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Re: off-topic - HD Size - - 15 years agoThere is a very handy, and free, program called OmniDiskSweeper that scans your computer and sorts everything according to file size. It' makes finding the space-hogs a breeze. Also, have you emptied your trash recently? -Andrewby adkimery - Café LA Re: workflow for Color to FCP with remote/different computers - 15 years agoNope. Color creates new media once you export the project from Color and send it back to FCP. Wait until you've locked the edit then send it to Color. -Andrewby adkimery - Color Re: Using the colour picker and vignettes - 15 years agoReshoot w/the right colored wall. I was going to say you could try to make a custom shaped vignette if he didn't move around too much, but the fact that he has glasses makes the whole thing exceptionally more difficult. Besides a re-shoot (which would be quicker) I think your only other option is to rotoscope it. -Andrewby adkimery - Color Re: JVC Monitor - 15 years agoI use the DV-V24D1U which is supposed to be the same monitor except it has HD-SDI where as the L1U uses component HD hookups. All in all it gets the job done but if my company had to buy a new monitor this wouldn't be at the top of the list. The biggest issue I have is the viewing angle. If you are not starting dead center into the monitor the image goes down hill fast. If you could swing a lby adkimery - Color Re: digitizing dilemma - 15 years agoInterlaced footage will look, well, interlaced when you play it back on a progressive monitor not designed to properly display interlaced footage (like your computer monitor). If you hook your computer up to a broadcast, CRT monitor and watch it on that it will not look interlaced. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: Better school other than USC and Video symphony?" - 15 years agousajpntv Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Both are very expensive but I just want > to be sure to find work when I finish. Hope you > all can help. > > > Mark Especially in LA you aren't going to get any editing work just because you took some training courses. If you are want to learn how to edit and you want to find work you need toby adkimery - Café LA Re: Experiences with HDV on Powerbook G4? - 15 years agoA couple of years ago I tried editing HDV on my dual 1ghz G4 tower and it sucked royally from what I remember. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: Color correction - shadow reduction - 15 years agoAre you using FCP or Color to do the corrections? If you want to reduce the contrast you basically need to reduce the difference between the lows and the highlights. If you only want to do this on the skin tones then you'd want to isolate the skin tones first before you make any changes. If you are using the 3-way in FCP you'd use the Limit Effect feature to do this. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: HDV output for Color Grading? Help! - 15 years agojmlpost, What version of Color are you running? If you are up to date (I believe 1.0.4 is the latest) you can use HDV and XDCAM media to go into Color, but what you render out of Color when you are done grading has to be ProRes or Uncompressed. You could also use the Media Manager to transcode all of your clips from HDV into ProRes so that way you still have discrete files, as opposed to eby adkimery - Café LA Re: Sharing Media and setting up Systems - 15 years agoOkay, so a rain check until the next time yer in LA or I'm in Orlando then? -Andrewby adkimery - Café LA Re: Sharing Media and setting up Systems - 15 years agoWe have a 60 (64?) TB xSan over here w/nearly 20 clients on it (obviously not everyone on the xSan is hooked up to the Video Hub) and the cost *is* jaw dropping. When I first started here 2-3 years ago the xSan was only 4TB. The new Promise Tech storage Apple switch to after discontinuing their xServe RAIDs has been less than stellar so far. We had more hardware related problems w/the Promiseby adkimery - Café LA Re: Sharing Media and setting up Systems - 15 years agoSpeaking of Bob Z, if you are feeling ballsy you can read his guide to building your own SAN, but this isn't for the weak of heart and when something goes wrong *you* are the tech support. Unless you are a no-budget indie w/more time than money I gotta agree w/everyone else that hiring in someone knows what to do is the best way to go. Editshare is another company that offers not only shaby adkimery - Café LA Re: Pixilation added from viewer to canvas - 15 years agoTo expand on what Jeff said, when you look a something in the Viewer you are looking at it in it's native format. When you look at something in the Canvas you are seeing after it has been compressed by your timeline format (in this case DV). If you want to make it look less pixilated you need to work in a higher quality format (DV50, ProRes, Uncompressed, etc.,). When you make a DVD you are adby adkimery - Café LA Re: Sony M10U won't playback HDV Video from timeline - 15 years agoIt's not a bit rate problem it's a codec problem. The GOP compression of HDV prevents the streaming of an edited timeline because the "cadence" of the I-frames is not correct and can't be done in real-time using todays computers. If you've ever recorded back to HDV and suffered thru the long "reconform" progress bar that's FCP putting all the I-frames in all the right placesby adkimery - Café LA Re: Sony M10U won't playback HDV Video from timeline - 15 years agoYou can't stream HDV out via FW like you can DV. On fast enough computers FCP 6 will down convert an HDV signal into DV on the fly and that can be streamed out via FW, but then you are monitoring an SD image not an HD on. You'll need an I/O device from Matrox, Blackmagic, AJA, etc., if you want to monitor your HDV on an external display. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: Can I import movies from Itunes into FCP? - 15 years agografixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I never said that. I explicitly said COPYING > COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. > Simple & clear. But copying copyrighted material is *not* an inherent infringement. The 'BetaMax Case' from the 80's and the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 make things like recording TV for later viewingby adkimery - Café LA Re: Apple Color Scope Problem - 15 years agoDisconnect or remove one of the gfx cards. Some FCP plugins, Motion, and Color do not like more than one gfx card to be in the machine. -Aby adkimery - Color Re: So there's this rumor... - 15 years agoI don't think Avid ever actually left the Mac platform did they? I know they wanted to but there was a big uproar and they soon backpedaled. For a while PC development at Avid was ahead of Mac development but I think a year or two ago they changed that so both versions of the software get updated at the same time. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: Dumb S**T question about how to correct an overexposed region - 15 years agoIn FCP's 3-way CC you can use the Limit Effect feature (found at the bottom of the 3-way CC window) to isolate a single color. If the area you are trying to fix is completely blown out you are probably out of luck though as there's no picture info left to try and salvage. -Aby adkimery - Color Re: So there's this rumor... - 15 years agocraig seeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Again I get the consumer playback competition. I > don't get AT ALL how authoring has any impact on > that. Sorry if I'm dense but what does one have to > do with the other. Apple offers alternative > consumer playback. They don't offer alternative > professional delivery. If they ofby adkimery - Café LA Re: So there's this rumor... - 15 years agocraig seeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > I still don't get Apple's reasoning as > professional authoring on non DRM'd discs for > clients has nothing to do with iTunes and AppleTV. > Those aren't methods to deliver for corporate or > any other professional client. It's like balking > on DigiBeta because you don't like BetaMby adkimery - Café LA Re: So there's this rumor... - 15 years agoJobs' saying BR is a 'bag of hurt' is a smokescreen, IMO. Like it's been previously said, other computer makers are shipping BR drives and other software makers are shipping BR authoring software. I pretty much agree w/Tom that Apple is trying to leverage its content distribution model (iTMS, AppleTV, etc.,) over BR to the detriment of professional users who need/want BR. Hopefully Apple stoby adkimery - Café LA Re: final cut 7 - 15 years agoThere is a general assumption that the FC suite will be updated around the time of NAB because that would keep w/the two year product cycle Apple has used in the past but no one knows for sure. -Aby adkimery - Color Re: "Scan Lines" filter - 15 years agoIn FCP check under Video Effects, Stylize, Bad TV. -Aby adkimery - Café LA Re: Automating the Bake Process - 15 years agoThe OP has asked some Q's recently in the Color forum so I'd assume he is talking about exporting sections of the timeline that have effects applied to them (such as a speed change) as self-contained QT movies and then bringing those back into the project. So baking in the effect, video mix down, pre-render... there's no 'official' FCP term so we're free to take our pick from other apps and, forby adkimery - Café LA Re: Rooms associated to a single clip - 15 years agoYes. But you can add handles in Color in the Setup Room under the Project Settings tab. You just need to specify the handle length *before* you add clips to the Render Que.by adkimery - Color Re: Rooms associated to a single clip - 15 years agoIn the middle of the Color timeline there is a little "handle" you can grab to expand/shrink the timeline tracks. If you expand it out you can see each room that has been applied to a clip for the selected grade. I don't think the Geometry room shows up though. -Aby adkimery - Color Re: Color on roundtrip If/Then for NOT BAKING - 15 years agoI'm keeping my fingers crossed that Color 2.0 will be a more robust program so we don't have to do as much prep as we do now.by adkimery - Color Re: Color on roundtrip If/Then for NOT BAKING - 15 years agoI'd duplicate your timeline, remove anything not 'Color friendly' and send that properly prepped TL into Color. Sending things into Color that it doesn't like can have odd consequences that could take more time to fix than just avoiding them in the first place. Reframing shots using the Motion Tab usually survives the round trip okay, but I'd say 10% of my reframed shots don't match up coming bby adkimery - Color Re: Mac mystery - 15 years ago$20 says the power supplies for the 23" ACDs are bad. In the past year I've had three 23" ACDs (1 @ home and 2 @ work) exhibit the same behavior (eventually the monitor won't come on at all) and it's been a bad power supply in all three cases. Just from Googling the problem it seems somewhat common. -Aby adkimery - Café LA |
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