Post-Production

Also check into some local computer dealers in your area as they can provide recommendations. If you know a computer tech who can go with you to check computers you can get amazing systems off Craigslist (so have your computer friend go with you).

Thanks Lindbergh!

The iMac Pro will be great for you. The best part, you don't have to purchase another expensive 5K IPS monitor, it comes with the machine. A 1TB will be fine, you will edit on external drives anyway. For what you are doing I suggest 32 GB of RAM, the 8-Core will work great.

Thanks Stefan.

Howie, did you get one?

When I first started with my writing, I had separate Facebook sites (still do) for each book. However, it soon becomes unmanageable so I now just post under my name and sometimes share to the others. I'd suggest one website, with tabs for each film (like my website - www.davidegates.com) You can then share your blog post / updates via social media buttons (I created my website via Wordpress but there's no reason why a reasonable website builder couldn't incorporate media share buttons into new posts for you).

Hope this helps.

HI Jaye, stick to one main website for the content, (you can create a sub-website within your main site if you really want to separate it out, but do that after you have gone past the 5-10 movies mark). Just bear in mind that social media should be used as supplements to the content you are creating on the website and content upload should be daily to drive in as much traffic. (create the social media handles and keep them aside)

the reason other than it becoming difficult to manage is having one location puts you at an advantage of being found. digital media requires consistent content (think of it like a pet that you need to keep alive and nurture it well) so if you want to have an audience that will know you and develop a meaningful relationship with your work then make it easy for them to find you

"oh looks like Jaye made another film lets go check it out" and then word of mouth will start spreading - if you want to gain more attention then try to run a social media advert.

Hope this helps

I always found movie websites to be strange, however, I can see the allure, as it tends to look more attractive to list a movie URL than your main filmmaker URL. Why? I don’t know. Maybe it’s just me. My first thought is that if I’m going to a website for the movie, I want to find it right away, not have to look at your other 10 films (maybe later!). However, if I was a filmmaker, I would still probably just stick to your main URL and list everything off of it. When I create music albums, I put them all under my main page, or as subpages on there, not as an entirely new URL...

That is really cool work. Very inspiring.

Thanks very much, Corey Piper I really appreciate that.

I haven't yet seen Bill in that show, but I'm keeping track of it. From what I have seen, he's doing a wonderful job! Great video, Christopher - always love BTW stuff!

Thanks, everybody!

So, Solange Plaza – the more specific the need, the more you'd combine those methods. That makes sense, and as I think about it, pretty typical, because you'd keep the music coherent within a given production (not a mish-mash of 10 different genres). It's clear that we should include all of those possibilities in our keywords. Thanks so much for your time!

And Brad Schreiber – what types of search terms did you use at Art-List? Thanks for your time, Brad!

Hoss Sarbaz – Yep, naturally! Do you also search for style/genre or maybe instrumentation (EDM vs. jazz vs. rock etc., or say, glockenspiel)? Thanks!

We tend to have an established subconscious imprint or preconception of what genre's goes with what scene. Kind of like how your brain fills in the blanks when you see an incomplete phrase. Or when you watch a film that lets the audience engage and fill in the blanks. It's the same concept except we have watched so many films and shows growing up that our brain and our emotions as a whole say, "okay it's a romantic scene, like Romeo and Juliet, something like Greensleeves may work here." Then there is this, is it Jaws scary or Halloween scary? Is it Star wars action or Lethal weapon action. For commercials it's more simplified. Who is the target audience and what grabs their attention right away and makes it memorable. Jay-z or Sinatra for wedding cake commercial. Both could work who is the target audience. Selecting the instruments is where you hone in on really setting the mood. One of my favorite examples of that is the opening to the film "SPUN" it opens with an acoustic version of Ac/Dc's Number of the Beast and the tempo fits the cut for the opening sequence. Hope this helps.

Everybody, this has been incredibly helpful. Everything you said makes perfect sense, and I could even say, "sure, of course you work that way" — and yet when you're the one writing the descriptions of the music (me), it can be hard to shift those 180 degrees into your seat and hear the cues from your perspective. Thanks so much!

Thanks, Brad Schreiber, for mentioning Artlist.io. What are your favorite features there?

Hi I've been out of the editing game awhile, so I'm not sure if what I used is still relevant. Bearing in mind that I worked on low- no budget productions. At the local television station (catering to mostly news and non-fiction productions) we used freeplaymusic (which of course we still had to pay for a license to use) and recently on a short production I worked on this year, the editor used audiojungle. Low cost is the major deciding factor for me, followed closely by variety and also how easy it is to search.

Fire up Premiere Pro, load in the images a few images (3-5), do the zoom in and zoom out as required, export the timeline and check your results.

Can anyone in my network help out Gustavo Letelier ?

Adobe After Effects has a fantastic feature added called "Detail-Preserving Upscale". I use it a ton with my partnership with the Times Square Alliance. I have to take various digital artist's work, typically from sources such as you're working with, and upscale it to be shown on displays as huge as the NASDAQ building, as an example. So give it a try!

The best possible conversion would be something like a Teranex. https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/teranex

Otherwise, you may want to learn ffmpeg. See Jan Ozer's training materials at:https://streaminglearningcenter.com

He has books and videos.

Robert

Thank you all for your suggestions,

Best

Gustavo

It might be possible using a M/S side chain to separate mid channels from side but that's only if the mix is setup that way i.e panning of sound elements)

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HI, maybe you can try Mandy.com. I had some gigs on Upwork but then they decide to delete my account, I'm on freelancer.com but most of the job ads are fake. Fiverr with people willing to edit videos for only 5$ is offensive to me.

Interesting

Wow, thanks for sharing!

welcome Katie

Thank you Carlos, it's awesome!

tx Stefan LaToure ! appreciated!