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Re: R-Name gone in 10.7 - Alternatives? - 12 years ago
There was a Universal Binary version right at the end of life of R-Name - but like the other version its no longer available. If you can't afford Pro Media Tools (which you should have anyway!) Andrew's suggestion of Automator is a good one.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Cutting up a long Quicktime - 12 years ago
...you could have used Jon's Pro Media Tools - Edit Detector to automatically cut up the Quicktime - created reference clips or self-contained Quicktimes or exported markers to help a manual cut. Saves (in Mike's words) a Bazillion hours of work! One for future reference me thinks?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: transfer r3d to prores 444 problem - 12 years ago
Can't replicate your issue, but I suggest you use REDCINE X Pro to transcode all your RED rushes to ProRes 4444 at the size and De-bayer quality you desire: RED Downloads page:by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Tricaster mpeg2 files - 12 years ago
Never had to use a Tricaster output - read on their site that you should install the Apple MPEG2 component for Quicktime if you want to edit with their files. I would have thought if you are on a FCS system you'd have int installed already though as I thought it was part of DVDSP. Might be worth e-mailing NewTek direct and asking them?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 12 years ago
12GB won't have any effect on FCP7 - being 32bit the whole app only accesses 4GB in total so its useful for other apps and the OS running in parallel but won't add to FCP7 working or not. If you only had 2GB or 4GB then you might see memory issues more often but not if you have more.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 12 years ago
Yeah XDCAM HD 50 is a great format - actually I prefer cards to blu-ray disc because the speed of transfer is far greater and always I maintain HDDs are fine as a backup. Just to keep proving my point I once again loaded up an old FirePower external 5.25" 1st Gen 8.4GB FireWire 400 HDD from the early noughties! Anyone remember these?: My only annoyance about XDCAM is that SONY shby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 12 years ago
We are doing a mainly ProRes Proxy Offline to ProRes 422 Online workflow on the next series for the SONY PMW500 and the Canon 300/305s as we have 100s of hours. The GoPro footage which will all be transcoded to ProRes 422 from the start as there shouldn't be a great deal and not worth the hassle of 2 transcodes.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 12 years ago
Yep Mark - Rich Pixel Format is a great 3D post output - mainly because you get a lot of control and can add loads of useful channels as you say like the depth map information (Z buffer) even material effects for compositing/grading. 32bit floating point images are slightly different from the method I described above. Rather than re-explain it... ...here's an article someone made earliby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 12 years ago
Sorry Joey should have been more clear. 24bit RGB computer image is 8bit per channel 8r+8g+8b or 256 levels x 256 levels x 256 levels = 16,777,216 (~16 million colours) with 8bit alpha on a TARGA it is indeed called 32bit... That's the confusing thing. A 10bit per channel file is 10r+10g+10b or 30bit overall would be 1024 levels x 1024 levels x 1024 levels = 1,073,741,by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 12 years ago
Yes PNG is a good format its "uncompressed" or Lossless as far as the image is concerned and also can have built-in Alpha. But PNG and TARGA are both 8bit Personally I prefer 16bit TIFF with Alpha if possible as you can then translate to 10bit video (ProRes or Uncompressed) with better quality gradient and alpha.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 12 years ago
@ Vance Hey man I feel your pain - I have found the AJA Kona 3 but especially the Kona LHi is VERY prone to crashing FCP when XDCAM footage is on the timeline. Lower the sequence requirements as I detailed above on the sequence and you should find it's less buggy. Blackmagic and Matrox fair better but not perfect either. I've found that very often before a crash you get weird Externby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP7 Process/Workflow Redux - 12 years ago
Hey Loren I'm about to start a huge series with 2 versions of each hour-long episode. We'll have hundreds of hours of footage and we are using a ProRes work-flow. Partly because no-one wants to chance the amount of crashes. However! I just completed the last edit (6x 30min BBC series) with mixed CODECs on FCP7 including a lot of XDCAM HD 50. Edited on a ProRes 422 Timeline. Editby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Using FCP X on a Feature - Good Idea? - 12 years ago
Honestly? There are a few things FCPX does well and its fast (with the right Mac) REALLY fast. You can even edit whilst playing-back! Tutorial Video: Media management is a bit of a weird one to start with but nothing like as crazy as you might imagine. One particular thing it does better than all the others (including Avid) is multi-cam It literally kicks the arses of all theby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Field Dominance for HD - 12 years ago
All HD is upper field first (unless it is progressive then is has no fields). PAL SD is Upper field first with the exception of DV/DVCAM PAL which is Lower.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Effects for Text Question - 12 years ago
For tutorials search Google "Light Rays" or "Light Rays Text" and FCP or AEby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Effects for Text Question - 12 years ago
Light Sweep/Rays effects are pretty common - my favourite is using Trapcode Shine in AE (or FCP if you really have to!) Trapcode: fxfactorypro: borisfx: fcpeffects:by Ben King - Café LA
Re: 30 frame dailies keep breaking in 24 frame projects - 12 years ago
Just throwing a couple of ideas... Try cutting the whole thing in 29.97 not 23.976 23.976 translates onto 29.97 using a pull-down but not sure it works the other way around so you should work to the higher frame rate. Otherwise your 29.97 will only play 23.976fps of the 29.97 frames e.g.: skipping or frame blending to try to match second-for-second. When you sync the dailies you mightby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Does anyone know where I can get a copy of FCP7? - 12 years ago
Some stores in the UK still have copies... Expensive though!by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Does anyone know where I can get a copy of FCP7? - 12 years ago
...call Apple but I think your only option is second hand... One on ebay:by Ben King - Café LA
Re: OT: EPK and related deliverables - 12 years ago
Depends on how large the EPK is but I've been using WeTransfer a lot recently and outside of a service called EVO we use WeTransfer at the BBC for offlines and <2GB clips. Also use a lot of FTP - with most UK net connections starting at 10mbps and going unto 100mbps soon in the UK its far more efficient to FTP, Dropbox or WeTransfer. For EPK stuff I just burn in the copyright rather thanby Ben King - Café LA
Re: florescent light flicker in post - 12 years ago
Buy or rent The Foundry's DeFlicker2 Get the free trial and test it works beforehand.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Upgrading to Lion - New OS coming this summer. - 12 years ago
Depends if you need any features of Lion or ML. If you are all good on SL then stick with it until you need to upgrade. Personally I don't just need to be a the leading edge I like to be at the Bleeding edge! Although I don't partake of OS betas or dev releases anymore - must be an age thing... Partly to satisfy my geekiness but also because I have to be running the current OS and understaby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Another Other NLE - 12 years ago
QuoteKind of funny that AE artists can't figure out Premiere Pro since it and AE are so similar.... I've heard the same thing here and it never made sense to me. Yeah I thought it was an urban myth but on several occasions I had to instruct AE users how to use Premiere. But its also baffling to me that AE users sometimes don't know PS or that PS users find AE so alien.by Ben King - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Apple ProRES LT - 13 years ago
Totally. Doing the final Master in DV50 will also mean any graphics, FX and grading will retain more detail as its a 4:2:2 format.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Apple ProRES LT - 13 years ago
QuoteThe ProRes LT file (in PAL resolution) will be just 10% larger than the DV file. 10% which gets you nothing... ...ergo lots of bits of redundant data. Any conversion to another format - even DV to ProRes will give you a generational loss even if the compression of the destination format is less than that of your source. Admittedly these days barely noticeable but its there nonethby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Apple ProRES LT - 13 years ago
Just use Apple DV PAL... You won't gain anything by ingesting ProRes LT apart from a load of redundant 0s & 1s that will fill up your HDD! If it was shot widescreen on the PC-8 you will find that its a faux widescreen and pretty ropey footage. This is because the DCR-PC series (I have an old PC5 lying around somewhere!) does not have a widescreen sensor. Instead it does a 16:9 croby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Media Drives - 13 years ago
An SSD as your system drive will speed up your boot time, app loading and virtual memory swapping so you will notice generally quicker workflow where the system disk is involved. SSDs for media storage are great but as you said VERY expensive per GB but its coming down all the time. You need to work out what your needs are. How much storage do you think you'll need at any one time for thby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Graphics card upgrade - 13 years ago
Which version of the OS are your running and which version of After Effects? For Apple ProApps then ATI For Adobe products then as Russ says Nvidia especially the GTX285 (if you can find one!) or Quadro 4000 or in my case under Lion you can hack a PC Nvidia card such as the GTX580. Both are compatible and the faster cards are great for both but the current version CS5.5 of After Effectsby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Ah I posted before you answered! Yep up late doing a bit of CSS3 and HTML5 reworking of an old client site to make way for updates later this week! Well if its for future archive purposes then I'd suggest getting ProRes 422 HD for all but any film stock via a decent Hardware upscaler as you mentioned. This can then be re-purposed for whatever delivery you require. The only other issue -by Ben King - Café LA
