 frame timecode as an addressing scheme, but it is recorded at a certain sample rate, and that determines the timing.

How about a little more information about the video format and the sound recording format?

[Steven Gonzales]

If this setup hasn’t worked before, you might have the wrong cable. There are many mini-din 8 to DB9 cables for printers, but they don’t work for deck control since they are pinned for RS232.

Addenda has a mac to rs422 cable listed here if you want to buy one. I had to make one in an emergency once, and it’s way easier to buy one:

https://www.addenda-elect.com/product.htm

Also, pipeline digital https://www.pipelinedigital.com/adaptcm9.html

Here’s the mac mini din 8 to rs422 9pin breakdown:

TXD- mac pin 3 rs422 pin 8 RX-
GND mac pin 4 rs422 pin 4 AND 6 RX Gnd, TX Gnd
RXD- mac pin 5 rs422 pin 2 TX-
TXD+ mac pin 6 rs422 pin 3 RX+
RXD+ mac pin 8 rs422 pin 7 TX+

———
/ 8 7 6 \
( 5 4 3 )
\ 2 1 /
———

——————-
\ 1 2 3 4 5 /
\ 6 7 8 9 /
—————

[Steven Gonzales]

If this setup hasn’t worked before, you might have the wrong cable. There are many mini-din 8 to DB9 cables for printers, but they don’t work for deck control since they are pinned for RS232.

Addenda has a mac to rs422 cable listed here if you want to buy one. I had to make one in an emergency once, and it’s way easier to buy one:

https://www.addenda-elect.com/product.htm

Also, pipeline digital https://www.pipelinedigital.com/adaptcm9.html

Here’s the mac mini din 8 to rs422 9pin breakdown:

TXD- mac pin 3 rs422 pin 8 RX-
GND mac pin 4 rs422 pin 4 AND 6 RX Gnd, TX Gnd
RXD- mac pin 5 rs422 pin 2 TX-
TXD+ mac pin 6 rs422 pin 3 RX+
RXD+ mac pin 8 rs422 pin 7 TX+

———
/ 8 7 6 \
( 5 4 3 )
\ 2 1 /
———

——————-
\ 1 2 3 4 5 /
\ 6 7 8 9 /
—————