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Re: Not having a good time... - 16 years ago
I'm seeing hints of some really weird underlying stuff here. The mouse pointer? Things don't respond when clicked? This is not, underscore not, normal. My system is similar to yours, albeit not identical. It's a Mac Pro with four internal drives. There's a 400 GB disk partitioned in half (so I can keep a known-stable clone of my startup volume when trying out OS and FCP upgrades). There's a 30by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Which Display? - 16 years ago
I don't disagree with the "if the client judges you by your monitors, find a better client" sentiment, at least not in principle. For instance if we were talking about monitors that look really cool but work poorly versus ones that look plain or cheap but work well, duh, go with the ones that work well. But I think the consensus of opinion is that both Apple's and Dell's displays are goby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: P2 workflow - 16 years ago
I haven't played data wrangler with P2 footage myself. But I have lost about 400 GB of archived footage, graphics and project files when two separate shelved Firewires just decided not to work any more. I think it was just bad luck, because I'd stored them in a clean, climate-controlled, secure place just like you're supposed to. If it were me, I'd find any way I could to get that P2 footage dby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
I agree totally, Derek. But it's just not practical. I did some poking around this morning, and these guys have an archive going back to 2005 consisting of more than 20,000 hours of footage, all of it stored in MPEG-4 format. The only way out of it is to transcode whole hour- and multi-hour-long segments before cutting it, and that would be prohibitive in this environment. I'm not defending itby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Which Display? - 16 years ago
Since the price difference for two monitors is only about $1,000, it's worth considering whether your clients will have any conscious or subconscious opinions. Say what you want about the Dell's, the Apple Cinema Displays are just dead sexy. Will you be giving your clients a better impression by putting the Apple displays on your console? After all, $1,000 is probably less than you (or your postby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
Yeah, plain old reference movies. I opened one of the MPEG-4s and did a "save as," checking the "make reference movie" radio button. The resulting .mov file went into Final Cut and worked exactly as everyone predicted. Giving it a reel number provoked the standard "you're changing the original file on disk" alert, and once that was done, Media Manager trimmed and recby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
I promised to report back, so I am. As everybody already knew but I just learned, Final Cut doesn't love MPEG-4 files. It'll work with them, more or less, but it doesn't love them. That's the bad news. The good news is that a QuickTime reference movie that refers to an MPEG-4 file apparently works perfectly. I was kinda surprised to find that to be the case, but it was. It works like a charby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Which Display? - 16 years ago
I've heard enthusiastic recommendations of Dell displays, but I haven't used one myself. I can tell you I had an absolutely appalling with two twin Samsung displays earlier this year. I pitched such a fit that my engineer finally took them away and replaced then with two Apple 23s, with which I've been incredibly happy ever since.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
Again, this is all excellent stuff. I really appreciate the ideas. Lemme tell you a little bit about how yesterday's marathon seventeen-hour session went. Not to commiserate ? okay, maybe a little ? but also to see if any more brilliant suggestions emerge after hearing about the process. First, this is a corporate client, not an industry client. So the ground rules are a little different. Bby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
I'm sorry to be terse, but I'm still finishing up a very, very long-running session tonight. Something I neglected to call out emphatically enough, I think, is that these are not QuickTime movies, but rather MPEG-4 movies ? .mp4 files as opposed to .movs. I think that might have something to do with the fact that they're not taking a timecode track. You folks have been amazingly helpful soby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
Thanks very much for the reply. And you're totally preaching to the choir about GOP formats for editing. It's a nightmare. But it's my nightmare, because literally nothing can be done about it now. That's what I was given to work with. Batch-processing all the footage I'll use for a given show is certainly an option, and right now it's the most attractive one. The only reason I don't love it iby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Suggestions please regarding oddball workflow - 16 years ago
I'm going to have to develop a pretty unusual workflow over the next few weeks, and I'd really appreciate some suggestions or feedback about it. My client has thousands of hours of archival footage in MPEG-4 format sitting on a server. Each MPEG-4 file is one to three hours of footage. The footage doesn't exist anywhere else, so there are no videotapes to go back to. I have to work with what wby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
