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Hi Editors!

Just a quick one.

I was wondering what the average rate is to just edit a wedding video? Around 140Gb of footage (shot with 3 cameras) condensed down to a 1-1.5 hou…

PS people only get married once/infrequently so there is no repeat business!

Hello

I have a problem. I recently filmed a short.

I stupidly made a terrible mistake and shot an actor in a t-shirt with a popular brand logo printed on his sleeve. Now the log…

Shahid, I really wouldn't bother. If the corporation is not ok with it, they won't sue you right away. They'll send you a letter telling you to take it out. Odds are, they won't c…

Hello Guys

Wanted to ask if anyone knows the best way to get votes and comments on SP competition, I've made a short comedy film link below.

"The last hit"
https://shootingpeopl…

Dear Shooters

I'm about to start an off-line edit of a feature film entitled 'Bonobo' shot on 2x Red Epic cameras last month.

We will soon be looking for a talented colourist at…

Dear Paddy, Lee and Jason

Many thanks for coming back to answer my query.

I'm not so sure where you got the idea I was planning on editing it at full res...but after watching so…

Hello everyone,

just wondering if anyone can help me. Im looking for some info on working in the US as an editor. Im from the UK and want to travel over for work. Im freelance…

Hi Andrea.
I can recomend the name of an excellent lawyer who helped me get an 01 visa and Green Card. Please email me jetsetfilms@gmail.com. It is a hard process but not impossi…

The editor said they cdnt read my footage before because when I transferred the rushes to a hard drive it changed the file structure..

thats seems crazy to me. they want me to ta…

A crucial piece of information: what version of Premiere? CS5 and later take Canon MXF. IIRC they used to ship a plugin that you may be able to track down for CS4.

Also, is the f…

I shot some footage last week and used my canon XF100 in the CINE.F Picture Style as was looking to convert the footage back
with a more punchy quality as i had with Cine Style p…

Thank you for everyone help on this subject your knowledge has been inavailable

I'm a freelance editor working on Final Cut Pro. I will be seeking for a permanent job in the industry soon and I would like to broaden my knowledge on NLE software and learn some…

Forget FCP. FCP is dead. Go for Avid for pro-long form projects, corporates and low budget productions would use Premiere. One gets what one pays for. All the best
Marco
www.pixel…

Dear shooters.

I need to do a blue ray of my film ( about 62 min long), for submit to a Festival.

I would like to know if anyone knows here in London where I can do this and …

Hi Fernando,
We charge £75+VAT (£90) per mastering to Bluray from file, this includes disc and Amaray case. This is a straight bluray (no menu) We are based in shoreditch, walking…

I have a fair idea of the rates involved in television but would like to know what they are for the corporate sector. I assume they vary wildly.

It depends on a few things. If I were an employee of the company, I wouldn't have to charge VAT, or to insure myself, or get my own equipment. If I really liked the project, I …

Hi All,

Just posted this as a discussion but thought I would reach out by asking as well!

I am a self-shooting director/editor mostly working on self-initiated and branded inter…

Hi Ian, if you're interested, I'm selling a JVC GY-HD110E camera, with very low hours ( only 165 on the drum ), and am looking for around £850 for it as a quick sale. This camera …

I have shot a short film on a Canon 600D, so the footage exists as Quicktime H.264 files. It has been edited with Avid. I now wish to send some shots to VFX artists for compositin…

Pro Res is only ever the answer for Final Cut users - for AVID work, DNxHD as above.

I'm currently doing post on my new short, and need To add several screenshots - some close-up, some wider. I was going to use the screen-capture program Camtasia, but does anyone …

sorry should have included the web address -
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/

Hi,

I want to create a Blu-ray disc which has my movie as well as several extra features. I’m using an iMac with Compressor 4 to encode the files. Compressor seems to be able to …

Hi,

I'm capturing HDV footage in Final Cut 7 using a Sony Z5 camera with "HDV - Apple ProRes 422" capture settings. The captured footage looks great but when I click "Log and Cap…

Log and capture was designed for tape. With digital files I suggest that you get them safely onto your hard drive. Then log them. Although you may as well edit all the good bits …

My production company has grown organically, and we've got to the point where we have 3 iMacs working pretty much full time using FCP, AE and Premiere. Currently, two of the iMacs…

A NAS is a very good option for shared access to files. I use one as a home media server.

You could also set up a centralised server for storing media. They can be a hefty inves…

Hi,

Low-to-no budget shooter here... I've been working with a GH2 and Zoom H4N, both of suit me well for lightness and unobtrusiveness. I edit in Final Cut Express on a 2008 Mac…

Thanks, Paddy!

Please can anyone suggest a subtitling service which can translate into French subtitles?
I have 2 short films accepted in a French festival but need them titling before 7 March!…

Thanks.

I need to have a background soundtrack of a blazing argument for my latest short 'Move'. Before exploring recording a row myself, I've checked a few online sound effect libraries,…

Does anybody know how to make your video look like Super 8mm in Final Cut Pro? What settings should I be using to get that grainy, hazy, golden memory effect?

Try Natress Film Effects plug in. It's about 70 quid.

There was a temple there and I wondered if anyone was interested in a film project/documentary? Would help if you had some equipment too.

Hi there,

Happy New Year to everyone, hopefully it'll be a good one!

I'm an editor with 15 years experience and I've just moved to London a couple of months ago. Most of my expe…

Thanks Virginia,

I appreciate that, I'll get in contact with them.

Peter

Does one system have the edge over the other with less error messages when editing for example ?

Have you transferred from a PC based AVID onto a MAC or vice-versa to get more wo…

Thanks for the interesting responses. Have yourselves a great Xmas.

Regards,
Projectionpictures

I've looked at Dropbox and its competitors (Drive, Box, skydrive, etc), and the free versions appear to be slow. I wonder if it's worth upgrading. Ten seconds a megabyte might b…

http://www.box.com and drive.google.com have apps. www.scriptbuddy.com is a place if you just want to do screenplays.

Royal mail looks like an option. Thanks to all who answ…

I know Premiere does this, but that's not available on the Mac I'm doing this on.

Anything else available?

Cheers!