>This is hand-job
sounds like it...
- Rich
At 12:25 PM 3/2/2012 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>Sorry for the cross post I know this would of interest to both Avid lists.
>
>This is a captured thread where some cheap producer hired some hack
>editor and the so called editor screwed everything up. So now the
>Producer has asked his DP to find someone to fix it...
> I love the response below from a guy named Jesse.
>
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>
>First of all-
>
>1) Get your money back. Fire everyone who did the work so far. Editing
>is not a DIY learn-as-you-go profession if you are charging money.
>Severely revisit your choices you made when you hired these people.
>This kind of compounded ignorance is just an embarrassment to everyone
>else who makes a professional living doing things correctly.
>
>2) Hire an experienced post-supervisor or editor to take over, someone
>who has fixed this kind of problem before. It sounds as if you have
>been blind sided by people who do not know what is going on, and this
>often means that YOU might not really know all the problems you have
>with your timeline. So, find someone, and pay them - to know the work
>better than you, and be the guarantor of the final quality of the
>film.
>
>3) Go back to the sequence that was generated for the sound
>designer/composer. You must decide upon a sequence that represents the
>"best" visual representation of your film, and the one that you handed
>off to your composer seems like the best one.
>4) Render this "best timings" example and export a same-as-sequence QT
>at 2997. This is your blueprint.
>5) Copy-paste all the clips of your good sequence into a 2398
>timeline, edit in the "Blueprint" qt on the top layer - make it 50%
>opacity so you can see the template above and the timeline clips
>below.
>6) Fix it all by hand. There is no other solution. Shot by shot,
>edit-by-edit. Reinstall all transition effects. This is hand-job
>because EDLs and EDL translation programs simply cannot make all the
>judgement calls necessary to fix your timeline. In 2997 timeline, your
>clips end on frames numbered 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 - numbers that do
>not exist in a 2398 timeline. Even a smart edl program will leave you
>with timing errors, gaps.... these just need to be weeded out and
>checked by a human.
>
>I am sorry you have been screwed by so many ignorant folks - But
>there's not much that can be done when people do fundamentally stupid
>work like this, except to remind everyone that most people out there
>in the post world are not really editors - they are hacks with
>laptops.
>
>Finding, hiring, and investing in relationships with real,
>knowledgable Editors is the only way insure your work is not
>sabotaged. Caveat Emptor!
>
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