Friends over at Kino Berlino are going for there third marathon of film making here in Berlin.

With big name sponsors and very international flavor.

Feel free to bring a sleeping bag.

Some people have been know to not a sleep a week!

Info
http://kinoberlino.contentcontrol-berlin.de/

Meeting

http://kinoberlino.contentcontrol-berlin.de/treffen.html

Event

http://kinoberlino.contentcontrol-berlin.de/termine/kabaret2007.html

Shoot, cut and go in 48 hours.

If the film industry we´re a fun fair then the entry price has got significantly cheaper in the last ten years. Today a couple of 1000€ can buy the equipment to make a film. Ironically the price of cheeper entry to the fun fair is increased competition. So it´s more critical than ever to learn how to make films in order to get them out there too an audience!

There was a time when conventional wisdom dictated that in order to learn the craft of film making the best thing to do was to go to film school. Film school offered access to prohibitively expensive equipment, ready and willing crews and most importantly synergy.

However one major disadvantage was and still is the time lag between the fruition of the idea and the point at which the film is finally shown. There is often an Abyss between the aspiring film maker and his audience.

The Cinemasports phenomena is unique because it provides a frame work to both make and show films. Every thing is condensed to a bare bones minimum. It is precisely this reduction which is the strength of cinema sports!

So how does it work? Teams are formed by the willing, the able and not so able alike. These teams have 10 hours to make a film with a list of ingredients. Finished movies screen at the 11th hour, that very night.

The ingredients are announced on the day of the Cinemasports event. An example would be, can different teams complete a short movie during daylight hours that includes references to an English teacher, a tattoo, and a lost lover?

Three-time Oscar winner Walter Murch says, "Something emerges that's not contained in any of the films..."

Cinemasports staged events in 15 cities worldwide in 2005 in cities like New York, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Sofia (Bulgaria), and Los Angeles. There has already been a Cinemasports event in Frankfurt and yes Cinema sports has plans to come to Berlin.

Part world premiere, part wrap-up party for movie crews, these public screenings vibrate with energy. Be prepared for a screening full of laughing, screaming, and wise-cracking - much of it from your own mouth. Art exploded from a creative pressure cooker. Global exchange and local community building.

The local community bit is where the BFCPUG comes into the picture. Because as it says in our mission statement, "The Berlin Final Cut Pro User’s Group is a network for digital post-production specialists, filmmakers and broadcast professionals, based in Berlin, Germany. We bring creative people together for discussions, collaborations, exchange of ideas and learning opportunities."

Dr Alan Taylor the representative for Cinemasports Germany officially got the ball rolling 3 weeks ago. He announced to a packed house that Cinemasports was planning to have an event in Berlin. A selection of films were shown and people reacted enthusiastically. At the last user group meeting meeting, l talked about Cinemasports and the idea was also warmly received. The first step has been taken!

http://cinemasports.com/index.php

http://cinemasports.com/index.php/movie/Cinemasports_Trailer

I´m a self confessed marker fetishist.

Press M to set marker.
Press M a second time to label marker.
Press tab to enter comment.
Press tab 3 times and enter to close marker dialogue.

So what you going to do when you´ve got lots of angles of the same action. For example 9 angles!
You´re going to set markers for the first angle and then copy them into the other angles, right?
Wrong! You can´t copy markers in FCP.

Time for some reverse engineering!

It is possible to copy content from one clip into another.

So the logic broken down is set the markers for one clip, name and describe as required.

Then make a copy of this clip with all those lovely markers and then paste the content of another angle from the same scene into the copy of the clip with the markers!

So once again. The object of the exercise is to paste the content from the unmarked clip into the marked clip. Because we can´t copy markers in FCP. That simple!

Here it is step for step.

A.) UNMARKED CLIP

Select the unmarked clip.
Open in viewer with double click.
Overwrite into an empty timeline.
Press MEDIA START key, to jump to beginning.
Press COMAND A and then COMAND C to copy clip.
i.e. we´re simply copying all attributes of the clip.
including incidentally content!

B.) CLIP WITH MARKERS

Select the clip with those lovely markers.
Open in viewer with a double click.
Overwrite into timeline.
Press ALT and V to paste attributes.
select VIDEO and AUDIO CONTENT and click OK.
COMAND 9 and rename clip and drag back into Browser.



There will be a little arrow to the left of the clip in the browser indicating that it contains markers.
It´s then possible to navigate through the clip as usual.

shift and M to jump to next marker
Alt and M to jump to previous marker

Or whilst in the browser, you can even click on that arrow to the left of you´re now marked clip to reveal the individual markers as a list.

Having done this it´s possible to click on the marker and drag it into the viewer.
Thus opening the section of the clip from the dragged marker to the next marker!

Repeat the process for the different angles of the same scene.

It is important that clips have the same length!