Walter Biscardi
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[Andreas Ahston] “I’ll try and move the autosave location to the internal. That is a good idea. “
We keep all project and Autosave files on the internal computers.
[Andreas Ahston] “For bigger projects I convert to prores.”
We stopped transcoding 2 years ago when we realized the native workflow just works. We output a ProRes or DNxHD file at the end of the editing process. This is for all projects large or small. When you create ProRes files you’re creating much larger files, the larger the files, the larger the project, the more prone you are to crashes when Premiere Pro cannot access the data fast enough.
Most crashes to all the NLEs can be traced back to the software not getting the data it requests fast enough. So the software hangs and then crashes.
I edit off a single USB3 bus powered drive with my MacBook Air at home, but we run a full 100TB media server at the office. As you can imagine, the performance on my MacBook Air is much slower than on the SAN systems at the office. But it’s functional and I make sure to work at a slower pace because I know that if I try to do too many things at once, I can crash the system just because it’s underpowered.
But I’m able to edit both HD and 4k quite easily with this smaller setup. I just slow my process down a bit and be more deliberate with all of my steps.
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We haven’t edited with the 1080 proxies, just the full 4k files from the GH4. I haven’t found the proxy workflow necessary yet, even with a MacBook Air and a single USB3 drive. I turn the resolution in the Source and Program monitors down to 1/8 for most of the editing.
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[Nick Griffin] “And Walter, the part that I see as being somewhat negative, and yes potentially brilliant, is giving people an activity which takes them away from watching a competitor’s spot.
“But if you don’t say anything about the competitor, how is that negative? Volvo isn’t saying, “You should buy us instead of Chevy.” All they’re saying is, “see a car ad? nominate someone to win one of our cars.”
They’re just winning eyeballs there. Negativity is saying something against your competitor. Clever is getting you to look away from your competitor because you gave them a reason to do so.
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I didn’t see that Volvo campaign but that’s brilliant. It’s not really negative, basically the same as a grocery store honoring a competitor’s coupons. Negative is “when you see another car ad tell us how much better our cars are than theirs.” In this case it was “see another car ad, well tell us about it and you might win one of ours instead.”
Personally I think that’s clever.
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[Mark Suszko] “If anybody has a good link to tech details of the staging and lighting/ projection for the halftime show, I’d appreciate the tip. The chess piece dance was almost vertigo-inducing, in a GOOD way.
“Here’s the website of Super Bowl Productions that puts on the show each year.
https://www.superbowlproductions.com
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[Aaron Cadieux] “Got any tips for landing a Netflix deal?”
You need to go through an agent or production company who has already secured deals with Netflix. They’re out there.
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[Aaron Cadieux] “Here’s what I’m wondering. Being that I made so little money on the network deal, would I have been better off offering the following deal to the network? “You guys can have the film for free if providing you keep the original title, plug our film’s web site and promote the fact that the film is available for purchase on Blu-ray and DVD.””
No leverage to even offer something like that. Regardless of whether it’s free, they would probably change the title to best suit their marketing efforts.
DVD and BluRay sales probably won’t net you much, at least in my opinion. You’re better off approaching Hulu / Netflix / Amazon / Google Play / iTunes to make additional money on the digital distribution. This should all count as internet rights though I would definitely have a lawyer check the contract to make sure they don’t control the digital streaming rights.
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[jeff openshaw] “Thank you for your response. I would never have guessed that. My boss was asking if I could do this in post production.”
Sure that’s super simple. You can either crop and place the video or use a Matte to place the video into.
Then lay the graphics alongside however you see fit.
It’s just a multi-layered screen. It’s easy to do in both PPro and AE.
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That’s switched live during the event through a production switcher. Live camera is feeding the speaker walking around and the rest of the screen is filled with the graphic. The camera operator keeps the speaker centered and that image is cropped and put into the proper location by the technical director.
Super easy to do live and can also be pretty easily created in graphics.
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[Chris Borjis] “I’ll just add to make certain you have a fairly high end edit
system with at least 32 gb of ram and a good GPU (ATI or NVidia) with 4gb of ram
on board.”Yes, this would be ideal, but I will say I edit UHD materials at home quite often with a base MacBook Air with only 4GB of RAM off a single 1TB USB 3 bus powered drive. Putting the resolution at 1/8 on the viewer and master allows me to cut quite well actually, it blows me away.
This is cutting native files from the Panasonic GH4 and ProRes 4k files from the Blackmagic 4k Production camera primarily. We shoot 4k / 23.98. It’s a brave new world for sure.
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