Editing
by PVC Staff
Monday, June 16, 2008
It’s not the budget, it’s where you put the camera!
Equipment doesn’t make the image; people do. I proved this on a music video recently where we had more people than equipment.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
In LA? Hire this editor!
Shameless plug - editor for hire
I’m decompressing from “Maelstrom” and catching up on email that accumulated during the shoot, and I notice that Los Angeles-based editor Sharon Franklin is looking for gigs. She says,
Ideally, I’d love to get on a feature film or television series. I’m especially interested in working on projects for Discovery or The History Channel. I am a member of the Editors Guild, so I’m qualified to work union jobs. In fact, that would be my preference.
She’s one of the most “natural” editors I know. She has a sense of style and rhythm, but she doesn’t force them on the material: the story always comes first. I’ve seen some of the source material she’s had to work with, and she can pull coverage and continuity out of thin air. You could do a lot worse than have her cut your show. Contact Sharon Franklin at (310) 927-6220, or editrixstar at yahoo dot com
(We now return you to your regularly scheduled program, already in progress… “Maelstrom” notes will follow in the next three days, before I head off to CineGear Expo...)
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Compression Artifacts & Pulldown
A question about a ghost leads to discourses on 3:2 pulldown and the QuickTime codec dialog.
This started as a quick post about how to gain finer control over the compression settings in the QuickTime dialog. But before we can get there, we first need to talk talk about how 3:2 pulldown works. (Trust me; it all ties together; it was also a good little mystery.)
I recently gave a training session at a local studio, and at the end they were invited to trot out their Barney Stumpers (questions about why something went wrong, how something works, etc.). For one stumper, a user had some footage with 3:2 pulldown, and after pulldown was removed, he noticed that an after-image of the previous frame appeared in the next frame after an edit. Why?
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
On Artbeats.com: Article on Editing to Sound
Over on Artbeats.com, we’ve written a treatise on frame rates.
Every month, we write a Tips N Tricks article for our friends at Artbeats.com. This month we wrote a piece about spotting hit points in music and dialog, plus a series of pointers on how to place edit points, transitions, and animation keyframes based on these hit points. We strongly believe the tight integration between audio and video is a secret weapon that can be used to raise your productions above the rest; we hope you find this introduction worthwhile.
Click here to download a 333 KB PDF of “Editing to Sound” from Artbeats.com.
While we’re talking about Artbeats, Steve Holmes (formerly of Total Training) also just created for Artbeats a new video tutorial that shows you how to “step through time with an innovative look at the evolution of energy.” You can download the 36+ minute tutorial from Artbeats.com by clicking here.
By the way, if you’d like to share one of your own projects with Artbeats and their customers, email them - if they choose yours, you’ll get $1000 worth of free Artbeats footage of your choice!
Artbeats has a monthly email newsletter which contains links to each of our articles for them as they are released, plus a link for registered users to download a free full-size clip every month. Click here to register.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
What’s in a Name?
Manage Your File Names without Leaving the Browser
As any editor knows, good media management begins by establishing proper naming conventions. In a perfect world, proper clip names would be entered during the logging stage. However, due to tight deadlines or perhaps shear laziness on the part of the editor, media file names are sometimes injested or captured with non-descript file names such as “untitled” or, as is the case with the Panasonic AG-HVX200, transferred with their 6 digit camera-assigned file names. This article will show you how to rename your files directly in the Browser using Final Cut Pro 6. Below is an screen shot of an edit in progress using clips transferred from an AG-HVX200.
Before you can rename the file, you first must locate the Master clip. Park your playhead over the clip to be renamed, then press Shift-F to reveal the clip in the Browser. The clip will become selected.
In the Browser, give your clip a meaningful name.
From the Modify Menu choose Rename>File to Match Clip.
You will be warned that what you are about to do will modify the original file. Go ahead, live life on the edge…
Because of Final Cut Pro’s Master/Affiliate clip architecture, all Affiliate clips that reference the Master clip will be renamed.
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Tapeless Workflows, a Jump to the Past?
We in the post world are on the verge of an explosion in media management, and it isn’t a pretty sight. The worst part is that even though it is billed as the future, it really is a bast from the past. That is going to be very trying on many of the new production and post crowd who haven’t been raised with the disciplines of the old workflows.
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