AVCHD vs SD

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JimmyT

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Don't you miss shuttling through footage in 1 hour block of time? I do. I just editied my first HD project. what a drag going through all those clips.

scrubbing through hours of footage was part of my creative process!

anyone else feel the same?
 
You are joking right? (God, I hope you are joking, I really do).

Oh GOD NO! If I want to do that I can just play the clips off the camera onto a TV or monitor.

I think I'd rather watch FX render on a Pentium I. :D

On the flip side, I'm finding less and less productions are slating since they seem to think they can just quickly peruse the shots off the hard drive. In t he end, instead of watching tape on capture I get to watch endless unslated clips.
 
I don't know if I miss it, but I definitely have not gotten used to the new method, even after a couple years using it.
 
The problem with the new method is with taoe it was simple (though annoying).

You captured tapes and archived them.

With digital media (SD,HC, p2, CF etc) there's usually no archoval of the orginal storage media. And it seems everyones workflow is now different. I rarely see two productions use the same workflow for transfering and archiving footage. If that footage don't get dumped (transfered) right... and the card has been erased, well...

On the other hand. No time code breaks or broken or wet tape etc.
 
Im not joking. Its not the capturing that I miss. I do a lot of doc. style videos and I miss scrubbing through all the footage. I used to get a rhythm down and would find the best Broll shots during that process. A lot of little happy accidents and ideas would occur.

Not to mention the built in archival system that was built in to tape! - Good Point Denwa
 
JimmyT said:
Im not joking. Its not the capturing that I miss. I do a lot of doc. style videos and I miss scrubbing through all the footage. I used to get a rhythm down and would find the best Broll shots during that process. A lot of little happy accidents and ideas would occur.
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Yes, i feel the same and this is how i solve it:

1. I use Premiere Pro CS5 and place the clips on Timeline A.
2. After that i create Timeline B
3. Right click on Timeline A in the Project panel and choose Open in Source Monitor
4. Scrub through *all* footage/clips directly and use In/Out's to place the footage from the Source to Timeline B

Result:
When you open Timeline A in the source you can use lets say 80 clips as one (1) sinlge clip, just the way you did earlier with DV. So, i use Timeline A as a clip in the Source and use the media from it and do never have to open single clips all the time. This saves me time.

I used this approach in CS3 and CS4 as well because i miss the very things you miss. :)

Nesting Sequences is a very powerful feature in Premiere Pro CSx.

/Roger
 
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Hmm I know in fcp when you log andtransfer it allows you to scrub through and transfer parts you need.
 
JimmyT said:
Im not joking. Its not the capturing that I miss. I do a lot of doc. style videos and I miss scrubbing through all the footage. I used to get a rhythm down and would find the best Broll shots during that process. A lot of little happy accidents and ideas would occur.

Not to mention the built in archival system that was built in to tape! - Good Point Denwa
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I just scrub through the footage in a media player or the editing window. Pretty much the same thing as scrubbing tape but without the mess.
 
I don't really see the difference. If you like is easy to see all the footage.
I personally prefer "the new way".
 
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