Evie - Mark Harris

Mark Harris said:
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Dear Sirs and/or Ma'ams
I regretfully have to retract my above statement, because obviously I was under mental distress. I appologize for any confusion that it has brought upon all parties. I will have to have my future messages filtered via a third party.

Thank you for your time,
Dustin Rogan
 
Mark Harris said:
Mark is hitting that point in the edit where he thinks this whole thing just sucks...
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dude, I know that feeling. Jamie, my editor KNOWS that feeling. you need to flush your head for awhile. a few hours of anything other than the film. preferably, a few days. but i imagine thats a luxury you don't have.
 
Zak Forsman said:
dude, I know that feeling. Jamie, my editor KNOWS that feeling. you need to flush your head for awhile. a few hours of anything other than the film. preferably, a few days. but i imagine thats a luxury you don't have.
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Ah, if only I had an editor, I could say: "Eh, it's your problem. Edit, my editing minion!!!"
 
Hmm...I've spent the last few days in that place! It is so weird...every film I do I hit that "wall" at some point and wonder why we wasted all our time shooting this piece of... :)
 
So close...film going out to one more person for feedback, then the edit should be locked.

And I have passed through the long, dark night of the soul, and no longer hate it. In fact, I think it's the best thing I've done.
 
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Glad you're satisfied with it dude. And at least you didn't have to sit through the long dark tea-time of the soul, that part of the afternoon when you've had more baths than can be considered healthy and editing the boring bits out of your life is beginning to look attractive... again...
 
So I am starting to work with Color. Which seems exponentially more advanced than my meager cc skills.

I am creating grades and key framing between them.

Do you all send sequences to color and grade like that, or run off a complete master and treat it like a program external to your FCP workflow.

Send some of your Color workflow thoughts here.
 
it's my understanding that the suggested workflow is that you can send an entire sequence to color but you have to flatten everything to one layer with no cross fades then send back to FCP, it only gets to be problematic when you have cross fades
 
Yeah, was reading the same. Not sure what that means to external footy. They say it's a good stand alone program you can just import a DPX or TIFF sequence into and work from there.

Right now I am learning how to put nodes together and create various looks, and then keyframe between them. It's pretty sweet once you get the hang of it.
 
For short films, I just send the entire film in one sequence, with no transitions and no speed changes on the clips. Do all my color work, then send back to FCP.

I have never keyframed between grades before... Sounds like it will be very interesting. CC is much more fun when you are working with 4:4:4 material, huh?

I saw your facebook comment about going back to HD for your next one - surely you can't be serious??
 
Interesting. Right now, I have each scene as a separate sequence, then a master sequence that holds all of those to make up the whole movie.

So I have been sending separate scenes to Color. Seems that the whole film would be daunting...

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Mark Harris said:
Interesting. Right now, I have each scene as a separate sequence, then a master sequence that holds all of those to make up the whole movie.

So I have been sending separate scenes to Color. Seems that the whole film would be daunting...
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This is the approach I usually take because I don't color grade all my scenes. I take segments or sections of the whole and treat them if they require a heavier grade than what I can do within FCP.

For Look at Me, I'm using Magic Bullet Looks. It works entirely in FCP and has much of the capabilities of ColorFX in Color. I'd like to work on 2 mins a day in Color if I had the time, but I don't. MB Looks is very impressive program and works with footage up to 8K. Its RED ready.

My DP and Gaffer did an admirable job, so I don't have to grade too much. They captured much of the mood with lighting.
 
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