Re: RE: Eclair Cameras: Digital Post-Production

[Crsshairs@aol.com]

Thank you, Chris!

I'm a shooter/editor for an NBC affiliate in upstate NY, and no stranger to 
shooting video, but am fairly new to the non-linear editing. 

I've always thought of video as the "bastard cousin" of film. It's handy for 
certain appications but I am not a particular fan of it. I'm keeping an open 
eye towards the digital movement, but I just love film. Currently, I have built 
up an entire 16mm studio for fiddling with my film projects.... including 4 
cameras(of differing capabilities). Now that I'm getting started on a personal 
project, I am investigating some of the options to the costly (and sometimes 
simplistic) post-production options offered by professionsal labs. I have seen 
a lot of relatively advanced effects from people cutting on digital equipment. 
Personally, I see our production department take some of our "news" footage, 
and manipulate the heck out of it for commercials and promos, and am amazed at 
how it sometimes looks as a finished project. 

Though I want to originate my project on film, I am quite intrigued by the 
idea of haing a computer at home to do my editing upon. Even for simple 
things.... such as multiple dissolves, speed manipulation or subtle color timing.

Currently, I am a Mac user (for personal use), and would not mind moving to a 
hotter machine for my filmmaking needs. If I am just having a lab process my 
negs, and digitize it for me, I should be all set. Right? It's not like I 
would be editing a "recipe" for them to process a projection print from.... as I 
am only wanting to make a master DVD from my media. I guess this would be 
analogous to the folks burning original music to CD for distribution, and 
side-stepping studios and distributors.

I also extent kudos to you for consideration to keeping a nice "meaty" sound 
track going. Don't most of the editing platforms have extensive capabilities 
for multi-track sound work/mixing?

Thank you, Chris, for the input. It gives me a springboard from which to do 
some more research for my editing set-up. I'd rather hear from guys in the biz, 
than from the salesmen peddling their "superior" goods.

                                       ~Kelly Fuller~

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