*standing ovation*
:)
On 29 March 2012 12:19, Jeff Krebs <rockinjeff@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to rant here just because I spent agazillion years in online in my
> own facility and other facilities on both DS and Symphony
> with literally 1000s of episodes of series. Some editors were great at
> flattening their timeline and some are lazy fricken entitled babies that
> could not give a crap what they handed over, they were usually the hacks
> and I wish I could name names. I make no apologies to this description,
> because we've all seen it.
>
> Yes, there should be an automated method in completing this task partially
> in software and I'm sure one day it will be there.
>
> I also post supervised at a production company and it was absolutely the
> assistants job to take care of this task. I created a step by step prep
> checklist for the assistants that included, layer pulldowns, third party
> elements delivery, fonts, among a larger list of online prep tasks. This
> included consistent layer layouts for camera original material, stock
> footage, titles, effects handling so that it was predictable for the online
> facility every time. For cuts only I agree, but with reality or effect
> heavy shows, the layers often had to be methodically thought out. It also
> differed a bit for DS vs Symph because of the way the effects are handled.
> I also did this, because I worked as both a facility owner and a post
> supervisor. I know as an owner, I often would not get paid for the hours
> of pre-prep prior to a conform, and as a post-super, I did not want the
> finishing facility to have to swallow costs because the production company
> was too lazy to complete the task of organization. Automation cannot
> complete all that is involved in layer layout as there is a procedure that
> has become ignored by the young "whipper snappers"
>
> rant off.
>
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