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Direct Link to SpeedGrade - 11 years ago

I'm playing with the new SpeedGrade and it's fantastic. I created a sequence in the new Premiere Pro and threw in just about every format I can find - AVCHD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM EX, 4K XAVC, DvcproHD P2, RED, Canon XF, BMD Cinema DNG, DNxHD OP1A, ArriRaw, ProRes QT, and an H.264 QT. There is a mix of frame sizes and frame rates in that sequence. And then I also sent a clip to After Effects, used

Re: Adobe CC October Updates are Live - 11 years ago

Downloading from "Help>Updates" is generally faster than waiting for the CC app to update.

Re: Adobe CC October Updates are Live - 11 years ago

What kind of issues are you having? Todd Kopriva suggests to use Help>Updates to check for updates.

Re: Adobe CC October Updates are Live - 11 years ago

And yea… Happy Halloween!

Adobe CC October Updates are Live - 11 years ago

Adobe has announced the release of updated video apps, now available to Creative Cloud members. Updates have been pushed live as of 9am PST and will become available to users throughout the day. This release adds over 150 new features along with support for Adobe Anywhere. There are significant updates to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, SpeedGrade CC, Prelude CC, Adobe Media Encoder CC,

Re: OT: which MacPro to buy for $500 - 11 years ago

The GTX285 is a 4 year old card. An iMac from last year would be decent, but I don't think you can get one for under $500. Also not a Mac Pro with a GTX285. What's important? RAM, amount of cores, speed of individual processor, frontside bus, GPU…

Re: LKFS delivery - 11 years ago

Yup, and you can also tag it onto the main mix in the track mixer in Premiere to monitor your final output. If you want to monitor 2 different effects on the main mix (eg. you have 2 separate meters), just hold shift and double click on the next effect you want to open up.

Re: LKFS delivery - 11 years ago

Sounds like the new Loudness radar meters will come very handy. Set that to the main mix.

RIP Lou Reed - 11 years ago

Rock legend Lou Reed has passed away at 71.

Re: Where to Get LTO backup done of a completed show, about 6 TB. - 11 years ago

I have confidence that Ethan will split up his files before archiving to LTO. I believe he's trying to find someone with an LTO deck on the west coast.

Re: MC 5.5 Can't make a mark in or out from bin. - 11 years ago

I can't insert/overwrite in the shot in script view, but I can do it in icon/frame view. But I can mark in/out in frame view, but the clip needs to be playing before I can do that.

Re: OT: which MacPro to buy for $500 - 11 years ago

One thing I have to say about machines and modern NLEs like Premiere... Premiere likes GPU for certain effects and you need a card with a minimum of 1GB of VRAM to get OpenCL.

Re: OSX Mavericks + FCP 7? - 11 years ago

Current news is that RG plugins are not compatible with Mavericks.

Re: MC 5.5 Can't make a mark in or out from bin. - 11 years ago

Are you in storyboard mode?

Re: OT: which MacPro to buy for $500 - 11 years ago

Re: Sync up audio and video with only TIME CODE in FCP 7 - 11 years ago

If the timecode matches perfectly, you're pretty much good to go. First select audio clips and video clips from your master camera angle to create new merged master clips. By right clicking and checking merge clips. And then select the merged clips and the other camera angles and use the create multicam sequence function. If you are working with a well shot MCam environment (eg. A cooking s

Re: keyboard shortcut "Show Multiclip Angles" - 11 years ago

I was just putting forward the argument that customizable keyboards and functions do not work the same way in Avid as it does in FCP. The Avid method is to map what you need to those keys. Actually, you can map the numbers and the function keys as well, so it's over 120 hot keys (26 alphabet keys, plus 10 number keys, 12 function keys, 12 character keys, 4 arrow keys, 4 home/end/pgup/pgdwn but

Re: keyboard shortcut "Show Multiclip Angles" - 11 years ago

>avid has about 50, which is somewhat disheartening. There shouldn't be a comparison. Avid is not FCP, and there are quite some differences between the two. If we talk about customizability and functions of the 2 apps, sure, you can't customize shortcuts beyond the shift key, but there is a very bright silver lining beyond the clouds. In Avid, you can: 1) Map any menu item to a keyboard

Re: what after Cinema Tools? - 11 years ago

>We've spent years finding workarounds within our use of FCP. Motivation declines as >FCP7 approaches obsolescence. Some will save their energies for finding >workarounds within their next editing softwares. Yes. That's one reason I've been working more intensely with the newer NLEs. With Premiere or Avid, they will improve. With FCP7, it is a dead app. Admittedly, I'm less enthu

Re: what after Cinema Tools? - 11 years ago

>Would Premiere see through the maze better? Yes. I haven't used Premiere for color critical work, but I have used Lumetri to attach a C-log to 709 LUT to some Canon footage during the offline edit. I basically exported a LUT from SpeedGrade, applied it to a Lumetri effect, added a curve to tweak it a bit and saved it as an effect preset, and then I threw it on an adjustment layer. And tha

Re: editing multi-cam image shrinks on broadcast monitor - 11 years ago

What format is the rushes, what format is the sequence and have you set the project up properly with easy setup?

Re: Lookin' for a LUT - 11 years ago

Not at my computer now, but I'm sure you can set them to whatever bit depth you need. And yes, those guys mean business with those LUTs.

Re: Upscaling DV-NTSC to HD? - 11 years ago

It's excellent quality, but I'm waiting for such systems to bypass a baseband signal, so we can convert multiple files while automatically preserving the file names.

Re: online treatment of Log footage with BT.709 footage - 11 years ago

> The editor likes to do color correction within editing This part doesn't. FCP doesn't color correct very well as it doesn't have curves, a good keyer and tracking power windows, making it barely a color correction app.

Re: log and transfer problem - 11 years ago

What do you mean by a single clip view? If all you are seeing is the thumbnails, you can right click on the column header and add the other columns.

Re: Lookin' for a LUT - 11 years ago

Try this.

Re: Upscaling DV-NTSC to HD? - 11 years ago

The Teranex is nice. Only issue is that it uses a baseband signal and that requires layoff and capture on 2 VTR devices. Would be nice if it allowed a file to file conversion.

Adobe Customer Security Alert - 11 years ago

As many of you may have found out, there have been attacks on Adobe's servers. Read the security alert page to find out more. Also, it is recommended to change your passwords on any website where you have used the same user ID and password.

Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 11 years ago

A friend told me that the process when claiming fraud protection is rather troublesome. But I do get notified when a certain amount has been deducted from my account.

Re: Editing in a foreign language - 11 years ago

I've never done drama in a language that I didn't understand, but I've edited interviews done in a foreign language. For those, I need transcripts that are transcribed by the sentence, as opposed to a loosely timecoded transcript. And whenever I need to use a line, I'll subtitle it and insert it into the edit. What can be tricky is when you are trying to figure out the exact spot to make an edit,