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Re: Color Question - 15 years ago
It's the Colorist not the software. You can do many of the same things in FCP that you can in Color it just requires a lot more effort to do it in FCP. -Aby adkimery - Color
Re: Studio Design and ergonomics - 15 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That is what's called a "dev kit"...it allows me > to turn off music / menus / commentary in game for > testing with Alpha / Beta game builds. I was told > that unit is more than $10,000 and sent directly > from Nintendo and if I break it - I bought it. I work for GameTrailers.com and, IIRby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Creating avis with FCP for editing on a PC - 15 years ago
What software is the person on the PC going to be using? -Andrewby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Studio Design and ergonomics - 15 years ago
Like Joe I prefer to work in a cave. I want enough indirect light to help prevent eyestrain but that's about it. BTW Joe, nice debug Wii under the desk. I'm sure that's used just for business purposes, right? -Andrewby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Does Color have any compatability issues with Blackmagic? - 15 years ago
Go into the Decklink preferences and take it out of "extended desktop" mode. -Aby adkimery - Color
Re: FCP to Color codec - 15 years ago
Color does have problems w/DVCPro HD 1080i50 (typically used in PAL countries), but all the 60hz based variations of the codec as well as 24p should work fine. PAL footage in general has issues in Color AFAIK. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: FCP to Color codec - 15 years ago
I've used Color w/DVCPro HD 6 or 7 times w/o a problem and I know editors on other boards that are 100% DVCPro HD and they've never had a problem either. There's probably something else amiss in your timeline. Mixed media or mixed frame rate snuck in there perhaps? Sometimes, for me, the Send to Color command is flakey and I get better results exporting an XML from FCP. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Anybody using the 24" Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP with FCP? - 15 years ago
I have a 2408 and it's adequate. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: color: no image on my CRT - 16 years ago
The only device Color supports via FW is the IoHD (and even then you just get SD res not HD). You'll need to use an I/O card from AJA or Blackmagic or the MXO/MXO2. -Aby adkimery - Color
Re: Apple ProRes codec - 16 years ago
I've run into similar situations and it has always come down to 'bad' media. For me sometimes it was captured media and once it was an apparent bug using Episode on a Mac Pro to transcode clips into DVCPro HD. They played back fine, but once you did something in the timeline that required rendering the 'bad' clips would show the wrong video. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Dubbing Timecode w/ HVR-V1U iLink - 16 years ago
If the V1U is like 99% of prosumer cameras it can't take external TC. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Copy/Paste in the Color FX Room - 16 years ago
AFAIK there is no copy/paste feature like that. I wish there was 'cause I deal w/a lot of interlaced footage too. -Aby adkimery - Color
Re: edit to tape - blacking a tape - 16 years ago
You might have to change the recording format from "DV" to "DVCAM" in order to use external TC. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Computer Monitor for FCP and Color - Dell Ultrasharp 2009W and 2208WFP good choices? - 16 years ago
Dells are adequate for displaying software GUIs but don't expect them to offer accurate image quality. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Has anyone used the Sony HVR-Z7U ( interchangable lenses)? - 16 years ago
Shane Ross Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There is a shoulder mount camera with professional > outputs...dunno that model. Are you thinking of the AJ-HPX2000 which can record either DVCPro/HD or AVC-Intra? AVC-Intra of course shouldn't be confused w/AVCHD. Can we get a few more formats going? Please? I mean DVCPro HD, HDV1, HDV2, Canon's HDV2 variby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Has anyone used the Sony HVR-Z7U ( interchangable lenses)? - 16 years ago
Not to take this thread back on topic, but... Dom, A few months ago the company I'm at did some tests between a Z1U, V1U, Z7U, and EX-1. We already owned a Z1U and a V1U and were looking for another camera for the stable. The EX-1 was definitely the best of the bunch but the Z7U was no slouch either. We had some problems w/corrupt clips from the Z7U when we used the CF card, but I haven'tby adkimery - Café LA
Re: First questions - 16 years ago
Walter Biscardi has a quick tutorial talking about the Color's autobalance button. Link Walter also has a very, very good tutorial DVD where he pretty much touches on dang near every button/clickable item in Color. Link -Aby adkimery - Color
Re: Best LCD Monitor for FC Studio 2 - 16 years ago
T9-10, Are you looking for just a computer monitor or are you looking for something to use as a b'cast monitor to judge the color and image quality of your work? -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: CPU buzz and whine.... - 16 years ago
Are you hearing this thru speakers or headphones? -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Drive went south, now wha -- help! - 16 years ago
mark raudonis Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've gotta defend Derek here. I think his opinion > of LaCie drives is accurate. > > Three years ago we bought a whole fleet of > LaCie's: 1 Tb, 250's, 500's. At least a dozen > drives. > > mark Personally I never try to buy drives "in bulk" like that 'cause if a badby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Speakers? - 16 years ago
I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 Pro's that I love. The Sony MDR-7506's are de facto standards at many places, but when I demo'd phones I liked the HD 280's better with my test audio. With that being said, you shouldn't do serious mixing in headphones. The Left and Right channels are heard completely discreetly wearing cans, which means it sounds very different compared to listening with sby adkimery - Café LA
Re: QT for mix - 16 years ago
For the file for the sound mix talk to the person/place doing the mix. Many times they'll have a specs sheet for you to follow. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: To dV or not to dV - 16 years ago
As Nick and Derek have said, going tapeless has its downsides and what's best for you depends on your workflow. IMHO, if you can afford to go XDCAM HD that's the best of both worlds (the speed of tapeless w/the proven tape-like workflow). -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Export using Quick Time Movie - 16 years ago
FCP and QT handle gamma differently which is why there is the shift. Viewing footage on a calibrated external b'cast monitor is the only way to get an accurate representation of your image. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: File management for a series - 16 years ago
Shane Ross has a good DVD about project management that's definitely worth checking out. When I was an AE we'd create a Mother Project that all the media and assets (gfx, music, etc.,) would get ingested into first and then the media would be disseminated into the proper projects. This helped because there was always a single location (a central hub, if you will) to go back to when you needed tby adkimery - Café LA
Re: more clips made than logged when capturing - 16 years ago
Nick hit the nail on the head. By default "start/stop" detection is turned ON in FCP for HDV so you just need to turn it OFF and you should be good to go. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: inexpensive control surface for color ? - 16 years ago
I don't think you'll find any surfaces for under 6 or 7 grand as they are a pretty low volume item. Here is a good review of the "low-end" JL Cooper control panel. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: Pro Res 422 on an older G5? - 16 years ago
Dan, You should be able to bring in the footage off the SxS, use Compressor to batch everything into ProRes then edit. It will just take a while to transcode all the EX-1 footage into ProRes. If you check out the ProRes White Paper you'll see a chart w/all the different ProRes data rates. -Aby adkimery - Café LA
Re: FCP editors and After Effects - 16 years ago
Mark, I didn't miss you point. You used "sometimes" and I used "might". We both know that both the One Trick Pony and the Multi Trick Pony have their uses which means someone can be a successful Pony of either type. They just have to be the right horse in the right race. I know editors that get consistent work because they are fast, rock solid story tellers and I know eby adkimery - Café LA
Re: FCP editors and After Effects - 16 years ago
Took pick up on something grafixjoe said, where you work and who your clients are will dictated more or less what you need to know. "Smaller" jobs might require wearing more than one hat because that's the nature of that beast. But "larger" jobs might want a one trick pony because they can afford to hire an entire stable (so to speak). As w/many things in this field, theby adkimery - Café LA
