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Re: Huge Problem Deadline - 10 years ago
Thanks jlames - we all love this forum and try hard to keep it useful, civil and spam free. FCP7 is on the way out for sure, but hopefully as we all migrate to other NLEs our other forums here at LACPUG will pick up the slack. Interesting that you say it looks fine on a broadcast monitor. The person I was troubleshooting for didn't have one and I just assumed it would be as bad there as on theby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Huge Problem Deadline - 10 years ago
Do you mean it looks fine when you play it out of your camera into a HD TV or when you play it through FCP to a broadcast monitor?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Huge Problem Deadline - 10 years ago
I've had someone contact me before about this with MXF files I think out of a Canon camera. In the end we couldn't really resolve it outside of using a denoiser plug-in like Neat video. Possibly not the correct solution, but somewhere to go if you're really up the creek.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Mac Pro upgrades - 10 years ago
One thing we learnt early on was that if you use a lot of Raytrace in After Effects, the new trashcan mac pro isn't a great option. There are restrictions on the brand of graphics cards you can use in the MacPros (apparently because of it's size) and GPU acceleration of some graphics work (particularly raytracing) specifically requires an nVidia card. Also, we have the maxed out new macPro anby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Apple ProRes - which version based on these edit requirements? - 10 years ago
I am one if the ones that says go for ProRes standard in most cases, but in your case I agree HQ is the way to go. These are the exact reasons to use HQ - storage not an issue, doing extensive grading, and possible delivery to high end broadcast. Many of them in fact require ProRes HQ delivery these days.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Premiere new features 2014.1 - 10 years ago
Adobe has just announced the new features for Premiere Pro CC 2014.1. One of my faves is the ability to open multiple projects (as read only) and be able to copy paste from them into your current project. Also - a 'free-draw Polygon Pen tool to create complex mask shapes'. So much yay to finally get that one in PP!by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: 4K storage options? - 10 years ago
Thanks for all that Ben. I've passed it all on, and it looks like the best option to me and the Production Manager. What IT decides of course could be a completely different matter.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 4K storage options? - 10 years ago
Why manual backup Ben? No auto? We do have a (yay) production manager who squirrels away copies of things all over the place, so I think extra backups on externals would happen semi-automatically lol. Thanks for the advice - our IT department comes from a graphics based background and they're not used to the sizes and speeds we need, so the more info I can supply canned the better.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 4K storage options? - 10 years ago
Yeah but at that price we can afford a second one for backup easy. Our most recent (12 part) series came in at about 11TB, but we'll be doing re-versioning for different sales, and each episode is about a 65GB export, so we figured 25TB per series should be plenty of headroom. Except the 4k one, of course. Not really looking forward to managing all that data!by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 4K storage options? - 10 years ago
Ooh nice one Ben. I've sent the details to IT.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
4K storage options? - 10 years ago
We are looking at an upcoming show that will be shot in 4k and we need a storage solution for 4 simultaneous connections. Budget is not set yet, so all recommendations welcome. I think we're hoping for 50TB to start, but something scalable would be even awesomer. Any ideas?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: working with 4K in premiere - 10 years ago
What a load of bollocks. I'm leaving this one up to show everyone what spam posters look like. Not only are they usually completely unnecessary, but sometimes they contain keyloggers or trojans. Buyer beware. You don't need specialist video convertors for most workflows in most NLEs.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: 24p BluRay - 10 years ago
Is 24p at 50Hz a realistic option? I've not had to deal with any 24p, so I'm certainly no expert, but I thought it was generally converted o 25 for PAL uses.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere stock count - 10 years ago
We ended up media managing each sequence, keeping only the used stock clips with no handles, then match framing each clip to find where it came from in the original stock, and laying it on the timeline over the originals, so we could easily find repeats. Massively laborious but effective. Thanks to my wonderful colleague Dorian who gets to handle all the crap work at the end of the line. Sorryby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Upgrading from 10.6.8 to use USB 3.0 expansion. Risks? Reccomendations? - 10 years ago
I have run FCP7 on Mavericks and it was fine. It was a fresh machine with a fresh install though, so YMMV.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: How to export a Quicktime file with 5.1 audio? - 10 years ago
You can make a QuickTime file that has 5.1 audio but you need STP or Compressor to set the position AFAIK. Here's a short tutorial. You can only monitor your success with a system that can play back 5.1 audio though, so don't be surprised if it doesn't sound great on your stereo computer speakersby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere Pro and RED - 10 years ago
Oh, I wonder if that will solve the XDCam thing that does duplicates of spanned clips. Nice find. I'll be checking that out here. I usually import whole folders and get dupes.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Unsqueeze Anamorphic and Export? - 10 years ago
If you're viewing it in Quicktime Pro it might be showing you what it really is, which is what you're seeing. Anamorphic settings really just tell your device how to display the footage, they don't actually change the pixels. This is all normal and correct. There's an option in QT Pro to view the footage as widesceen. If you turn this on it should all be OK.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Canon Mark III footage in Premiere Transcode or not - 10 years ago
I rarely transcode anything in Premiere - I did do some very large timelapses the other day just to make it easier to play back, but everything else just comes in native. I haven't had any Mark 111 footage yet, but if it all works fine on a test, like Strypes says, should be fine.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Canon Mark III footage in Premiere Transcode or not - 10 years ago
Does a test file play ok in your timeline?by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: opening project files with both CC and CS6 installed - 10 years ago
You could always right click it and select 'Open With - CS6' when you wanted them to open. I think the default behavior is for the system to look for the most updated version to run the project.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere stock count - 10 years ago
Ohhh that's a bummer. You two were my greatest hope lol I will FR it. Not sure how much it would come up for the average user, but frenetic cutting is getting more and more common, I guess.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Premiere stock count - 10 years ago
I have to do a stock footage count on a large project we just finished in Premiere. We're not on the 2014 CC release, so I'm using the icon filmstip lookup mode to find all the clips as they appear in each sequnce, but the program used a LOT of ramping, which means that some sections that are, say, 2 seconds long, actually only appear for, say, 10 frames, and so I only really need to report the tby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Best method for syncing audio and video when timecode MATCHES? - 10 years ago
As far as I know in FCP7 and lower the only way to do it is clip by clip, choosing both and merging them, selecting 'by timecode'. Unless you're doing anything multicam?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: playback and capture issues HDV - 10 years ago
I can't remember offhand if this is possible with HDV, but for anything that we had that had damaged timecode or wouldn't capture correctly, we would set the capture settings to 'non-controllable device', run the tape, and then hit capture now. This would capture any signal that was showing on the screen. As I said, HDV was a whole 'nother kettle of fish, but it might work if the computer doeby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere Pro and RED - 10 years ago
I haven't done any serious cutting with RED on Premiere yet, but I did do a test on my home stock 2.7 i5 iMac (although it does have 16GB ram) and I was able to play back native clips from a USB drive, which is about the most struggletown path to take in terms of playback. So as Kevin says, you shouldn't have too much problem running native but do bump up your gear if you possibly can, becausby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: How to export a Quicktime file with 5.1 audio? - 10 years ago
You are correct about only having two speakers. You can't monitor 5.1 on that. But if you can see it in the waveform that's a good indicator. That list looks like 5 monos - are they assigned to the correct speakers? I'm no 5.1 expert, by the way, just kicking in about the speakers, really.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Can't import wav file....File Error: Unknown File .wav - 10 years ago
I do remember having to keep OMFs under 2GB. But I didn't know .wavs had a size limit. Are you sure it's not connected to a misformatted drive problem? That's a 2GB/4GB limit too.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Can't import wav file....File Error: Unknown File .wav - 10 years ago
Oh, I missed the 5.1, sorry. What could non audio data be though that exceeds 100MB? Soundtrack Pro might be a good option. But then, if Audition wouldn't open it ...by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Can't import wav file....File Error: Unknown File .wav - 10 years ago
Non audio data in a .wav file? What could that be? Can you open it in MPEG stream clip and re-export, or split so it's smaller and re-export?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
