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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: creativity - 14 years agoQuoteSteve wrote: hi i teach in a small college in the uk and wondered if there were any other video production lecturers who could share some ideas with me on teaching creativity? in a video production course it could become easy to get bogged down teaching the technical aspects of the course. students - and everyone else, it seems - are obsessed with the quality of picture over the actual quaby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Editing Reel Comments and Criticism - 14 years agohey, Jordan, I didn't find the reel being commented on, but I liked the movies you have posted on your website. I think they are excellent and they show a lot of talent. Keep up the good work. Vicby filmman - Show and Tell Re: White Desert - 14 years agoI liked the movie, YongHwan. I think it's very creative. You really should stick with your own vision. When it comes to technical help, you should definitely listen to experts in this thread; they are mostly editors and many are FCP and NLE experts. This is not a creative forum. If it were they wouldn't be telling you how to write, direct or shoot film. What you have is a fresh approach to filby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agoOh, Joey, it's so good to hear you agree with me on one point.LOL The rest of the points you make I don't agree with, but they would be off topic for this thread ... and besides they would require too much debate, so I leave them alone. This thread is about bad editing / bad pacing, and I think I've said all that I want to say on the subject. Since you have shown so much personal interest iby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agostrypes, here is the link I'd like you to see:by filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agoNo, you're right, strypes:digital video is a great teaching tool; but what I was trying to say is that the new revolution in motion picture technology, namely the proliferation of digital cameras and digital editing software, has led to bad editing practices. The discipline of the classical way of shooting and editing movies is being lost. So, yeah, perhaps "brainwashed" was a bad teby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agoI agree 100% with Joey again: Quote...which is why I originally suggested to do it himself from scratch. A teacher should not show students bad cutting to the extent that they get trapped in it psychologically. It's better showing them a superbly edited movie and then demonstrate whey the scenes were cut the way they were and what the mistakes would have been if a few frames were edited this waby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agoI agree 100% with Joey on this:QuoteWhat you need to do is GET PERMISSION to use a Feature in your class and chop it up / rearrange the cuts and have your students break it down as to why each cut does not work. video: [<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application]by filmman - Show and Tell Re: Bad Editing / Bad Pacing - 14 years agohey, Mike, you have been very helpful to me, so let me suggest you look over the chapter on editing in FILMMAKING A TO Z. Here is the link: best how-to film book on Amazon.com I think most movie are badly edited and in fact I consider it the number one reason why so few movies get picked up for distribution. Digital editing has opened the floodgates for filmmakers to edit their own movies. I tby filmman - Show and Tell Re: Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agoBut I enjoy the human interaction, Andrew. Thanks for the tip about "exporting still". I ought to remember that, because I could also type "best HD workflow for feature films" and maybe it would tell me how to deat with HDV ... but that's another thread. Only I will wait until the new feature I'm developing gets funded in a month or two. There are so many ways to export a sby filmman - Café LA Re: Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agoWow Tom! That is so empowering thanks for cutting through all that for me. I can get all my still completed in a fourth of the time.by filmman - Café LA Re: Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agothanks for responding, Ben. So if I set a still frame as 4 seconds in the User Preferences, and I do a "freeze frame" in the Viewer and drag that freeze frame to the Browser and then "export" via Conversion and select "Still Image" (PNG, Targa or Photoshop, etc), all I will be doing is exporting one image -- is this right? Ok, if I have understood this correctly tby filmman - Café LA Re: Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agook, Derek, so what you're saying is that the freeze frame file exported is simply the few frames saved? Then there is no need to do a subclip. But my question is really how to export an HDV freeze frame still? How many frames should it be, on account of the 15 frame GOP structure of HDV?by filmman - Café LA Re: Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agoso I wouldn't export a half an hour clip with the freeze frame. the subclip reduces the size of the export -- no?by filmman - Café LA Ghosts of I frames on Holloween Nite 2 an HDV Native - 14 years agoI was trying to export some stills from my FCP 5.04 HDV timeline. 1) I set my still frame in User Preferences to 2 frames. 2) I "froze" the frames I wanted from my HDV timeline. 3) I "modified" the frozen frames to "Sub-clips". 4) I exported targas (.tga) as stills via "export as conversion". 5) Most of my images were blank - white! Could it be thby filmman - Café LA Re: reframing and croping from 16:9 to 4:3, final master format - 14 years agomaltess, your best bet is what Derek hinted at: use the 2.35:1 filter provided in FCP to cut down on the "air" in the shots.by filmman - Café LA Re: How to export/master HDV pro-res edit - 14 years agoThank again. Carpboy asked about mastering his 1920x1080 footage together with his 720x480 footage to Blu-ray and some other HD format. What is the Blu-ray format? 720x480 Anamorphic, displaying as 1280x853? What is the HD format? Isn't it 1920x1080, displaying as 2k when when transferred to 35mm film?by filmman - Café LA Re: How to export/master HDV pro-res edit - 14 years agoThanks Ben. So the upres works best for the HDV footage, and, therefore, Carpboy will be able to upres his HDV successfully to 1920x1080 and end up with a flat 16:9 format, which he can then master it to Blu-ray or some other 2k format. As for his VD footage, then, he is stuck with the 720x405 resolution, in which case he may upres it to a bit larger format and "letterbox" it in somby filmman - Café LA Re: How to export/master HDV pro-res edit - 14 years agoQuoteCarpboyI've diligently been capturing HDV and DV for my film intending to convert SD.... but I'd rather maintain HD finished product and deliver an HD master or a blu-ray master. QuoteNickso you intend to Convert your DV footage to HD ProRes, and edit in a Prores timeline? ...use compressor to do the up-res, for best results, set everything to BEST in the Frame Controls panel. (one questiby filmman - Café LA Re: Help! besides a flyswatter... - 14 years agocut away to the Golden Gate Bridge ... or the Bay Bridge cut to another shot of him doing another line and make it work by lip synching the new scene don't you have a medium shot or long shot -- cut that in and make the lip synch work again somehow. if everything fails, do an insert of a hand catching the fly and smashing it against the wall or table. In a recent interview with Obama, hby filmman - Café LA Re: Sony's answer to HDV iLink to Deck - 14 years agothanks for the clarification regarding FCP 6.06 running on the G5 non-Intel. So ProRes is possible without having to buy a new computer.... but then if I upgrade so I can have ProRes, why would I want to edit in HDV and have to deal with the 15 GOP conforming slowdown?by filmman - Café LA Re: Sony's answer to HDV iLink to Deck - 14 years agoYes, to all, but it says in the manuals and expert advice that we can edit HDV NATIVELY. Uh, no, we can't! Even if it's a ten second Youtube feature; why should we? It's going to get a "generational hit." I don't anticipate spending another $10,000 and upgrading to FCP 7 yet, just so I can have ProRes. If I had known that HDV wasn't meant for editing, PERIOD, I wouldn't have editedby filmman - Café LA Re: Sony's answer to HDV iLink to Deck - 14 years agoQuoteJeff(from the Segue to FCP HD thread) Seriously. Any day now, I expect MPEG-2 to get fed up with the whole mess and for all the world's HDV cameras to start outputting frame after frame of static, punctuated by occasional crayon-drawings of dicks. Sorry, I can't let you take that back.LOL It's too good. Why? QuoteJeffWhy shouldn't you edit HDV? Because that misnamed "conforming&quoby filmman - Café LA Re: Sony's answer to HDV iLink to Deck - 14 years agoQuoteBenI wanted to know if the random grabbing of footage just starts on the next available I frame then keeps the subsequent GoP structure the same. I don't think so. Jeff wrote an amazing analysis of why HDV must never be edited as HDV. It must always be converted to a non-GOP file before doing any editing to it. This is a major revelation. Nobody put it so clearly as Jeff did in the Segueby filmman - Café LA Re: Segue to FCP HD - 14 years agoQuoteJeffFirst it performs a veritable miracle for us by compressing gobs and gobs of frames down to a bitstream weak and thin enough to be smeared over consumer-grade 4mm data tape, and then we say "that's nice, deary, but be a doll and have another go at it?" So that's what happens inbetween, when we first record the HDV and then lay it back (after editing) to MiniDV. Just brilliby filmman - Café LA Re: Segue to FCP HD - 14 years agoQuoteAndyIf you do nothing to it, nothing at all not even trimming, then nothing will happen ... it would be a digital copy. Change it in any way at all and it will need recompressing, the GOP structure will be rebuilt and you end up with a generational loss of quality on what is already a heavily compressed format. So the 15 GOP is the culprit then. But, the 15 GOP structure also gives us excellby filmman - Café LA Re: Segue to FCP HD - 14 years agoQuoteJeffHDV is a heavily compressed format. So heavily compressed that didging HDV material and then laying it back to HDV tape is basically forbidden.What happens to the HDV if it's ingested as HDV and layed back to MiniDV as HDV, while keeping the Compressor on the same HDV specs?by filmman - Café LA Multiple instances of the same clip should have unique names in timeline - 17 years agoWhen dragging a clip from the editor to the timeline, it would be great if the in and out point and the clip would be labeled as "clip_name_1" "clip_name_2", etc. That way with long takes, all the clips in the timeline wouldn"t end up with the same name.by filmman - FCP Feature Requests Re: BALIBO - the film i cut last year screening in LA - 14 years agoExcellent trailer, Nick. The movie looks really good too. I can tell you did a great job as an editor. Wishing you continued success. Hope to work with you someday. -- vicby filmman - Show and Tell Re: THE CHASE a psychological thriller - 14 years agoI like that approach, J. I will try it next time I cast. Thanks for reviewing my movie.by filmman - lafcpug Market |
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