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Brad Miller
Administrator

Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-08-2002 03:24 AM

Yeah, that's about right, but you forget the hours it took us to convince Ethan that since his print of On the Line had been sitting there for so long that Technicolor would never return to pick it up. What amazed me was how you were able to pick it back up and get it back INTO THE CANS without re-spooling it! Maybe we should've shown your special "foot packing" technique?

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Joe Beres
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 606
From: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 02-08-2002 09:36 AM

Joe and Brad,
I assume you guys are using final cut on a mac, but just out of curiousity, what kind of camera and editing system/software are you using?

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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today

Posts: 12859
From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99

posted 02-08-2002 02:20 PM

Equipment:

Canon XL1 MiniDV Camcorder running at 30 frames per second (not 60 independent fields like most camcorders!)
Mac G4 450 AGP Graphics running Mac OS 9.2.2 and Final Cut Pro 2 for editing and sound mixing
Moto DV (Mac) used for video capture
Sony MZ-R55 Minidisc recorder and Sony ECM-MS907 microphone used for dialog and sound effects recording
Sound Effects for Mac used for sound editing and recording
Quicktime 5.0.x (Mac) used to separate frames for animation
Adobe Photoshop 6 (Mac) used to create animation
Quickmovie (Mac) used to recompile animated frames into movie
Ray Dream Studio 5 (Mac) used to create animated "Joe Redifer" logo
Cleaner 5 (Windows) used to create Quicktime & MPEG files.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 02-08-2002 05:00 PM

Nope, Cleaner 5 sucked, so I used Adobe Premiere 6.0 (Windows) for the Quicktimes.

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Michael Barry
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 584
From: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 02-10-2002 01:05 AM

As an experiment, I just made a VCD of the new booth training video using Ahead Nero 5.5. Burning at 12 times speed (this WAS an experiment, after all!) the entire process took about 3 minutes.

It worked perfectly in my Sony 715 DVD player! Definitely the preferred way to watch all those film-tech videos.

Is there any way we can 'letterbox' those widescreen aspect ratio quicktime movies for MPEG-1 compression?

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Leo Enticknap
Film God

Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 02-10-2002 10:37 AM

I like Premiere and in particular its ability to reduce the speed of captured footage cleanly and without any flicker. We've got a lot of silent material that was telecined to UMatic or 1" C at 25fps which should be shown at much lower speeds and Abobe Premiere offers a very cheap way of rerecording at 16fps (or whatever) for research viewing. Just drag the captured clip to the timeline, right-click, change the 'speed' parameter and re-render, and just as long as you're not trying to video-project onto a 20' across screen it looks as good as if it were telecined on a Cintel or a Spirit.

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Craig Hanham
Film Handler

Posts: 79
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 02-10-2002 10:25 PM

Ahh Sensei I see now where I go wrong.

haha giggle giggle laugh

Yay verily good funnies.

Tell me does CRC 5.56 work as well as WD40? Just need to know as I am about to start my neglected maintanance program and am not allowed to spend any money, so have to make do with what's available. Maybe kerosine would do at a pinch - using a spray bottle of course.

Keep up the good work

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Jonathan Worthing
Master Film Handler

Posts: 384
From: Hereford, UK
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 02-11-2002 04:16 AM

It's probably very good, the only problem is when I downloaded the large version. I only got the first 15 seconds of it. when I tried the medium one it got 20 seconds in & it shut my computer down. The small one may explode my monitor if things go as they have been.

Better get my xenon changing gear on.

Live Long & Prosper (We hope)

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Joseph Pandolfi
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 213
From: Milford, CT.
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 02-18-2002 06:13 PM

My favorite was

kicking the lamphouse. I remember the xenon would not light here and I gave it the same mild kick (SFX: **thoong!... zzzzit***) and the bulb lit and it was fine after that.

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Ron Lacheur
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 650
From: British Columbia, Canada
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 02-18-2002 06:33 PM

repairing the foam rotted speakers was a good gag too!

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Paul Harnden
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 107
From: Chandler, AZ, USA
Registered: Oct 2001

posted 02-18-2002 06:52 PM

You guys are the best. Just got back from the hospital after splitting a side laughing so hard

. I too enjoyed

kicking the lamphouse, damn good stuff. My rating is a 10 for this one, keep up the good work!

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Will Kutler
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1506
From: Tucson, AZ, USA
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 02-18-2002 07:14 PM

BRAVO, BRAVO....

Just hope that you guys covered yourselves legally! There is bound to be some dip who will take the advice literally

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