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FCP Guru
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on August 23, 2010
Last month I had the great pleasure of working with Matthew Celia on a project for nearly a week. Matt was my post producer on a :30 commercial in Los Angeles. Matt shared some of his great knowledge with me, some of which I will mention in future posts regarding using the Phantom format and plugins, and I wanted to take a moment to give my approval. Matt runs FCPGuru.com and gives classes on how to use it as a beginner and as an advanced user. I think that these classes are a good idea for people who seem to dwell in the worlds of offline edits and don’t get to do much finishing ever or just output to the web.
His classes are reasonably priced too. Go to FCPGuru.com and check out what he has to offer.
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Funny Editor Video
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on August 17, 2010
So this video is hilarious. I should be back to posting soon. I apologize for being a horrible blogger lately, but been busy editing some good work and took a little vacation. Enjoy this video in the meantime. There is some language, so be warned.
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True to My School
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on July 15, 2010
I saw this and was fairly bummed in the first 5-10 seconds, but then was fairly surprised at the amount of work they put in. Proud to be a Cougar!
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Starting with Compressor
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on July 9, 2010
Here is a post for getting started with Compressor. In most cases, you have the software and have no idea what it does or how it could save you a lot of time or you just never learned it. That’s okay. I am surprised how many people use Final Cut Studio, but don’t take advantage of this huge timesaver. The best part about FCP7, to me, is that you can render using compressor in the background while you continue to edit in Final Cut Pro.
However, for this post, let’s talk about getting started. You have an AVI or MPEG file and you want to make it editable in Final Cut Pro.
Open Compressor.
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MC5: Video Quality Control with XDCAM
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on July 2, 2010
Today’s piece is focused on changing the quality of the clips you are working with in Media Composer. Using the Video Quality Control button, found on the bottom of the sequence window, you can toggle the playback quality of the clip. This works great when you are working off a USB powered drive, editing HD material while on your laptop.
By clicking on the button highlighted, you can control the preview quality of the sequence you are editing. Just yellow means it is rough and half yellow and green means full quality.
I’ve been using the feature while editing a multi-cam piece that was shot on XDCAM EX format. I’m loving how easy it is to change how it looks so quickly.
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iPhone 4 Camera: Test on Colors Outside
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on July 1, 2010
I have been out of town for a while networking, going to the NHL Draft for another blog and waiting in line for iPhone 4. I took some time after appointments to test the iPhone 4 camera at a place that had all sorts of different colors, lighting and movement. What better a place than Disneyland? In this piece I was mostly trying to see how all the colors would be taken in without any correction. Red. Check. Orange. Cool. Yellow. You get the idea. Please watch in 720p to get a better idea of the colors.
Here is another I shot in a backyard of my son singing the SNL short throw it on the ground.
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Changing the Frame Size in Avid Bins
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on June 30, 2010
In the midst of my daily afternoon brain fart, I could not remember how to change the size of a frame in my bin. I shot a quick iChat IM over to Shane Ross at LFHD.net to get an answer. So he quickly through a small tip of a post together. Thanks Shane!
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Embarrassed of Edits
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on June 21, 2010
Have you ever cut something you are embarrassed to watch again? Do you feel sorrow everytime you hear the music cue on the television/youtube?
I once cut a piece for someone and was completely disgusted with how it turned out. I was booked on to another show and left the first job (ran out of budget) for another. The director proceeded to finish the rest of the show by themselves. I didn’t really want to leave the show because I like to see how projects go until the end. I was told we were about 95% done when I left so I wasn’t too concerned.
I showed up to the viewing.
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Experiment: Adobe Soundbooth + Avid Script Sync
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging on June 7, 2010
So I tried it. I’ve read all about it on people’s twitter accounts, forums, blogs, etc, but I had never tried it or seen anything actually do it. In theory it should all work fine right?
Here is what I did:
Take a clip from your project, export an aiff of the clip. You will probably be working in Avid just because you are going to take it back into Avid to use the Script sync feature. In this case I was editing a non-scripted interview of NHL Analyst Brian Engblom for HockeyPlayer.com. I took a clip that was close to a minute in length just for this test.
Popularity: 29% [?]
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