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Your basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
Re: Anatomy of an iMac Suite - 12 years ago
$645. You can click on the links at the end of the article to go the website of each product listed.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Anatomy of an iMac Suite - 12 years ago
As a follow up to one of my most popular articles last year, we present "Anatomy of an iMac Suite." We've been giving the new 27" iMac a really good test drive during a documentary edit and it's been a very very good editorial machine.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: CS6 Batch export - 12 years ago
Jude Cotter Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Then, however, when I go to the next clip on the > timeline, I have to do the entire process again. > The export window does not remember my previous > settings. Also, there doesn't seem to be a way I > can just dump all the cut clips from my timeline > to export as individual units. It shoby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Small files for transcriber - 12 years ago
For transcribers we drop the video image all the way down to 180x160 or something like that with a TC reader that fills the screen. We also drop the audio quality down to 22khz. Then of course you make extremely highly compressed files by dropping the compression way way down. We can usually make a 1 hour file around 55 mb or smaller. Transcribers really just need the audio since Qby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Argh! Avid customer service - can't register - 12 years ago
Jewel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you so much for asking on their forums for > me. > > I can't believe Avid (as a company) still doesn't > get this. There really is no reason for this sort > of snafu. Proof: This never happens with > Mac/Apple. When I worked in features, we were > all Mac & Avid. You never heardby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: The Mountain, Moved... - 12 years ago
I believe you must have a 64 bit machine. Mac Pro 1,1 and 2,1 are 32 bit only machines. We found that out with Avid MC6 not being able to install on our lone Mac Pro 1,1 machine.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
Russ Blaise Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Okay, I did read that when it came out. I just > couldn't find it again. He does say, Mac Pro. Really? Where? Here's the quote. "Thanks for your email. Our Pro customers like you are really important to us. Although we didn?t have a chance to talk about a new Mac Pro at today?s event, don?t worryby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hey Walter, does the XMP implementation let you > import media that already has log notes into > another PPro project and still keep the log notes? I'm not sure about just importing the Media alone, but if you bring a bin from another project over you keep all the notes. Now in Prelude, I believe that forby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
The Mac Pros are all listed on the blog. I may be adding a few more pieces of gear in the near future, still weighing what we're doing.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
Yep, just remember, Final Cut Pro X is awesome according to the late great Steve Jobs.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
Russ Blaise Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was a press release by Apple saying that > they are coming out with a new Mac Pro sometime in > 2013. > > rson-confirms-new-mac-pro-and-imac-designs-likely- > coming-in-2013/ > Not necessarily a Mac Pro. The words used were "something great for later in 2013." You canby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Successful iMac Configuration for Multi-Tasking Station - 12 years ago
J.Corbett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- We have a brand new 27" iMac with 32GB of RAM from OWC currently in production cutting a documentary. > Has any one configured an iMac that can: > > 1. sata or thundarbolt to a external raid (or some > heavy data transfer connection) We are connected to our Small Tree Communications 48TB SAN viaby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 tutorials - 12 years ago
Adobe really wants you to use Audition for audio editing, which I hear is quite good. We send stuff off to a ProTools artis.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 vs FCP X Benchmarks - 12 years ago
To say that "nothing at all needs render in Premiere" is quite the fallacy as just about everything needs to be rendered for final output. Premiere Pro is great at realtime playback during editing especially if you drop the resolution down to 1/2 or 1/4 but you definitely have to render when you output. Particularly if you're working in native resolutions. depending on your sby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: GoPro - 12 years ago
As you mention Compressor and ProRes I'm assuming you're still cutting in FCP 7? Got to convert the files to ProRes, no way around that. That's what we did when we were cutting in FCP 7. I used Compressor to make all the conversions, though if you have Adobe Media Encoder on hand, that is faster at rendering, especially if you have an nVidia card on-board. I'll tell you this is one reasoby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: How did the LAFCPUG "Final Cut Pro X Update Night" meeting go? - 12 years ago
MikeH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem was that the Next Meeting page said > "Significant new feature releases". I don't see > how that could not be interpreted to mean that new > features would be announced and released in the > very near future (like that night or the next > day). It should have just read "Oveby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: Is Final Cut X here to stay? - 12 years ago
FCP 7 is already obsolete and has been for a few years. That being said we're cutting a broadcast pilot with it in the next few weeks because the client demanded we cut in that application. I would prefer CS6 but that's what they want, that's what they get. FCP X is selling very well for Apple, but that doesn't matter, it's basically a loss leader. It'll be around as long as Apple wants itby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X
Re: WWDC: New version of Final Cut Pro.... they said Pro and not X.. hmm. - 12 years ago
J.Corbett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Loose your MacPro line and you loose your edge > completely. If it were not for pro users you guys > would have never been popular anyways. > WWDC is the Alamo for MacPro Users. Apple is not an enterprise company, they are a consumer company. The Mac Pro does not make them any money. The last numberby walterbiscardi - Café LA
"A Cautionary Tale for the FCP Switcher" - 12 years ago
My latest article is up on the Creative Cow that outlines all the issues we ran into with our latest attempt to introduce Avid 6 to the workflow of a current series. Didn't go as planned, but on the upside, we're still in communication with Avid and hoping to work with them on back-end issues. http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/a-cautionary-tale-for-the-fcp-switcherby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: Best FCP to AVID Tutorial yet - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Just like I see > AMA/consolidate to be very much like log and > transfer except that you can still do some edits > before you get them into Avid's favorite format. Woooo, AMA and native editing bit us big time recently when trying to get our show from Avid to Resolve. In the end we got 12 days behind scheduby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
> Also don't know how Symphony would run on a > software only system. I assume you'd want to > output sometime so you'd need some king of I/O > box. I hear Motu has some pretty cool stuff. The > symphony I/O box is crazy expensive. Absolutely it does. At the moment we have 5 Symphonies installed with AJA Kona boards. No Avid hardware is necessary for Symphony.by walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 - easy transition - 12 years ago
Keep in mind that sending your timeline from Premiere Pro to SpeedGrade will result in your files being converted to DPX. HUGE files and unless you have a very fast system, you won't be able to play the files in anything close to realtime. Also you will require an nVidia card to play out your footage to a reference monitor. SpeedGrade does not support AJA / BMD / Matrox or any other productby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 - easy transition - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I dunno, Walter, here is where I disagree. I'm a > big advocate of getting your pipeline right. It's > horses for courses- use the right tools and > workflow for the right job. And you get the job > done fast and good. But then I think we also agree > on this other point that we're not necessarily toby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 - easy transition - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Imagine cutting a 1hr > documentary straight cuts and waiting 1hr to > export instead of 15 minutes in FCP or Avid. Exporting a 1 hour documentary full of formats in 1 hour is not going to happen. Probably more like 2 - 8 hours depending on what all you've got going on in that timeline. There is a HUGE renderby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 - easy transition - 12 years ago
Yeah now imagine a half hour episode or a one hour documentary or a feature film. The render hits on those are going to be horrendous unfortunately. Also at this point, they really need to work on the internal media management under the hood. I'm not ready to throw a documentary or even a series at it just yet. MAJOR improvements over CS 5 and 5.5, but just need a few more tweaks aby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Using 27" iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations - 12 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yep...never thought I would be saying this...but I > have been researching that: > > 27" iMac 3.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 > 16 GB RAM > 2TB Serial ATA Drive + 256GB Solid State (boot) > Drive > AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2GB GDDR5 > Applecare > > = $3,818.00 !!! Holy Smokesby walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: Using 27" iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations - 12 years ago
For straight editing, can't tell much of a difference. Depending on what filters / effects you have, you'll obviously notice that the renders will be slower than something that has a 12 core processor. But they are very very fast these days.by walterbiscardi - Café LA
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Boy I hope SMOKE develops a cross-grade deal. I am > ready...just did the shiny new Symphony 6 upgrade > and CS6 Production Premium is next. Would love to > learn smoke...it is fairly specialized $14,999 to $3,495 is the deal I'm pretty sure. Nothing beyond that was announced at NAB. Honestly not alby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 12 years ago
Smoke does not have MultiCam at this time. Definitely going to be one of the most requested features I'm sure.by walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer
Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > >Keep in mind Premiere Pro cannot create ProRes > files other than to use Adobe > >Media Encoder. > > If you buy Compressor or Motion (assuming you dont > already have FCP), you can render (create preview > files) to Prores in a QT wrapper from within PPro, > you can render to Proresby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
