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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: Crash and Corruption - 13 years agoI tried what Derek said and it worked fantastic! Once I trashed all the render files I was home free. Thank you very much. Stephenby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Crash and Corruption - 13 years agoHello, I was trying to restore a project. The problem with the project was this: When I tried to open the timeline (with all the media connected) the preparing for video to display bar went completely jiggy . Jumping from 70% to 9% to 31%, etc. So I thought to open the project, with no media connected and copy smaller bits of the timeline to a new project and see if this was my work-by stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: Conversion madness - 14 years agoHi Derek So what should we be using if Voltaic isn't sufficient. A guy at Apple FCP division recommended it to me. Thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Conversion madness - 14 years agoI hired someone to shoot on a new documentary. They had the Sony HandyCam HDR-XR500v. She shot 40 hours of footage. The file is the AHCVD. Apple suggested that I purchase the software Voltaic to convert the .mts files that I have. We've tried a number of configurations but it seems like it will take 400 hours!!! to convert and compress these files using apple prores 422. Is this really ourby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Digibeta question - 15 years agoHi All Is there a difference in image quality between the following two methods of getting my movie to digibeta: 1 - exporting a quicktime to hard drive, bringing to post house - quicktime to digibeta 2 - bringing the project file and media to post house, opening in FCP and having them edit directly from the timeline to digibeta? Thanks in advance SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: "COLOR" VS DA VINCI - 15 years agoThanks for the quick replies... any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA "COLOR" VS DA VINCI - 15 years agoGood Day I'm finished with a project and moving into the color correction phase. I've worked with Da Vinci in the past - however, I've been recommended to work with a post house that uses 'color,' not Da Vinci. How do the two systems compare in terms of quality - issues of workflow are of no concern at the moment, I am just unclear about quality. Can I assume that because Da Vinci isby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoThanks for asking The flicker filter whacked out 80% of the problem. SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoI'm not aware of how to put an image inside this email - is there a method to attach it to the email? Thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoThanks again for your assistance. Can I ask what you mean by 'absolute pixels?' Also, if you know of a good faq page on these issues I would be most grateful if you could reference the location of that list. Thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoYes Google is my friend, and I already used their search engine before replying to you. After using my friend I did not understand HOW that applied to your kind reply. Could you elucidate further how my 'integers' may be the cause of my new problem with tiff files? Thank you SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoThanks for the reply... I have changed nothing in my protocols...only now, there is noise...can I ask what you mean by 'integers?" thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA when rendering a TIFF major video noise - 16 years agoHi I have a sudden problem and would love any advice on how to trouble-shoot: I am doing a pan and scan on a tiff file - the file looks fine when I have the green preview bar on top of the timeline - however, when I render this tiff file the resulting image has a great deal of video noise on it...I cannot imagine why this is happening - I have done many tiffs in this timeline and this isby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re-sizing Tiffs - 16 years agoHello Two questions: 1 - Are tiff files friendly to FCP? Or should they be converted? 2 - The tiff files are currently between 50 and 200 MB. Instead of converting these myself (in Photoshop, I've been advised) - I would prefer to go back to the client and ask him to re-size them. Since he doesn't work with FCP, what should I tell him? What information language would translate? Canby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Converting very large TIFF files - 16 years agoHello My client is a well known photographer and I'm editing a piece for him. He has supplied his photo files as TIFFS and they are very large - between 50 and 200 mb. I'm assuming these are too large to work with. Therefore my questions are: 1 - Do I need to convert them out of TIFFS to work with them? 2 - How do I make these files small enough to work with, but keep them large enougby stephen Auerbach - Café LA USB and fcp - 16 years agoIn my last query one of the replies mentioned that FCP and USB are a 'no no.' My intuition experience so far has been telling me this. Can anyone elaborate as to whether or not USB and FCP (for anything beyond back up storage) are a bad fit??? Also, even if I'm just using USB for backup storage - isn't there a chance that I would need to work with the backup one day - so theoreticallyby stephen Auerbach - Café LA formatting a new drive - 16 years agoGood Day We bought a few new drives. Western Digital 320 gigs, usb (not firewire). I'm backing up the current project on these drives. Tried to transfer the media last night and it didn't work. Apparently we need to prep the drive for MAC. My question is this: can we simply re-format the drive for MAC or do we need to "zero the drive out?" I hope my question is clearby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: ARCHIVING PROJECT - 16 years agoHi Andrew excellent, did it, worked, very happy, much appreciated thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: ARCHIVING PROJECT - 16 years agoI tried your suggestion and I have two questions: 1 - when control clicking on a file in the media bin it did NOT give me the option to "show item in finder." Did I do something wrong?? 2 - the media is 'media managed' from a two hour timeline - hundreds upon hundreds of files - assuming I can get the control click to 'show item in finder," would I have to select each file oby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: ARCHIVING PROJECT - 16 years agoforgive me in advance for putting my Subject linefor this query in CAPS. I should know better, thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA ARCHIVING PROJECT - 16 years agoGood Day My project began on ten drives. I'm trying to archive it on one external drive. I've got it all done, with the exception of this issue: How do I know if any files are on my internal hard drive? Is taking the external drive to a new computer the only way? Or is there a way to 'turn off' my internal hard drive when opening the project? I suspect not but thought I wouby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: Hunting down a corrupt media file - 16 years agoThe night from hell continues: 65% of the media files on my drive DO OPEN - I was wrong - so now I have 35% that won't open - would a solution to be to redigitize these files? It's about 100 gigs. Should I try disc warrior on this drive? Thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: Hunting down a corrupt media file - 16 years agoMore info to thicken the plot on this situation - I closed FCP and went to the drive that is having trouble. I tried to open the quicktime files on the drive and NONE would open. I get the spinning beach ball. Should I now consider that it might be the drive that is corrupt? And if so, any ideas about troubleshooting a corrupt drive would be appreciated. If I transfer the media toby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Hunting down a corrupt media file - 16 years agoHello Again, I cannot open my project file I cannot open autosaves of my project file I trashed prefs, repaired permissions I have followed the excellent directions from the ken stone web page about restoring a corrupt project found here ...which essentially says to 1 - disconnect media 2 - open file 3 - close sequences 4 - do a save project as... but this didn't work for me, tby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: converting a dvd to pal - 16 years agoAlrighty, thanks for the solid information SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA Re: converting a dvd to pal - 16 years agoYes, they have requested a PAL dvd - I've learned that my current NTSC dvd can be converted to a PAL DVD. Would you know approximately what % quality loss would occur during this transfer? Thank you SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA converting a dvd to pal - 16 years agoHi I am looking to convert my ntsc DVD to a pal DVD for submission to a european film festival. Is this possible, easy, difficult? Thanks SAby stephen Auerbach - Café LA |
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