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Re: Recreate digital TV noise? - 13 years ago
Thanks Andy, that may be close to what I need; will have to download the trial to see if it works. Too bad it's only included in the whole suite ($300)by John K - Café LA
Re: Final Cut Pro Updating Old Sequences on it's own. - 13 years ago
Weird. Are either of the other machines working on the same FCP project file that's on the main Mac?by John K - Café LA
Recreate digital TV noise? - 13 years ago
Working with a client on a music video project and they want to incorporate the kind of digital blips, hits and hiccups you see sometimes on digital cable or satellite. Anyone know of any plugins that can replicate that, either for FCP/Motion or AE? I could create the stuff manually but I'd rather save time if there's something already available. It's funny, all of the 'Bad TV' filters out theby John K - Café LA
Re: New Mac(s) Branch -- Time Machine - 13 years ago
Kozikowski Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Everybody uses Time Machine, right? > Koz Use it at the office and at home, no major complaints. At work I back up all my internal drives to an eSATA RAID via Time Machine, as well as a chunk of the files on my main RAID (graphics, Motion files, audio -- anything that's not captured media). At home I have a Tiby John K - Café LA
Re: Creating a still image from video in FCP - 13 years ago
I don't think there's space here to delve into the specifics of DPI and what it means to go from video to print, but suffice it to say that video stills -- even ones pulled from HD -- will never equal the quality of a nice large photograph (whether film or a high-megapixel image). In print production we always went by the rule that all of our images had to be 300 dpi (sometimes 400, depends onby John K - Café LA
Re: AJA/Blackmagic/Matrox shootout? - 13 years ago
I gotta say, the MXO2 line is looking pretty good. It mirrors some of the best features of the competitors, plus it has the portability option. I get why the K3 is important to bigger shops who need 2K but I don't think I would be doing enough of that kind of work to justify it. Plus, the littl features like RCA I/O really make a difference in smaller setups like mine... JKby John K - Café LA
Re: exporting file with alpha from chroma-key in FCP? - 13 years ago
Hey strypes, doesn't the new ProRes 4444 support an alpha too? Supposedly less overhead than the old Animation codec I thought... JKby John K - Café LA
Re: AJA/Blackmagic/Matrox shootout? - 13 years ago
Thanks Peter! That's a great article, lots of info. JKby John K - Café LA
Re: AJA/Blackmagic/Matrox shootout? - 13 years ago
Thanks all, great comments so far. OK, I'll take a stab at the specs of what I think I need and maybe you guys can steer me towards a couple options: The formats I've been editing in, and will probably continue to edit in are DV, DVCProHD, XDCAM EX. Next year I may be doing a lot more work with DSLR footage from Canon's 5D and 7D, so ProRes support is pretty important. Most footage comes in noby John K - Café LA
Re: AJA/Blackmagic/Matrox shootout? - 13 years ago
QuoteCapture quality comparisons? Ease of use via interface software? Tech support? Yes, things like that. The kind of information that comes from reviews and first hand knowledge and not the product pages. Especially looking for 'gotchas', like the fact that the IoHD does not work for grading HD footage in Color. The difference between AJA and Blackmagic used to be clearer, but now the BMby John K - Café LA
AJA/Blackmagic/Matrox shootout? - 13 years ago
Anyone seen a good article lately that compares the latest cards/boxes/dongles/doorstops against each other? I'll be in the market for a new I/O device next year and would love a good soup to nuts comparison (if it exists). JKby John K - Café LA
Re: Jagged red text in web video, any solutions? - 13 years ago
Thanks man. I actually found a shade of red that holds together after compression; not as bright as I would like (a little on the pink side) but at least it doesn't fall apart. Ugggh, what a pain. JKby John K - Motion
Re: Client review on web site - 13 years ago
QuotestrypesYou can always write a simple blank/black HTML page with nothing but the links to the videos. Sure could, but again that's more maintenance; would have to manually update the html every time a new file was placed in the folder. Versus just adding an FTP script to my Compressor jobs and actually going home at the end of the dayby John K - Café LA
Re: Client review on web site - 13 years ago
Thanks Strypes. And thanks for the head's up on Safari breaking QT download -- I thought something weird was going on. I'm certainly able to upload Quicktime files now, the problem I have is logistics. I have to copy and paste the urls of those QT files into emails, which is fine for 1-offs but when I have multiple cuts or edits I'd like to just tell them to "look in your folder" andby John K - Café LA
Client review on web site - 13 years ago
Hey all, I'd like to find a more streamlined way to get video clips to my clients, both for review as well as just downloading files. I do have a password-protected area on my site (so that each client has their own folder) but when they log in it's just a bare bones /index page. A LOT of people have no idea what to do on an /index page, as it's not intuitive to click on a video file to view iby John K - Café LA
Jagged red text in web video, any solutions? - 13 years ago
I know this situation has come up before (as in ) where red-colored text looks jagged in FCP and when compressed for the web. Wondering if anyone has a solution for this? I know that you need to look at text on a broadcast monitor -- however, in my case I'm producing content solely for the web and encoding to H.264 and Flash. My client can see the jaggies on his end and isn't happy. I'm startby John K - Motion
Re: SD memory card into i Mac 1920x1080i edit then export out 1920x1080i to blank class 4 or 6 to Sdcard - 13 years ago
OK, this sounds like a simple matter of copying your exported file to an SD card, just like you would to any other USb thumb drive or a floppy back in the day. 1) Figure out the exact specs the WD player needs for the 1080 file. Codec, bitrate, etc. 2) Make a new setting in Compressor with those specs 3) Export a SCQT from Final Cut Pro and drop into Compressor; use the setting you madby John K - Café LA
Re: Apple New Releases - 13 years ago
Still rocking a 15" 2.8 MBPro with removable battery and EC slot, last one they made in this config. I expect to be using this one for a LONG time. JKby John K - Café LA
Re: A Better way to Log - like Adobe Bridge, but for Video - 15 years ago
It's close but not quite what I envision... something a little more robust and more interactive with the video, if that makes sense. Like the way iMovie 08 presents clips as unrolled filmstrips for easy skimming; I wouldn't want that in FCP but it would be nice to "play" with clips that way in a different window or app. I'd love to be able to view clip thumbnails or filmstrips in a realby John K - FCP Feature Requests
Re: Preference for "Active Window After Edit" - 14 years ago
------------------------------------------------------- > jdredline Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > What nags me about it is that it doesn't focus on > the playhead. If I'm zooming in on the timeline, > why wouldn't I be trying to get a closer look at > my playhead position? (And yes, I know it's a > simple matter of moving 1 frame in ordby John K - FCP Feature Requests
Re: STYLE SHEETS - 14 years ago
Yeah I like the Style Sheets idea too. This is how page-layout programs like InDesign and Quark work too, and it's very powerful. If I decide down the road that say, all the sub-heads in an article need to be 1-point larger in type size or a new font then I just change the style sheet and it updates all the text boxes in the document that have that style applied. It's not a big deal if it's a 1-pby John K - FCP Feature Requests
Utilize the Multiple Cores in a Mac Pro Better - 15 years ago
I wish FCP would utilize the multiple cores in a Mac Pro better. I'm watching the processors work while I render a big project , and they're all over the place. When I send a file through Compressor and my Virtual Cluster the core performance is pegged close to 100%. Not sure if that's a fair comparison, and maybe an application can't take over the cores like that so easily (or certain procesby John K - FCP Feature Requests
A Better way to Log - like Adobe Bridge, but for Video - 15 years ago
As I'm digging through 5+ hours of HDV footage for a 10 min. project, it occurs to me that there's got to be a better way to log and view massive amounts of footage. I know there are logging apps out there but I'd really like something more intuitive, more visual. Something similar to Adobe Bridge just for video, with some of the features of iMovie 08. A companion app to FCP, a place just to viewby John K - FCP Feature Requests
Updated Text tools - 16 years ago
I don't think the basic text tool options have changed since v1.0. Rather than imrove them, Apple has thrown in other apps or plugins (Livetype, Motion, Boris) that force us to round-trip just to get the right typeface. I might do my titles in those others apps, or even Photoshop+AE, but it's so frustrating that I can't even make a quick lower-third in FCP with say, Franklin Gothic - Medium. Iby John K - FCP Feature Requests
Re: Flash - 13 years ago
MPEG Streamclip. The new Toast can also open and convert some web videos. And what Noah said, re: copyright. JKby John K - Café LA
Re: Zippy Mac...not so much.. - 13 years ago
KOZ, do you own a copy of Diskwarrior? I like to run that every few months or when my machines start acting up; does more than just blow off the cobwebs. Sometimes you just need to rebuild your disk structure. Other than that, I second the running of Activity Monitor, just to see if any rogue processes are hogging the RAM. JKby John K - Café LA
Re: Corrupt QuickTimes? - 13 years ago
If you can justify the deck rental, what about dumping all the bad clips out to HDCam or even HDV again? If they'll play, maybe they'll at least Print to Video... JKby John K - Café LA
Re: HD DVD Camcorder/What to BUY - 13 years ago
Nick, I think he has HDV tapes so a regular MiniDV cam won't work. Craigslist may still be his best bet though; I haven't seen any consumer HDV cams at all in stores. Everything at that price point has moved to solid state storage. JKby John K - Café LA
Re: HD DVD Camcorder/What to BUY - 13 years ago
There are HDV decks out there, that's probably the "Sony tape transfer" thing you mentioned. Expensive. Search a place like the B+H website for HDV camcorders to check the pricing: HDV Camcorders on B+H. Under $500? More like $800. So it might be cheaper to have someone else do it. $50/hour is actually a pretty good rate. Since capturing from tape is a pretty basic function in FCPby John K - Café LA
Re: Motion wont send back to FCP - 13 years ago
When you send to Motion, are you clicking the 'embed' box to convert your selection to a Motion project on the timeline? That's the file that would update when you make changes in Motion. Otherwise, just drag your Motion project into your browser and add it to the timeline. However. I would recommend that you Export your final Motion project as a Quicktime file (set to your projects specs)by John K - Café LA
