Mike Robertson Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 I'm sorry their post team is so inexperienced. Did you provide a mono mix to one of the cameras? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGraham045 Posted February 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 2 Cameras (A Cam, B Cam) had RX200s (Stereo Split Mixes) and 1 Camera (C Camera) had an ERX (Mono Mix) with TC jammed on all cameras. All of that was explained to them on set and after. (I wasn’t told it was a 3 Camera shoot until I showed up.) ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronFilm Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 37 minutes ago, KGraham045 said: (I wasn’t told it was a 3 Camera shoot until I showed up.) Ouch! Did you ask? If so, they can thank their lucky stars (read: you) they don't have more to complain about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGraham045 Posted February 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Yup! Of course I asked! I was originally told single person interview, 2 camera shoot. I show up it’s a 3 Camera shoot and 2 people on screen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berniebeaudry Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 So they have full fidelity audio on two of the cameras they could edit with and they still aren't happy? Was the second person in the interview so noisy that he couldn't edit around the undesired sound? Didn't anyone else who was listening have an issue with the offending noise? Sorry this happened but it seems as though some one threw you under the bus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Spaeth Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 I will always say when there are overlaps during an interview. I have been doing the job for enough time to know when it can be a problem. I won't say it more than once or twice, though. I feel like I need to do this just to save my ass, so later they can't do what they did to the OP. Plus, if the interviewer is unprofessional it doesn't mean I have to go down that hole and be unprofessional, too. As for post not getting it, yes, been there, too, editors work and think differently than we do, so my first reaction would be to try to get them on the phone and explain how it's done. Writing email back and forth as we all know can result in too much things written and misread between the lines. Doing interviews is a really easy gig for a sound person. Put the boom on a stand and roll. Yet they decide to bring us on and pay us. In exchange for that I take on the responsibility to point out possible problems while they're happening, including overlaps (not expect the director or anybody else to do it for me) and be courteous before, during and after the production, because I would like them to hire me again next time. I would save myself the frustration and take a minute to talk to the editor, maybe a bit like you would talk to a child. For they know not what they do... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundgarten Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Yes that’s what I was thinking, but I would have sent them only the CEO’s iso. Then they would hear that the tracks are not the problem, but they would have to do the work to figure out where they screwed up so they could find the other iso’s. Or perhaps because of the “time crunch” they would offer to pay you to sort it all out..Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGraham045 Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 They had both ISOs in the stereo poly file I gave them... They were even somehow confused that you could hear both speakers on each others mics. (They we’re sitting maybe 4- 5 feet from each other) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGraham045 Posted February 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Quick update. The Production company hired me for another job for the same client! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Rillie Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Uh oh Just a few days after Ground Hog Day! ... Congrats to you KGraham. Visual Post has a long history of laying their misunderstandings on us, although I don't mean all of them , just a choice few. Usually , a thorough message describing how we shot it, and how to access the sound reports helps with these misunderstandings, in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berniebeaudry Posted February 16, 2018 Report Share Posted February 16, 2018 On February 15, 2018 at 9:07 AM, KGraham045 said: Quick update. The Production company hired me for another job for the same client! So they discovered a certain someone didn't know what they were talking about? Good for you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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