Todd Terry
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Gary…
I loathe this kind of discussion in public, but you are forcing my hand. Plain and simply, you are behaving like a child.
Perhaps you are having a bad day, and if so, we are sorry. Maybe you got up late, or your dog is sick, or you accidently spilled milk. Or maybe it is just your usual MO of highjacking a thread with snarky and condescending comments (I don’t know you or recognize your name but a five-second search of past threads leads me to believe that is the case).
You make very valid points, but they are cloaked in such a cloud of derision and condescension that it is hard to give them any merit.
It’s a bit like Bob Zelin but without the humor or personality.
As an moderator in this usually very friendly and very helpful forum for the better part of a decade, it’s very clear that whatever you are doing is not appropriate.
This is not the time or place for your behavior.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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No, I think Rick typed exactly what he meant. With which I agree.
Then again, maybe I just need to get over myself. I believe that has been suggested.
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Children… please…. quit sniping like a bunch of six year olds. This is not a Real Housewives audition… lets stop it before someone gets a drink thrown in their face.
All valid points… lets just concede that Kane was Welles’ first major feature film and leave it at that, which is true.
And part of what made it great is the fact that it was his first big film, with those “fresh eyes” that were mentioned… and backed up by brilliant people like Toland.
I think it’s a bit telling that out of his long and successful career, Welles’ first film is considered his masterpiece, and many would argue that nothing else in the following two-thirds of a century even came close. Which is actually a bit sad.
And yes… I’m sure years of writing and radio directing and all that jazz helped immensely… but still…. it’s a bit akin to commissioning a piece from a gifted artist renowned for his oil landscapes… but this time you are wanting a sculpture. Of a person. In bronze. The talent transcends to a degree, but it’s still a very very different medium.
Play nice.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Sorry for the late response….
I don’t think I de-interlaced. This was an interlaced clip if I recall, right? Assuming it was, I put it on an interlaced timeline… I used whatever the exact same specs as the file had for the timeline.
As for whether it could be a Mac issue, I couldn’t say. I’ve only barely touched a Mac maybe a half dozen times in my life, and most of those where just helping someone move one. I’m totally a PC guy.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I do not know what this problem is, but I can tell you what it is not…
This is not a Premiere issue. Premiere does not in any way shape or form change the resolution, size, or properties of a clip that is imported… no matter what your project settings or timeline specs are. It simply cannot happen, it doesn’t work that way. Files are imported “as is,” they are not changed, transcoded, or modified in any way by Premiere through the act of importing them.
Even if you had a Premiere sequence set to the lowest possible frame size and resolution, and with some different frame rate, when you import, say, a 1080 23.976 clip it will still be a 1080 23.976 clip when you import it, and it will still have those specs after you put it on a timeline.
If you have these “incorrect” file specs not only in Premiere, not only on the one computer, and on multiple ways of viewing the clip (say, just watching it in something like VLC player), then that is what the clip specs are… nothing is happening to it.
I’d say it is obviously a camera issue… I’m 99% sure of that. Either the record specs are not set to what you think they are, or there is a camera problem that is causing the clips to be recorded at specs that are different than what your settings are.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I’m not sure of the file size limits, but we use Hightail for sending all big files. Works pretty flawlessly.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I think it’s a pretty clear call that LED instruments are by far the lightest weight (per output), and will also fare best as far as abuse/shipping goes.
Now, what flavors and brands, I couldn’t say. Our lighting arsenal is a total mishmash of stuff, so I’ve never been married that much to any one brand (except for fresnels, love LTM peppers).
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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If you don’t have releases for “general crowd” people, you are probably ok with the State’s release.
However at the very minimum you should get releases for people you interview on camera. Those fortunately are the easy ones, you just get them at the time of their shoot. Usually having them sign before the shoot is easier to remember, as soon as a shoot wraps it tends to be easier to forget.
T2
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Those blown-out whites of the backlights are above 100%. If the blown-out look (absolutely pure white, no detail whatsoever) look is ok or artistically what you want… then going over 100 is ok.
Just remember there is NO detail in anything over 100 though… it’s completely solid white, and you can’t get it back should you change your mind… so as long as you are sure about that and that’s the look you are after, it’s ok.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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Yes those almost-straight-on closeups in “Lambs” are bone-chilling. Tak is one of my favorite (and I think under-appreciated) cinematographers. He had a little flag juuuuuust off the lens axis for his actors’ eyelines in those shots. I just re-watched The Sixth Sense a couple of nights ago… just beautiful. And I take some joy in that he started as a DP doing commercials. His stuff is so beautiful.
And Hopkins’ Lecter is, like the Dentist in LSOH, one of those total-show-stealers. Hard to believe he has less than 15 minutes of screen time in it.
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Todd Terry
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Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
