home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- We the fiscally irresponsible have had our .9 flyers for a while now.
- Flyer owners have posted that they'd like to see this bug fixed, that
- feature added. Thierry (your last name escapes me as I compose this. My
- apologies... ) has suggested in a different thread that we must give
- NewTek until Flyer V4 before we can discuss the desirable features and
- capabilities of the flyer. I think otherwise. Here goes, in no
- particular order...
-
- -=-=<cut here>=-=-
-
- 1. "Optimization" of the placement of clips on the two flyer drives.
- When you're done cutting, a press of the button will copy clips between
- the A and B drives so that the video will play back without having to
- record scratch segments for the A/B effects.
-
- 2. Playback of only a selected part of a program. Imagine telling a
- client "No, you'll have to sit through the whole thing again to see the
- changed part in context."
-
- 3. Being able to "build" audio tracks, "cutting in" sound effects to
- match the picture.
-
- 4. Electronic "grease-pencil" marks. I'd like to be able to somehow
- "mark" the frame of a clip where the gun begins to fire, scrub and mark
- the audio clip of a pistol firing, and then have the two "grease-pencil"
- marks line up. (Syncing and cutting pistol shots is easy, but the idea of
- tagging a specific frame of action or sound is important to sound editing.)
-
- 5. Audio "scrubbing." I have an AD-516 and although it has allowed me
- to build some impressive tracks for video, it was a lot harder to get
- specific effects cut in in sync with it. I can sync effects faster and
- more accurately by scrubbing videotape and zeroing the counters
- (electronic "grease-pencil") at the point where the audio and video match.
-
- 6. Music Video edit mode. The flaw with the storyboard interface is it
- doesn't allow holes in the uncompleted program. When cutting some
- programs, I'll lay in the audio first and then insert the video where
- appropriate. I'll also cut so that action, not cuts, fall on the musical
- beats. Any dope can cut on the beat. Imagine a shot of a man suddenly
- extending his arm and pointing. The action is very snappy, and you want
- to see the entire action plus about a half second before and after the
- action -- AND the finger pointing has to occur on a SPECIFIC beat of the
- music, two-thirds of the way through the song. With videotape, I could
- have that shot laid in and waiting for me to insert the shots around it.
- With the Storyboard interface, there needs to be a way to "anchor"
- certain shots to program time or to audio tracks.
-
- -=-=<end>=-=-
-
- That's all I can think of for now. Please post your ideas. I hope it
- will help make the flyer an outstanding tool.
-
- WJS
-
-
-
-
-