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Re: Broadcast: What is needed? - 10 years ago
...you may get lucky and they will simply give you all specs / formats / procedures gratis. Broadcasters today really do want you to hand them the correct assets (they are too busy for revisions). Ah, I remember the good old days like it were yesterday... when an Engineer would throw a tape back in my face because the colors were just outside scope standards or the whites were slightly above 100by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Broadcast: What is needed? - 10 years ago
Contact Broadcasters in your market area and ask for consultancy rates.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Broadcast: What is needed? - 10 years ago
My 2 cents: Since your experience with Broadcast TV is naught, I recommend hiring a Professional Broadcast Consultant that can walk you through the necessary steps and guide you as needed. I would also contact target "Broadcasters" and ask them for spec sheets on what tyoe of format / files / tapes they accept.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Thunderbolt RAID suggestions, please - 10 years ago
That means "since I have owned it". One unit over 3 years, the other 1 year. Good luck with the G-RAIDS.by grafixjoe - Café LA
R.I.P. legendary filmmaker Steve Sabol of NFL Films... - 10 years ago
Dead of a brain tumor at 69 years young. Gone way too soon: "Tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever" ~ Steve Sabolby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Thunderbolt RAID suggestions, please - 10 years ago
Thunderbolt is not the answer and "Budget is tight" is no excuse. Find a way to save $$$ another way...not compromising your data (with crap drive units) - which is the most important thing. LaCie & G-RAID units are not recommended by me - ever. I don't care who has had good luck with them...I have lost way too much data on these 2 manufacturer's units via major failures. That onlyby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: R-Name gone in 10.7 - Alternatives? - 10 years ago
Nice one Jon. A bit pricey if you only want a batch re-namer tool @ $99...but if someone needs a suite of media management tools, it looks to be worth itby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: blue line (flare) filter - 10 years ago
I bet it's Video Copilot's Optical Flares. It's all I use (After Effects). Supremely customizable & sexy - best flare plug-in out there:by grafixjoe - Café LA
Shocking news...RIP Michael Clark Duncan @ 54 years old - 10 years ago
I was completely shocked to hear this just now. What a massive talent and just a really nice guy. Will be sorely missed. RIP Michael.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: RIP Director Tony Scott... - 10 years ago
OK EVERYBODY KNOCK OFF THIS DYING SH!T!!by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Letter of engagement recinded, three weeks before shooting. - 10 years ago
Ask an entertainment Lawyer.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: RIP Director Tony Scott... - 10 years ago
People round here knew who he was. Shocking that something could be so terrible that he could extinguish his own bright light. I will miss him dearly. Condolences & prayers go out to his family.by grafixjoe - Café LA
RIP Director Tony Scott... - 10 years ago
He must have been deeply disturbed. Apparently...he killed himself. God rest your soul Tony: ...in case you don't know his work, it's massive: Producer: Emma's War (producer) (in production) ???? Prometheus 2 (producer) (announced) ???? Potsdamer Platz (producer) (announced) 2011 The Sector (TV series) (executive producer) (pre-production) ???? Ion (producer) (pre-prby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Orienting footage shot vertically in FCP - 10 years ago
You are going to have to render it with bars on the side in the format of your timeline and bring it back in to edit it...unless you do it in After Effects / Motion. I would design some kind of side bars to fill those areas (logo / particle animations / motion bkgd / etc). Please tell whomever shot it this way to not do that anymore.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Moire filter or technique for post? - 10 years ago
Sorry Troy....I screwed myself on my very first major 7D shoot with horrific moire. Could not fix in post. I ended up treating the footage "way over the top" as "behind the scenes / damaged" footage with Magic Bullet Looks tricks. Could not use it straight. This came from shooting in 720p. I ONLY shoot 1080p out of my 7D now and the moire is minimal. You could try this DSLRby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without loosing resolution? - 10 years ago
No you can't. It is not a "blow-up" if source is larger than the comp (and the OP didn't mention that anyway). If you lay in a 1920 x 1080 clip into a 720p sequence and do nothing, that's not "blowing it up". You cannot BLOW UP the footage (scale it up) without losing quality...period. You can "scale it up" maybe 10% which is when softness & artifacts start apby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Flash effect - 10 years ago
Too Much Too Soon is my fav (and a link would help, right?):by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without loosing resolution? - 10 years ago
You cannot "create CU's" from preshot footage without losing quality...period. You CAN get a better result if you use the custom settings in Red Giant Software's "Magic Bullet Instant HD 1.2" (try the DEMO first)by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: The Mountain, Moved... - 10 years ago
So what? You should really announce when the next iteration is out. Before that, it's just "iCrash". There is a BIG CHUNK OF APPS that are not clear to run on it: No thanks...not yet for me. Guinea pigs...have at it and report back with the crash reportsby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Exporting from FCP 7.0 to play via USB Drive on TV at conference - 10 years ago
Not too many formats will play full frame rate from a USB Flash drive (if that's what you mean - not very clear). I would say a full size 8 to 10mbps H264 would be your best bet.by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Off topic - what is a good font for a web address on project - 10 years ago
Helvetica boldby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: SLIMMING EFFECTS ??? - 10 years ago
I can't believe I am saying this... Thinking about this a bit...if it's not a tremendously high-end project you might "get away with" using After Effects and the plug-in "Mesh Warp" (included in the package). You can selectively add columns & rows to the mesh, manipulate the points (this distorts the clip beneath it) and keyframe the mesh. I would not use this techniqueby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: SLIMMING EFFECTS ??? - 10 years ago
I can see that "Ugly" effect used on a ton of Wedding videos...by grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: time remapping 101 - 10 years ago
Motion / FCP Time Remapping tools stink IMHO...especially for ramping and super slomo. You need a higher end tool: Twixtorby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: What software do you recommend for backing up projects? - 10 years ago
As far as the client supplying drives and expecting you to use them, even if they are cheapskates, in pre-pro it is our responsibility as Post Production peeps to recommend and suggest safe alternate solutions to safeguard their data for the work unit and backup unit - and RAID "1" is an inexpensive no-brainer. Just duplicate the project over via FW800. No recommendations for Windowsby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 10 years ago
...you guys win the digital pi$$ing contest Cheers Just as an FYI...I do full compositing / grading of assets given to me by the game teams here @ EA - they are for either in-game or marketing (Internet display / Jumbotron / Broadcast TV). I deal with many different types of assets including flat geometry passes / shadow passes / reflection passes / etc...all exported out of MAYA and all witby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 10 years ago
...nothing like a digital pi$$ing contest on a Fridayby grafixjoe - Café LA
Re: Maya animation frame output format? - 10 years ago
Cheers mate. Well...worked / works for me for 15 years. The files are clean and easily converted (and probably smaller at that bit rate). The human eye would never pick up the difference between the 2 files on internet or television anyway...so I would still go with the smaller one. If I was going 2K or larger, TIFF sequence would be a better choice.by grafixjoe - Café LA
