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Field of View: King Cut
In the world of TV, film and video the cut reigns as king.
Hosted by Chuck Peters
SEASON: 1 EPISODE: 104 RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 31, 2007
Chuck postulates that as editors we would do well to take some time to consider the magical powers of the cut, because if we master the use of the simple cut, we master the very art of editing.
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Thanks, Chuck. I know my application of cuts will improve as a result of this video and some of the user comments.
Thanks, again.
Thanks, Chuck. I know my application of cuts will improve as a result of this video and some of the user comments.
Thanks, again.
Reading the comments, I had to add another thought. I approached a dance studio about video taping their recitalls. She said she had someone from out town do the show last year and gave the tape and asked to look at it and see if I could do it as well. (This was several years ago and just the start really of computer editing) I returned the tape and said that I could only tell her one thing and that was the person used Adobe Premier to edit with because Premier at 75 transitions with it and they used EVERY ONE OF THEM! Just because you have it, doesn't mean you HAVE to use it.
Great job, Chuck. As a long time News Director at an entry level small market TV Station, I stressed to my new reporters to make their stories move by the edit, not the camera. I actually forbade them from using a pan or zoom for their first few months to get them used to the idea of moving the story by the cut edit. The next trick was teaching them about jump cuts, which I wish you would have toucbed upon. A jump cut ocurrs when something appears following an edit that wasn't there, or wasn't in that position in the previous frame. An extreme example is a wide shot of a house taking to a medium shot of the door with someone suddenly standing in it. Or someone holding something in their left hand in the first shot and have the object "jump" to the right hand in the cut edit.
Of course, with news tape to tape editing we didn't have desolves, so we had to cut edit. Computer editing has changed that, and not necessarily for the better.
As far as the drive-in screen, it's easily (by nature of it's function) the brightest thing in the shot so my first guess would be a simple luminance key, and not a lot of layering required. If you wanted to do roto-masking in a compositing package, you could do that too, probably use a rectangular garbage matte anchored on the corners, then a vector mask in just the corner with the overlap. More work that way... You know, though, if you're more concerned with figuring out the effects than with the message, there's a problem with the video. Effects that call out attention to themselves are a distraction from the message. In an essay on the power of the cut, that's especially ironic.
QUESTION to anyone: At the end Chuck's car top folds down but the billboard on the back still displays the video: If the billboard was on a different layer the car top couldn't go down without the video on the billboard being in the way. Am I missing something here? Is the car and the billboard in different layers? The car top becomes an element in front of the billboard whern folds...How is it made? Please if you know it, wopuld you mind sharing the concept? Thanks
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Overall very nice, I'm not sure all the viewers noticed the stair sequence changing, might have been better to call it out more blatantly, or to do the first half of the entire show with bad cuts just to belabor the point. I found myself scratching my head in the begining following the magician metaphor versus the drive-in setting. I think you should have saved the drive-in for another piece, but who knows, they may be tearing it down next week, so you had to shoot it or miss it, that's progress. Anyway, there are few things as sad looking as a drive-in in daylight. I'd have kept the whole thing set on a theater stage or in a magic shop. Also have to agree the film leader/film burn transition effect is so overplayed as to be a cliche'. A good editor eliminates extraneous stuff like that. DGMW, overall I really liked the message and the presentation, lots of truth in it. Like Homer Simpson's star-wipes, I have 2,000 transitions in my NLE, but cuts & dissolves are 99% of the show.
Awesome....thanks Chuck.... I love the editing aspect of film production and THE CUT is important...i learned alot during these few mins....thank you...
Thanks Chuck! After dealing with some lack lustre recipients, I needed to hear that to realign my approach. The "CUT" truly IS an art of seamless perception.
Peter
Thanks Chuck -
The "Art of the Cut" seems to be dying and this episode really hits home.
Well done, awesome presentation, great pacing and production values.
My only request is, it's time to change the phony film filters and transitions.
Perhaps an idea for a future episode might be - "forget being a film wanna-be." If you want the film look, shoot film. Forget 24P, fancy phony "film-like" filters, softening/blurring the image to try to "look" more like film. Take pride in shooting video. Do everything you can to get the sharpest, cleanest image you can. Learn to PROUDLY say you're using video, not "going to film something". Pride will lead to passion will lead to a satisfying life.
But, oh ya, back to this episode, 5 stars. Love your stuff.
Good stuff.....I like this new show a lot. I already know most of this stuff, but it serves as a great reminder as I sometimes forget. Also, I learn a lot in just looking at how you shoot and edit the show itself.....a lot of time I learn more watching that then the show itself. By the way, just to show what a JUICE junkie I am, I noticed on one of the past episodes of the FOV series that you used the track "KickItBack" from Subtle Impact Stacks. I think it was on the "The Cutting Room Floor" episode near the end where you were serving stew and such. I was just searching through my music for a track for a video I'm doing and I thought "I've heard this before...where was it?" Then I remembered! It's cool because you guys use your own stuff.....goes to show what kind of high quality stuff you can produce using the JUICE!
Andy, bud, chill time! Push back from the screen, loosen your shoes, and grab a cold beverage of your choice. I appreciate and share your passion for what we and other video folks do. Chuck and the other guys producing these videos do great stuff. They'll be the first to tell you they don't know it all, so respect their work but don't drop to the level of dissing opinions of others. Agree to disagree. Long timers in the trade have always agreed there's no right or wrong way to do something. Not everyone deserves a rubber stamp on everything they produce. It's what keeps dialogue flowing, new ideas popping, and guarantees no limits to our creative environment. Keep your stick on the ice!
I wish more people understood the beauty of what you're doing here. Most of these comments are great, but there are always a couple who think these shows are too long, and if they were reading my comment I'd tell them to take a walk, because these videos are simply beautiful, and I soak up every second of them. They look grand, they sound amazing, and the 'it factor' is off the charts! I would easily pay to watch this series, so the fact that we get it for free is an amazing gift! And I didn't even mention that this was my least favorite episode of FoV yet! Some will strike certain people more than others, and that's ok! I still loved this episode it just wasn't my favorite.
Very Good. I am currently reading "In the Blink of an Eye" and so far I Highly recommend it for anyone wanting to improve their craft of editing. Good Job Chuck. I hope editing becomes a DJTV show next year.
Superb script and message brilliantly brought to life with good lighting, changes in saturation, example footage, listenable narration and oh yes great cuts.
Still don't know how the feathered border and scribble transitions enhance this message. It is not a cut transition. I would eliminate them.
Well done.
Way too rudimentary. These pieces seem to be for people who just went to Best Buy and picked up a camera and an Apple. Even decent high school video classes now cover these very basic production elements. The "film look" overlays are also becoming tedious, as well as the constant vignetting and the desaturated sepia look. But again, maybe this segment of the market is what DJ caters to.
Once again an inspiring video by the incredible Chuck Peters. This was a great topic and I learned alot from it. Thanks very much Chuck.
Mr. Peters....You sir are at the the top of your game and it is my privilege to watch. When you are conducting a seminar, workshop or assembling a crew for an upcoming feature film (as I'm sure is in your future) please contact me so I can participate in some capacity. As a testimony to your sage advice I am placing my order for DJ's latest stackstraxx offering. Again, my esteem sir.
Ahh the drive in movies, haven't had one of them around here for about 15 years...and the great American muscle car, just had the largest petrol head car show in the country last month...all great memories that...oh sorry got carried away...excellent, thought provoking(sp?) something to keep in mind each time we jump on the computer and fire up the NLE.
Keep it up...Cheers.
Nice segment once again. To the editor...enough with the leader notes effect already. Too much of a good thing is a distraction which it was in this episode. Keep it for the segment opener...but then take Chucks challenge and not use effects when not needed. The cuts did not need them at all. Everything else looked nice except for when Chucks head halfway dissolved behind the drive in screen. Try a track matte next time. Enjoyed it nevertheless.
Come On Chuck. Im getting bored of rating FOV a 5. When are you ever gonna do something less than awesome. When are your handlers gonna start marketing FOV TShirts Sweat Shirts ball caps and FOV production vests?
Great Chuck,
The simple elegant cut.
Next project we limit transitions to cuts and fades editors.
Also pick up a copy of "In the Blink of an Eye", by Walter Murch (the book Chuck refered to). Amazing!
GTO at the "passion pit",,---flash backs here!
Ripping off,-----er,---ah,---speakers!!!
Yeah that's it.
Wow, Chuck. FoV is an amazing series. Your lessons on theory and application are so well put together in content and composition that you can learn not only by listening, but watching. Thank you!
Excellent! I spent many years in TV news back when it was a real pain to do dissolves. In fact, any dissolves had to be sent to the production suite in the control room for "pre-production." There simply wasn't time, so we had to get really good at the simple cut. The examples you showed in this tutorial are perfect examples. I noticed a network news broadcast a few nights ago when "jump cuts" were all over the place -- people shown in different positions and locations without transition edits or dissolves. To me, it was jarring. Master the flow of good cuts and you don't need to rely on dissolves. The key is in the shooting -- you have to get the "cutaway" shots that will give you options when editing the scene. Thanks for the great tutorials!
Inspires to do better and think more, which is its purpose. Just a thought.... might be an idea to list whatever DJ products and from what volumes you are using! Music, MDe's etc.
Great message, Chuck. But I have to agree with Tom Krauska - way too long (and way too much talking head). To emphasize your point, the video could have been cut much shorter to geater effect. Again, as Tom said, more meat and less style.
I love the style, passion, and tone of these episodes but I would like a little more tangible advice. Though definitely inspiring, they sort of feel like the intro before the "Okay, now let's get down to business..." part.
I also think it would be very interesting to know how you designed, shot and edited some of these beautiful scenes.
On a down now, the background music during the "magic" intro of this episode I thought was way out of place. Maybe something with a little mystery, or mysticism. Not so much hard rockin'.
Surprised that nobody asked how you keyed/matted the content into the drive-in screen. It obviously wasn't blue or green and you still had elements in front of it. Maybe we'll have to wait until the end of the season unless it's worthy of a tidbit in the magazine.
You make a good point, but it could have been done in 3 minutes not almost 9.
I'd prefer more meat and less style.
Another great movie....um, I mean episode...sorry, your episodes are so much like a movie, that I have to constantly remind myself that I'm watching a tutorial episode.
The art of illusion is a powerful tool. If done right, a magician can have people believing he/she has supernatural powers. The same holds true with video editing. In some ways, we seem to have supernatural powers when people see our videos and instantly ask, "how did you do that?". That is a great feeling when people ask me that.
Excellent display of techniques Chuck. You always amaze me with your quality, talent onscreen, and wealth of information. (I love the video effects and editing in this episode.)
This entire production is unique and extremely Inspiring, Hopeful, Encouraging, and much more.
I was surprised when I received the DVD to find it was really a Self Help, and Inspirational video that applies to many areas of life. I would suggest anyone
purchase this DVD for anyone who needs help in recovering from low times in life. Thank you very much Chuck, Perry, Chris, and Everyone at Digital Juice.