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Jonathan H Pienaar

South Africa
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Professional Final Cut Pro HD editor, with some experience in DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Shake. Currently working mainly for South Africa's version of "60 Minutes" - "Carte Blanche". Please include in your question they type of computer you have (PC or Mac) and which operating system (e.g. OSX Leopard, Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux) so that I can be sure I'm giving you the right advice.

Experience in the area

20 years as a professional editor: worked in feature films, commercials, music videos and actuality. Never worked in Reality. Never will.

Organizations

South African Guild of Editors

Education/Credentials

High school, 2 years of university degree.

Awards and Honors

CNN African Journalist of the Year Category winner (twice)

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John09/10/0910101010Thanks again, Johnathan.
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Recent Answers from Jonathan H Pienaar

2009-11-17 edit video:

Hi Hope No, sorry, once something is part of the picture, that's it! Using some semi-pro software you may be able to crop the bottom of the picture, and/or zoom into the picture to get rid of it

2009-10-31 About connection:

Hi Suresh There is no easy way to do this, and to give you the best answer I need to know what you are wanting to achieve? In order to capture an S-video signal, you will need a video capture card

2009-10-29 Canon HF10 and final cut:

Hi Guido I am not familiar with the Canon HF10 (or AVCHD for that matter) - I have now researched it a little, but some things are not clear. My understanding is that the camera has internal memory

2009-10-26 Burning MP4'S to dvd?:

Hi Lee Converting to DVD should not necessarily degrade the quality - in fact you are "uprezzing" - you are increasing the size and frame rate. But while increasing the size, any softness or blurriness

2009-10-23 Burning MP4'S to dvd?:

Hi Lee My assumption, as always is that you are running Windows. Yep, you'll have to convert them, which includes increasing their size to fit on a video/tv screen. Seeing that they're probably compressed

 

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