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Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Haha the Aussie and Brit dual pronged attack of the info! The only thing I would say about upscaling with a decent hardware scaler is that it will save you a lot of rendering later and the quality is usually tangible compared to FCP upscaling. So do you save HDD space and uprez in FCP or pay for the HD upscaling of all the footage? Unless you think there is a lot of mileage in upscaliby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
QuoteWould there be any advantage in using the "Limit Capture/Export file segment size" technique Jude mentioned in this post a few days ago ? I've not used this technique for a long time but you could if you felt you needed to. One aspect is the likelihood of media corruption - if your quicktime got damaged as one huge file then its a lengthy re-digitse - however if you broke itby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
...and to add Sme of our archive, converted and captured ProRes 422 files are several hours long and always less trouble than XDCAM at lower data rates and file sizes. ProRes is lovely to edit with. Don't fear the format. Fear the time/cost to digitiseby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Nope - just finishing a feature film in 1080p24 ProRes 4444 from the Alexa and 1h48 comes in around 200GB and at much higher data rate than 29.97 ProRes HQ. You are working well within the limits as long as your drives are running correctly and supplying the bandwidth for however many streams of video you want at any one time. Personally I'd save space and overheads and digitise the uprezedby Ben King - Café LA
Re: OT: DVD Authoring... What are we using now? - 13 years ago
No problem Steve I think we all get caught up in the upgrade cycle when it really doesn't add anything. In any business model you simply need whatever works and within budget. There really is very little that DVD-SP can't do for SD-DVD so even if it gets left behind on the next round of OS X (Mountain Lion) updates you could easily run a legacy system HDD (Mac OS X Lion for example) forby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: OT: DVD Authoring... What are we using now? - 13 years ago
You should still use DVD-SP until it no longer works under the OSX. Adobe Encore is good too but I only use it for making Blu-ray. I still use DVD-SP for all DVD work. However Adobe media encoder does work incredibly quickly for making files for DVD instead of compressor.by Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Looking to buy a Drobo array - 13 years ago
The manufacturing is still done by the hitachi factory in the hitachi way - WD branded are also good but Hitachi is still my preference. Seagate also are good but both WD and Seagate required specific RAID based firmware in the past although I do have 8 Seagate 2TBs in my DroboPro. Whereas the Hitachi Desktop HDDs work without issue in a RAID array. Hitachi DeskStars or UltraStars are usedby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Looking to buy a Drobo array - 13 years ago
Drobos aren't a bad idea although you can use loads of different drives I'd still recommend using a good quality set of Hitachi HDDs. They also aren't the fastest backup solution on the block but are pretty universal and easy to run. I have a 14TB Drobo array. However after a lot of use I would rather have another identical 14TB SAS RAID 6 (which would be a similar cost to the Drobo) whichby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Yep sorry the "Upconverted SD" And doesn't make a difference (excuse the topical pun) whichever is on top. If you refresh your browser will see that I never officially made that mistake...by Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Not having done upscaling via the Matrox before the only way to tell would be to get clips of both and compare side by side. A good way to test would be to: 1. Take an HD original then downconvert to SD 2. Up convert the SD via both/all options 3. Overlay the up-converted SD on the HD original and use the difference layer mode to see where the detail differs. The more detail shows up tby Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: OT: "Mountain Lion" is coming... - 13 years ago
...almost back to where we started with the Mac OS X 10.1 "Puma" then! I feel slightly Cheetah'd on the naming!by Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP X lag/pause while editing multicam - 13 years ago
Hi Michael Most likely the speed of your Media drive - what are you using? Do you have Thunderbolt or are you using FireWire800 or a single drive? Really you need at least a 2 HDD RAID 0 setup to consistantly saturate a FireWire 800 connection and to provide the bandwidth for several streams of video. Certainly this will depend on how many concurrent streams you are trying to multicam andby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Seven free blur and sharpen effects - including Unsharp Mask and a lens blur - 13 years ago
Nice one Alex!by Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: FCPX and FCP7 living on the same iMac with Lion OS - 13 years ago
Ditto - if you were moving from Snow Leopard then I'd recommend a full separate disk backup and install on the new drive. However because you are already there then there is no need! Be sure to get some fast external storage for your media drives though! Thunderbolt or FireWire 800 RAID. I really like Lion and have been using it since it was released. Also there are number of ways to useby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCPX and FCP7 living on the same iMac with Lion OS - 13 years ago
I have FCP7, FCPX, Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Avid so I would agree with Judeby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Color Balance Won't Work - 13 years ago
Worth noting that on a reinstall or when installing Blackmagic drivers that your user preferences and most of your prefs in general are reset. One thing that bugs the hell out of me in FCP7 is the default setting of Realtime audio tracks to 8 and low! Thats the 1999 FCP1 setting! The amount of old Avid editors that still complain that FCP can't handle many realtime audio tracks is hopefullyby Ben King - Café LA
Re: OT-Old Day Editing Systems - 13 years ago
Over the 20 or so years I've used a variety of systems - I'm sure in the next 18 I'll be working on a few more! Linear Edit controllers (usually Sony) with 2 and 3 machine tape-to-tape: 1" Type C U-Matic High and Low band SVHS (and occasionally VHS) BETA SP DigiBeta Also worked as a Vision Mixer (aka Technical Director or TD in the USA) Non-linear suites: Adobe Premiereby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Will FCP 7 upgrade From S.L. to Lion? - 13 years ago
I think if you like the general improvements and wot not in Lion then go for it. I've been on Lion for a long while now and prefer it to SL apart from a couple of really minor things.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Honestly its not an issue - in the post-house I am currently working at they often take offline from Avid MC and Online in FCP/Da Vinci. In another they online in DS from MC, FCP and Premiere. None of them have any issues. Have fun with the project and let us know how it all goes!by Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Ah now we get to the nub - if its 4:3 then make a judgement call but the hardware upscaling on the cards is realtime on ingest and does a better job than FCP or Avid's software upscaling (without an HD plugin). I would never get the 4:3 footage cropped anyway - instead get either a full frame stretch and then deal with aspect ratio correction in software or get 4:3 pillar box on 16:9 with blacby Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
QuoteBeen, there's lots of Premiere Pro seats installed at the BBC. Has been for the last couple of years: Yes Premiere Pro is making headway on the Desktops of the offices but not yet used primarily for editing programmes - although it is available (as is Avid) in certain Media Villages. Hell I even think we still have a few LightWorks floating around! The Adobe CS suite is invaluable imho eveby Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Big Harry Feetsies? Wots Big Hary Feetsies Prrrecious?by Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Elves! Jeez - you'd think people would get the difference! LAFCPUG Elves! - (You might be confusing us with Creative Cow Fairies ). But yes you can always come ask here for all your NLE needs! Don't be afraid to ask - our forums are one of the reasons why FCP is where it is - we are the support Apple (and Avid - until relatively recently) never provided! On another subject...by Ben King - Avid Media Composer
Re: Quicktime in Avid - 13 years ago
Mike. Although there has been a "big talk" about decamping to Avid, we are still cutting on FCP7. In fact until MC6 has settled properly (at least 6 months to a year) only a handful of people I know bought it and mostly just to keep up-to-date with the interface for training. Personally I would go FCP7 - it will be used and supported by the likes of Jon and LAFCPUG for many yearsby Ben King - Avid Media Composer
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! - 13 years ago
I'm off to the south of the UK to Devon for the Holidays so thought I'd get in there first with the Season's Greetings and well wishing. Happy Holidays everyone! and I wish everyone good health and a prosperous new year!by Ben King - Café LA
Re: SD codec for Shot on Film project. - 13 years ago
I mean don't get me wrong - film and video offline is a horrible and nasty process that is sooooo satisfying when it goes right but has many pitfalls that will rip your heart out and and make you sick to your stomach when it goes wrong and you can't easily rectify it.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Help synching 23.98 audio to 25 video - 13 years ago
QuoteI'm told the files are NDF Broadcast Wave File format. Does this make any difference? No NDF is non-drop frame - no progressive format is Drop-frame and Drop frame is NTSC only not Film or PAL or 25fps HD. I have a horrible thought that the company might have transferred the film wrong. Try true 24p Conform the Video from 25 to 24 then test the sync. If it works then export tby Ben King - Café LA
Re: SD codec for Shot on Film project. - 13 years ago
Quotethis is a no budget project Oh... Oh dear... Film is not a "no-budget" medium - a Free TK is only the start. If he's getting a free neg-cut and tech-light or best-light grade thats great but what about audio and prints? I see $$$$$$$$s that don't form part of the "free" equation and certainly not for delivery. Blag a "free" HD TK and make do with tby Ben King - Café LA
Re: SD codec for Shot on Film project. - 13 years ago
DV50 isn't system agnostic unless its on tape as Jon mentioned. Avid has it's own way of handling DV25/50 as does Quicktime. If it's the only choice ProRes would be a better option in my opinion. Especially if he cuts on one of the last couple of versions of Avid, Premiere or FCP. Is he aware of the limitations of getting a neg cut finished film? Make sure he gets the TK log files as EDLby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Help synching 23.98 audio to 25 video - 13 years ago
Hey Marc can you enlighten us whether they are BWAV or just normal WAV. G is right if - it's just the TC track standing in your way then it shouldn't be too much trouble. Couldn't see the link above for Wave Agent so here it is: Its a free download in return for your contact details (as is becoming the norm).by Ben King - Café LA
