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Re: Briefing for professionals in London by Apple - 12 years agoOption to buy FCS 3 for ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT only...not individual license. For the big boys... Well, I still think it'll be too little, too late. Too much reliance on third parties to cover what they used to do in FCP 7.by Shane Ross - Café LA - X Re: Curious what direction LAFCPUGers are going? Remain with FCP or switch? - 12 years agoWell, in Los Angeles you have two choices...Avid or FCP. FCP has been EOL, so back to Avid I go.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: What is audio rate of Canon Rebel 3ti H.264 - 12 years agoWell, the 5D, 7D, 60D and T2i record 48Khz...so I would assume the 3ti would too.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: AVC-Intra on FCP 6.0.6 Question - 12 years agoi HATE P2CMS with a passion! This is why. It puts each clip...each shot you have...into a separate P2 folder...all by itself. Now you have to point FCP to each folder individually...and the clips will show up one at a time. Stupid application. I'm sure there's some fix for it, or some workaround, as I can't imagine Panasonic making it this stupid. But who knows. Anyone know P2CMS? Iby Shane Ross - Café LA Re: AVC-Intra on FCP 6.0.6 Question - 12 years agothis is the tapeless workflow for FCP: They need to archive the FULL cards, keeping the full card structure intact. Put each offload into a different folder. Did they mess everything up?by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Calling all Avid experts - 12 years agoThe ClipBrowser (2.6) doesn't work for me. I get an error about file structure.by Shane Ross - Avid Media Composer Re: Calling all Avid experts - 12 years agoAs stated, Avid captures to a different media format...MXF. Also shared by P2 and XDCAM. Avid also captures Audio and Video separate...so if you have ONE MXF file, it will be picture or audio only, not both. Try the ClipBrowser route...that's an interesting idea. But barring that, you need Avid. But there is a 30-day demo available for it, so you can download that and use that to convertby Shane Ross - Avid Media Composer Re: Fascinating: Is Apple responding through David Pogue? - 12 years agoI'm one of the first people to respond to the first article. And he replied with "what are the features that are missing that you need?" I told him... and then we get this crap. Yeah, clearly being fed answers from Apple...and from Apple people who ALSO do not understand the needs of the professional editor. It is VERY clear that many people at Apple don't know the needs of the profby Shane Ross - Café LA - X Re: 7D and HPX170 best timeline option - 12 years ago1920x1080 is FULL RASTER...meaning full sized. 1440x1080 is THIN RASTER, or "Anamorphic." It is squeezed so that the data rate will be lower. Just like feature films are on film...Cinemascope, for example. DVCPRO HD is even MORE squeezed at 1280x1080. It is the only format with those dimensions. Cut EVERYTHING in a 1920x1080 ProRes sequence. It will all look right.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: 7D and HPX170 best timeline option - 12 years agoIf you have to render, then something is wrong. Settings don't match.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: 7D and HPX170 best timeline option - 12 years ago>(of course I have used compressor to convert all MVI files to Apple Pro res 422 to use in my edit) Liar. If you did, your sequence settings would reflect that. They would say "Apple ProRes 422 1080p 29.97." And not "HDTV H.264." You dropped the raw H.264 into the timeline. Do not do that. Convert all your 5D footage to ProRes. You can use Log and Transfer foby Shane Ross - Café LA Re: how to export low quality, lightweight files - 12 years agoFor what purpose?by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Canon 5D Mark 2 Workflow PLEASE HELP - 12 years agoYOu have FCP 6. You do not have access to the ProRes LT or ProRes Proxy codecs. Those only come with FCP 7.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Drop Frame Time Code - 12 years agoYou misunderstand. Drop Frame time code isn't losing any TIME. Quite the opposite. It ensures that the tapes actually STAY in time. You see, video isn't straight 30fps over here. No, it is 29.97...slightly slower. So to compensate for the slower video, two frames of timecode are left out every minute, except for every 10th minute. Only the frames...not the time. If you used non-drop frby Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Drop Frame Time Code - 12 years agoWithout DFTC we wouldn't be able to properly time TV shows. No, it needs to stay. You just need to get a better grasp of it. That comes with time.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Drop Frame Time Code - 12 years agoI'd still start on the exact 1:00:30;00 frame. Your spot is still exactly 40:00... just the DFTC numbers are weird at that point. Ignore them...the spot must be exactly :40 and start at 1:00:30;00...that's all that you need to worry about. It's just odd to start when you do, that's what's causing the issue.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Drop Frame Time Code - 12 years agoThe dropped frames...that are only timecode numbers...don't occur until 1:01:00;02. I do not understand starting at 29;28...to compensate for what? The outpoint being at 1:01;10;02? Don't worry about that. The start time is KEY...essential. Start at the 1:00:30;00 mark, on the nose. Anything else is not meeting with the specs provided. I don't start my programs at 59:59:28. No way, the brby Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Fixing Jump cuts - 12 years agoRequest that b-roll be shot. Stuff relating to what the subject is talking about. Show the client/producer what it will look like without b-roll. It is VERY boring to watch people talk. No matter what they are saying or how interesting it is.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Drop Frame Time Code - 12 years agoWhat he said. Start picture at 1:00:30;00. The first "drop frame" won't occur until the one minute mark...1:01:00;02. That is a very odd start time, I must say...by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Pro Res HQ files on a MacBook Pro? - 12 years agoit'll work fine. Just need a FW800 drive, or eSATA would be better if your laptop has the Express34 slot, and you get an adapter.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: .AVI to FCP trimmed & then to the web - 12 years agoI have never had a problem loading an avi file into QT Pro. Mark...AVIs are like QTs...just a container. They can be one of DOZENS of codecs. XVID, MP4, dozens more. The codecs you are working with are viewable by the mac...not all of them are. Obviously the OP has a codec that doesn't work.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: .AVI to FCP trimmed & then to the web - 12 years ago>adding more codecs to which system? The OPERATING system. Your computer. >the avi plays in vlc fine, except there doesn't seem to be an export option to any QT format, that i can see. Correct. VLC Player is just that, a PLAYER. You cannot convert or export from VLC. It is just suggested to install VLC so that it can add more translation ability to formats in OTHER convertersby Shane Ross - Café LA Re: .AVI to FCP trimmed & then to the web - 12 years agoYou don't use VLC to play the footage. It just adds more codecs or the ability to read more codecs to the system. If you still can't see the file... then I am out of suggestions. Ask for a different format from the client...one that you can work with.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: .AVI to FCP trimmed & then to the web - 12 years agoInstall VLC player...that allows your Mac to see more file types.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: .AVI to FCP trimmed & then to the web - 12 years agoMPEG STREAMCLIP to convert them to an editing format. If SD, then DV/NTSC or DV50...or ProRes NTSC. If HD size, then ProRes. And then compress as H.264...there are Presets in Compressor for Youtube.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Edit share vs. Unity - 12 years agoAs much as I have wanted to use Edit Share, I never had the opportunity to do so.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Edit share vs. Unity - 12 years agoWhy are you using another NLE...on the same computer...to do the collateral material? Why not use Avid, have access to ALL the same media? Keep things simple. Avid 5.5 runs great on the mac platform...I have had no issues. And the AJA IO Express works great too.by Shane Ross - Café LA Re: Difficulties with Technicolor Preset, Grinder, Proxy files - 12 years agoProRes LT is the better option for DSLRs. It really isn't THAT low quality. It's perfectly fine for the 8-bit format of DSLR video. virtually indistinguishable from ProRes. Perfect for those NOT going to broadcast. Can't comment on the LUTs though...I don't use them. People tell me I shouldby Shane Ross - Café LA |
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