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The Editor Answers: Daryl Baskin. Star Trek TNG Editor.
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Narrative, Post Production Workflow on February 25, 2010
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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Last Chance for Question for Star Trek TNG Editor Daryl Baskin
Posted by Bryce Randle in Narrative on February 23, 2010
Today is the last day we will be accepting questions for our Q&A with Daryl Baskin. If you have any other questions, please comment on this post, Q&A Prep With Star Trek: TNG Editor Daryl Baskin.
Check out his IMDB profile to check out his work.
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A Look Back: Controlled Toggle Perspective
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Narrative on February 22, 2010
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
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Documentary on February 19, 2010
I 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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Q&A Prep With Star Trek: TNG Editor Daryl Baskin
Posted by Bryce Randle in Narrative on February 18, 2010
We will be doing a Q&A with Daryl Baskin, whose work can be seen on Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series. Daryl is awesome and is open to questions from all. Send your questions asap via the comment board and we will ask as many as we can. We will post the interview some time next week.
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UPDATE: February 25, 2010
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The Anatomy of Filmmaking: Directing Actors
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Documentary on February 15, 2010
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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Canon XHA1/Gatsby Stamp
Posted by justinsmith in Film | Video Editing on January 26, 2010
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Here is a recent piece of PFP for Hawaii based band Gatsby Stamp entirely shot on a Canon XHA1 camera. I have to say that I really liked everything about the camera except for one thing, the LCD screen is tiny and if you are like me and hate looking through the eyepiece then the LCD screen means a lot. Overall it is a versatile camera with a great picture. This footage was color corrected using Magic Bullet Looks. I have found a few techniques in filming that really help to make your shot pop. One such technique is using depth of field to make your focus really stand out. In this case the singer really stands out in his side profile shots. I found that filming with consumer cameras that don’t have the real film look to them is difficult. You need to step outside the box and really be creative . The way I tried to create the depth in these shots was to stand a considerable distance away maybe even 30 to 40 feet and zoom almost all the way in that way you create some serious space between the focus and the background. Another technique is to find high contrast natural lighting. Find an area that is relatively dark with a light source that is strong enough to light your character. In these shots we had no lighting other then the natural light coming through the window. We found that early morning gave us the best natural light to light our talent.
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Changing Avid Project Formats
Posted by Bryce Randle in Film | Video Editing on January 14, 2010
Yesterday on my clip color post we had a comment from Mark about chanigng project setting son Avid. Here is the most simple way to do it. You should know that this is how I have done it pre- Media Composer 4.0.
Go into Media Composer. In your Master window, with the tabs for settings, project, format, info, etc, click on format. After doing so you can see there are two options. Project Type and Raster Dimension. Go to project type and you should have a few options. In this case there is 1080p/24 and 24p NTSC. This is the sample project from Avid that came with installing the 3.5 Media Composer software. I can downgrade to SD from HD and go back. These settings are all different from how you create your project in the start. For example, if I choose 1080i/59.94 I can go to 720p/ 29.97 or 30i. The raster dimensions also change. I can choose 1920x 1080, 1440 x 1080 or 1280 x 1080 depending on my pixel aspect ratios.
Sadly, I am unable to tell you how 4.0 works though, with different frame rates and formats. We will have to see if I can upgrade to that soon enough 
If there are any other issues in creating your projects or changing the formats, please post a comment and I will do my best to get your problem resolved.
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Why I Love Clip Colors
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Film | Video Editing, Post Production Workflow on January 13, 2010
I love the clip colors feature in Avid Media Composer. It is so helpful. If you haven’t ever used it to its advantage, check it out.
From the hamburger menu in the bottom left corner of the timeline, select clip color. You have several options. The ones I use the most are HD/SD and offline.
I have this sample project open. It’s an SD project so I changed the settings to 1080 (HD) and then I turn on the HD/SD setting in the clip color. I can now see all of the titles stay one color and the clips become highlighted in yellow.
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Shots I’d Use: The Killers Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Documentary on January 11, 2010
In the off chance that a DP asks me before he goes off to a shoot what kind of footage I would like, I always answer lots of coverage and points of view that I wouldn’t be able to see with my own eyes. I think this is the difference between a DP that can bring quality to your video and one that can’t. It’s easy to shoot what we can see with our own eyes, but the ones that can find something else, something we don’t see or normally notice, those are the ones I love to work with.
An example I will use is from The Killers new Blu-Ray/DVD from the 2nd track “This is Your Life.” The video is directed by Dick Carruthers, who has a great background of live concert DVDs. It is a fantastic live concert, I’d highly recommend in for your HDTV setup and Blu Ray collection. Some of the shots are a tad fast for me, I end up wanting more. That may be because I’ve been to a couple of The Killers shows though.
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