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Click HERE to register now Re: OT: New Nehalem Mac Pros Released!!! - 15 years agoi kind of feel "so what" to all of it... i was making plenty of dough with my quad G5 (until aftereffects CS4 came round). and i can make more than plenty more with my 12 week old intel octocore stat-quo box - until the delivery paradigm takes some major change... another 30 sec here or minute there isnt going to change my world... if i ran a service bureau, that may be a different sby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Samsung DLP doesn't recognize MacBook Pro - 15 years agotried changing the macs res or refresh rate?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Monitor recommendation? - 15 years agoone thing to keep in mind is that manufacturers of general consumer hardware use different internal bits to satisfy cost and availability at any given time. so whats great this week, may be not so great the next, then back to great the next week... i used to do a lot of work inside a major windows-centric hardware manufacturers plant. and it was crazy. they would have different innards sometimesby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Monitor recommendation? - 15 years agoQuoteit's not good to a have a dual monitor setup using two monitors of different sizes - you may not notice, but it's a big challenge for your eyes and your brain if you working often with your computer. sorry, but if they are of the same ball park resolution, that makes no sense...its like saying its not good to read magazine articles with different type sizes or to look out different sized wby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Monitor recommendation? - 15 years agoall the samsung monitors i have, have viewing angle/brightness issues. couldnt be happier with my dell 24by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Backing up System drive to 800 FW drive-- - 15 years agoim with derek and joey. back up drive is for backup. if you use it for new work, you are kind of negating its whole reason for being... yeah, dont partition it. just format it as mac extended journaled. superdupe to it and put it on a shelf untill your next back up.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: OT: New Nehalem Mac Pros Released!!! - 15 years agoim going to have to see some real-life side by side task times before i drink the $1000 kool-aidby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: OT: New Nehalem Mac Pros Released!!! - 15 years agoQuoteThis new 8 core 2.93 Ghz is supposed to be 2.4 TIMES FASTER than the high end (previous gen) 8 core 3.2 Ghz looks to me from apples site. real-world activities are more on the order of 1.5x... not really sure what "synthetic performance tests - STREAM, memory throughput" means to day to day use?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Configuring for two flat screen monitors - 15 years agoyeah. apparently motion (as in the application "motion" is one place where video card horsepower is really supposed to shine. but what were the specs of your original card and what are those of the new one?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Configuring for two flat screen monitors - 15 years agoas a monitoring system - NO. youre not going to see any benefit from the radeon card. and not a ton of benefit at all unless youre doing something thats graphic card intensive. and to my knowledge, most (if not all) fcp activity is not. your card does appear to have an s-vid output. so id imagine you might be able to monitor out from that. but im not sure that fcp has the functionality to seeby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Advice: How long should I keep render files? Autosave files? - 15 years agoi wouldnt trash autosave because they still may save you if something goes haywire. but you can trash render files at any time. you'll just have to render them again if need be.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Advice: How long should I keep render files? Autosave files? - 15 years agoif youve delivered the final to the client, you can delete them. if you havent, you can still trash em. worst case is youd have to re-render any effects/filters/audio again. me, personally, i just shelve drives when done. so i leave everything at it was last used. in the event the client shows up outta the blue and wants a new edit...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Configuring for two flat screen monitors - 15 years agoif youre just monitoring SD via camcorder/firewire. an old sony pvm field monitor would be more than fine. you can pick those up used all over the place for a few hundred bucks - as they are considered "outdated" i have one on my desk and its never let me down for broadcast QCby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: HD Delivery - 15 years agoQuoteDVCPRO HD 720p60 editing etc., then exporting 10 bit uncompressed doing a Quick Time conversion, you are doing exactly what i do and ive never had any problems... what kind of hard drve are you working off of?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: jumpy footage - 15 years agois this your first time working in 24p? there is a certain "jumpiness" inherent to shooting 24fps that many people arent aware of...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: CUSTOMIZE TIMELINE - 15 years agoDANG! whats your monitor rez? that area is like 3/8"!!! ive never ever heard of anyone having a problem with it - unless theyd had like a dozen drinks ; ) as far as i've always known - this isnt something you can modify... i have though, been saying for YEARS that FCP desperately needs an interface overhaul...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: DVD burning - 15 years agonope. ive been delivering data dvds to local cable and broadcast for years that behave just the way you describe. all is well. i think you just may have been lucky before and had movie content that wasnt super heavy on the codec or something... just to comfort yourself. do a test and copy your movie back to our hard drive and im sure it will play normally.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: DVD burning - 15 years agoim not following what youre doing with the DVD. are you just using it as a medium to transfer your spot to a duplication house/broadcast facility or are you trying to play from the DVD disc for end use? in my experience i have NEVER EVER been able to PLAY a full-screen (720x480) NTSC mov file from a data dvd without it hanging up, skipping, locking, etc. i dont know that the data rate of a dvby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: DVD burning - 15 years agoQuotepro-looking labels i dont know that lightscribe and its monochromatic holographic-looking result really qualify as "pro-looking"by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: DVD burning - 15 years agoQuotewhen I am burning the :30 DVD, for which I don't use iDVD or any other programs, then how are you burning the dvd? you have to use SOMETHING...?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Exporting still image with transparent background. - 15 years agoi understand that. what im curious is to what it is and why? if its transparent on your timeline, isnt it transparent in your source file? and if its composited on your timeline, there IS NO background. can you attach a screen grab of your timeline, canvas, viewer?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Exporting still image with transparent background. - 15 years agoim not clear as to what youre trying to do???by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Questions about uploading HD mini dv tapes - 15 years agowhy not just use your camera? and just for conversation sake. what youre doing is called capturing, not "uploading"by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: another OT. but just kinda... - 15 years agoQuoteMost of the time partial exports don't even have the proper QuickTime data to be openedi know - right! thats why i felt compelled to post... well, dvd is burned and all seems ok. so for the record. it doesnt seem to harm things. which is quite funny, because if you do a qt conversion export, open the qt movie in qt player then export another duplicate over the same file it tends to pby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: CRAZY-HELLA-OT: apple mail and itunes - 15 years agoQuotetells you when it open on the receiving end that is straight up CREEPY! i dont want to know that and i damn sure dont want anyone else knowing it. anybody who needs that degree of CYA protocol is NOT somebody i want to work for, with or around. - even though many pc outlook folks do it. id just kinda like to not know... i was stationed at a place for about 6 months last year that had meby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: fixing echo - big room - 15 years agodude! you have encountered THE two most FATAL audio problems. you can try to fix it using a handful of half-baked approaches. but to be truly honest. its not going to get noticeably better without getting worse at the same time. chalk it up to experience. and get you a good live event mic on camera as a backup like a sure vp88- its SP levels are high enough to handle most any live show and thby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: fixing echo - big room - 15 years agoNOPE. echo is just slightly harder to fix than splatter. which means mostly NOT. you can use a combination of gates and noise removal but thats also going to greatly damage your desired sound...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: CRAZY-HELLA-OT: apple mail and itunes - 15 years agoi fought converting to "mail" from entourage but finally did for ONE REASON (ok, TWO, but read on) entourage stores all messages in a single database and ive heard situations where that database file got corrupted and you lose everything. "mail" saves each message independently. that just sounds kinda smart to me... though in 4 years and about 20 back-ups of entourage, ive neby wayne granzin - Café LA another OT. but just kinda... - 15 years agook, who's done this? say youre exporting a movie from your FCP timeline (to the same volume the project sits on). you thought it was done and you open the exported movie (because it's late and you're a dumbass) with quicktime player and start watching it - only to discover shortly that its not finished exporting... did opening it cause issues? did the export pause while whats there was playby wayne granzin - Café LA |
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