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Forums Tag: editing http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Forums Tag: editing en Sat, 22 Nov 2008 20:00:06 +0000 LJA on "Editors - new Larry Jordan FCP Video Tutorial Downloads (download one free!)" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editors-new-larry-jordan-fcp-video-tutorial-downloads-download-one-free#post-41675 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:03:13 +0000 LJA 41675@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Thanks for pointing that out! Looks like some odd spaces snuck their way in there. Try <a href="http://www.larryjordan.biz/tutorials">http://www.larryjordan.biz/tutorials</a>. robgrauert on "Editors - new Larry Jordan FCP Video Tutorial Downloads (download one free!)" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editors-new-larry-jordan-fcp-video-tutorial-downloads-download-one-free#post-41674 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:43:00 +0000 robgrauert 41674@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ link doesnt work. not for me anyway... LJA on "Editors - new Larry Jordan FCP Video Tutorial Downloads (download one free!)" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/editors-new-larry-jordan-fcp-video-tutorial-downloads-download-one-free#post-41673 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:37:44 +0000 LJA 41673@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ (receive a trial download!!!) NEW POWERUP TUTORIAL VIDEOS AVAILABLE TO EDITORS AND FILMMAKERS Larry Jordan has created a series of short, focused PowerUP Tutorial videos covering a wide range of subjects related to video and film editing. Based upon Jordan's globally recognized Final Cut Studio seminars, the PowerUP Tutorials were designed to meet the needs of editors and filmmakers who want to easily upgrade their skills or stay current with industry trends through instantly downloadable video sessions. Each tutorial is a QuickTime movie that runs between 6-10 minutes, showcasing specific techniques, which can be utilized to solve a particular problem. Topics currently available for download include New Technology, Organizing and Trouble-shooting, Editing, Effects, and Output. "Ten Tips for Faster Editing" is being offered as a free trial download. New tutorials are added every week – twelve tutorials are available immediately. Larry Jordan's PowerUP Tutorials are $4.99 each and available for instant download at http://www. larryjordan. biz/tutorials. birdcat on "Make subject color, and background black and white." http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/make-subject-color-and-background-black-and-white#post-41204 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:09:14 +0000 birdcat 41204@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have done this in Sony's Vegas (I did it in version six but this works in all). Most NLE's should be able to handle this. You use a technique called rotoscoping which is described above for AE. It is a time consuming process (you probably don't need masks for all frames but you will for a number of them - figure an average of about 7 or 8 per second which comes out to every three or four frames for NTSC). I have done this and it really is simple but tedious. Ryan3078 on "Make subject color, and background black and white." http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/make-subject-color-and-background-black-and-white#post-41187 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:10:42 +0000 Ryan3078 41187@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ If you have already filmed your footage, and don't mind taking a good amount of time, you can accomplish this effect using AE. Create an adjustment layer, desaturate, then make a mask over your person. The background will have no color, while everything in your mask will be unaffected. However, the greenscreen way will save you lots of time and frustration. Ken on "Make subject color, and background black and white." http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/make-subject-color-and-background-black-and-white#post-41185 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:10:29 +0000 Ken 41185@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ kro490, Sounds like a job for chromakey. Shoot your subject in front of a green screen. In post production, use your editor's chromakey function to add a black&white image to the background. (Search this forum for "green screen" or "chromakey" to get tips on how to do this. Ken kr0490 on "Make subject color, and background black and white." http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/make-subject-color-and-background-black-and-white#post-41139 Mon, 03 Nov 2008 09:18:57 +0000 kr0490 41139@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ How can I make the person in my video clip in color and the background in black and white. I have adobe premiere and after effects. Thanks for any help! butterflyguy on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40778 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:29:33 +0000 butterflyguy 40778@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ A couple of ideas - 1. I never buy a coputer from a company I've never heard of. Reliability down the road is very important. 2. I just bought a Dell Vostro 410 - business - for $900 - and I'm very happy One of the plusses is that it came with both Win XP Pro and Vista disks. I had Win XP installed, but could upgrade to Vista later on if I wanted. ralck on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40774 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:29:35 +0000 ralck 40774@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ I would be really nervous about the power supply on that second computer you mentioned- it's awfully low for the hardware listed. Also... Vista really isn't as bad as people say it is. It works quite well on hardware that has proper drivers (sure, this means you can't run it on a P2 system with a Rage video card, but it runs quite well on "budget" machines (I built my machine for about 600 dollars 2 years ago and it runs Vista flawlessly). Also... Vista set up properly will only use about 300MB of memory compared to XP's 150-200MB so it really doesn't gobble up a lot of memory. As far as the first computer you listed, it's not too bad. It's got way more video power than you need (unless you plan to game on it). The power supply in that is a also a little low. It worries me that neither computer you posted listed the brand of power supply (that is very important- cheapo power supplies will only cause you troubles). Personally, I would recomend looking at some of the bigger names in computers. You might not get quite as "much" computer for the money, but you are guaranteed tech support as well as a machine that works and will continue to work. iankinnz on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40768 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:10:36 +0000 iankinnz 40768@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ It probably depends upon the editing software that you are using, but I changed from a dual core to a quad core a few months ago and what a difference. I am using Adobe Premier Pro CS3 to edit HD and I can preview at real time without rendering. When you do decide to render, all four cores are working to almost capacity and the rendering is really quick compared to the dual core. As to the operating system, I am using XP Pro SP3 with 2GB of RAM. I know that Vista can support more RAM but the Vista operating system itself gobbles up a fair hunk of it. Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. Lastly you can buy a firewire card for a few dollars and upgrade your first choice. Cheers LDPLDP on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40763 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:45:08 +0000 LDPLDP 40763@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ For an external hard drive, get one with Firewire 800 running at 7500 rpm. I would then transfer all non-essential files from the internal to the external drive and use the internal for making movies. iMovie6 is still a great little program for making movies but I also use Final Cut Express for more complicated procedures. I also concur with the suggestion of not buying HD camera but stick with mini-DV tape camera. If you can squeeze in a Sony VX2100 camera, you'll be set for indoor work with minimum of lighting equipment. brandon0409 on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40714 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:27:26 +0000 brandon0409 40714@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Best buy has a 1TB Seagate drive for around $160. I swear by Seagate. What I did was to get one of those and buy an external encloser. Vioala! External hard drive. Total cost was about $190 for 1TB. Much better than buying those prepackaged 150GB external hard drives for $200. jonblcksnds on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40699 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:58:41 +0000 jonblcksnds 40699@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Cheers for that reply bruceMol, yeah i noted the lack of firewire, but i have a couple of them i could install and yeah also the single drive too, i found this also, seems similar but with firewire and 2 drives though it seems to be lacking the quad core. Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™2 Duo E7300 (2 X 2.66GHz) 1066Hz FSB/2MB L2 Cache Memory (RAM) 4GB CORSAIR XMS2 800MHz - LIFETIME WARRANTY! (2x2GB) Motherboard ASUS® P5Q WS: DDR2, SATAII, PCI-e x16, 1 PCI, 2 x PCI-e x1 Operating System Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium 64-bit Edition + SP1, CD (£59) USB Options 8 x USB 2.0 PORTS (6 REAR + 2 FRONT) AS STANDARD Memory - 1st Hard Disk 750GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm) 2nd Hard Disk 320GB SERIAL ATA II HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (7,200rpm) RAID (HDD 1 & 2) NONE 1st CD/DVD Drive 20x Dual Layer LightScribe DVD Writer ±R/±RW/RAM 2nd CD/DVD Drive NONE Graphics Card 512MB RADEON HD 3650 PCI Express + DVI 2nd Graphics Card NONE Sound Card ONBOARD 8 CHANNEL (7.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) Modem NONE, I WILL BE USING BROADBAND Network Facilities 2 x ONBOARD 10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORTS Floppy Disk Drive NONE Memory Card Reader INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc) Case Stylish Silver/Black Sigma case + 2 front USB Power Supply & Case Cooling 450W Quiet Dual Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£22) Processor Cooling STANDARD CPU COOLER Firewire & Video Editing 3 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI Card (£9) TV Card NONE I've never yet had to switch from XP to vista, and I'd rather not if possible, but it seems xp won't run with 4gb of memory. As I'm not yet willing to swap to a Ma, vista might be my only option. BruceMol on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40694 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:19:20 +0000 BruceMol 40694@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Well I certainly understand why you'd want quad core and lots of RAM, it has a good video card too, but there are a couple important things missing - the most obvious to me is the lack of firewire to take your signal from camera to computer. Yeah USB will do, but firewire will do you better. The second thing is that the single drive. I did notice a performance improvement having video on one drive, for editing, and programs on another. With video you run out of room quickly so, if you are adding a firewire card see if you can add an eSATA connector for fast(er than firewire) external drives. Hmm, VISTA... what can I say, VISTA makes the comment about getting a MAC too true! Depending on the program you use - for instance, even though PremPro runs on VISTA the recommendation is XP. You are looking at an upgradable system though (or downgradable for OS), so I think it's a good choice if that's the going price for a Quad core 6700 in your area. The note about it being overclocked makes me think it was made for gamers, which is fine, but it lacks the refinements you'll need to add for faster video production. jonblcksnds on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40691 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:26:13 +0000 jonblcksnds 40691@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ um.. thanks for the informative reply.. now could i could a proper answer? robgrauert on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40688 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:23:55 +0000 robgrauert 40688@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ no. get a mac. jonblcksnds on "Is this computer any good?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/is-this-computer-any-good#post-40684 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 05:14:21 +0000 jonblcksnds 40684@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hi, I know there are a few topics asking about specs for editing HDV, so excuse me for repeating others! Anyway, I just bought myself the lovely HV30 and now need to pick up a nice new computer to edit with as my old is not quite powerful enough anymore. I've had a look about and have come up with this one <a href="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149956">http://www.ebuyer.com/product/149956</a> and was wondering if this would be pretty good for the job? £600 is about the price range I have to stick to at the moment (in case anyone has any other ideas that jump into the 1000s!) Any help would be great, as this seems to be a pretty good deal. Oh and Hi for my first post :) Jon birdcat on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40627 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:12:47 +0000 birdcat 40627@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ I recently had a Western Digital MyBook500GB (USB & 1394) go bad on me. Although I have two others (USB only) I won't get a Western Digital again. Coreece on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40613 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:31:48 +0000 Coreece 40613@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ These work great with macs... <a href="http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/">http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/</a> alohrey on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40612 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:06:19 +0000 alohrey 40612@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ If I were you I would invest in the final cut express software to get you started. It is cheap, and actually pretty powerful software. As a beginning editor you will focus most of your efforts learning about basic cuts, fades, and the timing of editing. Final cut express will be able to handle all of the basics, and that way you won't be tempted to waste tons of time one things you don't really need to be doing right now. As for a hard drive, I too would recommend a lacie. I just picked up a 750 GB disc with eSata, firewire800, usb, and firewire400. I am currently using it on my macbook pro editing HDV in FCS2.0 and it works great. Keep up the hard work, your laptop will be a great editing system for you. Thanks ~Adam www.hdupdate.com robgrauert on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40611 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:47:49 +0000 robgrauert 40611@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Well, your computer set up is fine. It's definitely good enough for DV and probably HDV too, although, i wouldn't jump into HD. It's too soon, theres no point, and it won't enhance your learning process of video in anyway. Learn the basics of video with DV first; save yourself the money. Since you are a student, you can get the student version of Final Cut Studio 2 for like, $700, which is super cheap. The only difference between that and the regular version is that it won't be able to upgrade to Final Cut Studio 3, which won't be for a long time anyway. To answer your questions about the external drive, I've had a 250GB LaCie drive since 2005, and have never had a problem with it. It would be a good idea to have 2 separate hard drives, however, I doubt you'll need a second 1TB hard drive for general school work and everyday things. I would expect 100GB to be plenty. mbeano on "External Hard Drive Recommendation?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/external-hard-drive-recommendation#post-40608 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:24:10 +0000 mbeano 40608@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Hello everyone, I am a new film student (as of now I have only taken theory classes, and yet to take a production class). I am thinking of buying an external hard drive. It has been a really long time since I have touched anything in relation to film or video editing so I am pretty ignorant to alot of the technology as well as the jargon. I really want to get more into video editing. Unfortunately, due to lack of funds, I have to buy my system in stages, little by little, and cannot afford to have 1 system dedicated solely to editing (for now). So for the time being my laptop will be used for everday stuff as well as learning editing and fufute student video projects. Here are my computer details: Laptop - Apple MacbookPro 2.5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4G DDR2 SDRAM, and 250G Hard drive, running OSX 10.5. For now I only have iMovie, but eventually plan on buying Final Cut Pro. So for now I am looking for recommendations on an external hard drive. I know I want at least 1 terabyte of storage. I am also wondering If it is recommended to get 2 separate external hard drives - one for my media, and 1 for everyday stuff. In all I'd like to keep my costs down under $600. As I am new to all of this any comments on what I need or should be thinking about would be welcome, and all advice would be much appreciated Thanks in advance, Mike LJA on "NEW YORK & BOSTON AREA EDITORS -Larry Jordan's Final Cut Seminars are back!" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/new-york-038-boston-area-editors-larry-jordans-final-cut-seminars-are-back#post-40588 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:00:13 +0000 LJA 40588@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ NEW YORK & BOSTON AREA EDITORS -- Concentrated Training for Final Cut Studio Larry Jordan is coming back to New York (10/14-10/15) and Boston (10/17 & 10/18) with his PowerUP with Final Cut StudioSeminars! If you depend upon Final Cut Studio -- whether new to Final Cut or an experienced pro -- these in-depth, fun, and fast-paced sessions show you secret tips, little-known techniques, and instant power boosters to make your editing faster, more productive and effective. 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"Highly recommend, very useful for editors like myself...This seminar will save me SO much time!" birdcat on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40209 Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:47:43 +0000 birdcat 40209@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ I have read trade publication after trade pub - They all say that higher paying IT related jobs in the US are on the decline. If you compare the Sunday NY Times classifieds you can see this - The IT related jobs ten years ago were ten pages long (literally!) - Now they don't fill a full page. I used to get calls from headhunters (IT recruiters) three-four times a week - Now that's down to once a month or so, all requiring the latest skills (I have lots of legacy stuff but not too heavy on latest technologies) and when they hear that I wouldn't consider jumping for less than $100K (make more than that now - remember I have 31 years into this) they have a heart attack. If you are in college now, go talk to one of the career counselors they have - Also, you may want to speak to a local recruiting firm and ask them what's hot now and what they expect to be hot five years from now. Computer Software Engineers are one of the hot jobs of last couple of years but they are on the decline. Computer Software Architect is hot right now and will be through next year (maybe longer - who knows). Database Admin's will always be able to find a job, their pay is declining however as more folks go that route and the job itself is starting to get offshored. Network folks get OK money and the good thing is that it requires a lot of hands on (which means you have a hard time offshoring) but again, lots of folks are going into that and soon supply will outstrip demand. If I had to choose one area to specialize in that would see me through the next ten years it would be computer security (attacks will always be increasing) and this area is still fairly new. All of this is my opinion and based upon my observations - I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV - Your mileage may vary. 4ca on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40207 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:30:53 +0000 4ca 40207@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ ya know... I have found that if you go where your heart wants to go... go there. Really. Usually if you follow your heart the money follows not too far after that. Ryan3078 on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40205 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:29 +0000 Ryan3078 40205@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ Is this what you have noticed in your area, or is it nationwide? <blockquote> For the Midwest region, the projected fastest-growing careers for the 2002-2012 time period are in Healthcare, Computer/Information Sciences, Engineering, and Architecture. In addition to the Northeast and South regions, physician assistants and network systems analysts are and will continue to be in high demand in this region. Demand for engineers is high as well, especially industrial, environmental, and agricultural engineers (agriculture is very important in the Midwest, specifically in the Dakotas). For those of you majoring in architecture, look for high hiring activity in Kansas, Nebraska, and Ohio. Top 10 Fast Growing Jobs thru 2014 <ol> <li>Network systems & data communication analysts</li> <li>Home health aides</li> <li>Physician assistants</li> <li>Computer software engineers, applications</li> <li><a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Ohio_jobs#">Medical assistants</a></li> <li>Computer software engineers, systems software</li> <li>Database administrators</li> <li>Diagnostic medical sonographers</li> <li>Network & computer <a href="http://hubpages.com/hub/Ohio_jobs#">systems administrators</a></li> <li>Hazardous materials removal workers </li> </ol> </blockquote> Seems to me that these are jobs in high demand! Are the stats really wrong? Are those you have noticed loosing jobs in senior positions, or low on the ladder? <blockquote></blockquote> birdcat on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40200 Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:16:09 +0000 birdcat 40200@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ As a data processing professional (for over 31 years now) I would highly recommend that anyone stay well away from any computer career. Too much is shipped overseas at this point - I would recommend getting a degree in management with a minor in computers if you want to go into MIS but I cannot in good conscience NOT warn folks about this once exciting and well paying occupation which has gone to crap in less than seven years. Ryan3078 on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40189 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:11:20 +0000 Ryan3078 40189@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote> I would NOT recommend CIS, IT, MIS or anything like that as a future ocupation. </blockquote> Good to hear a year in advance!...I am definitely going to go for a computer/tech related major - what would you suggest otherwise than Information Systems? I was originally going to try Computer Science, but learned it was almost all programming, which is not high on my list as a job, so now I am looking at something else computer related... birdcat on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40182 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:14:37 +0000 birdcat 40182@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ <blockquote> What's CIS, IT, MIS, and EE. Pardon my ignorance. I can't know everything :) </blockquote> CIS = Computer & Information Science (or as mentioned above: Computer Information Systems - basically computer programming) IT = Information Technology (programming, network, security, hardware, etc...) MIS = Management & Information Science (management of programmers & programming) EE = Electrical Engineering (people who design & build computer chips) robgrauert on "Did I waste 4+ years?" http://videomaker.com/community/forums/topic/did-i-waste-4-years#post-40176 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:34:18 +0000 robgrauert 40176@http://videomaker.com/community/forums/ What's CIS, IT, MIS, and EE. Pardon my ignorance. I can't know everything :)