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Giveaway: Free Year to SneakOn.com

I’ve blogged about SneakOn.com before and I think it is very cool. The launch is today and they are showing it off at the STN Convention at the Disneyland Hotel. Keep in mind they are still in BETA mode a bit as more features will be coming in the days and weeks to come. This is kind of a mentoring opportunity tonight, but the site has access to thousands of sound effects and music tracks so it is well worth it.

I am giving away a free year to SneakOn.com under the following conditions;

1. You can be on the “lot” tonight between 8-10 PST.

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Q&A with a “LOST” editor; Lance Stubblefield

We will be doing another Q&A, similar to the one we just did with Daryl Baskin last week, but this time with Lance Stubblefield. Lance has worked on LOST since the first season, starting as an assistant editor and has made the jump to editor for an episode last season and a few times this season. He has also worked in the trailer editing side of the business as well as assisting on the popular show Arli$$.

View his IMDB profile here.

I have been able to visit Lance a few times in the past couple years and it has been very interesting to hear about the workflow he has been involved in. Now they are all tapeless, but the first time I visited him (during Season 4) they had tons of DVCAM tapes against the back wall for the flashbacks to season 1-3 as they showed up in the new scripts.

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Where to upload stock video and photos?

I have a couple video clips I took in Miami from the 31st floor on South Beach with the EX1. Where should I upload them to sell as stock? I have looked at iStockPhoto, as I am a customer there. I would like to know what everyone else has looked to as another option.

They aren’t the best shots in the world, but some are fairly cool. It was more of an experiment to blog about the experience of being a DP, taking some shots and trying to upload them. Thougths?

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Playing DP and Good Tips in the realm of the Digital SLR

Miami, Florida sunrise. Taken with a simple portrait lens.

Miami, Florida sunrise. Taken with a simple portrait lens.

I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon enough to buy my own Canon 7D or any other DSLR with HD video capabilities. I have edited several short pieces for a client using the 7D workflow and while I have to say that the video looks amazing, that isn’t what this post is about.

Nancy (my wife/business owner) and I went to Miami, Florida to do a shoot with her taking hold of still photography and I taking an EX1 and playing DP for a few days. It’s always a great experience to get out of the edit bay and shoot something yourself. It not only gives you a reason to get out of the solitary confinement that is your edit space, but you can put into practice the best techniques you have learned from just watching through footage (all my clients love the rack focus… about 90% of the time). I get a bit more respect for the DP while out shooting because I can never get something to look exactly how I want it to when it comes in from certain DP friends of mine.

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Replacing Clips in FCP

You know what I hate? I hate when I select a clip in FCP and overwrite it in the sequence with the clip from the viewer, it doesn’t keep the transitions like Avid does. Just sayin’.

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The Editor Answers: Daryl Baskin. Star Trek TNG Editor.

Here are my answers to the 5 questions that I read on PostFifthPictures.com.  If there are more, just let me know.  In some cases I should call the VIZ FX team…but I will give this a shot, first.  If you have any questions about my answers, please let me know.

Thanks,

Daryl

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A Look Back: Controlled Toggle Perspective

While attending my last semester at BYU Media Arts/Film school in 2006, I wrote this paper as a part of the Film Theory class. On our final test we had to remember 30 of the 32 class member presentations. Mine was not on the final due, what I believe,  to the goofy title and how easy it was to remember to connect to the summary. This may be a “no duh” type thing, but guess what movie I used as a prime example? Yeah, Click. Now that’s called guts.

Summary Statement: Drawing from the ideas of Eisenstein and Pudovkin on film editing creating emotion for propaganda and Browne’s ideas of the director making a specific moral order, controlled toggle perspective involves the meaning from specific notions and clues given to the viewer by the author. The filmmaker uses editing to draw the audience into the deeper meaning and intended message of the film. A prime example is crossing line and frequency of cutting in films. The director has a vision in mind to use editing as an object to allow the viewer to emulate the position of their protagonist by throwing them into a world of frequent cuts or by playing with the reversed perspective normally not in invisible editing.  In other situations crossing the line, crossing the axis primarily established in the first shot of a scene, can be used to create deeper meaning in a film or add to the moral order, thus giving it more emotion and advertising the message.

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Duplicate Frames Save the Day

duplicateframesI was in the middle of getting a cut ready for a client and realized I had not implemented the last feedback she had given me. Oops.

I had sent her 8 min worth of selects and takes I liked and she sent me notes on the ones she didn’t really like. Forgetting about those notes, I felt like I was in the rhythm of things and made another cut. I sent it on to her and realized while sending the e-mail I had not made those changes. Oops again.

I quickly wrote her an e-mail reminding her that I would fix those cuts quickly, taking them out asap. I did it with duplicate frames on Final Cut Pro.

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The Anatomy of Filmmaking: Directing Actors

We recently completed a project together with Three Coin Productions and ISM Films (see below for a description of what ISM Films does).

We did the editing and a few of the motion graphics (Three Coin Productions providing the rest) on this project that helps students and new filmmakers understand each process of filmmaking. This specific section can be found on the third disc which goes over Production (the first covers Development, the second Preproduction and the fourth Post).

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Back on Monday

I had a short trip to Miami, Florida to film and cut some things for Gerdau Ameristeel. I will be back on Monday to talk about some experimenting with the EX1, more tutorials, samples and insights.

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