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Re: 2nd Monitor - 14 years ago
I use a 23" Samsung SyncMaster and I really like it. Quality monitor. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 14 years ago
QuotestrypesI didn't mean open timeline as in open format timeline. I meant it as in trim cum segment mode, in FCP's case, it's more permanent segment mode. I probably mixed up the terms there. Of course, now MC5 has the smart tool which emulates FCPs touchy-feely timeline interface to a certain extent. Apparently people were asking for that. QuoteianeditCompressor = Sorenson Squeeze whicby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Looking for FCP workarounds - 14 years ago
QuoteAnything resembling the paint tool? In order for me to blur a license plate etc I have to put a copy of the clip above the original, blur the clip and then crop. Very cumbersome. I'm not sure if you'll find this any less cumbersome, but this is a trick I use to blur faces, plates, etc. when I don't want to bother taking the clip into Motion. 1-Mark your V1 clip in the timeline (X). 2-Sby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: OT: A Good Editor?? - 14 years ago
"Michael Mann, the helmer for this rom-com spoke at the prem Thursday where he revealed that he had no problems whatsoever with lead thesps, Tom Cruise and Jessica Alba. The film, which bows this holiday frame is expected to cume in excess of 50 mil the first weekend. Paramount Prexy could not be reached for comment" Sure sounds like another language sometimes, doesn't it. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Strange Color Shift - 14 years ago
Does it happen if you change the color of the text? andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: sTutTerinG Video: Something to just accept? - 14 years ago
You're looking for a magic bullet and there isn't one. If you ask me for a QT format that won't stutter, I'm going to tell you H.264. I have never had a single stutter from any H264 movie I have ever played. But then again, the codec is not the only reason that a video might stutter. H264 is a low-bandwidth codec perfect for web viewing and client review and all sorts of things. If you areby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: sTutTerinG Video: Something to just accept? - 14 years ago
I don't know if QT player is a frame accurate playback device. That said, I ran your experiment with a couple of clips. I used the Pro Res interlaced and progressive sequences and both played back fine with no stuttering. Stuttering playback can sometimes be a result of the drive playing the clip back. What systems are you attempting this on? How fast/full are the drives that you're storinby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Audio Sync Drift - 14 years ago
More info: Splitting the audio and video did NOT work. When clips are married in the timeline, the same audio drift is apparent. I beginning to really believe that this is a Kona issue. I watched the throughput to the monitor from the Kona and sync was perfect the entire way through the digitize. But when I watched the finished clip, it was out of sync. I feel I've ruled out the rack,by Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Audio Sync Drift - 14 years ago
Thanks for the replies. Here's some more info: The length of the capture is roughly 16 minutes. There are 2 channels of audio (simple LR stereo pair). I have no other means of getting the video into FCP because I only have an HDCam master. And since I don't have another capture card available, I can't rule out the Kona until I've ruled out everything else. The audio drifts ahead of the videby Andy Neil - Café LA
Audio Sync Drift - 14 years ago
Can slow or mis-behaving SAN cause audio sync drift from an embedded SDI source? I'm trying to track down the issue I'm having with the FCP system. Config: Intel Mac Pro 2x3GHz 8GB RAM Mac OS 10.4.11 Storage: 6TB fibre connected SAN (MetaSAN controlled) Deck: HDCam deck to Kona 3 via SDI with embedded audio Sequence/Format: ProRes 1080i I've dig'd twice. Once after trasby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: OT: New blackmagic product - 14 years ago
Of course MOTU was showing the same idea, but connected to a Mac via PCIe. MOTU HD Express Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: RAID Advice - 14 years ago
QuoteYou have to get a couple of miniSAS cables and a box that has a SAS controller in it. The ATTO R380 is an SAS controller. I've already got all the components necessary and when the RAID is up and running, I've been very happy with its speed and performance. I'm glad to hear another proponent of the HighPoint 3522 card. I believe I looked into that card when doing my initial do-diligby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Strange Response Delay in FCP 7 - 14 years ago
Thanks for the tips Derek. I was actually getting ready to try the old "copy the sequence into a new project" trick when I saw your comment on it possibly being a cache or render issue. I initially dismissed the idea of it being a render issue since there have been no renders in this project so far. It's basically 30 clips cut into a sequence whole and I've just been trimming thingsby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Strange Response Delay in FCP 7 - 14 years ago
Ha. LOL. No, I don't edit off my system drive. I've been doing this a long time, and have built and worked on LOTS of FCP systems over the years since v1 of the program. I'm a veteran and not liable to make mistakes like that. I don't think drive speed is really the issue because of the weird nature of the delay. The fact that it's tied to the level of zoom in the sequence doesn't suggeby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Strange Response Delay in FCP 7 - 14 years ago
Well, I already mentioned the format: ProRes 720p30, but here's the rest of the info: Internal Serial ATA drive 7200. 1 TB with 300GB free FCP 7.0.1 Intel Mac Pro 2.26 Quad-Core 6GB RAM OSX 10.5.8 Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Strange Response Delay in FCP 7 - 14 years ago
I'm getting a strange behavior from FCP and I'd like to see if anyone else has seen/heard tell of it. I'm working in a 720p30 ProRes sequence that contains about 2 hours worth of clips that I'm currently trimming (a basic radio edit from a long recorded source). There are hundreds of cuts, but only 1 stream of video and 2 audio. Now that I'm about 2/3rds the way through the edit, I've noby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: RAID Advice - 14 years ago
UPDATE from ATTO: Tech support suggests increasing the command timeout time for the controller to accommodate the desktop drives better. The logs suggest that nothing is wrong with the drives themselves (though I think I'll double check that with your suggestion Ben), but the controller is too sensitive to the call/response times of desktop drives versus enterprise drives. They've even sby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: RAID Advice - 14 years ago
Yeah, I don't think buying Enterprise level drives is possible due to their expense. I'm using an external RAID setup. So is your RAID a firewire RAID? I don't think I could build anything slower than a SATA RAID because this was created for a RED film. We're offlining it in 1080p ProRes, but I need it to be able to handle 2K files in the coloring stage. I'm not familiar with the term poby Andy Neil - Café LA
RAID Advice - 14 years ago
Hey Everyone, Last year (around Sept), I set up a RAID 5 for someone. I used a ATTO ExpressSAS RAID card and a 4 drive chassis with 4 - 2TB Hitachi 7200 drives. RAIDed together for about 5.6TB. Worked great at first; seemed very solid. Then in December, the RAID unmounted and wouldn't re-mount. Using the ATTO RAID config software I was able to determine that there didn't seem to be anyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: beginner keyframing problem - 14 years ago
It also helps if you make your canvas large and then zoom in a LOT to see the animation line for the move. What you'll discover is that the combination of the two sets of keyframes confuses FCPs Ease curve so that it's wildly out of sorts. However, you can grab the bezier handle in the canvas (in Image+Wireframe mode) and straighten the move out. Then by either lengthening or shortening the haby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Edit To Tape: Insert vs. Assemble - 14 years ago
I agree with Sprocketz. I will only cut INTO a program if I'm inserting. Otherwise, with a half-done, aborted layoff, just go back to a few seconds before Start of Program. Safer that way. And now it's time to dance! Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Logging Help - 14 years ago
QuoteJeffI lent my copy out a year ago, never got it back, and don't mind because that book deserves to be read. Wow, the exact same thing happened to MY copy of In the Blink of an Eye and I had the same reaction. I wonder if everyone's copy of that book is eventually loaned out and inadvertently stolen only to be loaned out again. If so, I wait for the book to make it back to me. PER TOby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: ProRes 422 HQ showing up as a text file - 14 years ago
It IS an FCP 7 bug, but it's not limited to Snow Leopard. The problem crops up in regular Leopard as well. I downloaded Name Changer, a freeware file changing program to handle adding .mov extensions onto my clips. Andyby Andy Neil - The Bug Report
Re: Device Protocols for FCP - 14 years ago
Print to Video is not reliable for TC accurate layback. You need to use Edit to Tape. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: OT: Apple Tablet - 14 years ago
I could definitely see it having a camera in the future for video conferencing. Just wait till they start propping it up on the dashboard so they can video conference while driving. You thought texting was bad... Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Pulldown removal of a 3:3:4 pulldown? - 14 years ago
Geez, if it were me, and I'm not editing it, I'd just use compressor to change the file to 29.97 progressive instead of interlaced. Using the better or best estimation in the frame controls works really well when removing interlace issues. But then I always hated math... Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: OT: Ironman 2 Trailer out now... - 14 years ago
QuoteAs compelling as Harvey Dent was in The Dark Knight, once he was deformed, his plot ceased tying into the A plot in The Dark Knight, resulting in a messy final act where the focus is badly diluted. The Joker ending was great, but then the movie had to segue into yet another ending, an ending which has emotional depth but is structurally unsound. Derek, Though I agree in principle to yourby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Aspect Ratio Differences - 14 years ago
QuoteThat's a bit of a myth. DV as a codec is horrible at handling gfx. Uncompressed (what I believe the OP means when he says 10bit) does a much better job than DV. There's no myth to that. So what the post house said IMO is instructive and true. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Mixing different formats - Best settings for sequence? - 14 years ago
And choose a broadcast standard. 1080i60 is NTSC, 1080i50 is PAL. Figure out which standard you'll need to finish in and get the non-conforming footage converted. Andyby Andy Neil - Café LA
Re: Replace movie in DVDSP - rookie question - 14 years ago
Well, this is not really an FCP question, but the answer is fairly easy. Select the track in DVDSP so that you can see it in the timeline. Select the video and audio tracks and hit delete. This will delete the contents of the track, but not the track itself. Then just drag your new compressed file into the track and you're done. The chapters will all still exist as well as all the button conby Andy Neil - Café LA
