{"id":5864,"date":"2008-05-24T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T06:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/24\/5864\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T06:19:07","slug":"editing-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5864","title":{"rendered":"Finished Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guh.<\/p>\n<p>I have spent 25 of the last 30 hours editing two new shorts I&#8217;m turning in to Scary Cow Round 5, to be screened June 1st at at 3pm at the Victoria Theater.  Tickets are available for sale <a href=\"http:\/\/tickets.scarycow.com\">here<\/a> for $5.<\/p>\n<p>A couple notes on the headaches:<\/p>\n<p>Workflow for Sagar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shot on HD DV<\/li>\n<li>imported and edited into Final Cut Pro (FCS2) (rendering up to 20 minutes for a single section, an hour for the whole thing)<\/li>\n<li>written out to Quicktime 720p30 intermediate with all the &#8220;hints&#8221; for the renderer(2 hours per render!)<\/li>\n<li>sent to Compressor to convert to MPEG-2 (another 90+ minutes)<\/li>\n<li>burned to DVD-R with DVD Studio Pro (FCS2) (another&#8230; while&#8230; to compress.  Burning was fast though!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The painful part was for about 6 hours there I was getting video that was ever so slightly slower than the audio&#8230; by the end it was over a full second late.  This is BAD mmmkay&#8230;  The solution was to go to this QuickTime intermediate, which has hints in it (there&#8217;s a dialog that talks about &#8220;markers&#8221;) to keep the audio in sync with the video.<\/p>\n<p>Workflow for The Templetons trailer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shot on miniDV<\/li>\n<li>imported and edited into Final Cut Pro (FCS2) (rendering typically 5 minutes tops)<\/li>\n<li>written out to Quicktime intermediate with all the &#8220;hints&#8221; for the renderer (10 minutes per render)<\/li>\n<li>sent to Compressor to convert to MPEG-2 (~20 minutes)<\/li>\n<li>burned to DVD-R with DVD Studio Pro (FCS2) (Like 10 minutes tops)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These were projects that were roughly the same length!  Ghastly.  I&#8217;m going to need a faster system if I&#8217;m going to be editing any more HD.<\/p>\n<p>The thing that made the Templetons render so slowly (for miniDV) is the crazy effects I came up with to make them look like drawn comic book characters.  Originally I had a workflow that included filters in Shake, and also using Adobe Bridge as a renderer with Illustrator&#8230; that would have sucked, because I would have had to separate every single clip out of the project for rendering, and re-assembled them afterwards&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now it&#8217;s entirely in Final Cut Pro, but still uses a whole pile of video filters, typically 4 layers of video for a simple shot with around a dozen filters.<\/p>\n<p>More notes, buncha Ken Stone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenstone.net\/fcp_homepage\/cutting_to_the_beat.html\">Cutting To The Beat with FCP <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenstone.net\/fcp_homepage\/compressor_warmouth.html\">Using Compressor to encode MPEG-2 Files<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenstone.net\/fcp_homepage\/compression_chapter_markers_stone.html\">Compression and Chapter Markers <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guh. I have spent 25 of the last 30 hours editing two new shorts I&#8217;m turning in to Scary Cow Round 5, to be screened June 1st at at 3pm at the Victoria Theater. Tickets are available for sale here for $5. A couple notes on the headaches: Workflow for Sagar: Shot on HD DV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}