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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Play a Nigerian VCD? - 15 years agoOne of our division managers has Nigerian relatives and they sent us a commercial VCD. It plays properly and very nicely in our stand-alone DVD players, but the video Macs just give us a blank look. I understand this is the video equivalent of the client walking in with material on an Edison Cylinder, but still. It doesn't even volunteer to "Open With..." VLC Player, perhaps?by Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Playback Problem - 15 years ago<<<I've been told it doesn't work on some newer DVDs).>>> No, it doesn't. The top movies (Wall-E) are in a new format that resists easy management. "Now extracting 35GB." "The disk has intentionally damaged sectors. What would you like to do?" Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Spain...on the Road Again - 15 years agoYes, well given the jalopy they're riding around in, I suspect that kind of lunch wasn't a stretch. And that's precisely where that kind of look works really well. It makes pictures of food into a private sexual experience. Or so I've heard. While RandH would have zero trouble color correcting, I don't know that they have tools to make video into film like that. I'll have to call "ovby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Spain...on the Road Again - 15 years agoDarn good question. I was hoping somebody would have seen it. It's a PBS show and current on the second PBS channel in LA. I don't know that the web site would tell you much. Here it is. There is a video on-line, but that just looks like, well, video. The digital on-air show had me trying to decide which Kodak stock was used to shoot it...until one video camera didn't get out of theby Kozikowski - Café LA Spain...on the Road Again - 15 years agoHow did they get the look on "Spain...on the Road Again." The look is perfect color negative film, but it's clearly shot with the video cameras you occasionally see in the shots when they don't get out of the way fast enough. I'm guessin' also that everybody's wearing an RF mic because nobody is ever off-mic, and there was a clue in tonight's show when the male lead put a napkin ovby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: New Pioneer Burner - 15 years agoFurther digging turns up a firmware and driver change we have to make for the 110 to be successful. Not Fuzzy-Warm, but something I guess we're going to have to deal with. Thank yew. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA New Pioneer Burner - 15 years agoThe Pioneer DVR-106D inside the G5 deskside (Panther) is starting to produce ratty burns. What's good? I see a new Pioneer DVR-110 available. The last few times I changed the drive, it was a trouble-free restart. I think this machine started with a 103 or 104 back in the paleolithic era. Many successful burns. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Advice on MacBook Pro for field editing - 15 years agoDoesn't anybody remember Emily Litella? No Saturday Night Live fans? Gilda Radner's Old Lady character would go on a rant about a news item except she would always get one tiny part wrong. "What's all this about violins in the street?" Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Getting "out of memory" error when rendering - 15 years ago<<<That error message is always misleading. "Memory" normally means "RAM", of which you have plenty, but there is also the factor of "virtual memory" which is memory space that is swapped out to disk during processing.>>> It's worse than that. UNIX sees all storage as extensions of memory whether or not there are any spinning platters involved.by Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Advice on MacBook Pro for field editing - 15 years ago<<<Advice on MacBook Pro for field editing>>> I don't think Final Cut will let you do field editing no matter what kind of computer you're on. Most of the commercial editors I've seen with the possible exception of the Flames and Infernos make you edit on even frame boundaries. They let you manipulate field order after the fact (sometimes), but you can't cut up and edit fieby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years agoQuickTime INFO doesn't say Transport Stream. It says MPEG2 Muxed. Perhaps I'm using the wrong English words--like that's never happened to me before... Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years agoOK. It didn't work, but it didn't work in a really odd way. I did get a stand-alone, transport stream file, but it's an ".mts" file (MPEG Transport Stream, right?) and nothing can play it. On the other hand I'm holding an ".mpg" file I made on the PC which appears to play in a not too well updated Windows Media Player and QuickTime Pro and everywhere else I tried it. I'mby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years ago<<<Here's the checkbox in Compressor 3. >>> I'll see if we have that. I wonder if the extension changes. m2v is the extension for the elemental video stream. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years agoMPEG Streamclip seems to be no help (in spite of its name). Every combination is available but transport stream MPEG2. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years agoSorry. It's not MP2, it's MPG. It's the same file extension as MPEG1. The movie looks lovely when we do this, but it's multiple machines and cast of thousands. Correct me, but this is a very European things to do? We never get requests for this from the US. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Export Embedded Sound MPEG2 - 15 years agoIf we cast our minds back to this thread... ...we note that there wasn't a solution, other than the software package on our PC...which is still in service. Sure enough, a new client wants a single-file, sound embedded MPEG2 and sure enough, we hauled the PC out of the retirement home in Boca Raton. Surely there is a Compressor (2.0.1) setting that will produce an MP2--a single MPEG2 viby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: QT made on PC won't open on mac? - 15 years agoWindows Media is a version of H.264. You may easily have a Windows Media movie inside the Quicktime wrapper, or worse, a WMV file with QT tacked on the end. And no, a Mac isn't going to have any idea what that is. You did leave out an important bit. How did you get it home? Fetch? FTP? Auto doesn't always work right on FTP. If you pick the wrong transmission setting, you will get garbageby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Speed Up A Mac - 15 years ago<<<PBS is the pasteboard server.>>> Nothing to do with "Masterpiece Theater," then? I wondered. <<<Not-so-Joe-ordinary approach: >>> Well, yes. Speed at the expense of stability and reliability. Also, that's not likely to help your PowerBook G4 which sometimes already struggles with heat. <<<periodic ground up reinstallation>by Kozikowski - Café LA Speed Up A Mac - 15 years agoWe glanced off this a bit ago with the discussion of Hardware Acceleration, but I'm after Joe Ordinary things you can do to make your Mac faster. ------------ - - ------------ Every icon on the (dual) screen takes machine management. Does collecting them all in a desktop folder help? We actually do that, but for different reasons (nobody can ever find anything). Too big a System Driveby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Transition from analog tv to digital - 15 years agoWe have gone almost all the way over to HD production for commercials. We deliver on HDCam SR with an occasional foray into (rental) D5. All the clients also want a downrez version deliverable on DigiBeta. Almost without exception. So we added the HD production but the standard definition didn't go away. Are you watching off-air digital TV? If you are you know the problems that commercialby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: emailing videos - 15 years agoMany email systems will not let you post any file over a certain limit. I think Yahoo Mail is 100M. And yes, H.264 takes a million years to encode, but will produce an excellent, small video--in HiDef if needed. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: DVCPro 23.98 layoff to HDCAM - 15 years agoThis is a little scary because that's almost exactly the job I'm doing right now. I was delivered a DVCPro HD 720P60 show (running at 23.98) and I'm pushing it off to our new (and Improved) HDCam SR machine. I'm doing this at 720p59.94 and that should make taking the 'pulldown" out later easier. Any time I can avoid interlace... Did you know that if you have a master sync generator theby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Accelerating FCP...is there anything? - 15 years agoThat's not to say there aren't things you can do to make sure your machine is as fast as it could be. If you've never done a "periodic" or run MacJanitor, your machine is laboring under enormous log files and that can slow you down. Full hard drives make the operating system crazy--and slow. Large hard drives slow things down, too. We have a very nice, zippy iMac that reguby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Capturing 1080PsF 23.98 - 15 years agoStump The Band time. OK, How about another variation? I know I can't do anything in Apple ProRes because that only became available in FCP6. But how do you "convert" on the fly? One of our Avids pulls in HiDef in one of the Avid compression formats on the fly (and I think you can't stop it). Something similar happens here, right? I see people importing various HiDef clips bby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Anyone using a HACKENTOSH? - 15 years ago<<<By that reasoning, Mac OS X is "basically" IRIX, too. Because the guy who managed the Discreet systems at the place where I freelanced a couple times did exactly the same thing. >>> Funny you should say that. I think we finally got rid of our last IRIX machine (thank goodness). I guess you go with what you know. This did create a little hassle because occasiby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Anyone using a HACKENTOSH? - 15 years ago<<<Linux to the extent that a MacBook Pro is "basically" a Frisbee.>>> One of the Systems Administrators insists on setting up our production Macs from Terminal and a command line. Sometimes from his desk. Just like all the Linux setups in the building. On the other hand, there's a lot to be said for Frisbees®. Did you know they make one that glows in the darby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Anyone using a HACKENTOSH? - 15 years agoThe linux people tend to get along with this pretty well, because Mac OS-X is basically Debian Linux in a very fancy box. You need to be one of these people because you need to compile custom device drivers into the OS kernel if you want to start from a naked box and a purchased license. If you start with a pre-built, you will not be able to perform auto updates, see: linux, so you're buyingby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: mini DV audio out of sync - 15 years ago<<<I just don't understand why FCP 6 would be digitizing miniDV out of sync>>> Neither do I. I'm dying to see what everybody else thinks. Kozby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: FCP - NTSC or PAL (which is better?) - 15 years agoWhat he said. The joke is that PAL has good picture quality and terrible motion, and NTSC has lesser quality but very good motion. When you convert, you get terrible motion and fuzzy pictures. Everybody wins. Movement on the screen is the difference between Nattress and Compressor. Rather than show you bad, stuttery motion, Nattress gently fuzzes the picture in the area of the action (sayby Kozikowski - Café LA Re: Simple Video Out problem - 15 years ago<<<not at all accurate, but better...>>> If you have a stable system, it should always be inaccurate the same amount and direction. And it's correctable. Editors do not carefully track the time code during the run-up to an edit and at the last surgical instant flip the tape from play to record. They back the tape up five seconds, close their eyes, and and press play. Fby Kozikowski - Café LA |
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