Tom Meegan
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Heather,
The requirements you mention are background engineering concepts and standards important to editing in almost all professional settings.
Learning the practical implications of those standards and concepts for an editing career is like acquiring grammar skills and a decent vocabulary for a professional writer.
If you don’t have a formal background you must acquire the knowledge by accretion and determination.
Start with wikipedia and the forums here on the Cow – read and read and ask specific questions.
Get yourself in an edit chair and start working and learning anyway you can. Search out edit pros who live and work near you and offer to work for free to learn. Enthusiasm and the ability to remember what you have been told go a long way.
Know that all of those topics are very deep – you won’t need to learn and know everything, but it will take some time before you know how much you need. Don’t get intimidated by the technical stuff. Keep asking questions and finding ways to get work and you will gradually acquire the chops you will need.
Best of luck.
Tom Meegan
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I know you are on a budget, and I understand. I’ve put in a lot of time in front of a variety of low end / home made edit desks. What follows is just my experience – your mileage may vary.
In 2006 I spent about 3K on a desk and separate rolling rack from TBC Consoles. It may well be the best 3K I’ve ever spent on professional equipment.
I’ve had two years of comfort at this desk and anticipate many more. It makes everything a little more pleasant all day long.
Best,
Tom
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Open the mixing tool. This will allow you to quickly change the playback from the viewer.
Not really fast, but better than nothing.
Best,
Tom
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Steve,
The conversation you describe is a hard to read without tone of voice and body language.
The fact that you were packing while viewing did make it a little more clear that your editor was actually begging for his life when he said, “It’s not misspelled…” 🙂
You guys might enjoy this:
https://www.box.net/shared/static/q7flea606y.mov
The relevance to this thread is the misspelled chyron in the middle.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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The curve represents the math of the sound going down gradually:
https://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/dB.html
Logarithmic. The software engineers apparently wanted the curve to be represented in the interface in a mathematically accurate way.
The way you perceive it is a straight line (linear) – full volume to silent. Has to do with the way we perceive things. F-Stops with their odd numbers – also caused by the way we perceive light, similar to sound, logarithmic, blah, blah, blah –
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=71897
In the end listen to the fade and decide if is sounds good to you.
If it does not sound good or right to you:
Look up “record audio keyframes” in your manual and do the fade with the mixer letting FCP add keyframes for you. This way you can tweak the fade to sound just the way you want it to.
If you don’t want to crack the manual here is a link for you:
Alternatively add points manually in the timeline and tweak until it sounds right to you. Just ignore the way the curve is shaped and listen.
Best,
Tom
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I don’t know whether Walter Murch does workshops or not.
I do recommend The Maine Media Workshops. Just make sure your expectations are aligned with the goals of the workshop you choose, and show up ready to work hard.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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Use the J-K-L keys.
L = play
K = stop
J = play reverse
K and L together = play slow
J and L together = play slow reverse
K and tap L = advance one frame
K and tap J = reverse one framealso:
Shift Forward Arrow = advance one second
Shift Backward Arrow = reverse one secondI understand the desire to zoom into the scrubber bar on the viewer, however, once I got used to those keyboard commands I was much faster.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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https://www.tomshardware.com/forum/143529-33-what-half
Hadn’t heard of it, but googled half d1 and come up with that link.
Edit as normal, and research a compression solution that will work.
Best,
Tom Meegan
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Why do you want to avoid nesting?
Nesting works the way you describe – just open the nest as a sequence and make modifications there.
Also you can create nests with larger resolutions than your main sequence to allow you to maintain the resolutions of your original files.
Of topic a little bit – Final Cut does a good job of simple motion graphics and compositing, but Motion or After Effects are more specialized tools for graphics work.
Best,
Tom
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I like the Genelec 8030a. A little more expensive than the other two options mentioned above, but worth a listen if they are in your price range.
Best,
Tom Meegan