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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: OT: Sleep is for SISSIES! - 17 years agoGreat thread, Kevin. Thanks for bringing it up. My sleep is interrupted by my stupid dog every morning @ 5:30AM. He wants to eat breakfast... and he wants it NOW! I ignore his pleading, but my wife is a softie, so she gets up and feeds him. Consequently, I don't need an alarm clock and I usually beat the traffic on the way to work! As for the "marathon" edit sessions: I couldby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: workflow question - 17 years agoMD, First of all, congratulations for walking out! You recognized that you were in a "no win" situation and cut your losses. I respect that. Some of life's best lessons are learned the hard way, which you now know. Here's a suggestion for the future. Unless you're a one man band, make a point of taking personal responsibility for discussing the workflow and staffing with eby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: capturing drop frame and changing it into no drop ? - 17 years agoDo a google search on "definition of drop frame timecode". Your source timecode has absolutely NOTHING to do with your sequence time code. It's irrelevant. Your sequence is a separate entity removed from it's source components. The kind of code you used to create a sequence doesn't matter. Both drop and non drop can happily live together in a sequence. I don't understandby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Protecting your material before payment - 17 years agoUse the law to your advantage. Put a clause in your contract (you do have a written contract, don't you?) that says in effect, you own the copyright to your work up until payment in full is received. If they don't pay, you can sue them for copyright infringement... a much more "serious" infraction than just late payment. Just the threat of that action should compell payment by aby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: EDLs - 17 years agoArchyb, Do you have a name? I'd be happy to help you, but I don't respond to anonymous posters. Mark Raudonisby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: EDLs - 17 years agoAn edl contains NOTHING more than an in and out point and a reel name. The only exception is for various switcher FX where GPI trigger info for "old school" switcher FX or dissolves can be present. If your sequence is FX heavy, then an EDL is going to be virtually useless to you. One of the reasons that people are reluctant to use EDLs anymore is precisely because they containby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Timecode sych issues with the Panasonic AJ-SD93 deck - 17 years agoScott, You've just learned about the "reliability" of firewire deck control vs. rs-422. There's a reason most pro's us RS-422 instead of firewire. It's much more reliable... from the connectors to the performance. Having said that, we regularly use BOTH depending on the situation. You should not be off by that much. A frame here or there, perhaps, but not 15-30frames.by mark raudonis - Café LA An electrical power question for our friends down under - 17 years agoI'm bringing an FCP editing system to Australia. For my power book I know that all I have to do is buy an aussie receptacle adaptor and I'm good to go. What about the g-5? Or the Cinema displays? Is it as simple as replacing the American power cord with an Aussie one? I have a step down transformer, but it would be great if I could just change the power cords and be done with it. Any and alby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Speech Commands with FCP - 17 years agoThe problem with this idea is that if you're listening to playback on speakers, that audio is going to conflict with and perhaps confuse the speach recognition software. A workaround for this is to wear a headset microphone which would eliminate most of the room noise and just hear your speach. Many people have tried to advance the editing interface beyond the keyboard and mouse (think, hand geby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Play in background? - 17 years agoHere's what you're looking for: It's called Quicktime movie notetaker. There's a pro version coming out that will read Timecode. Not so sure about your audio needs. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Not a rant, not a request, just an observation - 17 years ago"It will take years before enough stations broadcast HD and when they do it will take more years for people to afford buying the relatively expensive HD sets. " I gotta disagree about this. All networks NOW broadcast a HD version of at least their primetime schedule. I have "Direct TV". There's atleast a dozen HD channels available today. Prices are dropping drasticaby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Recommend LA dub house? - 17 years agoTry "Alpha Dogs" in Burbank. They have a "digital Service Station" set up to do exactly what you're asking. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Apple buys "Proximity" for "Artbox" - 17 years agoHere's another step that Apple has taken to acquire a company that provides a solution for an area that they currently aren't serving: media asset management. If anyone saw their stuff at last year's NAB, they provide a software solution called "Art Box" that effectively functions in much the way that Avid's "Interplay" does. The two system's aren't quite comparable hby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: How many minutes of HDV1080i 50i footage can I store on on GB? - 17 years agoCheck out this widget created by Martin Baker of "Digital Heaven" in the UK. It's FREE! You'll never have to ask about "how much space...." again. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Rates at E!, networks, others? - 17 years agoJewel, "suggest as a rate..." For what? I'm gonna assume here that you mean editing, right? But what kind of editor? Off-line? On-line? Compositor? Dailies editor? Junior editor/ Senior editor? The Editor's Guild publishes their rates for a variety of positions, freelance and staff. You may want to check that as a point of reference. markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Robert Altman is gone - 17 years agoMy first job in Hollywood was as a production assistant on "Popeye" shot in Malta in 1980. "Bob" as everyone called him, made everyone, even a lowly "PA" like me, feel welcome to participate and contribute to the creative process. Rarely since have I met anyone as secure in their position that they would not only listen to, but encourage everyone on the set to jby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Chrom and Luma levels QC fail. - 17 years agoSue, You don't say that you're checking the master both in and out on a scope. You do have a waveform/vectorscope in your suite, don't you? As they say, garbage in, garbage out. You need to CONFIRM that your broadcast masters which you're using as a new source tape are legal BEFORE you digitize. Perhaps that's where your problem lies. Are these the EXACT same tapes that left your suitby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Chrom and Luma levels QC fail. - 17 years agoYou've been bitten by the "increasing luma level" bug! Do you have outboard scopes available to you? If so, you can watch the luma levels jump almost 10 IRE !!! between rendered and unrendered effects. We had a similar situation where we "thought" we were delivering a perfectly good show, only to have it kicked back for "excessive" luma levels. They were showinby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Average fee for online/mastering to tape - 17 years agoPhil, You need to supply more details if you expect to get an usable response. For example: What do you mean by mastering? d-5? Digibeta? Color corrected? Each of these items makes a HUGE difference in price. You'd do better calling up a post house and asking for their rate card. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: XServe RAID / Xsan in a Broadcast HD Production Environment... - 17 years agoJoey, I guess the question is, "What is your alternative"? Tossing that many streams of uncompressed HD around is taxing the limit of any system that I know of. Avid gets around it with their DnXHD which IS compressed. When we installed our X-SAN, we opted for an "off-line RT" workflow because we knew the available bandwidth couldn't support 50 seats (streams) ofby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: XServe RAID / Xsan in a Broadcast HD Production Environment... - 17 years agoJoey, Sorry. Not into HD at the moment. You may want to contact Zeke Margolis at Keycode Media (Burbank). As a reseller, he's very knowledgeable about who has what here in LA. markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: XServe RAID / Xsan in a Broadcast HD Production Environment... - 17 years agoJoey, I've got tons of experience with X-SAN,as we're running one of the largest installations in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, we're still in STANDARD DEF mode. As for the "expensive" comment, ANY HD solution is gonna be expensive. Will it work? I defer to those with experience. Feel free to contact me off-list if necessary. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: DSR 20 DECK PROBLEM? - 17 years agoSounds like you have a head clog. If you have a "head cleaning" tape, run it. If not, take it in for service. Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: help outputting to Panasonic AJ-SD955 via Blackmagic Decklink Extreme - 17 years agoCouple of things. Totally restart your G-5 (if you haven't done that already). Trash preferences. Do you have the same black reference (genlock) going to the BM card as you do the deck? If not, loop out of the BM card and send it to the "ref video" in on the deck. You should be able to Black & code a tape without even touching FCP. I believe that there's a setting onby mark raudonis - Café LA I'm looking for the "Michael Horton" of Sydney, Australia. - 17 years agoIf Michael had a doppleganger in Sydney, Australia, doe anyone know who that would be? We may have a project heading there, and I'd like to speak to someone in that community. Thanks, mate! (Practicing my Aussie language skills) Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: 16:9 for broadcast - 17 years agoSomeone suggested that the station stretched the picture so it would be full screen. Is this possible? Have you seen it done? How can I avoid this in the future? Sounds like that's what happened. If this is a syndicated show, you have less control over how each individual station airs it. Some broadcasters have strict "no letterbox" policies, and so may have blown up your master tby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agoBDPlaid, Next time you're in Los Angeles, I'll take you on a tour of post houses, production companies and studios that have adopted FCP x-SAN for many of their "high dollar" productions. Most of the community here rents their production and post gear which makes switching a much easier decision. Furthermore, in the "trend conscious" advertising community, where image isby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: Your Opinion: after FCP, what app? - 17 years agoSteve, It seems that the answer to your question is becoming as fragmented as the diverse backgrounds of the community responding. All suggestions are valid, you've just got to determine what's best for you and your own career goals. Harry D, I know you're an "FCP lovin' guy", but your comment, "Every large pro post house I have been to (in the Mid Atlantic region) has useby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: EDL for Telecine - 17 years agoOops! Sorry. Well, how about importing the FCP edl into your avid and using the Avid edl manager? Markby mark raudonis - Café LA Re: EDL for Telecine - 17 years agoThis is an EDL sorting function, which has nothing to do with FCP. You want to sort by reel, and then by timecode. Since you obviously don't have the tools to do this, ask your post house to do the sort. They should be able to. 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