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Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 17 years agoWhat they said. Plus, there's nothing to be gained by downconverting HDV. It's only running at around 12GB an hour in the first place. If anything, upconvert to DVCProHD from the outset and edit in that. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Re-capturing from subclips - 17 years agoWouldn't know how to do that, but primarily I still don't grasp why you need to recapture all your subclips to disc from DVCam when all the media is already there. Other than filling up your drives with duplicate media, there doesn't appear to be any gain. Someone else have a fix?? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Looking for recommendations for new system - 17 years agoThanx, that fills in some of the blanks. First thing, depending where you are, would be to locate a good Apple Video Solutions Expert (google it). Especially, as it sounds, if you're new to FCP. They can help you a lot in configuring and installing a startup system that you can expand upon. (is PfA reading this?) Otherwise, if it were me, and "latest and greatest" were the onlyby ClayC - Café LA Re: Re-capturing from subclips - 17 years agoOk, if the final output is what you've already digitized from DVCam (i.e. you're not going back to 16mm for a neg cut), and you've been working in DV, then you already are "on-line". No gain whatsoever in taking the job to an Avid. Just play the finished show out either to file or back to DVCam tape. Not sure what your concerns about referencing the original tapes are, especially ifby ClayC - Café LA Re: Looking for recommendations for new system - 17 years agoAre you talking stand-alone workstation or a multi edit-bay setup where editors (how many?) need to share files? Do you need graphics? Do you need a lot of archival storage? Are you working mostly for broadcast, theatrical, corporate, or commercials? How much of your existing equipment can or should be included in the new set-up? Post more specifics to get some good input on this, it's a veby ClayC - Café LA Re: Re-capturing from subclips - 17 years ago>>but I'm concerned that when we go to on-line, the clips might not reconnect.<< What kind of on-line do you need to do, i.e. what is the final outut?by ClayC - Café LA Re: Broadcast WAV export - 17 years agoAt the moment, no. At least not via a simple "export as" routine. In the newest FCP update (to be released soon, I think this month) you supposedly can, but no one's actually seen it yet to test full bwf functionality. What does your workflow require? Would omf do the job in the meantime? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: HDV Project - 17 years agoHDV will run you about 12GB per hour. It produces file sizes which are actually smaller than regular DV. DVCProHD at full 1080i runs about 52GB per hour. (Just download and install the VideoSpace widget from the Apple site, it will do all the calculations for you) Both codecs will run fine off firewire drives. Lumiere HD came about when HDV arrived but FCP was not yet HDV compatible. Withby ClayC - Café LA Re: Image Sequence and Photoshop Filters - 17 years agoHi Andreas, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Got the actions going. Still have to apply the action manually for each frame, but that's not too bad. Batch works also, although unfortunately not any faster. One can however just walk away and let mac do the work. 750 frames took about an hour. Will scripting handle it any faster? Best, Clayby ClayC - Café LA Image Sequence and Photoshop Filters - 17 years agoThere's gotta be a way to do this, I'm just not expert enough in PS to figure it out: I have an image sequence exported from QT, 30 secs (.tiff) at 25fps = 750 frames. The tiffs are all in one folder. Before bringing the sequence in to FCP, I want to add a photoshop filter (chalk and charcoal) to each and every image in the sequence. Other than applying the PS filter manually to all 750 tifby ClayC - Café LA Re: SOURCE MATERIAL IS IN SD DV AND SONY HDV - 17 years agoIs the DV material 16:9 or 4:3? What do you want the final output to be, 16:9 or 4:3? If it's 4:3, then how do you want the HDV material (which is 16:9 by nature) to be displayed, letterboxed or cropped? Is the final output HD or SD? Post answers to those questions first, and the rest will start to fall into place more quickly.by ClayC - Café LA Re: FCP 5 weirdness - importing DVCPRO HD - 17 years agoFrom the list you posted, it looks like whoever captured may have edited the capture preset settings, and then not captured all the footage consistently. Go to your audio/video settings then capture presets and take a closer look. Btw, with DVCProHD it's always good practice to run a few tests first, and then check each reel after capture to make sure. Also, why did you capture some of the tby ClayC - Café LA Re: Dual core? Pfft. What about an 8 core mac Pro? - 17 years agoHi Ben, yes, I know, we're still at 32 bit adressing, which is why ram usages maxes out at 4GB. 64 bit OS and apps would be wonderful to be able to actually use all those ram slots. Afaik the dual core Xeon's already are 64bit. Seems logical to assume that with Leopard comes FCPStudio in 64bit. The piggy bank looks hungry. Again. Meantime, thanks for the math lesson. Clears the fog.by ClayC - Café LA Re: FCP 5 weirdness - importing DVCPRO HD - 17 years agoThe VariCam is a trick pony. You need to know those camera settings to be able to capture properly. The camera always records at 720p60 only, and the footage then requires a pulldown to get you to 23.98. Try this, it describes your situation in detail: www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvcpro_hd_workflow_balis.html Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: HDV codecIssue - 17 years agoJust use QTPro in FCP5 to convert the HDV files to DVCProHD. Put the DVCProHD files into FCP4.5 and you should be good to go. The file sizes will be over 4x bigger, but you'll be fine running off internal drives or external FW800, and, you'll be in a frame-based codec at 4:2:2 instead of HDV's 4:2:0 compression. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Dual core? Pfft. What about an 8 core mac Pro? - 17 years agoJude, Now that is interesting. It's easy enough to pop new drives and extra ram in. With Intel, why not processors too? Quite a breakthrough actually, not having to buy an entire new machine just for the added horsepower. Long overdue. If we could just adress more ram than 4,5 gigs, it would put fcp into a new dimension altogether. That's my only request for version 6. Gotta have it tby ClayC - Café LA Re: FCP 5.1.2 at IBC? - 17 years agoPaul, BWF audio! Excellent news that, and thanks muchly, it makes the entire audio workflow for editors much easier. I agree with others here, it's certainly much bigger news than a stability improvement, especially since it offers a perfect tapeless workflow solution for all audio needs, and opens the door to a lot of other pro audio possibilites including surround. Very cool. Best, Clby ClayC - Café LA Re: SheerVideo - Progress? - 17 years agoRobert, Thanks for the info. Very informative post, and I would highly recommend too that Apple gets Sheer fully operable and into the next FCP upgrade. Life would be much easier if we could have one perfect lossless codec for capture, edit and output for both HD and SD that doesn't require expensive storage solutions at high data rates. As you point out, it already exists. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: POLL : Do Lacies Actually Suck Or Not? - 17 years ago>>you're dismissing our experience as subjective while awards and company stats are objective. I find that insulting.<< Whoa Derek, I didn't say that. In a nutshell, I said that personal experience is part of the story and that to be fair to this or any other supplier, we should take both sides of the story into account. I presented the other side of the debate as factually as I coby ClayC - Café LA Re: LaCie disks and sleep mode? - 17 years agoWe did answer the question, it's up top of the thread. Then the lunatic fringe kicked in.... This means war Joe, RATATATTTAAATTTAAAT KRAAAKOOOOOOOM Is that a white flag you're waving? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: POLL : Do Lacies Actually Suck Or Not? - 17 years agoVery good idea Jude, thank you for starting a poll. With the jury still out for deliberations, here's a few thoughts (stress "thoughts", not pretending to be an expert, just rational): 1. We should be knowledgeable and credible here about actual facts and numbers rather than rely solely on individual experiences. Although they are certainly valuable and sometimes make for humorous reby ClayC - Café LA Re: LaCie disks and sleep mode? - 17 years agoHere we go again. I do love a good LaCie fight. So I'll start by going on record again saying I really like their gear, own a 2TB, 2 1TB's, 2 500GB's and 2 of their CRT monitors. It all works great. The only tiime I ever lost a drive was an internal one. The one with the Apple emblem on it (they checked it and then replaced it). A few recent facts: Amongst other recognition, the company waby ClayC - Café LA Re: LaCie disks and sleep mode? - 17 years agoDo the 1TB's have a rocker switch on the back? You need to set the switch to the middle position if I remember correctly. Also, turn on power to the drives first before turning on the computer. Only turn power off to the drives after you shut down. Check your OS system preferences > energy saver and uncheck the put drives to sleep whenever possible option. That do it? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: FCP Advice -- Using Multiple Sources?? - 17 years agoYou'll get a lot of opinions about that. Here's one: it is totally important to keep your media all on the same (your fastest) drive. Having it spread around will eventually lead to trouble, as well as chaos in file management terms. I put any given project into one folder that includes everything (video, audio, graphics, project files, render files, autosave vault, capture scratch etc.). Orby ClayC - Café LA Re: Greenscreen shooting and FCP, quick and easy? - 17 years ago>>my budget doesn?t allow for rotoscoping or major tweaking<< Then why not just shoot the talent silouhetted? It won't look exactly like the iPod spots, but can be very cool if styled (wardrobe) and lit properly. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: production sound workflow - 17 years agoNick, thanks for that. Get the general idea. How 'bout this though: Imagine being able to export> quicktime movie> audio only> options> poly (# of tracks, bit depth, sample rate, blah etc.). Maybe Andreas will add that to the next bwf2xml tool upgrade. If one can get the converted bwf audio in, there's gotta be a way back out from the timeline or browser or both, either as QT pby ClayC - Café LA Re: production sound workflow - 17 years ago>>did you mayby have to export Audio to ProTools at projects you worked with converted BWAVs in FCP? How did you do that exactely?<< It's very easy. Once you've finished up your edit, put 2-pops at the heads of all the audio tracks, then select all audio tracks and hit Export> Audio to OMF. Burn the OMF file onto a Data CD and send it out to the recording studio. Works with Proby ClayC - Café LA Re: Arriflex 416 workflow - 17 years agoWhat Andreas said plus, telecine to HD (what flavor of HD?) and excellent color correction are your friends. Or enemies, depending on your budget. If you're on square one with the film to telecine to video workflow, best stop by your local telecine facility for a detailed briefing prior to shooting to get it right. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: production sound workflow - 17 years agoHi Nick, .bwf poly files (once converted to QT) behave like a group of mono tracks. Let's say you had a set of 4 tracks in the timeline. You can link them all to the appropriate video track, or create 2 sets of stereo pairs and link those to video as well. Select and drag either end to trim the whole lot. You can also drag the linked selection from the timeline back to the browser to make suby ClayC - Café LA Re: diging from beta sp and hd - 17 years agoOk, after re-reading guess you meant the macbook has fcp on it. Sorry for confusing the issue.by ClayC - Café LA |
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