Walter Biscardi
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[John Davidson] “Walter, we may have similar past experiences working for CNN in regards to this. The best thing about working there was was using those facilities for personal stuff during off hours. It helped make up for low pay!”
Absolutely. That and the ability to really learn the gear on our own time.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
Lots on the potential plate both from outside clients and my MTWD Entertainment development company.
We’re also in the midst of a “re-invention” of Biscardi Creative Media both in terms of our business model and our brand / services to better respond to client needs and open the door to new avenues of work.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
[Rich Rubasch] “How do you address these youngsters with a career already in progress who also want a full time gig? I have my own ideas but wondering if you have a specific policy you set as to your expectations as you consider a new hire.”
As long as they’re not doing work for a direct competitor, I have no issues with it. Keeps them creative, they can try out and learn things if they’re working on different kinds of projects and bring that knowledge back to our shop.
I even let them use my shop on their own time if they want to. That IS a company policy.
Sometimes they need some help with the projects and then we can bring that element of the work into the shop.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
That machine will rock PPro CC. I have the 2010 8 core with the K5000 and only 16GB RAM. Rocks.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
If the Post house is using Premiere Pro, no reason to transcode anything. BUT you have to be VERY well organized with all of your media elements.
As others have suggested, talk to the Post House that will be completing the project NOW before you do ANYTHING. Don’t even organize your footage yet until you talk to them. Each Post house has a way they prefer to organize a project and their workflow through to finish. You want to set up your project to their needs.
We always try to talk to producers and other editors who will finish with us before they touch one frame of footage.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
What type and how big is your media array? Sounds like too small of a media array or too slow of a connection.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
Are you using Premiere Pro CC or CS6? In CS6 Media relinking is terrible. You will have to do a lot of manual relinking.
In CC this is one of the biggest improvements with the tool. It can relink MUCH faster.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
[Joe Chow] “. Recently, a project with with untranscoded Canon C-300 footage played back fine until I dropped a Fast Color Corrector filter on several clips. Even at ¼ resolution it got all stuttery and export time slowed whenever Media Encoder got to the clips with filters. On another project using transcoded ProRes footage, a 9 minute sequence with only 1 edit in it plus the Fast Color Corrector required 3 hours to output. Playback also wasn’t too smooth. When I did a test and removed the filter, the sequence took only 15 minutes to output. So I figure my computer/graphics card is probably not playing nice with Premiere and/or Media Encoder. My question is: why? Should I not have updated each time Creative Cloud informed me that updates were available?”
What media array are you using? When playing back ProRes, that means you’re now using Quicktime video playback which has always been slower than native. You don’t get near the realtime functionality with any Quicktime format that you do with native files in PPro.
Sounds like you either have a slow or a nearly full media array at first glance.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
There is no standard really. If you are represented by an agent you can generally get more, but if they are simply asking, just start with a number you feel comfortable with as an initial bid.
Or you can say “Yes the rights are available, what is your proposal for payment?”
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People. -
Whoever installed the systems should have run all the updates. On a Mac you require Admin access to do this, not sure how your system is set up.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative MediaSoutheast Creative Summit, Returning in 2014!
Foul Water Fiery Serpent, an original documentary featuring Sigourney Weaver. US & European distribution by American Public Television
MTWD Entertainment – Developing original content for all media.
“This American Land” – our new PBS Series.
“Science Nation” – Three years and counting of Science for the People.