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Actually many forums have a "sticky threads" option, where you can choose threads and mark them to automatically show up on the top. Most of the time the threads are locked after they seem to reach a limit. It might be worth investigating which threads are most used and most searched, and making them sticky.

Someone else mentioned it right above him.

About a third of my credits are as dialog editor. I've used room tone maybe three times in 20+ years. The fill needs to match the take exactly, and in most quiet locations, the noisiest thing on the set is the camera, whether it is film or a RED. The best place to find fill is between the words "and... ACTION." if your director is not doing this (pausing before action), please ask them to do so. One reason is that everyone is quiet at that point in the take. The idea of cut camera but keep sound rolling is useless. If the location is very noisy, fill is much more usable. Even if there is no dialog in the shot, if the production sound is bad, please ask them to to it over as a wild take. Even a single footstep can be very helpful at cleaning up a problem on a take.

You are assuming an awful lot. The playback of the music in the club will almost certainly ot be at the exact same speed as the original record and will ot remain phase-coherent throughout. In addition, the EQ of the speakers and the room reflections will not phase properly either. If you were to try this, you would need to mike the speakers in the room and multitrack it. Even then, it won't work. RX even at its best cannot work miracles and makes the dialogue sound thin and aliased. Your best bet is to explain all this to the producers and point out that if the music remains audible they will need to buy the rights to whatever is playing in the bar or the footage cannot be used. That will probably force them into rethinking this decision.

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Virtual Katy is expensive but if you know you will be working in features a lot, it's a sound investment.

Sorry I missed it!

Is Van News anywhere near Van Nuys?

Got mine! Love it! thanks!

Ouch.

I'm going to disagree strongly about the one-page thing, in the film industry if you can fit what you have done into one page, you are not experienced enough to be taken seriously. In 24 years of working in post, I cannot remember ever seeing a one-page resume, and I certainly would not hire someone based off of one. You should fit all pertinent info into the top page, and then append a list of credits separately. So in a sense, the "resume" is one page, then there is a supplementary list of credits. Each credit should be on one line with the title and year. You don't need to list other crew. Although people outside the US may use the term CV, what you have written is called a resume here. In the US, the only place that uses the term CV is in academia, and it refers to something very different, my CV is 41 pages long. Using that term here may make you seem out of touch, or (even worse) people may assume you are an academic. Good luck in your search,

Technically recordist is a different job class with a different pay scale. That's the person who pushes the record button. The mixer moves the fader, regardless of how few faders there are. In the old days the recordist was in the truck with the optical recorder, or in post working in the machine room. That's why there is a different term from mixing. I know this is not the way the term is used everywhere though.

In my experience I would say, unfortunately, a lot less than I wish. On low budget films, the time does not exist for me to go through dailies looking for things. I usually get the OMF and that's it. Rarely do I even see the documentation from the mixer. If you do something, document it in your logs, and make sure it gets circled if you think it's usable. Unfortunately, on low budget films, the workflow usually involves people who don't know what they are doing (script supers who don't write anything down, or no script super at all; pictu editors who don't know how to import anything but the camera tracks, etc.).

I have found that a glass of water solved most stomach rumbles.

+1. A long as the jokes are not inappropriate, it is very likely to help you.

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Thankfully I am clearly an unsound guy.

I tell my students not to use zero hour because it's like holding up a sign that says I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING. It will freak out people in post even if it causes no problems.

Honestly if the movie has a distributor, everything will be foleyed anyway for the foreign versions, so I would not worry about getting a sound like that in production. Even under the best of circumstances, a quiet sound like that usually needs to be supplemented with foley.

It used to be a hardware problem with tape machines. If one machine was chasing another, and the master went from 23 hours to zero hours, the slave would try to wind 23 hours backwards and spool off. Now that's rarely an issue.

In post, we need to keep files for a longer time, you'd be surprised how often I get calls for remixes many years after the fact. I certainly keep everything until the check clears, and usually until the show airs or is released. But even then, there are so many different mixes and reedits down the line, I probably keep it as long as I have disc space for it. Sometimes I check with production to make sure it's ok to delete it. If there is any doubt, burn DVDs. Many times it will result in me getting more work if the files exist. If they don't, they don't remix.

Granted I work mostly in post, but every time I have been offered low pay but a great experience, the experience has turned out to be terrible. this sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. If you are staying with Sherpas, you are mountain climbing all day with your gear, probably long days. This sounds like slave labor to me.

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I reviewed the Neyrinck V-Control app in the CAS Quarterly a few quarters ago. I use it a lot. But it is no replacement for a real set of faders.

That's part of THX.