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michael stevenson
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« Last Edit: December 30, 2005, 03:52:50 PM by Michael Stevenson »
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Trevor Crump
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Joe, Step one begins.  MS OK I'll buy it...... what is step one?  ?? |
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Sunny North Queensland, Australia (the land Down Under)
Steadicam Opp/ Videographer / Photographer, Camera crane, Film maker, events photographer/videographer
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michael stevenson
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I edit my video tapes like I used to edit film. I use a splicing block, a pair of good sharp scissors, and splicing tape. If I want something fancy like a dissolve I just wave an old magnet around my last splice. I don't know what you guys are talking about.
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Trevor Crump
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I edit my video tapes like I used to edit film. I use a splicing block, a pair of good sharp scissors, and splicing tape. If I want something fancy like a dissolve I just wave an old magnet around my last splice. I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Michael
What sort of a magnet? |
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Sunny North Queensland, Australia (the land Down Under)
Steadicam Opp/ Videographer / Photographer, Camera crane, Film maker, events photographer/videographer
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michael stevenson
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Trevor, I am not quite sure but it sure makes a nice snowy dissolve the way I like it. Michael |
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Jamie Glover
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Tried them all but I sticking to Vegas for quickness..
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Joe Sanders
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Tried them all but I sticking to Vegas for quickness..
Which Canopus have you tried they were one of the first to produce real real-time. |
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If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves....
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Justin Snodgrass
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I used premiere for about two years mostly on this system. CASE: Chef/AX-01BD SPX2 U2F 450W MOTHER BOARD: ASUS P4P800 delux CPU: Intel P4/2.8GHz RAM: 2 sticks of 512MB PC-3200 HARD DRIVES: 40GB (system), 200GB (storage), 120GB (export) VIDEO CARD: GeForce4 Ti4200 with AGP8X CAPTURE CARD: Matrox RTX-100 It sounds like most of you don't want to hear this, but I wouldn't use Premiere again if somebody threatened to roll me in thumb tacks, salt, and honey and then drop me in a pile of fire ants. Now that’s not to say that it didn't do the job... I wrote this a while back for my website after using FCP on my new Power Mac G5 (took me forever to talk my wife into letting me spend the money). One thing that I have learned about Premiere is that is has to be babied. You will never be able to run another program at the same time without Premiere having some form of jealousy issues. I did find some luck with running Adobe After Effects at the same time, but Premiere was never fully satisfied not having 100% of the attention. If you are going to be doing any serious editing and don't like to stare at a progress bar while Premiere renders the timeline, then you will need a Matrox RTX-100 card or other similar card. The RTX-100 is amazing and works wonders on Premiere's speed and stability. Oh, by the way, you will need 3 hard drives to run the RTX-100 with Premiere: a system drive, a drive for storing you audio and video files, and an export drive. Probably the single most important thing that I have learned about using Premiere is that you need to save a backup version of your project (under a different project name) every 15 minutes or so and before any rendering. Premiere doesn't just like to dump your project, it likes to try and forget the whole thing ever happened.Needless to say I am a FCP fan now. Heck, I'm an apple fan now too. If any of you use Premiere, I still love you. |
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Brad Jefferson
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Needless to say I am a FCP fan now. Heck, I'm an apple fan now too.
Justin, I'm just at the point of jumping ship over to FCP. I'll be aquiring a older Mac system and will be trying out FCP. My current system is a Ulead MediaStudio Pro. I'll probably be eye-ing a new Mac system in the next month. This will also help, since my business partner also uses FCP. I've been waiting to jump from the PC-based system to a Mac-based system. This is probably because of my great love [not] of Microsoft. |
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is." -Albert Einstein
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Justin Snodgrass
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Brad, I think that moving to Mac is a good idea. In all seriousness, my PC/premiere system got the job done. The fact remains though that it just doesn't compare to my Mac/FCP set up. I originally built my own stout PC/Premiere system because a comparable Mac system (if there is one) was just too much money at the time (over $4000). The PC cost around $1500 to build. Not too bad for a great PC, but I later found that the Matrox RTX-100 was a must to do any serious editing. That card runs close to $1000 though. So the total for my PC set up was $2500, not including programs (we won't talk about where those came from  ). I got the G5 for around $2500, the same price! The Power Mac prices keep dropping and all the while apple keeps adding more perks. I think that if somebody is editing to make demo reels of their steady cam work and such, PC and PC editing programs work fine. For the money though (now days), I think that Mac is the way to go for multi media. My indie counter part bought a G5 at the same time for sound mixing. He loves his as much as I love mine. I have also used the Mac for Maya. I have the stock video card, and it still runs Maya like a champ. Apple is more focused on multi-media than Microsoft, no doubt. You should go to apple.com and check out the new Power Mac perks and prices. I can't keep up with them as fast as they are moving. My G5 will be out of date soon!  |
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