Footage review and archive by client
by pingu2k
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May 17, 2007 at 10:41:09 pm
Hi!
My client just wants some special thing from me, and have no clue how to do that.
In general, she wants to have an overview of all filmed footage. (dokumentary shots of a public event, some 2-camera recordings of short concerts) The addition hears as following "so we can see everything and decide what to do with it now AND later for a 15year-anniversary". I don't think she knows what she wants, but me neither.
I think she wants something from my footage thats like a contact print for photographs. Low-quality, but you can see everything and you can recognise and relocate it immediatly. A joke of a partner was "bring that stuff onto a XDCAM and give it to her". I must agree, that would be easy, she could browse that and writes a number down and gives the list to me for cuttin. The problem is, that's not real-world capable (money, equipment).
The idea to give a real 'contact print' is even more funny. I need to make a picture of every scene and print a number under itsself. That would cost me too much time to do.
The other possibility comming to my mind would consist of a very-long DVD (or two, three) with superimposed timecode or better numbers als subtitles. That would be an realistic effort on time. The problem is my archive. I think cannot relocate the clips easy neither on a HDD, nor on duped tapes...
My question:
How to give an overview about VIDEO-footage without much hazzle and with few as possible time to spend on.
I hope you got my problem and you've had a similar experience...
Re: Footage review and archive by client by David Roth Weiss on May 17, 2007 at 11:00:36 pm
What I think she most likely wants is a DVD of each tape with a visible timecode window which shows the origianl source timecode. That is very simple to do with FCP and DVDSP, but it does take time, simply because encoding and burning DVDs takes time.
Check with the client to be certain that's what she wants, and if so I will tell you the simpleist and fastest way to create them in FCP.
David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Post-production Supervisor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
Re: Footage review and archive by client by zrb123 on May 18, 2007 at 12:58:35 am
The easy way to do it is to hook a stand alone DVD recorder yo your deck and set the deck to display time code. Then hit record on the DVD recorder and play on the deck and let it do its thing.
Re: Footage review and archive by client by Borjis on May 18, 2007 at 2:19:12 am
[zrb123]"The easy way to do it is to hook a stand alone DVD recorder yo your deck and set the deck to display time code. Then hit record on the DVD recorder and play on the deck and let it do its thing."
thats the best way imo.
I've been doing it that way and it works well.
But the icing on the cake is sending here an excel file
for her to note the timecode in and out points then import
it as a batch list and batch capture without hand logging. :)
Re: Footage review and archive by client by pingu2k on May 18, 2007 at 10:41:24 pm
"Check with the client to be certain that's what she wants, and if so I will tell you the simpleist and fastest way to create them in FCP."
That's a very nice offer, I'll return with a question, when necessary. Thanks!
I have a new toy to play with, I brought a standalone DVD recorder. That Sony is a nice thing and the quality is better than I ever emagined...
This way to produce a - I call that 'contact master' - is as simple as it could be. I think I tend to complicate problems in an unusual way, I've thougt of someting more sophisticated.
I tried all recording-qualities with timecode superimpose and every one is sufficent for a low quality preview. Even the 8-hour-mode with only 25fps would be adequate for my client. I think i will use the 6-hour-mode with full 50fps.
Nice idea, I thank you for that hint. It will save money, when the recorder is back in, but for now it saves my nerves and time!
