[Steve Watkins]

nicely done!

[Steve Watkins]

they there. since we last talked. I have become the only (or lead) A.E. on a reality show for VH1. this show is a mother. we shot 5/7d and hd vercam. we had two audio mixers recording to stand alone units. the director shot jpg sequences in rapid fire succession on the 5d, that play back like time-laps. We also have editors that work in house and remotely. We’re working in MC 3 (no a2a). before this job i had never worked in avid. so as you can imagine, I’ve been thrown into the fire.

I just wanted to write you and let you know that with a greater understanding of the whole process, i see why my question to you was vague at best.

thanks for taking the time to answer and help me out.

– Steve

p.s. i’m on the hunt for a good program that will let me screen capture (.mov not still) in HD. can you recomend anything?

[Steve Watkins]

I’ll check it out. Thanks Ricky

[Steve Watkins]

no sorry for the confusion. The editor for this project is on MC v3. I was wondering if there was a way to use FCP to import and then transfer the footage to avid. Just like you mentioned. I’m just trying to get an idea of how long that whole process would take.

clipwrap takes 3x real time to convert and then more time to import into avid.

how long do you think it would take to bring it in to FCP and convert it with Compressor.

thanks

Steve

P.S. the footage is coming from the Panasonic 3CCD AVCCAM.

[Steve Watkins]

First of all, thumbs up for the Bill Hicks quote. He’s one of my favs.

i was wondering if there was a way to use FCP for this. do you have a rough idea of how long the total conversion process took you? Using clipwrap, 1 hr of footage took 3.24 hrs to convert and that’s not including import into avid time. I have 12 hrs of footage to convert and there’s some time pressure.

– Steve

[Steve Watkins]

will do. A good looking, versatile master, sounds perfect.

I have taken your advice about working backwards to heart. with the exception of color, I am the entire post team and the G5/FCP is my post house. it’s very different from the TV production i’m used to. So i’m learning a lot, to say the least. thanks for the help.

[Steve Watkins]

I am in the LA area and have worked for MTV as well.

Look I’m just trying to make the best music video I can. a lot of friends donated their time on the shoot and this will go on all our reels.

The color house is a pro place that handles features, commercials and other well funded productions. My producing team and I have banked a a lot of favors, with local pros, over the years and we called them all in for this.

So I’m sitting here with beautiful footage and a non intel G5. the DVCProHD files play back wonderfully on my system. If it’s possible to up res on my system, great. If not I’ll find a work around. maybe even the color house, if they’re feeling generous.

I will call the color place and ask what format they would like the video in. I was wondering what frame size my final should be.

When my master’s colored can’t I convert it from there to DVD quality, web quality and maybe blue ray?

[Steve Watkins]

the color house is using a stand alone system. it’s like a DaVinci (he says it’s better). I didn’t think the frame size had anything to do with color.

[Steve Watkins]

Thanks for taking the time to help me out.

all good points. the project lives on a TB external drive (backed up else where). I’m happy to do the up res at my place on my G5 to the drive or I could take it to the color house and use one of their faster computers. I don’t want to impose though. They are coloring the video for free, doing my team and I a favor.

as for the “Master”; If I was a production company making a music video for a band/label how would I deliver the master? how would they send it to MTV/FUSE/MuchMusic for airplay? and would that be the highest quality the production company would export? I just want to end up with the highest quality music video as the footage allows.

[Steve Watkins]

thanks for the advice. you’re a bigger gun than i, in this world.

this is a music video that I’m directing and cutting (at home) the color place is 100% pro with pro gear and he’s doing it as a favor to my producers and I.

so “delivery requirement”, meaning the desired final product or how I had it to my color house?

I guess I just want the sharpest picture possible right? is there a standard delivery format for HD music videos?

I think I’m not being as clear as I can. I’m trying though