how do ya use yer Avid?
by grinner hester
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Jun 18, 2008 at 7:05:47 pm
I have been working on a labor of love destined to be a television series for the last 4 years or so. Getting very close to selling it now. Here is the latest pilot:
http://ModdinArt.com/pilot.wmv
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by Michael Phillips on Jun 19, 2008 at 2:19:18 am
Looks great! I wish you the best in selling it. I just finished my two year labor of love feature - producer and editor. Getting it all set up for distribs to look at. right now I am working on creating a digital cinema package for it - a whole thing to learn now.
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by Jon Zanone on Jun 19, 2008 at 11:57:07 am
Here's a 'conversation starter' I did for USAF Academy cadets encouraging enlisted to apply to the Academy. I have no idea how it got on YouTube, but FWIW, here it is...
This spot was done on a Mac Meridian system, v12. It had become increasingly unstable, and this was one of the last things I cut on it before it was put out of its misery...
"So you want to throw out the old you - but the old you is old enough to know it won't make it better"
Del Amitri - "Make it Better"
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by grinner hester on Jun 19, 2008 at 1:03:11 pm
sweet.
It's always sad when an ole meridien system bites the dust.
I still morn the day ole bessy croaked. I donkey-punched that machine for a long time.
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by Joseph W. Bourke on Jun 19, 2008 at 1:41:56 pm
Hey Grinner!
I use my AVID as an overpriced capture station to send clips to After Effects and 3D Studio Max. Our corporate switch from EDIT machines to AVID Newscutters has cut our production capability by more than 2/3. They are slow, crash often (and often with non-reproduceable crashes), capture slowly, when they do at all, and are slow as molasses. I can see why AVID canned the Adrenaline line, but I can't see why any company with a conscience sold it in the first place (I think I know the answer to that). Our PCI bus EDIT boxes ran circles around the Newscutters, even though they were of a vintage which was 7 years earlier. I just don't get it. Our parent company has bought into AVID technology in a big way (ISIS storage, playback servers, etc.) so I don't see any way out of the mess, other than buying the Adobe Creative Suite, and just capturing on the Newscutters, which is just what we are doing.
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by bouke vahl on Jun 22, 2008 at 12:19:48 pm
Little late at the party, but if you want OLD, this is a collection of stuff varying from 25 years old to 5 years old.
Most of it was done on a 80 Mhz machine, but the real old stuff was done with Amiga, or even just a camera and a lot of mechanics.
The latest stuff came from a Meridiean Mac on a 450 Mhz CPU...
I dug it up to create a test movie for one of my new tools, a H264 render util that is faster than RT (this 2'41" clip was rendered in 68 seconds, including crop/deinterlace and the creation of the HTML)
Re: how do ya use yer Avid? by grinner hester on Jun 22, 2008 at 4:13:47 pm
im thinkin that avatar my be gettin about 10 years old now. lol
Man, I dunno what network it'll end up on at this point. This is the learning stage for me. I don't have an agent so I'm literally cold-calling networks and speaking with someone in programming. If they dig my verbal pitch, we go fromt here type of thing.
This is the hard way of doing it. Doing this one's self is not unlike representing one's self in a court of law. It's simply not recomended.
I'm doing it this way because the other way would just feel like another job and that's not what I'm after at this point.
I'd rather make a half as good deal and be able to sleep in when I want.
Once I got everything up and running, it worked great. My partner is in NY so I was able to travel up there with my whole editing room in one small carry-on. The film was released theatrically and at festivals on over 100 screens. I co-produced the film and everything up to online was done on my mac laptop. Hard to believe how far it has come---I remember when we used 600mb drives the size of shoe boxes, and when the 9 gig drives came out we felt so empowered!!
