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50 Filmmakers and 23 Countries. Around the World in 3 Minutes - 10 years ago
Hi. My new short film is Globe Trot. It's is an international crowd-sourced project put together entirely over the web. I got 50 filmmakers on all seven continents (including Antarctica) to each shoot two seconds of dance. Have a look: http://youtu.be/uXgYKU9F-0Aby MitchellRose - Show and Tell
Re: RAID for iMac - 11 years ago
Hi. I went with the Drobo 5N, and I like it very much. I put three 3 TB Seagate drives in there which I got for something like 140 bucks each. I turn it on and off a few times a day just because when I'm not editing I like my office to be perfectly silent — but it's no big deal. When I've had questions, Drobo has been very responsive. All in all, I'm a happy camper. Cheers…by MitchellRose - Café LA - X
The Most Universal Codecs - 11 years ago
I'm working on a project where 50 filmmakers around the world are sending me clips that I'll edit together in FCPX. They're shooting with everything: camcorders, DSLRs, etc. I had asked people to send me footage in ProRes, but PC users are writing to say they can't. What would be the most ubiquitous codecs I should tell the filmmakers to send me? Thanks.by MitchellRose - Café LA - X
Music Video Workflows - 11 years ago
I teach dance-filmmaking classes at a university and we're switching from FCP7 to FCPX this year. The projects the students do are often like music videos —a music track is laid down and then clips are edited to that, often with dance movements aligned to musical events. My concern in switching to a non-track-based editing paradigm is that it's too easy for students to knock their clips out ofby MitchellRose - Café LA - X
Re: RAID for iMac - 12 years ago
Larry Jordan just published a thoughtful review of the Drobo.by MitchellRose - Café LA - X
Re: RAID for iMac - 12 years ago
Yep, I could use a switch. But you know how your workflow goes -- you want to just start and have your hardware come with you. Inspired to edit... just launch FCP and begin, without switching on the drive, waiting for it to mount, then running your app. Then I need to go out for a few hours but would like to come back and pick up where I left off, without having to quit the app, unmount the drivby MitchellRose - Café LA - X
RAID for iMac - 12 years ago
Having given up on waiting for a new Mac Pro, I'm getting a new iMac. That means I'll need a RAID for editing. I wish the Pegasus drives spun down -- I can't stomach a drive spinning in perpetuity, melting ice caps. Anyone have experience with the Drobo 5D? Other suggestions? Thanks , all.by MitchellRose - Café LA - X
have you used the Nattress Standards Conversion plugin? - 13 years ago
I'm curating a program of dance-films at a commercial movie theater next week. I've been collecting shorts from everywhere -- some PAL, some NTSC. The theater told me that they convert everything to their Digital Cinema system that they use for projection. I gave them a sampling of test clips and the technical director told me today that the PAL clips aren't working. Bummer. So looks like Iby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: XDCAM Log and Transfer Broken - 14 years ago
In the FCP Log and Transfer window, it used to be that there was a Preference for transcoding either AVCHD, PS, or XDCAM files. (And the XDCAM option was there because of my previous downloading the Sony Transfer Utility). Now all of a sudden the XDCAM option isn't there. I downloaded the application you linked to. That works for viewing XDCAM files but it will not transcode to ProRes. Tby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: XDCAM Log and Transfer Broken - 14 years ago
Yes, that's what I had already installed which is nor not working.by MitchellRose - Café LA
XDCAM Log and Transfer Broken - 14 years ago
Howdy Comrades -- I downloaded the Sony XDCAM Transfer Utility last summer and have been successfully transcoding to ProRes. All of a sudden it's not working... meaning XDCAM is not showing up in the Log and Transfer Window Preferences option (just AVCHD and P2). Searching the hard drive for XDCAM Configuration Files, I find 130 of them in a weird place: HD > Applications > FCPby MitchellRose - Café LA
Audio Mixing -- the Aesthetics of Panning - 15 years ago
I've rarely used panning because I always figure in a theater, somebody's sitting way over on the side and the mix will sound imbalanced for them. Or someone has their computer speakers wired backwards and the pan's going to go the wrong way. OK, I'm paranoid. But I wanna try some panning on the project I'm working on, and my question is this: Is there a rule of thumb for how heavy to go withby MitchellRose - Soundtrack Pro
Re: inexpensive tapeless cameras for students - 15 years ago
Friends... I appreciate the recommendations for equipment that I had requested. It is unnecessary to suggest I rewrite my syllabus. My class is extremely popular and successful. My dean is pleased. My students are pleased. I'm pleased. I'm sorry I apparently haven't made it clear what I'm doing. And I'm not going to try because when people want to pontificate, there's no stopping them. Agaby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: inexpensive tapeless cameras for students - 15 years ago
Thanks, Noah. My students are learning to make what's called "Dance for the Camera" -- dance that is meant only to exist on film -- a hybrid of dance and filmmaking. What I stress is the aesthetics of filmmaking and try to go easy on the technical. I teach them FCP but don't get terribly deep -- I go as far as Roll Tool, 3 Way Color Corrector... Advanced Beginner. Most pick it upby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: inexpensive tapeless cameras for students - 15 years ago
Thanks, Jeff. Here's what we've been encountering though. Some of the DV cameras aren't recognized by the iMacs. Odd -- they're the same models as ones that do work... but whatever. So students have to find someone with a working camera to capture. iMacs now have one FireWire port. (Grrr.) So the cameras have to be plugged into the FW drive. This also is hit or miss in terms on the Mac rby MitchellRose - Café LA
inexpensive tapeless cameras for students - 15 years ago
I teach filmmaking to choreographers at an arts college. We've been using crappy little miniDV cameras. They have such a short time to borrow the cameras that I'd love to eliminate the lengthy Log and Capture process. I want to try to get some tapeless cameras and simply transfer the footage in. Can you recommend an inexpensive tapeless camera -- SD or HD, doesn't matter. The operative word herby MitchellRose - Café LA
Primatte Keyer Pro rendering Motion project incorrectly - 15 years ago
I've been making Motion projects that use Primatte Keyer Pro, and placing them in the FCP timeline. When I'm rendering them in FCP, but since I got a new monitor, the Primatte portion of the project looks like it's gone through a pasta slicer. Here's the deal: I've been using a 20" 1680 X 1050 monitor and everything's been fine. Yesterday I added a Dell SP2309W 23" monitor withby MitchellRose - Café LA
STYLE SHEETS - 17 years ago
STYLE SHEETS The ability of the 3-Way Color Correction filter to apply itself to 1 or 2 clips ahead is great, but what happens when you want to make a change globally throughout a long project. It?s common to correct your movie and then after playing it back change your mind about a look that you gave to clips. I'm sick of viewing a project the day after I've applied color correction filtersby MitchellRose - FCP Feature Requests
Smoothcam broken in FCP7 - 15 years ago
I was working on a project in FCP6 -- all the clips were Smoothcam'ed. Worked great. Upgraded to 7. Smoothcam doesn't work. Removed the mtdf files and started over. Doesn't work, even from scratch. Anyone else experienced this? Uh-oh.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: Shooting Green Screen - 15 years ago
Excellent advice, Chet. Thanks so much for your thorough guide. I was hoping to use the Primatte filter that comes with Motion. Satisfactory? Cheers... Mitchellby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
Wow. A hundred dollar savings for the edu version. Forward thinking.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: Shooting Green Screen - 15 years ago
Grafixjoe-- Yes, I'm the dancing/editing Teacher guy? Oy, the mind reels at the thought of teaching them rotoscoping. Besides the fact that they'd have no interest in it--they just want to choreograph and shoot it in a filmic context--I have a hard enough time teaching them FCP. If I had them for 3 years, yes. I have them for 3 months. Ben -- HDV. That's what I got. But the elements are goiby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: Shooting Green Screen - 15 years ago
It's going to be thirty different shots so I'd certainly prefer to not have to rotoscope. Just trying to give myself the best possible start. Thanks.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: Shooting Green Screen - 15 years ago
Sneakers that are all black. Shoes that are all black. Or, I pose the possibility... many fine shoe manufacturers also make shoes and sneakers that are reddish in hue.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Shooting Green Screen - 15 years ago
I'm doing a green screen shoot soon and am costuming it now. I know that the feet can be the most challenging part, because of the shadows there. Would you say that I'd do well to have black shoes, so that if there is a keying problem, it'll be less apparent? Reddish shoes maybe? Thanks.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
I completely agree with this general line of thinking expressed here, and am glad that the discussion happened. For my own specific case, as I originally stated it, I'm not talking about film students--my students are choreographers who don't want editing jobs. I would also proffer this notion: not all users of FCP are editors, nor do they want to be one. In fact, I'll bet those are a minority.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
What does Apple have against Prada anyway?by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For example, if they need > to hand their work off to a pro for titles, > further editing, colour correction or web > compression, a Final Cut operator would be much > easier to find. In a professional setting. But that would never happen with my students. > Hopefully Apple is listening.by MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
You're right. It is good to teach at a high level. And the solution probably is Final Cut Express. What we'll primarily be losing is DVD authoring and the terrific slow-motion that Motion offers (dancers love slow-motion). The course is advertised as Dance-Filmmaking, so it is not tool specific. Just so it's understood, I'm in an environment where you have to fight for everything you get. Pby MitchellRose - Café LA
Re: New Academic Price for FCS Kills it For This Teacher - 15 years ago
Stop learning from TV shows -- I'm talking about the real world. None of my art students have Prada bags or drive SUVs. Most of them do their school work and then go to their jobs, racking up a hundred thousand dollars in student loans and more. And now, with this economy, more and more of them are not coming back to school.by MitchellRose - Café LA
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