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Re: Folders Organization for Fixes - 13 years agoThank you Derek for the detailed and interesting explanation! I'm just wondering if you change filenames though, when doing the Online, doesn't that make things more complex during the reconnect stage?by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoNick- You're absolutely right! Don't need to go to Compressor now as everything is in ProRes already, duh! :-p I'll just go direct to a self-contained Quicktime movie which will still be 1st gen, awesome! :-)by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoEh?! So ProRes 4444 contains alpha channel, but ProRes HQ doesn't? Or perhaps I can do most work in ProRes HQ and for the rare shots that require an Alpha channel then I'll do those in 4444 or Animation with colors at Millions+ as Tom stated.by hanguolaohu - Café LA Folders Organization for Fixes - 13 years agoWas curious about editors' varying philosophies on folder organization. I'm working on an animated show where we receive multiple fixes on shots that I replace, and I'm trying to create a simple and consistent folder organization structure for those fixes. I'm sure each editor has their own methodology, but just curious about YOUR method. There are 3 main phases in this show: 1. Animatic wiby hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoStrypes, going back to what you said about gamma, it's imperative that the Alpha channel is retained as we often superimpose the animation over stock footage. So hopefully ProRes HQ will be able to retain that data.by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoIf the sequence is ProRes HQ with ProRes HQ footage and I export a self-contained QT movie and then do a ProRes HQ output with Compressor, would that be a 2nd generation or would it retain the exact same quality of the original?by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoI'm in Beijing, China. We're lucky to have 1 Mac Pro in the studio. Welcome to my world :-p Will do Strypes! :-)by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoThat makes sense. If they cannot give me the files in ProRes HQ then I'll just have everything converted with Compressor myself when I get it. Will save me a lot of time rendering. Such a simple solution, but in all the confusion I didn't think about that. Thanks guys! :-)by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoShane- I want to ask the production manager to have files delivered as ProRes, but the problem is this studio uses all PC's. They told me they use Maya to animate, Nuke to composite, and then Fusion to output to Quicktime HD uncompressed mov's. Strypes- I am the post sup! :-p That's why I'm trying to figure out a more better solution because this uncompressed HD workflow seems inefficient.by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Output a stereo track to mono - 13 years agoYou're probably right. These are the specs I was told to follow. Btw, this is my first gig as paid editor :-p NTSC Track 1: Left channel stereo Track 2: Right channel stereo Track 3: Mono mix in English (This differs from previous versions of these specs) Track 4: Mono mix without dialogue/narration/words (This may change) PAL Audio Track 1: Stereo Full Mix Left Audio Track 2: Stereby hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoOne more thing... The show is a CGI 3D animation show in HD. The characters are rendered in 3D, but it will not be broadcast in 3D, if you get my drift.by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Output a stereo track to mono - 13 years agoJ. Corbett, I think the STP rec looks simple and might give me less chance of messing things up, thanks! Nick, final destination is an NTSC HDcam for the USA and they need track 3 to be Mono mix and track to be Mono mix without dialogue. Honestly I have no idea why :-p This is great info thanks! :-)by hanguolaohu - Café LA Rendering Uncompressed HD - 13 years agoI started editing an HD animation show recently and during the online I've been receiving Uncompressed HD files to edit with. Although I'm working on an 8 core Mac Pro 2.8ghz with 16gb of ram, Kona 3 card, and two 1TB HD's spanned as a RAID 0, whenever I drop a file in the timeline, I get the red render bar which halves my editing speed. We're supposed to receive a 5TB Raid 5 machine to speed tby hanguolaohu - Café LA Output a stereo track to mono - 13 years agoDoes FCP allow outputting a 2 channel stereo track to mono? Should I convert with Compressor or Soundtrack Pro instead? Thanks, Alexby hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: General Error - 13 years agoI solved the problem by converting all footage into Prores HQ. Doesn't even need rendering now :-)by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: General Error - 13 years agoYou can see the settings in the picture: 1920x1080 HDTV 1080i (16:9). 29.97fps Apple Prores (Proxy) Makes sense.by hanguolaohu - Café LA General Error - 13 years agoI have a sequence that I'm onlining and there are several HD stock footage clips I received that when I try to render give me the dreaded "General Error". My sequence setting is as such: The stock footage clips run the gamut of formats. I've got 1920x1080 29.97fps NTSC with Photo-Jpeg compressor, 1280x1080 29.97fps NTSC DVCPRO HD, 720x576 25fps PAL with Photo-Jpeg compressor,by hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Stretch SD shot width to HD frame - 13 years agoHey Nick! That worked beautifully and easily! Thanks again! Alexby hanguolaohu - Café LA Stretch SD shot width to HD frame - 13 years agoApologies for newbie question: I want to stretch an SD shot horizontally to cover an HD frame. Under the clip's motion tab, when I play with aspect ratio it doesn't stretch wider. When I use distort tool on the toolbar, I can stretch each corner but it's not easy to stretch symmetrically. Is there a better way to get the 4:3 image to fill the 16:9 frame? Thanks, HLby hanguolaohu - Café LA Accidentally Deleted a Custom Setting - 13 years agoToday I accidentally hit delete on a custom Compressor setting and for some reason there's no "undo delete" option available. I can't find the setting in my OS Trash, and have no idea if there's any way to recover it. The setting was created by another editor, and I would prefer to recover it. Any help much appreciated! HLby hanguolaohu - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Stretch Shot Vertically - 13 years agoStrypes- option 2 worked perfectly! Thanks a million! HLby hanguolaohu - Café LA Stretch Shot Vertically - 13 years agoSimple question which I couldn't find answer on Google or the manual. I have a wide and short still that I want to stretch to fill the entire screen. When I open the clip in the Viewer>motion tab>scale- the entire clip is zoomed in and out. But what I want to do is stretch the clip vertically. How can I do this? Thanks, HLby hanguolaohu - Café LA Import Chapter Markers - 13 years agoMy goal: I want to delete a short scene from my DVD. My method: Drop my source 10 bit Uncompressed self-contained Quicktime into FCP and snip out scene. The problem: The Quicktime contains "Chapter Markers", but when I drop it into an FCP sequence those markers do not import back in for some reason. Potential solutions that I haven't figured out yet: If I try opening the FCPby hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Edit DVD Mpeg2 - 14 years agoI don't need a perfectly clean edit, as long as the general video quality is still retained of the Mpeg2 then using DVDSP will be the quick and easy way. I didn't even realize there was this function. Thank you again Nick!by hanguolaohu - Café LA Edit DVD Mpeg2 - 14 years agoI want to remove 1 scene in the middle of a DVD video. I have a DVD .img file and was wondering what Mac software I could use to accomplish this? I've used Mpeg Streamclip before to extract scenes from DVD's but am not sure how to rebuild a DVD once extracted. Any advice would be most appreciated! Thanks, HLby hanguolaohu - Café LA Re: Transfer Houses in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Burbank, North Hollywood, The Valley - 14 years agoI have nothing but positive things to say about Alpha Dogs in Burbank. They're professional, knowledgeable, cool, and their prices are indie friendly. Ask about the Digital Service Station. I could have bankrupted myself getting dubs made at the Hollywood houses like ADS. I've had many, many Digibeta and HDcam SR transfers done there at a fraction of the cost of other places. I found them thby hanguolaohu - Café LA Export High Quality Stills - 14 years agoWhat is the highest quality method of exporting stills from a 10 bit Quicktime movie? I used Quicktime's export to PNG with "Best" settings and the results look awful. They also come out labeled as .pct files instead of .png for some strange reason. Thanks.by hanguolaohu - Café LA Aspect Ratio Differences - 14 years agoI've encountered some strange behavior with Quicktime's aspect ratio. While projecting my film at a film festival on Digibeta, I got a comment from a projectionist that my images look slightly "fat". My film was originally shot in NTSC SD DV format using the DVX-100, so the aspect ratio is 720x480. While doing color correction the post house recommended using 10 bit material to betteby hanguolaohu - Café LA CSS - 14 years agoUsing DVD SP, I want to add CSS to a DVD-R that I will send to a replicator, but when I burn the DVD-R on my Macbook Pro there's an error message that says "This device does not support copy generation management. The disc will not be protected. This device does not support CSS. The disc will be unencrypted." Is this because my Macbook Pro's DVD-R drive doesn't have the CSS encodingby hanguolaohu - DVD Studio Pro No Skipping First Play - 14 years agoIs there a way to prevent button pressing from skipping the First Play menu? Retail DVD's have this function. Thanks.by hanguolaohu - DVD Studio Pro |
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