This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: The "tape is dead" thread

I think what they are talking about is that you have watched it all in
real time. Then later when you are shuttling through footage you see
a few frames and it makes you remember something in the footage that
you forgot. I don't think that there are many editors that look at
their footage only once. Ok, not many editors who's names end up on
projects that you see on television or in a movie theater.

jay

On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:00 PM, switthaus wrote:

> I guess my point is how do you get good feel for a take/shot by
> shuttling by versus watching it and making notes on each one (in
> real time versus shuttle speed)? Again, I work in the short form
> world so I am usually only dealing with 1-2 hours of footage on a
> normal spot.
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> I think by actually watching each scene, you can also come up with
> good or better ideas from the footage that the client may not have
> known they even had. Far better than watching a tape shuttle by.
> Sorry Mr. Murch, I am not buying. :-)
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> sw
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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>> I'm guessing you haven't read Murch's book. His point was that
>> shuttling gave him time to take a mental break which allowed other
>> ideas to percolate, and also allowed him to be reviewing other
>> shots flying by which often triggered entirely different ideas that
>> could end up being better.
>>
>> I personally used to experience this cutting shows on a linear edit
>> system. Often I'd see a shot flying by that was even better than
>> the shot I was heading to use.
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>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
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>>> huh? Shuttling by? Not sure thats a good way (for me) to choose
>>> good takes or parts of takes of a scene. Even when loading
>>> dailies from tape, I would capture the entire lab roll, then go
>>> back and subclip each scene, take, etc. Maybe thats just me, but...
>>>
>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@> wrote:
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>>>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "switthaus" <switthaus@> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> <<As far as tape being a way to get to know your footage better,
>>>> I disagree. I still look at and sub-clip every shot, file or
>>>> tape. >>
>>>>
>>>> You're missing the point. It's not that you have never sen the
>>>> shots, it's that you are constantly reminded of them when they
>>>> are shuttling by.
>>>>
>>>
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