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Re: Charging clients fees - 12 years ago
With great respect to all the thoughtful and carefully crafted comments in this thread, can I suggest that the ultimate answer to this question might be found here: Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Devil's Advocate asks: Why bother with Color? - 12 years ago
Shane Ross Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > $200 breaks your bank? If you are a pro, this is > just a couple hours of work time. $200 for a couple of hours work ? Not for us Hobbits...by Mike Hardcastle - Color
Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 12 years ago
Jeff, I have huge admiration for your technical knowledge and your acute mind. I also greatly enjoy your sense of humour. But that was a bit below the belt, wasn't it ? Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 12 years ago
Do adult features make money these days ? This post from a week or so ago looked interesting for solving this sort of problem:by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Unusual Audio Sample Rate - 12 years ago
You're absolutely right Sprocketz - it should be done through a TBC. But - no budget, etc, etc... Sometimes I wonder how all you guys working with NTSC manage to keep your sanity. I mean - maybe we still don't have iPads down here, but we have had PAL for about 50 years...by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Unusual Audio Sample Rate - 12 years ago
Thanks for the replies. I understand what you're both saying, but perhaps I needed to emphasise that I'm in NZ - PAL-land. The original footage was PAL and I'm working in a PAL timeline. As you say, Jeff, it's all perfectly usable - I'm just trying to figure out why it's happened.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Unusual Audio Sample Rate - 12 years ago
I am digitising some 20 year old archive that was shot on Hi8. I am playing the tapes from a Sony Digital 8 camera via FW400 into FCP6 with capture settings Non-controllable Device and DV PAL 48KHz. All this works fine, but I now notice that the Aud Rate column in the bin shows some clips at 48.0KHz and others at 47998.0Hz or 47997.9Hz. It's not a major problem - obviously the clips with theby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Arri Alexa records to ProRes - 12 years ago
Actually filmman - to be strictly accurate, the Arri IIC was not used in WWII. It came out in 1964.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: beginner keyframing problem - 13 years ago
I'm afraid that I also cannot give you a definitive solution, but from what you've described <a wild sweep> I'm wondering if FCP has inserted extra keyframes without your permission or knowledge.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: 1080p30 vs 1080i60 - 13 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agree. A lot. Thanks, Jude. I really thought that there would be dozens of people agreeing, so I was mortified that nobody had replied. I've been wondering if I had breached some forum etiquette.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Enthusiasm - 13 years ago
Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My enthusiasm sometimes, often, spills over into > verbosity. I'll cut that out. Meantime, all those > who dislike the length of my past posts are free > ? no, welcome ? no, invited, even ? not to read > 'em. I won't have my feelings hurt or anything. Well I have to say (because nobody else has)by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Logging Help - 13 years ago
I didn't mean to be offensive. I figured that if it was a mini-series, he would have said so. This just happens to be something that bugs me intensely. I spent over twenty years working as a cameraman on docos and features - mostly shooting film, but a lot of video as well. As an editor these days, it drives me round the bend when I get hours of footage where there's nothing happening. I tby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Logging Help - 13 years ago
180 hours of footage ??? Good grief. The film I'm working on came in with about 80 and I thought that was bad enough. I totally agree with Jeff here about not trying to watch more than four hours a day. More than that certainly turns my brain to mush. Particularly if it's just hours of a camera rolling waiting for something to happen. Whatever happened to shooting discipline ? Anybodby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: rollerball mouse question - 13 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ever since Jude Cotter showed me how to scroll > sideways with a regular up-down scroll wheel on > any mouse, the Mighty Mouse scroll ball has been > completely useless to me. OK - I give up. Is this some piece of arcane knowledge that can only be shared by lafcpug mods ? If not could you or Jude enligby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: carpel tunel and editing - 13 years ago
alexedit Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I actually use the keyboard about as much as I use the mouse. That's interesting. I'd say I use the keyboard way more than the mouse. Consequently, I get pain in my left wrist. Sounds as though some boffin should do a study of FCP keyboard/mouse utilisation ratios.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
Does this link not work for you, Mike? Nope. Pure white screen. No pluge at all.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
Curious. Just sent a screen grab to your gmail Jeff. Looks like we might have to wait a a little longer for the liberation.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
Hmmm... All I've got is a little blue question mark. All the others seem fine. Maybe it's a gravitational anomaly down here in the southern hemisphere. Perhaps an unexpected consequence of the Chilean earthquake.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
What's happened to your signature image, Jeff ? It seems to have been awol for a few days.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
I remember working once with a tripod that was designed to center the film plane with both the horizontal and vertical nodal points. It was a great idea but hopelessly impractical because the rig was totally out of balance. And if you put a zoom lens on the camera the whole point was wasted anyway. And Jeff - I thought jellocam was all the rage these days...by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT: Canon officially announces frame-rate firmware for 5D - 13 years ago
Touche, filmman ! But can I ask - what is the camera in your photo ? It looks like an old Arri 16mm ST or 35mm IIC. Both horrible cameras to operate in my opinion. They suffered from the same problems as most of today's prosumer video cameras - they're ergonomic disasters. All the weight is in the operators hands and hopelessly out of balance. Give me a cat on the shoulder any day. Interby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hundreds of free hours of training here on these > forums, really. You can say that again. Not just free training, but personalised, one on one. It's a bit like Ghostbusters - "Who ARE these guys ?" Is generosity written into the code of FCP ? Perhaps part of Jeff's invisible computing conceptby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
> Ah...see, these aren't story beats. These are character beats. Well - I'm still capable of being astonished ! Another illuminating post. I see there's been a language barrier between us. When you used the word 'beats' a day or so ago, I thought you were referring to rhythmic beats as in music. Crotchets, quavers, etc. Or pauses in the flow and momentum of the story. I see now you hadby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
Jeff - if we were sitting in a bar, I would also be agreeing with everything Derek says. His last post is so deadly accurate and relevant to the film I'm doing that it's almost surreal. >If the plot point is, "My father died", an interview won't work at all. There are at least six plot points at this level and none have any supporting footage. We are searching for as many stiby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But I'm saying, if you didn't get footage of a > moment, very often the thing to do is not to try > to get across that exposition at all. Work with > what you did get. Now that's a truly radical thought. It's also an amazing example of how these ideas are very specific to specific films. The reason Iby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
Thanks Derek - I appreciate your taking the time to reply. The thing about your example of X being mad at Y is that very often in documentary you don't get the actual footage of the fight. Maybe the crew just wasn't there when it happened. If it's important to the development of the story as it evolves further down the line, then surely it's better to have an IV explaining that it happened ?by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Editor credits - 13 years ago
derekmok Wrote: -------In one documentary, whenever we > were missing a point in the story, the story > editors always said, "We'll get an interview > bite". It drove me absolutely crazy. Guys, > soundbites don't do the job of scene beats. Derek - can you expand on this a bit ? I think I'm not getting something here. If there's a story point missing, how else caby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Uh Oh! Not Good... - 13 years ago
While I feel apprehensive at joining in to such an erudite conversation, I have to say that your post about the iPad and the future of invisible computing was absolutely brilliant Jeff. A perfect pluge.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Dif files, MPEG Muxed and Final cut Pro - 13 years ago
According this page: .dif files should open with QTby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
