Too many years producing, writing, editing, and delivering videos to remember them all.
FCP since v.1.0 (April '99)
20 years doing voiceover work, plus I wrote the Timeline column for Videomaker Magazine for a decade and still lecture on video production all around the country. | | | | Member Since: December 20th 2001 | | | | |
Friends:  Ty Ford | | | | |  | stingers - how small a gauge?by Bob Cole 3 days agoI know it's better to err on the side of caution, but I suspect that I've been carrying around extension cables that are far heavier gauge than I really need. (Result: excess baggage charges, and carr | Re: stingers - how small a gauge?
by Bill Davis 3 hours ago
John is right, but I have to say that as both color balanced fluorescents and LED units continue to improve, we may get the added benefit of being able to schlepp smaller gauge cable around. My LED un
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| | | | | Throughly modern multi-camby Bill Davis 4 hours agoI mentioned awhile ago that I'd directed and shot a project that ended up using 14 cameras to cover a 5 piece Jazz band performance. I'm trying to shoehorn the edit for it inside other work but I thou+1  | Re: Throughly modern multi-cam
by Jules bowman 2 hours ago
I can't believe, after all that setting up you had to do, they only recorded two songs. We do live sessions with bands,off our own back, usually 4 dslr if only using our gear but up to 6 cams at times
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| | | |  | Demo reels questionby George Loch 3 days agoI am curious about the value of an assembled editor's reel vs. displaying complete projects. How does a rearranged editor's reel really communicate an editor's ability to tell a story -gl twitter: @ge | Re: Demo reels question
by Bill Davis 3 days ago
This is personal opinion only - and comes from a guy who wrote an article about Demo Reels 11 years ago for Ken Stone's fledgling FCP site - that still ranks as the single most read and commented upon
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| | | |  | did you know roles is event specific?by Jason Brown 4 days agoThis is extremely significant...so you can get super detailed in one project in regards to assigning roles to clips but that list simplifies when you remove that project from the event browser. Was th | Re: did you know roles is event specific?
by Bill Davis 3 days ago
Richard Herd "Watch out for Bill's comment. He might state something to the effect of "events are not the same as capture scratch." And then he might explain the databasiness." A) nothing is the same
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| | | |  | Little Blog about FCPXby alban egger 4 days agoI had 15000 readers last summer on my FCPX-megatest Blog. Since then FCPX has evolved and that blog is outdated. I do now collect tipps on my new site. It is not much yet (just re-launched the site 2 | Re: Little Blog about FCPX
by Bill Davis 3 days ago
Maybe we should spell them Xips but still pronounce them as Tips Separate the "insiders" from the "outsiders" like the pronunciation of Gila Monster, Sault St. Marie, and bologna! "Before speaking out
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| | | |  | Source connectby Peter Groom 2 weeks agoHi I was just wondering who or how many users on this forum have experience and use commercially, source connect Cheers Peter Post Production Dubbing Mixer | Re: Source connect
by Bill Davis 6 days ago
This made me smile. I used to go to studios for ISDN sessions as a voice talent. And considered for years putting ISDN into my home studio - but never felt I could make on-going telco investment pay.
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| | | |  | Apple Releases OS 10.7.4 and Safari 5.1.7by Gary Slickman 2 weeks agoApple has released OS X 10.7.4 and Safari. Both can be obtained via the Software Updates component of the Mac OS X Systems Preferences app. Here is a link to the MacNews Post http: www.macnews.com 201 | Re: Apple Releases OS 10.7.4 - WARNING!!!
by Bill Davis 1 week ago
Chris Harlan "Frankly, I don't see it as being panicky or alarmist. I think of it as being kindly and prudent." Well, as someone who was roundly and persistently trashed for SHOUTING and generally be
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| | | |  | FCX and VIDEO PLAYBACK options...by Shane Ross 2 weeks agoIt started here... http: forums.adobe.com thread 999865 With someone noticing that they could only play back the format their sequence was set to. Unlike in Legacy FCP, where we could choose the VIDEO | Re: FCX and VIDEO PLAYBACK options...
by Bill Davis 1 week ago
Bret Williams "Interesting thread. The reason we shot 24p Because halfway into the shoot I asked the camera op "You've got it set to 30p, right " and he said no, 24p. So, the next shoot had to be 24p
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| | | |  | 10.0.4 automatically mounts disk imageby Jason Jenkins 2 weeks agoFCPX 10.0.4 is automatically mounting the last disk image event that I worked with. The whole idea behind using disk images was only showing loading the events I want to work on. I can still open any | Re: 10.0.4 automatically mounts disk image
by Bill Davis 2 weeks ago
See, It's not a bug, it's a feature! Actually, now that I think about it, that's precisely correct. It's a change to the foundational OS that's going to be useful to a zillion folks who want to go "ri
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| | | | | Data Rate Questionby Paul Ray 4 weeks agoHello, I'm in post on a festival quality short film, and my sound guy has gone AWOL. He's given me low-res MP3's to work with, which have a date rate of 15.6 K sec. The plan was once I had a picture l | Re: Data Rate Question
by Bill Davis 3 weeks ago
Paul Ray "Also, I'm editing in FCP7, and using the audio filters included at the moment. I've set the frequencies, what does "Q" stand for, and what should I set it to " It's the setting that widens
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| | | |  | Audio setupby Rich Rubasch 3 weeks agoHi guys; Want to set up a small VO record area in one of our edit rooms. We currently use a USB mic but want to put in a better mic and run it into our KONA 3 card thru a mixer. What is good VO record | Re: Audio setup
by Bill Davis 3 weeks ago
Rich Rubasch "What is good VO recording software Where you might do some preprocessing before taking to the edit We aren't loving Soundtrack Pro (all Mac shop). Anything in CS 5.5 worthwhile And as f
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| | | |  | Soon.by Mark Suszko 4 weeks agoI can't say more just yet. But it's not a joke. A gimmick, sure, maybe, but not a joke. | Re: Soon.
by Bill Davis 3 weeks ago
I choose to believe that you've discovered a way to connect 100,000,000 first generation surplus LEDs to a solar array and are planning to project a massive Final Cut Pro X logo over the entire Midwes
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| | | | | Cable organizationby Rich Rubasch 4 weeks agoHmmm....where to post Anyone have a clever way of organizing hundreds of audio video cables in a facility We have organized them into boxes by type but it is not ideal. We have wall space but I always | Re: Cable organization
by Bill Davis 4 weeks ago
If someone has a comprehensive solution that they can describe, I'd be grateful as well. I keep flirting with too many partial solutions. I have Tubs (heavy guage power) Totes (misc long cables) Boxes
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| | | | | NAB Go Pro HD Hero2 Deal Deadline.by Bill Davis 4 weeks agoSome of you might have gone to the GoPro Booth at NAB and keyed your info into the iPads mounted at the back of the booth for the "show special" of $100 off the HD Hero 2. If so, be aware that the ema | Re: NAB Go Pro HD Hero2 Deal Deadline.
by Bob Cole 3 weeks ago
David Gagne "I'm hoping to rig it to my 11mo son and get some sweet "first steps" video, and and maybe continue to do that every month and do a "video growth chart" montage." Here's some inspiration
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| | | | | File: LED fresnelby Bill Davis 4 weeks agojpg file Show floor photo from NAB 2012 of an LED fresnel fixture. http: f1.creativecow.net 4031 led-fresnel | | | | |
| | | |  | Eggcratesby Harry Bromley-Davenport 4 weeks agoHi there - I own three 2k Ianiro Blondes with barn doors and I'm looking for a better way to control them, so I'm looking into Egg Crates Grids. B&H sell a 1" grid and a 2" grid (about $100 each) whic | Re: Eggcrates
by Bill Davis 4 weeks ago
Mark, I believe it's because they're hand sewn by underage fairies who've been consecrated by the Gnome God. It's got to be something like that. Or maybe that there's no good machine approach to creat
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| | | | | Lighting Control vs Lighting Fixturesby Jon Frost 1 month agoHaving read some of the recent postings, I thought it might be nice to offer some guidance to those beginning to acquire their fledgling G&E kits. It seems that some folks get stuck on "what lights sh | | | | |
| | | |  | Audio Woesby Mark Welch 2 months agoI've been podcasting for several years doing at times three shows. I have always experienced poor audio recordings from my mic system. Here is the setup: Heil PR 40 mic going thru either a Symetrix 52 | Re: Audio Woes
by Bill Davis 2 months ago
Mark Welch "Here is the setup: Heil PR 40 mic going thru either a Symetrix 528e voice processor or a Golden Gate Pre 73 pre amp. Signal then goes out to an Allen & Heath 24 channel mixer then via USB
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| | | |  | My class needs footage for practice...by Ian Campbell 2 months agoI'm teaching a little editing at the tail end of our intro film production class and I am finding a hard time locating any footage I can use for my students to work with. I don't really have enough ti | Re: My class needs footage for practice...
by Bill Davis 2 months ago
Fred Jodry "I've been looking for a simple scene with dialogue that includes a master shot and a couple different angles and perhaps some cutaways. Most of the footage I find packaged for this purpos
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| | | |  | Attaching a Sony ECM-55b under clothingby Michael West 2 months agoGood time-of-day-wherever-you-are: Just got my first lav, a Sony ECM-55b. I plan on using it to produce trailers for live theater, shooting selected scenes from various angles (vs. shooting the whole | Re: Attaching a Sony ECM-55b under clothing
by Bill Davis 2 months ago
The classic "sticky triangle" process used to be described step by step with photos on the Location Audio web site years back. It might still be there. "Before speaking out ask yourself whether your w
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