03-28-12 setting up roto contractors

Can I create a file with JUST the snippets of footage i need? Only what they need to roto? Fcp or AE? I think fcp (crosses fingers) Today… Send calibration samples and contracts, set up email form for time tracking, easy to copy and paste into spreadsheet. Beginning april 2 – full power. Charge up…

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Master VFX inventory

Master VFX inventory Spreadsheet with (A) description of shot (B) proposed change(s) roto-hair, motion blur? design? new production (C) story priority (1-3) (D) duration of shot (analysis) (E) complexity guess (1-3) (F) average execution D x E (G) Estimated Team Potential Artist’s Time/Task x total artists C = 1,2,3 then (sum of F) x G…

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More DOG repair

More DOG repair Fix words in phil and Eiji No connection between tunnel and Joe inside Names rather than a and b Too Complex to realize Lil christina looks in the mirror with hat Young Christina holds book upside-down Ubik title very bright Loose second eye roll? Goal posts reduce Tiny bit more payer after…

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I’m assembling the rough cut

I’m assembling the rough cut with placeholders as planned to test the whole. Actually a series of tests, each demonstrating some concept or approach. The near term objective is to show the test to Yvonne, as an arbitrary milestone. Mostly it’s about whether I think it’s working, and if so to set forth a refinement…

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09-05-11

Phil and Eiji bouncing lines, finishing each others sentences we should cut the whole thing with all scenes 45 minutes?

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08-24-11 roto tasks

Roto tasks (once clearly defined by locking down the edit) are first priority, because by having all the roto queued up and concentrating just on that, even if it’s just Jonathan and I, we’ll get very fast. If we have one or two other dedicated roto kids, now we’re talking. It’s inportant to establish a…

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08-20-11 rescheduled inventory deadline

We’re overrun the rescheduled inventory deadline. In the last week we managed 30 hours on task, and today finished all the available source files – movies, sound, photos. The remaining categories include scripts, notes, vfx, versions. We won’t be handling legal and festival archives as they aren’t immediately needed for the edit.

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What I learned from the 3:00 minute exercise

What I learned from the 3:00 minute exercise. There may be a new approach to cutting. We’ve seen conventions of storytelling and rules to avoid like 180 which supposedly breaks Having an objective influences strategy. In this case it was reaching 3 minutes so the main objective was to tighten the flow. I found extra…

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How not to get overwhelmed

core/*life master/main menu/How not to get overwhelmed (06-19-09) big list version 2.0, with DOG and festival items How not to get overwhelmed How not to get overwhelmed… 1 TOP priority 1.1 post some video chapters 1.2 almonds 1.2.1 √ rebuild screener and mail 1.2.2 √ add pdf version of press package to wab 1.2.3 √…

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