A: Anne V. Coats is a well known British film editor, having been in the industry for 40 years and has worked with the likes of Steven Soderbergh and British Director David Lean with whom she had her first job as a film editor on Lawrence of Arabia (Lean, 1962). At the age of 87 she is still going.
Q: What is the difference between Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 4444?
A: From my research ProRes is a codec that you use which determines the quality of your video output and the smoothness of editing based on the compression size/storage size, in this case the smaller the better.
That being said, ProRes so far has five formatted versions which include; 4444, 422 (HQ), 422, 422 (LT) and 422 (Proxy). In terms of the two in question (422 and 4444) the latter has better overall RGBA picture quality than the former, which is two small steps behind (because of the 422(HQ) which just has a higher data rate due to the support of HD) but most forums agree that you don't loose a lot by using the 422 as it has less data storage rate.
In conclusion the difference between the two is quality and compression quantity. With ProRes 4444 you gain the quality but lack the compression you would get with the 422 which lacks in picture quality.
Out of Sight (Soderbergh, 1998)
Starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez (Edited by Anne V. Coats)
This scene we watched showed the building of the two characters sexual tension. It was cleverly done by showing the inevitability of where their conversation would end up, making the scene non linear. Yet at the same time parallels were drawn between hand gestures and movements in the bar to those in the bedroom. This keeps the viewer engaged, because usually knowing what's going to happen means you loose focus when watching. The attention was kept by the pause in the visuals that occurs for a few frames hear and there, this not only helped the audience to pay attention to these pause moments, but it also in a way kept the audience wanting more as the tension was rising and we wanted to see the outcome, and it was being kept from us by these strategically places increments of freeze frames. All of this was conceivably helped by the music which flowed with the pauses and the parallels and the scene as a whole. The whole rhythm worked really well and had a lasting effect on me as an audience.
Avid Media Composer 6
We started looking at Avid Media Composer, as it is the most industry used editing software as well as the version of Final Cut Pro (7) that we use is slowly becoming obsolete. We didn't go as far as actually creating anything, but we uploaded some already made footage and played around with how to do the most basic editing, such as cutting and selecting a piece within a clip, looking at where the effects are stored etc.
Admittedly it took a while to get my head around, even now the set up of Final Cut is so programmed in my mind that anything else is just bizarre but to help the process I have been watching a few YouTube video tutorials on Avid Media Composer 6.
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