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Re: 4K in FCP7 ? - 9 years ago
Apologies for my silence over the last few days. Got distracted by another job. Thanks Dennis for all your terrific advice. And thank you, Nick, for your suggestions. I've been given a drive with the original camera footage for the job. It was shot on a Panasonic GH4 as 3840 x 2160 H264 MOVs. There's 540 GBs of material. About 14 hours. Although I've never tried it, my understby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: 4K in FCP7 ? - 9 years ago
I would much prefer not to use proxies if possible. I got hold of a Seagate USB3 2.5" drive to test. The AJA test shows a write speed of 89MB/s and read at just over 100. As you say, the PR422 4K plays easily, so I think my major concerns are solved. But I've noticed an odd thing happening. While playback out to my third monitor is fine, both the Viewer and the Canvas are frozen. Iby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: 4K in FCP7 ? - 9 years ago
Many thanks to you both. I've got several weeks before I actually start on the job, so plenty of time to experiment. The Esata adapter will be the first attempt. I notice many people suggesting that 4K media should be on a RAID, so it'll be intriguing to see if it is workable coming off a single drive. I've been looking into using proxy files as you suggest, JC. That'll be the fall-back woby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: 4K in FCP7 ? - 9 years ago
Many thanks, Dennis. I’ve just run the Aja system test. It’s reporting 41MB/s Write and 52.6MB/s Read on my FW800 drive. Way below the spec you mention so no wonder it’s not working. My drive enclosure is a Stardom iTank which has eSata but not USB3. I see a new iTank with USB3 would be pretty much the same price as an eSata to Thunderbolt adapter, but the MBP only has 2 x USB3 pby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
4K in FCP7 ? - 9 years ago
Are there any other dinosaurs out there trying to edit 4K on FCP7 ? There seem to be conflicting reports as to whether it’s viable. I’ve imported a short PR422 4096x2160 sequence and it seems workable so far. It does have the gamma shift Dennis Couzin mentioned in this thread: http://www.lafcpug.org/phorum/read.php?1,286508,286520#msg-286520 But I can live with that. Are there anyby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT - Coincidence - 10 years ago
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes - tracklaying will be fun. Need to get the right sounds though and haven't found them yet. As for the music ? I hadn't thought of 'dock of the bay' but it'd be great ! Actually, Jude wins the prize for intuitive creativity. It was always the intention that the ship sequence would come directly after a sequence from 'Swan Lake'. It's possible the music may lingeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: OT - Coincidence - 10 years ago
Thanks, Nick, I was beginning to think I might have transgressed the rules of the forum or (worse) seemed to be showing off. If it’s cool, it’s nothing to do with me. I just happened to be there and have a camera rolling at the right moment. Comments from friends and family have made me realise that part of the reason the shot seems so ordinary is that it’s hard to comprehend thby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
OT - Coincidence - 10 years ago
I notice that the ‘Show and Tell’ forum is not in use here anymore, but hope it’s OK if I make a link to what I think is a pretty incredible shot ? It’s nothing to do with FCP or even editing, but shots like this happen only once in a lifetime. Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Overlapping clips and EDL export - 10 years ago
It should be fine, Joe. The EDL may not be able to reference the original clips, but it doesn't need to because the post house will be working from your "baked" export file. The EDL from the original flattened timeline will still show all the actual cuts which is what they'll need. Really the only potential problem is if you've used any dissolves or other effects which require addiby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Problems capturing analog footage - 10 years ago
I would second Andrew's suggestion of a Digital8 camera and good backups. Only thing you need to be aware of is that not all D8 cameras will actually play Hi8. I found that out the hard way ! There's a partial list here: And a more comprehensive one here: Good luck !by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
eSATA vs USB 3 for media drives - 11 years ago
I'm working on a project which involves a large amount of archival footage. The archive is constantly growing as the company finds and buys new (old !) material. The system currently has two separate RAID 5's connected. The first is a Stardom SR4 (4 x 3TB drives = 12TB, effective capacity 9TB) connected via eSATA. The other is a Stardom ST8 (8 x 3TB drives = 24TB, effective capacity 18TB) cby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Actions stall in all FCP functions - 12 years ago
Scott Taylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've had Safari be the culprit too. How do you do > this "reset" thing - are you just talking about > trashing Safari prefs? Trashing Safari Prefs doesn't seem to do much. You will find "Reset Safari" in the main Safari menu. You can choose to only reset certain things. If you goby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Actions stall in all FCP functions - 12 years ago
derekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The last time that happened to me, it was an early > symptom of my system drive dying on a PowerPC G5. > Might want to make sure all your backups are in > order. Thanks Derek, Yes - I'm well backed up. I run Time Machine at least once a day and also regularly copy my project files onto other drivesby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Actions stall in all FCP functions - 12 years ago
I recently had a very similar sudden onset of the SBBOD. Turned out to be nothing to do with FCP. It was actually caused by Safari overdosing on disk chatter. Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: R-Name gone in 10.7 - Alternatives? - 12 years ago
There's also Name Mangler: It's not free, but $10 isn't going to break the bank. Don't know if it works under Lion though...by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Random capture settings - 12 years ago
Looking on the bright side, at least the "fix" (ie - a cup of coffee) isn't too arduous.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Random capture settings - 12 years ago
Thanks for the thought, Jude, but the Easy Setup is correct: Matrox MX02 Mini - Apple ProRes 422 1080i 50 48kHz After I put up my post earlier this morning, I went to have a cup of coffee. When I came back all was well and I've been digitizing all morning.by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Random capture settings - 12 years ago
FCP seems to be changing my capture settings at random. I am digitizing pillarboxed PAL SD from BetaSP and Digibeta using a Sony J3 for playback. The capture settings I want are: Digitizer: Matrox HDTV 1080 Compressor: Apple ProRes 422 Input: Matrox MX02 Mini - 1080i 50 YUV 10-bit Most of the time, it's fine - and then completely at random it changes and a clip decides to come in at 720pby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: De-noise Filters - 13 years ago
Thanks, Clay. I went ahead and bought a license today and have been quite stunned by what it achieves. Render times are not a problem when the results are so good. And as you say - great pricing. Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
De-noise Filters - 13 years ago
Just curious to know what de-noiser filters people are using. I'm looking at NeatVideo: Any comments or suggestions ? Thanks in advance (as always). Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My preference for archival footage would be to not > lose any part of the frame, since once it's gone, > it's gone. It may be in the future someone wants > to examine the top of a mast (or something, you > get my drift) and if you've cut it off trying to > conform it to a 16:9 frame, and there'sby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Mike Hardcastle Wrote: > The media will be on 12TB e-SATA RAID 5 drives. > I'm working on the basis that each drive will be > capable of holding about 95 hours (12TB RAID 5 > gives 9TB capacity. Allowing for 20% overhead, > usable space is 7.2TB.) Any comments on that ? Just re-checked these figures and I see I made a mistake. At 1080 Prores HQ the 7.2TB would be enoby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Ben King Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Haha the Aussie and Brit dual pronged attack of > the info! Tell me about it ! We've all been posting on top of each other. Great, though. As you both know, I've been banging on about this for several months now. I appreciate the patience. Jude, I think the decision has been made that we will upscale froby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
Crikey, Ben ! You're up late. But - many, many thanks for all that. It's always reassuring to get opinions on these sort of things before setting off into uncharted waters. I especially liked the bit where you answered a question I hadn't directly asked (Prores HQ or not). I had been wondering about that. Yes - the cost to digitise all this is going to be astronomical. However, it'sby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Media File Sizes - 13 years ago
I've had a good prowl around the forum but can't find anything directly bearing on this. I'm just getting into a project which involves 3 to 4 hundred hours of archive material on U-matic, 1", 2", BetaSP and Digibeta. It's likely that we will be digitising the lot, upscaling to 1080 through a Snell & Wilcox standards converter. Probably as Prores HQ. Roughly half the tapes arby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM-EX Camcorder - 13 years ago
Thanks, Michael. I figured the brackets were the problem - but not until a bit later. BTW - did you ever receive that DVD from me ? If not, I'll send another. regards, Mikeby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM-EX Camcorder - 13 years ago
PS - not sure why that link didn't work properly, but just scroll down until you see the Q and A from 'debe'by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: Sony PMW-EX3 XDCAM-EX Camcorder - 13 years ago
Hi Lisha, I think either of your machines will do the job no problem. I've been working with XDCAM on an old G5 for the last three years. My machine is lower spec'ed than yours (dual 1.8Ghz, 3gigs RAM) and mostly has no issues. I do get occasional stuttering playback in full-screen digital cinema, but it's not really too much of a headache. The most crucial thing you need is Sony's XDCby Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
Re: System Settings question. - 13 years ago
Walter Uhrik Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just thought it > would be a nice feature not to have to go to > System Settings as you are switching between your > projects. Preference Manager from Digital Rebellion does exactly what you want:by Mike Hardcastle - Café LA
