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Stablize motion - 15 years agoI have a clip where i have 3 cars and i need to stabilize the motion 30 seconds long. as the clip moves on my first tracker, it is not able to lock the entire time because the car moves off the screen for good at about 10 seconds i need to use my 2nd tracker on car 2 and 3rd tracker on car 3 how do i make my first tracker turn off at 10 seconds so at second 8 i can pick up tracker 2 and theby Ricky - Motion Re: DVDxDV problems - 16 years agoIF that don't work email brad hes great at getting back to us I love that software.by Ricky - Café LA Re: Need Apple Color Colorist with Solid Compositing/Photoshop Background - 16 years agoShawn Can I take a look at your movie? Thanks Ricky Colourist.by Ricky - Jobs My old Quad Core vs. My new OCTO unoffical benchmark tests. - 16 years agoThese are my unofficial bench mark tests between my new computer and old computer. I read Bearfeats tests and i was impressed by the NEW 8Core Mac Pros Now that im dealing with RED Footage I had to invest in a much stronger computer. Due to the fact that i made a clone of my Main Drive i thought why not do some speed tests in all the programs i use most. So here are my results. OCTO wilby Ricky - Café LA Re: Buying an OCTO today need graphics card which one - 16 years agoCalled Apple they do not know the answers to my question. 1. The first person was hard to understand bad english 2nd person i spoke to was honest and fair after spending about 10 min on the phone with them didn't want to mislead me so they sent me to tech support, he said either was fine and the NVIDIA is better due to Its ram. So when i asked him what the problems were with the previous gby Ricky - Café LA Re: Buying an OCTO today need graphics card which one - 16 years agoI can recall when NVIDIA was not supported by Color and had problems i just want to make sure i dont make that kind of a mistake or find out that the NVIDIA does not work with RED CODE RAW Thanks guysby Ricky - Café LA Buying an OCTO today need graphics card which one - 16 years agoI am purchasing an 8core 3.0 Mac Pro today What I cant decide on is which Graphics card to buy. I need to consider that i will be working with RED footage in my computer and using COLOR which is intensive processing in the graphics ram when rendering. Can anyone tell me which one to go with and why. Thank you. my options are ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB NVIDIA GeForce8800 GT 512by Ricky - Café LA Re: RED ONE all week SO wonderful my findings. - 16 years agoSure just tell me how.by Ricky - Café LA RED ONE all week SO wonderful my findings. - 16 years agoThese are just my comments on my experience with the RED ONE Camera and FCP work flow success. These are my findings and my experience, there is nothing official about my comments. And if i make a mistake please just forgive me for my ignorance. Just finished a week with the long awaited RED ONE camera. A commercial and Short . WOW OMG had such a great time shooting with this camera. Iby Ricky - Café LA Re: APPLE DITCHES NAB 2008 - 16 years agoThe Beginning of the END. =( Avid was IT once. FCP after 10 years seems to have over taken that market and made it special for me. But now, its too expensive for Apple to attend the largest convention of the entire year for television and film I think. What's the future hold? First Apple goes Intel now this? @#$^$%^#$%^$ Somethings not right. To reduce there booth by a tremendous amby Ricky - Café LA Avid to Color workflow? - 16 years agoI have a project coming in this week being mailed from the Editor. Can you please tell me what my best work flow will be. All i know is its shot on P2 cards edited in Avid and thats about it. Is that enough information? I have not spoken to the editor yet but i want to know what to tell him. Thanksby Ricky - Color Re: 1080i into 24p whats the best method? - 16 years agoThanks Travis, Very interesting info on the studies. Thats by far more helpful and i will that that with me to all my projects. Much appreciated. and i do have Nattress film effects I love them a lot i thought it would have been a different process but sure enough Nattress it is.by Ricky - Café LA Re: P2 Tip - 16 years agoTHANK YOU X 10 I did not know that and that will save me from spending 45 minutes next time on unlocking.by Ricky - Café LA Re: Loud Drive - 16 years agoLoud Drive? Oh boy that's not good. Can I be the first to say. Are you backed up? If you are not do it as soon as you can. When I get a noisy drive I flat out replace it due to the fact that its going down, sooner or later. Good Luck with the backup.by Ricky - Café LA 1080i into 24p whats the best method? - 16 years agoOriginal footage Sony HDV 1080i 29.97 footage sent to color Rendered out as 1920X1080 Apple ProRes 422 Pixel Aspect Square Field Dominance upper (Odd) i no longer see any interlacing as far as i can find which is strange but im cool with it. So my question is How can I turn this into a 24P look and feel thats the directors wishes. I have Magic Bullet, Nattress Film Effects FCP Sby Ricky - Café LA Re: Whats the Best Graphics Card out there? - 16 years agoBAREFEATS!! I Love you guys.by Ricky - Café LA FCP is Un-Rendering itsself. Its KILLING ME - 16 years agoI just don't get it its so frustrating. Feature 90min long Codec shot in 1080i HDV Sony ZU1 20 min long Reels from FCP Send to Color Grade I render out my reel in Color as ProRes 422 Send it back to FCP at question "conform sequence to codec?" I click YES FCP opens it, Plays just fine and great no need for rendering I resize my windows and BANG it all needs to be re-rendereby Ricky - Café LA Whats the Best Graphics Card out there? - 16 years agoComputer Mac Pro Quad 2.66 7GB ram Leopard Studio 2 Photoshop CS3 AE CS3 Tons of Color work and Rendering in COLOR im talking DAYS of rendering per week. currently i have a NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT installed. I am willing to upgrade but clueless at what is the best card for my situation which is COLOR intensive. I am afraid of compatibility for Color as some high end cards don't work ivby Ricky - Café LA Re: How do I partially color correct an image with a mask? - 16 years agoHello Robert, The latest upgrade in FCP is a package called Final Cut Pro Studio 2 You seem to have FCP ver 4.5HD FCP its self is at version 6.0 Now they have a wonderful package that includes DVD Studio Pro, Sound Track Pro, Color, Motion, Compressor and some sweet things i cant think of. No need for me to do a terrible job in telling you about it. Here check it out you should seeby Ricky - Café LA Re: Need a HPX shooter for a gig in Las Vegas :-) - 16 years agoHVX owner and shooter here if it helps 805 822 9870 you can ask for Rickby Ricky - Jobs Re: How do I partially color correct an image with a mask? - 16 years agoHi Robert, First answer would be to use FCP Studio's Color program but, If you are working in 4.5 I have a better solution. There is a plugin you can buy it costs $95.00 i used to have it the name slips me and im sorry. But what it does is called Power Windows you can select an area you want to shade bring up or bring down it is very powerful and clean with edge feathering. I am so sby Ricky - Café LA Re: 8 Core Macs vs. Quad core should I upgrade? / graphics card upgrade? - 16 years agoGREAT, a few days ago you guys had me convinced i dont need to look into the new 8cores. NOW you've changed my mind back to buying. I appreciate all your posts. What is the best way to sell my computer Ebay? (Anybody interested in an Intel Mac 2.66 quad core with Studio 2 & tons of plugins, CS3 including A.E. and 3GB of ram?) =)by Ricky - Café LA Time Machine or SuperDuper or What to backup? - 16 years agoI just installed Leapord and want to backup my hard drives. I have a Raid drive in my computer 750GB seagates X 2 = my 1.5TB RAID DRIVE. I have reserved a Maxtor 1.5TB External for backing this up. I tried to use Time Machine and due to the fact that my entire computer drives exceed 1.5TB for my Maxtor it gave me an error message. I cant seem to designate that it just back up my Raby Ricky - Café LA Re: 8 Core Macs vs. Quad core should I upgrade? / graphics card upgrade? - 16 years agoYou guys rock, thank you so much. Im keeping my QUAD.by Ricky - Café LA Re: Working with the Sony FW900 monitor - 16 years agoI am grading with this monitor using the VGA 15pin instead of my Apple cinema dispaly. I am sure a top end expert can give us a better answer but so far I am happy with the results I am getting from my FW900. (damn this thing is heavy) I cant tell you how important it is to have an EyeOne Display calibrator, rent or buy. I bought one and love that thing, super easy and you see the improvemby Ricky - Color 8 Core Macs vs. Quad core should I upgrade? / graphics card upgrade? - 16 years agoI just bought my new Mac Pro 2.66 Quad Core Intel Xeon computer with 3 GB of Ram. 4 Sata drives 2 of which are Raided. I purchased the computer used about 6 months ago and i like it but, I wonder if im missing out on some unreal power that is offered by the new 8 core macs that have released this year. If i sell my computer and buy a new 2008 Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) WILL Iby Ricky - Café LA Re: HDV codec sucks in renders and exports - 16 years agoOk great i am convinced i will be working in ProRes Medium quality. In order to turn all the cuts that are HDV upres them into ProRes what do i need to do. I need to retain my cuts and cross dissolves not to mention my dissolve outs and ins. Can this be done and still have a few frames of handles? IF so how? thank you.by Ricky - Café LA Re: HDV codec sucks in renders and exports - 16 years agoBefore i take it over to Color is it better to render it out in ProRes? Am i basically exporing in ProRes then taking it over to color?by Ricky - Café LA Re: HDV codec sucks in renders and exports - 16 years agoI had nothing to do with the ingest, i understand that at loading it would have been best to make it a different codec with an AJA or BlackMagic. I have recived the drive as is this week. The loading and editing has been done over the entire year of 2007. This is what i have to work with. Thanks JOEby Ricky - Café LA HDV codec sucks in renders and exports - 16 years agoI am currently editing a few clips for a feature film that is just about complete. It was shot with a sony HDV and i hate working with this codec. The render times suck and it has some compression pixelation in the blue sky which is not allowing me to key it or color correct it smoothly. Can you tell me what is the best work flow to work in when working in HDV. The movie is done its 100by Ricky - Café LA |
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