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Part 2 of 64 Days is taking longer than usual edits (pt1 is here vimeo.com/610377, if you missed it), lots of footage we don't have to track down, or at the least, gaps to fill in.

Been busy trying to set up a second station to import footage while we cut these episodes.

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  • Clintus McGintus plus 2 years ago
    I've been there man. It's just one of those humps. You'll get over it and it will be smooth sailing for a while. Until the next one :)
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    Ha ha :) "until the next one" - something to look forward to, eh. Thanks though - I'm feeling much better today, making lots of progress.
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  • Zach B plus 2 years ago
    only thing you can do is press on dude. press on.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    I shall :P
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  • DaVincicode plus 2 years ago
    Hey Mike, well the old adage goes along way. Keep it simple stupid (Kiss) principal. Use what you have and
    cut out the stuff you don't have. As always best of luck. And hope the OS Updates went well. Look forward to seeing the next edition.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    Ahh yes, that's good advice for me - I tend to... not do that sometimes :P

    The OS updates went fien :) although my old mini' took quite a while to do it's thing. Got worried for a bit.

    Thanks - it should be up by Friday.
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  • Mutcluck 2 years ago
    Good luck Mike. It'll all turn out. I've been bummed for similar reasons with my ghetto travel videos (Canon still camera) because FCP makes me render out the avi files before I can edit. It is extremely annoying and makes what should be a half day of work turn into several days. Delays and workflow issues can really bum you out. I'm sure the next episode will be spectacular.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    Ahh yes, rendering :P Does your machine handle dynamic playback with AVIs? Mine can usually play them decent as long as I haven't piled on too many filters.
  • Mutcluck 2 years ago
    They playback in the player, but not on any timeline, no matter what the settings are. Since I'm just trying to make short clips shorter and somewhat more watchable, theres a lot of cutting out stuff on the fly. I'm trying to spend as little time on my travel videos as I can. It's mostly for me in twenty years. Pretty annoying process. I'm using a 3-4 year old powerbook using FCP 5.1. It's nearly time for an upgrade.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    That's a bummer :P
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  • Bill Cammack 2 years ago
    Switch Stations. Edit on Express and load on FCP.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    I wish I could :P Express doesn't handle SmoothCam, and I've used quite a bit in this ep. Well... actually, I wonder if I dropped the FX folder into Express's Prefs if it would be able to run it... hmm *strokes imaginary beard* I'll have to look into that.
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  • Bill Cammack 2 years ago
    Makes sense. My comment was more aimed at the phase while you're working out the skeleton. You might want to aim at maximizing the time that you don't need to use FCP by working out the basics of the piece in Express while loading on FCP. Move the project to FCP when it's time for effects.

    Obviously, optimally, all of your footage would be loaded before you started editing. I don't normally cut videos with anywhere near this much footage to load, but if I had to, I'd do a test run with the lower-resolution format to see if I could up-rez it properly. If it worked, I'd dump the entire project into the drives at low resolution and as each segment became ready for FX, I'd reload just that section in full quality. Output, archive, erase the hi-rez and repeat.

    The obvious value to doing things that way is you don't get stuck needing to load with Express in order to patch episodes. All your footage is available to you ahead of time. The sticking point is whether the low-rez -> hi-rez process actually works precisely.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    Yea :) I've never done "offline editing" - I should spend a day testing that out, seeing how it would work. Could end up helping a lot.
  • Bill Cammack 2 years ago
    There are three possibilities. It works perfectly, it works inaccurately, or it doesn't work at all.

    If it works perfectly, you can do everything up to the graphics phase before up-rezing. If it works inaccurately, you can make your entire edit, cuts-only, up-rez and then do the actual edit from there.

    I haven't done that recently with FCP, so I can't give an opinion on it. I have maybe a terabyte of space, and drives are getting cheaper by the day. For the projects I work on, I don't have enough material to have to "offline".

    It shouldn't take a day to test this. Take a section of a segment you've already edited that has dissolves, effects, etc in it, make an EDL out of it, import the new clips low-rez, make sure it works the way you want it, then up-rez the sequence. It's not exactly the same, but the point is to see how frame-accurate your uprez is.
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  • Bill Cammack 2 years ago
    Your other option is the "professional" option. Shifts in a studio are often cut into segments, say three 8-hour shifts. You would plan two shifts (16 hours) for editing and one shift where you hired someone else to load overnight.

    This has the obvious problem of $,$$$ for the overnight loader and for the extra drives you'll need to hold all that footage.
  • mike ambs ☂ plus 2 years ago
    Hmm... $$$ you say :D
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