Terence Curren
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They are too different beasts.
Interplay is a shared way of working with lots of assorted media.
Pilotware is more of an advanced logging program. You will benefit more form Pilotware for a Reality show than you will from Interplay.
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Depends upon your system and the quality you have selected for the motion effect.
A Symphony Nitris Classic will have no problem with the basic effect. An Adrenaline might. If you decide to go with a higher quality render, you will also lose RT.
BTW: Once you see this in action you will be nothing short of amazed!
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[Anja Schütz] “how I get these menu commands (from the fast menu) on my keyboard”
Not every menu item can be mapped, but most can. You need to open the keyboard setting under the settings tab. Then open the Command palette from the Tools menu.
In the Command Palette, select ‘Menu to Button’ Reassignment on the bottom.
Now when you move the cursor over the keyboard graphic, you will see the icon change. Select the key you want to map the menu item to. It will stay highlighted as if depressed. Now go to the menu item you want and select it. Now it is mapped to that key on your keyboard.
All this and more can be found in the Media Composer Help under the help menu.
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Well, if you are going to drag Rodriguez in…. let’s get a balanced perspective:
https://www.americanmovieworks.com/articles/Robert%20Rodriguez.html
Back to the school question. Correct me if I’m wrong Bob, but didn’t you have some engineering schooling in your past? How come you have no qualms about broaching a new area of technical learning? Could it be because you have some good foundations in the past?
That’s all we are saying about film school. Will it make you a filmmaker? Not necessarily. Could you become one without it? yes. Will it make it easier to become one? Absolutely!
We learn from mistakes. No one has time to make all the mistakes in their lifetime. So learning from other’s mistakes saves us time. This is where film school comes in. Why reinvent the wheel if someone already did it? Why not focus on making better from the point it is at?
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[Shane Ross] “School teaches the BASICS…the building blocks that you use to help you better tell a story.”
Bingo. How are you going to learn to “answer a question with a cut” without someone giving you that little nugget? I learned that over 20 years ago in an editing class. It has served me well.
[Shane Ross] “OH, another great thing about school…having access to other students as cast and crew…for free! because they are learning too. “
And to add to that, having deadlines to turn in projects. It’s a great motivator for actually getting things done even if they aren’t perfect.
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[Jon Zanone] “n my HUMBLE opinion, the most important part of being an editor is learning to work WITH people.”
This is true in almost every job out there. It is also something you all learned in school. From getting along with other kids on the playground to figuring out what the teacher wanted and delivering it. Memorizing some date in history is not the value of school, getting prepared for the social interaction of the real world is.
Unfortunately we are going into the second generation of kids who would rather play video games than interact with others. Sort of a bleak outlook for society. (how was that for a thread hijack?)
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You need to modify the actual sequence. select the sequence in the bin. Right click. Select modify. Then go to format. You should see an option to go to 720P 60.
I don’t remember if you have to do this in the original 30 frame project or in the 60 frame project. But this is how it is done.
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RTFM. You need to modify the sequence to a 720P 60 sequence, then decompose and recapture in a 720P 60 project.
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In the old days you took a job as a floor sweeper, worked to assistant editor and learned from those you were training under. Nowadays that world is almost completely gone so you have to learn on your own or go to school.
Gotta agree with Shane here. You can learn to use the software almost anywhere, including on your own.
To learn why to make a cut is the art of editing. Like any art, it is a lifelong learning process. A good film school will give you the language of film. Consider it grammar school.If you want a jump start that is equivalent to the first semester of an editing class, check out this DVD:
https://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Edge-Magic-Movie-Editing/dp/B0009PVZEG
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Just sent you his contact info offlist.
Yes, he runs both FCP and Avid on the same drive. He is also crazier than I am….
The trap is you can never update FCP and OSX past wherever MC is supported.
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