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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting forum for all things FCP Legacy (FCP 7 and below.) And general discussion on topics that do not fit in the other forums.
Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: JVC HM700 XDCAM EX camera - 15 years agoThat's pretty much the same on the Sony's, but I have heard of people using much less expensive memory for everything else. We have enough SxS cards that we'll stick with those for a while longer.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Raiding my internal drives - 15 years agoYou can do RAID0 with what comes with your MacPro. However, if you lose one drive you lose everything - which just happened to me. I just purchased a four drive RAID5 for about $1K, that's a lot less than what the $4K they want to recover the data from my RAID0. If your doing just about any kind of compressed HD the eSata drives are fast enough on their own.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Superbowl Commercial discussion... - 15 years agoJacks history, get over it.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: RT for dissolve quits working in XDCAM EX timeline - 15 years agoSorry, I can't help you. I'm editing XDCAM EX 1080P30 and everything is fine. I'm on OX 10.5.6 but still using QT 7.5.5. Is this Jim Watt from Woodholly days?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoMarco's emailed and called. I was more concerned than complaining. I'm just glad they are doing fine, they have what appears to be a good product. I thought with the release of FC Server that they might be in for a rough go of it. But maybe it's been FCS that has the rough road. I'm certainly taking a second look.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoThanks Actually they are alive and doing well.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoDoes anyone know if Cinesoft, the developer of Media Batch is still in business? I have tried calling them, I get a can't complete as dialed message, emailing sales, and called directory assistance in Walnut Creek CA where their offices are/were located - no listing. I know they used to sponsor a banner ad on LAFCPUG which is also no longer there. I don't want to give the impression of theby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: FCP and AJA IOHD Issues - 15 years agoThat's not an issue, Xsan is connected via Fibre Channel not Firewire ther are no contention issues between the two.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Will apple be at NAB this year? - 15 years agoOf coarse after trade shows are a thing of the past, retail stores have closed and your favorite on-line vendor lets their professional applications languish in favor of easy to sell on-line commodities, where does that leave us? I pay more to support and purchase from local integrators as much as possible, I've never had the warm fuzzy's from a manufacturer who I though could care less aboutby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: need help in completing a project, - 15 years agoWow, there's so much here that it will be difficult, if not impossible to help you through this. I don't mean to be rude but the place to start is for you to help yourself. I say that as nicely as I can and you might find its much easier than you think. I'd start with a subscription to Lynda.com. Its inexpensive and with about 20 to 30 hours of watching tutorials on FCP, Compressor, and DVDby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Will apple be at NAB this year? - 15 years agoThis past CES was my first so I don't have anything to compare it to, but I was told it traditionally has 225,000 attendees. This past one was estimated at 150,00 and I doubt there were that many. Quite a few empty booth spaces too. Trade shows are a thing of the past.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Superbowl Commercial discussion... - 15 years agoI guess this border on the political, I certainly don't want this thread closed, I JUST WANT EVERYONE ON LAFCPUG TO VOTE FOR MY NEPHEW! Now that I've screamed that, I think Geoblocking and copyright infringement are two radically different things. And I doubt that if an Australian or Canadian citizen figures out a way around Geoblocking that they have committed any crime. The difference isby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoFor all of you, like me with failing memories OR who failed to decipher my request, the name of the product is "Media Batch."by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoI know its a vague recollection but someone must have an idea of what I'm thinking about???by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Superbowl Commercial discussion... - 15 years agoUm, does this mean you won't be voting for my nephew?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA OT Looking for Software - 15 years agoThere used to be a company who had a banner ad on LAFCPUG that developed software that you could use to QC a cut, make notes and suggested changes then email the corrections to the editor. Does anyone know who the company was and the name of the product. I remember looking at it and thinking I might be able to use it one day, and now that the day has come I can't recall the name of the producby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: Superbowl Commercial discussion... - 15 years agoOK shameless plug sort of. Although not a single person here mentioned it but my nephew was the little superhero in the Universal Studios commercial: Please go to Hulu and vote for it. I'm sure it won't win anything but hopefully he'll get more work.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: How can you tell if its ProRes 422 HQ or Just ProRes 422 - 15 years agoProRes uses wavelet compression, HQ tops out at 220Mb/sec and non HQ is 140Mb/sec. If your finishing on HD, ProRes 140Mb/sec is equivalent to HDCAM. However, ProRes is resolution independent, it encodes both 8-bit and 10-bit VBR 4:2:2, whereas HDCAM records at 1440x1080, is 8-bit DCT 3:1:1. Translation: ProRes 140Mb/sec is better than HDCAM but not quite as good as HDCAM SR which is 440Mbby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: WD 2TB HDDs - 15 years agoUnfortunately generally speaking if drives are inexpensive then they are probably not server class drives. However, whether you need that level of drive depends in part on your controller card in the RAID. I have one 24 drive fiber channel RAID that requires server class drives. More expensive but the up-time reliability, which is really what your paying for, is very good. So this is the RAby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: WD 2TB HDDs - 15 years agoWhere the drive capacity makes the most sense for security and performance is in a RAID. If you have RAID 5 and server class drives then the drive can never be too big...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Timeline setting - ProRes or DVCPRO HD? which is better? - 15 years agoIf this were my project, and the finished deliverable was an HD file I would encode all of the source to 1920x1080 ProRes 23.98 and edit in a ProRes timeline. Unless your writing this out to film you don't need ProRes HQ. Keeping it in ProRes will provide the best resolution, converting to DVCPro HD does not, and it also provides the best latitude of color fidelity.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT: It's time to start paying attention to iMovie - 15 years agoMaybe it would be nice if Apple put as much effort in developing the professional apps as they do the consumer ones. Its more likely that FCP functionality will find its way into iMovie than the other way around.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Display for Working with HD - 15 years agowayne granzin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > yeah, it would work. the question is how accurate > is it. but in reality, monitoring to any current > non-crt monitor is dubious as far as accuracy goes > - at least at the sub $5000-$10000 level. id > imagine there are only a handful of folks here > working at that level... That's not alby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: getting Mac Pro -How to configure the drives? - 15 years agoDitto what Shane said. I had an internal RAID0, lost a drive, lost three years worth of work. I had backed up much of it but it still tales a lot of time finding what I want. I'd recommend individual drives and if you feel the need for speed I'd recommend an external RAID5.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: The Glossy Reflect look - 15 years agoIf your talking about the reflective look you get in the new Finder browser for example, check out FxFactory, they have a plu-in that works with FCP and AE.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Win 1 of 10 CalDigit VRs - 15 years agoThat was yet another attempt at bad humor...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Win 1 of 10 CalDigit VRs - 15 years agoIt will be interesting to see if any of the LAFCPUG members will win one. If you can win one of ten CalDigit VR's, what happens to the other nine?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT? Does anyone know how to achieve this? - 15 years agoYou know, not everyone who needs web design and web video is cheap. In fact I have worked with a couple fortune 500 companies who paid very well for us to work with their IT and web department. And for those FCP users working in the corporate World getting video to the web is a fact of life that often starts with the editor.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro w/Sony XDCAM - 15 years agoI think you got good advice when you brought this up the first time. I don't know anything about G5's so I can't rule out any problems you might be having there. That BPAV folder that is on your hard drive has a file structure within it that FCP does not recognize. It is not a good idea to drag and drop these folders from the SxS card to a hard drive. The Sony XDCAN Clip Browser softwareby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Possible to NOT monitor audio when capturing HDV? - 15 years agoMy wife had hives. They suckby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA |
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