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Re: How to pronounce ProRes 4444 - 14 years agoI Vote for ProRes The one you probably dont need. So is there a ProRes 444? I see 422 i see 4444 but no 444 what am i missing?by Luie - Café LA RAID / Hard Drive solutions you guys use please. - 14 years agoIve never owned a true RAID HD system. Ive used a couple in the past, and id like to get into a nice setup now. HARD DRIVE RAID OPTIONS That i am aware of. CineRAID JMR Storage Cal Digit Dulce G-Raid Sohotank i like its handle on top. And I am sure there are more companies out there, I just dont know them but i am open to all suggestions. These are the ones ive meet or read abouby Luie - Café LA Re: Whats your favorite camera shake plugin & Lens Blur plugin? - 14 years agoDue to the budget the director is completely ok with it looking fake, the movie looks fake and has a different kind of feel. Overall the movie has a cool look due to these sorts of limitations. Fake yes to your or my eye, but very cool and somewhat at times believable. Unfortunately i cannot post any pictures or video, but its looking cool from the director of Repo Man. I completely underby Luie - Café LA Whats your favorite camera shake plugin & Lens Blur plugin? - 14 years agoI am working on some green screen work. Actors shot on green screen on a table set for an old style 1960s train. On sticks no camera shake. Background shot inside an old train in motion very little to no movement happening. I need to make it believable. I need a good camera shake plugin that adds camera movement as if in a car or train. And I am looking for a nice Lens Blur plugin thaby Luie - Café LA Premiere for FCP editors any good books or DVDs? RED Footage natively - 14 years agoFCP editor for 9 years now and I am using AE for lots of effects in a feature. Using Red Raw files CS4 works with RED raw files nativity no problem. Im a FCP guy starting to like Premiere a lot, FCP is just way to far behind. So i am looking for any DVDs or tutorials or anything that will help me learn Primere inside and out based from a FCP editors point of view. There are things outby Luie - Café LA Re: Editing Red Footage on FCP running on MacBook Pro - 14 years agoIm back from NAB if you have not figured out a workflow your happy with send me an email and ill help you out. I keep forgetting to check this thread googulplx@aol.com good luck Luieby Luie - Café LA FCP into AE can it be done without automatic duck? - 14 years agoI have a music video edited in FCP that id liked to open in AE. Is automatic duck the only way i can open it up? I tried exporting an XML in FCP but couldnt find an import XML in AE thanks.by Luie - Café LA Re: Editing Red Footage on FCP running on MacBook Pro - 14 years agoWhat hard drives are you pulling the source martial from? External, internal USB, 400,800 ect. I dont know what kind of data rate trasferspeeds youd need to play ProRes422 in a multiclip. But it sounds like you for sure are pushing over the limit if your not on a RAID hard drive system. When I edit on a laptop with RED footage we offline in DV quality (because we also use the multiclip muchby Luie - Café LA FCP Gamma vs Color Gamma strange who do i trust??? - 15 years agoGrading in Color Sending back and fourth from FCP. I have noticed my Color bars pluge is far off in difference when i view it in FCP vs Color Same monitor same size image same everything , I would expect no change in any of the bars but, its a huge difference Which can i trust you can grade in FCP and correct how ever I cant trust my monitor at this time because the gamma looks so different.by Luie - Café LA My Plugins will not install or show up properly. - 15 years agoI am installing plugins into my computer drag and drop into the proper folder but they dont seem to show up. DMG installing seems to work but putting the filters into the folder does not. FCP ver 6.0.5 OSX 10.5.6 4gigs ram mac pro 2.66 quad coreby Luie - Café LA Raiding my internal drives - 15 years agoId like to know the benefits of doing 2 of my drives as a RAID they are seagate 1.5 TB drives will add up to 3TB i do not want mirrored i want to improve my speed how much improvement am i getting and how useful is it? And what software do i need or can i do it with the software installed right now any instructions? I intend to backup via time machine on an external hard drive thanks.by Luie - Café LA Re: Broadcast monitoring - 15 years agoalwerj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have a 37" Vizio on hand as well, it seems to > have more control over the color settings than the > Panasonic. If I manage to get blue only color > bars using the HD link pro, might I be able to get > a decent calibration for color grading or is Vizio > a no no? > I have tried the Viby Luie - Café LA Workflow question for Keying in FCP feature length movie. - 15 years agoShooting feature length movie. RED camera Transcoded to ProRes 422 HQ stuck in that codec they will not allow me to work in uncompressed or cineform period. The Director is doing the editing and pulling the keys and composting. So i have to teach him how to deal with this workflow. Computer is a MacPro 3.0 dual quad core 30inch cinema display as his 1 and only monitor FCP Studio 2 Thby Luie - Café LA garbage mattes in FCP any good plugins? - 15 years agoFCP comes with an 8pt garbage matte which is not very precise or intuitive. I have seen toms filters which works in similar ways but has more points. Animating these can SUCK unless there's a faster way to work with them than just in the keyframe button + sign thingy. Sometimes i don't know how many points i need or would like. Are there any other options on Garbage mattes? AE is the ideby Luie - Café LA FCP for an AVID editor any key tips on learning? - 15 years agoI am working for a director who is an Avid Editor. He is a little afraid of FCP but has decided to learn it. He just purchased the program and an edit system to cut his feature with. 8core 3.0 8gigs of ram FCPS2 For those of you who know and understand both. What dvds / books / tutorials / ect do you recommend for such a person to learn FCP when hes been an Avid editor for years. Thby Luie - Café LA Anybody use KeyLight in FCP a lot? If you do can you show me something. - 15 years agoGot a few minutes? Care to teach me how to master a plugin? I need someone who knows the Plugin Keylight in FCP to show me how they would key out some images. I am keying them myself but I dont like the results im ending with. I like Keylight best over all the other plugins but I know there has to be room for improvement. I can send you a link to the images i would like as examples andby Luie - Café LA Will apple be at NAB this year? - 15 years agoDoes anybody know if Apple will be at NAB this year? Thanks.by Luie - Café LA Re: How can you tell if its ProRes 422 HQ or Just ProRes 422 - 15 years agoSo is it safe to say that its only something i can tell by opening it in FCP? File size fluctuates too much to be sure what im looking at HQ vs non HQ thnaks.by Luie - Café LA How can you tell if its ProRes 422 HQ or Just ProRes 422 - 15 years agoHow can you tell if its ProRes 422 HQ or Just ProRes 422 it does not say SQ but i figure its SQ When i am in QT viewer of 10 clips some of which i am sure are ProResHQ but not all how can you tell the difference? It does not give that info in the info tab in QT (apple i) I see data rates are different but they are not a strong indicator either thanks.by Luie - Café LA computer wont shut down any help? - 15 years agoMac OS X 10.5.5 2.8 Dual Quad core 5GB ram I cannot get my computer to shut down at all it will start the process but not fully shut down I have to force shut down via holding the power button Plus when i turn it on it has this crazy pattern on the screen. All i have to do is open a folder or move a folder around and it clears the screen Anybody any help? thanksby Luie - Café LA Looking to KEY in FCP - 15 years agoI am looking for different options to KEY out footage in FCP. Even thought AE is a wonderful beast to key with. I need a plugin for FCP. What are the plugins or filters you guys like for Keying out footage in FCP. Footage is 1080p 25fps ProRes from RED R3D files. I have boris effects and its key is not that good. Garage Matte Pro is ok but not doing enough. I am looking for whaby Luie - Café LA Re: FCP to Color codec - 15 years agoOHHHHHH didnt know color dont like DVCPRO HD Thanks guys I hope PRORES 422 will be fine thenby Luie - Café LA FCP to Color codec - 15 years agoThis might be a question for the Color forum but im sending from FCP so IDK. So i am working on 3 sequences Its the same show, same editor same codec ect. Sequence 2 and 3 are fine I send to color / grade and it allows me to choose render as same codec DVCPRO HD 60p But sequence 1 does not give me that option only ProRes and uncompressed codecs I need and want to render sequence 1by Luie - Café LA Looking for some film filters and effects. FCP and AE - 15 years agoI want to try some new filters that will help add a feel of film to video. Not 24p filters im shooting in 24p already. I dont need to convert anything. More of the scratches, tones, and I dont know how to explain it but squiggly marks. Sometimes seen in a light orange tone or darker tone. As if someone got a light red sharpie and marked on the film for a frame or 2. I have also seen sometby Luie - Café LA Re: I need to improve Keying out in FCP - 15 years agoGreat point its DV Matte Pro 1.5 Keylight ROCKS its my favorite, unfortunately i dont have it right now. But thank you for the forum link im gonna go there and ask. THANKS a bunch.by Luie - Café LA Re: I need to improve Keying out in FCP - 15 years agoThanks Shane, spill suppressor helps but it begines to turn talens skin tone orange red before it makes any significant help. Any other ideas? I know it sounds picky but im sure there has to be room for improvement i just cant find the right dial and ive played with all of them over 3 days i just want a touch more control. Granted is DV footage but its got to be possible. thanks again.by Luie - Café LA I need to improve Keying out in FCP - 15 years agoFootage shot on PD 150 Lighting is well done talent is well lit using all of fcp studio 2 standard keying out filters, but DV Garage matte seems to be the best. So using DV Garage. I get it like almost perfect except this thing green line that follows the edges of the talent and the chair. Is there any way in FCP that i can get rid of this green line its far to noticeable. Thanksby Luie - Café LA Re: FCP Log and Transfer Broken??? - 15 years agoSorry let me make my question more clear Log and Transfer no longer will work. It will not show any footage in he viewer i have new footage I am putting it there but it wont work It works on a friends computer with my same external drive just fine, i had to go to another city to transfer some footage. but i have more footage and i tried again and its not working nothing shows up whby Luie - Café LA FCP Log and Transfer Broken??? - 15 years agoI have some P2 footage began to log and transfer it i brought in roll 1 came in fine started to log and transfer it everything working fine i said ohhh wait stopped it i wanted to bring in all 6 rolls at once and do them all so i thought how do i delete these files on here right now and start over. not knowing i selected all of them and hit backspace or delete cant rememberby Luie - Café LA General Error driving me nuts. - 15 years agoI received a project originally offline edited in FCE RED footage converted to 1080p ProRes 8bit I put it into my FCPstudio 2 took it in to Color color graded it sent it back to FCP this is where the problems began. Some clips came back short, some clips came back offset, some came back out of sync, but was able to fix everything by hand, there was no rhythm or reason to the way the clipsby Luie - Café LA |
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