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Changing Red Color Data in Media Composer 5
Posted by Bryce Randle in Post Production Workflow on July 7, 2010
I don’t work with the RED all too much, I do use it from time to time. One of the new advantages of Media Composer 5 is the ability to import R3D files through AMA and edit them natively.
I loaded up some files on my MacBook Pro (without any other accelerator attached, like the MXO2 mini) and started to edit some pieces. It stuttered here and there, but I put most of the blame on the speed of my computer. I changed the draft quality to “best performance” (all yellow if you read the last blog post) and it seemed to work very well. I think it works better than the H.264 through AMA edit, but more on that another time.
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Avoiding Cutting Boredom
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Post Production Workflow on May 12, 2010
I will be the first to admit that I don’t always work on some exciting stuff. Every once in a while we’ve all had to fill in the cracks, pay the bills, call it what you want. I get pretty bored in the middle of these edits sometimes. I start to daydream of the last project I was on or surf the internet or twitter or end up watching all SNL Digital Shorts known to man to avoid cutting. When it comes down to it, they need to get done though.
How do I fight this boredom? How do I get past the edits staring at me? I do two things.
1) Breakdown the Edit.
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NES for Your FCP
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Post Production Workflow on April 21, 2010
I read a really cool post by Ross over at You Down With FCP? about making a client controller out of an original Nintendo controller. With his permission, I have reposted the first piece of the post, but you should go over to his blog to check it out. Read the full post here.
Ever since I was a wee lad, and I outgrew my NES for a turbografx 16 (don’t ask) I have been yearning to get back to using that classic rectangular controller. With this project I was finally able to do so.
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Avid Media Composer 5.0 Features I’m Excited About
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Post Production Workflow on April 16, 2010
I work from home about 50% of the time. I do all of that work off of a MacBook Pro. I would love to invest in a nice Mac Pro setup, but whenever I do hard core work I get brought into an office with a nice Symphony system or FCP suite. All in all, I am very excited about the new Media Composer software because it gives me a few reasons to tell clients that it would be more efficient to use Avid instead of FCP for once.
Now, I am not going to dive in deep to analyze everything possible, as I was not able to attend NAB and therefore have not tried the software out myself. These are just some thoughts I’ve had over the past couple days.
1) Editing H.264 and ProRes. HDSLR footage, come my way please. I tend to edit 1-2 pieces a week shot on the 7D and this just makes me excited. I can spend more time on the editing and less time on converting the footage to Pro Res before it comes into the system. Good feature for us flat rate payment guys. And then ProRes, really? Great. I’ll take it. I usually use ProRes as something to convert footage that isn’t editing well (H.264) on timelines so I only use it when its HDV or shot on a HDSLR.
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Don’t Fear the Default: YouTube in Compressor
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Featured, Post Production Workflow on April 13, 2010
I’m not usually a fan of deafult settings. I can personalize a project or a preference to be easier to use or to speed things up. In this case I want to talk about trying the default items out. I’m a big fan of some of compressor’s default settings. One in particular is the YouTube compression. This was added in Compress
or 3.5 I believe. Just go into compressor, just like you already do, and do a search for youtube in the presets. Select that option and submit away. You get a really nice image up to 720p. It’s an H264 image that is about 3.6 GB per hour. Give that a shot and see how it helps your image.
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Transparent Graphics in After Effects
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Featured, Post Production Workflow on April 5, 2010
You may be an expert in Avid or Final Cut Pro, but there may have been a couple times where you’ve had to open After Effects to do one quick change. This may have been easy, but in many cases you’ve never opened After Effects before. You figure you know can work your way around in Photoshop so how hard could it be? Well, if you need to send something to the render queue and need to export something with a transparent background, it could be tough.
First you need to learn the terms After Effects uses. When you want to export something with a transparent background the correct term is having an alpha matte. If you export something with only an alpha matte, you won’t see any of your artwork or lower thirds.
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Avid: Customizing Your Bin
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Film | Video Editing, Post Production Workflow on April 1, 2010
I had to create my own bin settings in Avid so I decided to make a quick little tutorial on how to modify the different columns and headings in your bin in Avid. I like how you can switch back and forth between bins so easily too. Excuse my non-audio-mixed voice in this. You can also tell where I had to stop for a second and continue. I decided against putting a default cross dissolve over it to patch it up. Thank for reading, as always.
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The Old Spice Commercial
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Commercial, Post Production Workflow, Producing on March 16, 2010
I love this ad. I rewatch it on the DVR as often as possible before someone asks me to turn LOST back on.
Scott Simmons over at the Edit Blog posted a link to a video on how they did the video. I thought it was worth linking to. Real posts coming again soon. Just got back in town from vacation so will be posting some tutorials, thoughts and work in the next couple of days.
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Playing DP and Good Tips in the realm of the Digital SLR
Posted by Bryce Randle in Blogging, Post Production Workflow on March 1, 2010
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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