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Re: XDCAM EX 1080i60 footage is jumpy - 13 years ago
my guess is that the reason is - it's xdcam 1080i60 footage. XDCAM HD footage has given us a lot of headaches -- it's really just HDV on steroids and everything that goes along with that -- agonizingly long render and conform times -- and some stutter in playback depending on how much horsepower you have under your mac hood - if you have the time -- turn it into pro-res and edit that way - farby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Want to clean out demo plugins - 13 years ago
Have used the mac forever and didn't know that Find File trick -- had resorted to using a shareware product called --Find File that doesn't require the plus and - gymnastics each time you search It's free and you can find it here Find File Free Utility Perfect for quickly finding and eliminating troublesome preferences that spotlight and the finder won't easily locateby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Sd card reader or faster connection - On Location - 13 years ago
Just worked with Convergent Design's Nano Flash -- Fantastic! See it here Nano Flash demo Shooting on an older Sony HDCAM Tape Deck with this connected to the SDI out -- rolls and stops when the camera does (not sure how it does that but something about sensing timecode running out of the SDI connection) Will record in Long GOP or MPEG (P2 format) and give you finished Quicktime Filesby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: How do I take a clip in one of my sequences, and stretch it out to slow down and take up more time? - 13 years ago
for much better looking slow mo - take the clip into Motion and use the optical flow function. In fact there's a web site that claims you'll get as good as if not better results than with Twixtor. take a look at this tutorial Optical Flow vs Twixtorby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Sd card reader or faster connection - On Location - 13 years ago
Any good fast economical card readers for Macbook Pro and p2 cards? (there was an older Sonnet card that constantly crashed the machine - and we now just do firewire connect to camera which ties up the camera and is fairly slow) Thanks Andyby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Soundtrack Pro vs. Pro Tools - 13 years ago
no love for Soundtrack Pro at all? I've found it not to be very intuitive but we send most of our complex mixes out of house -- any thoughts on Soundtrack pro's usabability?by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: FCP editing on the go . . . - 13 years ago
Weibetech RTX series - as Walter indicated - makes great products. We also like the Caldigit VR drives -- they are very reliable - you can set up as a protected raid in the field (great for P2 or sxs media where there's no back up once you offload) - They are fire-wire bus powered (great for those flights home where you want to edit at 30,000 feet) and they work as super fast SATA Drives ifby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Any way to speed up Flip4Mac? - 13 years ago
We like Episode -- it's not cheap but it's the Swiss army knife of compressors -- from anything to anything and its WMV conversions are very quick. Episode is far more flexible than Compressor. It has many more filter capabilities and far more input/output formats than Compressor will support. You can also use multi processors to divide big job among many processors or computers. go herby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 13 years ago
The trimmed nails are worth at least another 50 dollars an hour!by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 13 years ago
Educating the client helps. I often go in and present a humorous "why a production costs so much" presentation to the key decision makers before we start anything. They love being in house budget heroes when they can come in under budget on a project and we help them put on their super cape by explaining exactly how to that. This little film will help them understand (someone postby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 13 years ago
Put in an estimate the time you think it will take and put a number to it -- tell them there's a deadline for decisions where you will lock this in - and if they make decisions by committee - the committee must decide with one voice on a date certain - changing everything after the fact will have a per hour number to that - and put it in the agreement. We did a project for a non profit this suby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 13 years ago
Disagree with the finished minute estimate -- a two-shot in town interview finished minute costs far less than a graphics heavy, multi-layered, we had to fly across the country, rent a car, hotel and crews - finished minute. Clients always want a flat rate, no surprises price. We say we're happy to do that if we know all the parameters going in. If the parameters change - the priceby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: What do I charge? - 13 years ago
Too many editors undercharge. Here's what we found to be the best recipe for determining local prices. The important step is educating clients on the amount of time it takes to actually do the work. Explain the real time involved in digitizing, ingesting, logging, writing, creating effects, music royalty costs, etc. Put it in terms of people you have to pay and what they charge youby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Yet another FCP to Avid question - 13 years ago
Any experience with Boris AAF transfer vs AutoDuck -- have to say Wes has been very helpful troubleshooting FCP to Avid issues we've had with a client but wondering if anyone's used or compared Boris AAF transfer.by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Fastest Way to SYNC TWO MACS? - 13 years ago
Is there a purpose to this? Just take the audio from one mac and move it to the other via Firewire Mode -- then sync on the same mac -- is this for some museum multiple display? if so then your best bet is one mac many monitors and a video card that supports them to split up the pictures.by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Converting .mxf files - 13 years ago
I second Ben's recommendation -- it's outstanding - saves hours of re-wrapping MFX files in Quicktime - you drag the files from your P2 or XDCAM disk -- and they work instantly -- well worth the price --by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Converting .mxf files - 13 years ago
Did you buy and install that program on the link I provided and then restart your computer?by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Converting .mxf files - 13 years ago
why not just use them as is in Final Cut Pro and save the time and hassle - this excellent program will let you do that MXF Import programby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Is the re a need for speed or just the basics for FCS - 13 years ago
More important to know - how much of a strain will you put on the machine? DVCPRO HD -- easily works on laptop -- XDCAM HD - not as well -- re conform for the HDV structure takes forever -- better on a tower with as many cores as possible. DV - DVCPRO 50 - piece of cake on a laptop --by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: scrolling text duration - 13 years ago
Used it on a festival film and it worked great -- I find editing text in Photoshop cumbersome - you can do all your formatting in MS Word - lay it all out - bring in to Motion and it all comes in formatted correctly -- simple, easy, spell checked -- as the old commercial urged "try it, you'll like it!"by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: scrolling text duration - 13 years ago
Or Better yet - do the credit roll in Motion - much easier, more flexible and less of a pain to edit - see Apple's tutorial here: Credit Roll Tutorial - Motion or even cooler - include moving video that scrolls in time with your credits go here (there's a short commercial before you see the video Ripple Training Motion Credit Roll Tutorialby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: live type - 14 years ago
Yes Motion can do everything LiveType can do BUTt you no longer have the easy to modify templates...so it's a good deal more work. Wish they'd kept the templates to create quick and easy lower thirds and titles.by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: XDCAM HD Workflow - 13 years ago
XDCAM has given us more headaches than any other format - it's ease of ingest is far outweighed by painfully long render times in standard XDCAM Time lines (especially HD flavors) It is a very nice clean looking picture - but the file structure requires hellishly long conform times when you output. (a 10 minute program in high bit rate XDCAM HD took nearly 40 minutes to render out to a QuickTimeby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Charging clients fees - 13 years ago
But beware the "just one more change" client -- put it in writing -- blanket price for x edits and x changes -- meter starts after that -- and have them sign it. Can't tell you how many clients do things by committee and tell you "this is the final round of changes" only to get a half dozen more "oh we forgot to run it by this guy" changes. We had one client - Maby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Charging clients fees - 13 years ago
Best to scope out your local market -- check what area production houses charge to outside clients per hour for an edit suite and editor -- in DC it can range from 75 to 300 an hour depending on the toys and editor's professional level. Are you a preditor (producer/editor) can you do it all? -- nimble with After Effects, Graphics? -- can you write and edit? -- can they leave you alone and waby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: HPX170 vs HVX200a - 13 years ago
There are a few more differences that weigh in favor of the HPX170 1 - waveform monitor built in 2 - slightly wider lens 3 - better low light performance 4 - more ND filter options 4 - SDI out for HPX - record the full HD Signal to external device if needed Dan Brockett wrote a great article on Ken Stone's site detailing the differences go hereHPX Features vs HVX200by Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Tip for editing with XDCAM or P2 - multiple clips - 13 years ago
Andrew Quick question -- loading a sequence into the "viewer" should be as simple as option double clicking the sequence in the browser -- but in fact it just opens a new window that looks like the viewer but is not -- because when I remap the keys as you described and tried to edit it in to the timeline with F9 or F10 - it inserts a slug - not what's in the viewer BUT if I dragby Andy Field - Café LA
Tip for editing with XDCAM or P2 - multiple clips - 13 years ago
I hate ending up with hundreds of individual clips you get shooting with XDCAM or P2? - makes editing a big headache. No more scrub through a reel and find what you want - it's pick and choose from too many clips in a bin Searched hi and low to find a solution - and Shane Ross offered one but with missing details in another forum. If you like the scrub - find clip - in out edit of the oldby Andy Field - Café LA
Re: Shark Stock Footage - 14 years ago
contact me off line - a friend shot Shark Week footage for Discovery for years and I'm sure he'd be glad to sell you some....by Andy Field - Café LA
OT: Red Giant Software releases COLORISTA II for FCP / AE / Premiere Pro... - 14 years ago
Joe - not sure why you CLOSED the thread below -- as I was going to answer the question about keyframing.....since I just downloaded per your excellent suggestion. the answer is YES you can keyframe parameters in Final Cut with the old and new version of Colorista II. It is a very powerful tool.by Andy Field - Café LA
