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Re: 1080i 24p or 1080 60i is cheaper in the final analysis? - 18 years agoSome good points and always down to individual taste as to what looks good. "Beauty..." as they say "...is in the eye of the beholder" Have a look at the MovieTube - 35mm lens adaptor for DV, HDV & HD cameras Have a look at the Movie examples too. Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: how to log once for a two-camera shoot? - 18 years agoAh sorry Tom and (guys on v4.5) I only checked on FCPv5 - my bad for not checking your sig. The quick work-around similar to Derek mentioned: ? Log Roll 02 on a separate project ? Save project as Roll-02.fcp then ? Change the Reel settings for all the clips to Roll 01 ? Save project as Roll-01.fcp ? Capture Roll 01 ? Open Roll-02.fcp ? Capture Roll 02 ? You will now have two folders iby Ben King - Café LA Re: how to log once for a two-camera shoot? - 18 years ago? Select your bin "Camera Roll 01" ? Copy (apple+c) ? Paste (apple+v) ? Rename new bin as "Camera Roll 02" ? Open bin and select all the clips (apple+a) ? Right-click or Option click one of the icons and choose: ? "Make Master Clip" ? Show list view and scroll along until you see the Reel column ? Select one clip and edit the Reel setting to "Roll 02&quoby Ben King - Café LA Re: ***IMPORTANT NOTE FOR DISKWARRIOR USERS*** - 18 years agoThats good to see I did say "If you are getting this problem" because I myself encountered it and a few other people have too. It's always good to get a heads up on these things I feel.by Ben King - Café LA Re: ***IMPORTANT NOTE FOR DISKWARRIOR USERS*** - 18 years agoWell I bought a new copy the other day (literally the day before yesterday) and downloaded the one for Tiger. This DiskWarrior 3.0.3 bug isn't really Tiger on it's own but more specifically Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4 + QuickTime 7.0.4 Anyway - the bug fix is there for you all should you encounter problems... Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: ***IMPORTANT NOTE FOR DISKWARRIOR USERS*** - 18 years agoNo problem. I'm surprised Alsoft haven't updated their site with info or a new updater as it was making my DW unuseable... If you want me to post a list of sites useful for us Maccies then let me know and I'll add a post soon. Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: Capture Service Help? - 18 years agoHey Chris - I wasn't a member back in Jan - you wanna run the SONY Model Number and it's connection to FCP by me and see if I can help? Please breakdown the process you want to achieve and bullet point it so we can follow it as logically as possible please. eg: 1. Analogue Video out to MiniDV Camera Video in 2. MiniDV FireWire/iLink out to Mac Regards Benby Ben King - Café LA Re: Fans. FCP and Tiger 10.4.4 - 18 years agoWill report in a few days too... Thanks Jon. Ben BTW - Read my post on DiskWarrior if you use 3.03 and are encountering problems - just found the answer myself and thought I'd share it:by Ben King - Café LA ***IMPORTANT NOTE FOR DISKWARRIOR USERS*** - 18 years agoIf you are using DiskWarrior 3.0.3 + QuickTime 7.0.4 on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4 You may find that it crashes at the end of a directory rebuild... If you are getting this problem the fix is easy: - Quit DiskWarrior 3.0.3 - Control click (or right click) on DiskWarrior 3.0.3 app and from the Contextual menu select "Show Package Contents" - Locate the "Complete.aiff" sound fby Ben King - Café LA Re: titles in photoshop cs - 18 years agoOk guys and gals things are getting really messy here so listen up: -------------------------------------------- A 720x480 image displayed in Photoshop at 72dpi Has a 1012.5K Raw filesize It would print out as a 10" x 6.667" image on paper. -------------------------------------------- The same 720x480 Graphic displayed in Photoshop at 300dpi Has a 1012.5K Raw filesize It wouldby Ben King - Café LA Re: It's official - Disney Buys Pixar - 18 years agoJust think of the New Final Cut interface though!!! All sparkly with interesting animated icons and sounds to make it fun for your child or Producer to watch you edit!!!by Ben King - Café LA Re: Preserving Timecode - 18 years agoConversion to any compressed video file will not retain the original Timecode. You could however save the clips with BITC (Burnt In TimeCode as Shane said) on the clip so they at least have a visual Reference of the original if that is what you really need. The main thing for FCP is that the Online clip and Web clip are the same length down to the individual frame and are at the same frameby Ben King - Café LA Re: titles in photoshop cs - 18 years agoWhoa people you are all throwing WAY to much at the poor guy... BUT!!! Eric DO try to be VERY specific when asking us anything - give the complete lowdown on the format in, format out, etc, etc and anything you use on the way including the filetypes, programs, blah, blah, blah, then we won't incur the Wrath of Mok!!! (We get too many shorthand questions and its most annoying for us all). Howevby Ben King - Café LA Re: Video Capture Cards - 18 years agoI also use the Decklink range - mine is the Declink HD Pro 4:4:4 (Dual SDI) a very nice card it is too... But if you want lots of input output options: -------------------------- AJA IO (Standard Def) -------------------------- RS-422 Control Port (Sony), 9-pin D, for machine control. 10-bit uncompressed SDI with embedded audio In/Out. Analog (10-bit A/D and D/A) video inputs/outputs. -S-Vidby Ben King - Café LA Re: Video Capture Cards - 18 years agoCan you describe the routing you need/wish to take eg: A basic list of the connections required Card out > (composite connection) > Monitor (model) in Card out > (component connection) deck (model) in Card in > (composite connection) > deck (model) out Card in > (component connection) > deck (model) out Without knowing EXACTLY what you need to connect it's hard to rby Ben King - Café LA Re: OT - amusing issue with dell 24" - 18 years agolol - my cat is a short hair and doesn't molt like my old long hair cat used to. He has a place he likes under the edit desk or on a chair in the corner. He also knows not to climb on tables or shelves so I don't get the muddy paw prints either! I keep all the surfaces clean of dust and dirt regularly so cat or no cat the suite stays looking and smelling good! The only problem I have is the oby Ben King - Café LA Re: Shot 4x3, Output 16x9? - 18 years agoHey Jude... (cue Beatles) Do you mean "WRC" - World Rally Championships? I will have to look out for it. Does it not feel odd having the bars on the side though? I guess it's a personal preference but to me it feels like wearing horse blinkers (not that I've worn horse blinkers you understand - that would be just plain silly). (...take a saaaaad song, and make it beh-et-uh-herrrrrby Ben King - Café LA Re: 1080i 24p or 1080 60i is cheaper in the final analysis? - 18 years agoOuch - if I touched a nerve I am truly sorry and I apologise - I may have to keep my opinions to myself in future. Thank you for your honest and brutal opinion Henry - it's good to see someone else says what they think without holding back - I personally think it's a good thing. Most people will be polite and skirt the issue or outright lie - something which is not good if you wish to get betterby Ben King - Café LA Re: Macbook Pro for FCP? - 18 years agoIts true - I have used even older 1GHz G4 PowerBooks on location to edit on with no difficulty - except extended render times for FX. In fact when I first started cutting DV it was with the long forgotten EditDV on a 300Mhz G3!!! So unless you are like some people who have to go get the latest greatest "techno-toothbrush-with-built-in-HD-ready-video-recording-and-bluetooth-video-conferenciby Ben King - Café LA Re: Shot 4x3, Output 16x9? - 18 years agoInteresting point Derek I haven't seen any programs that have done the sidebars in the UK as yet though... I point to remember - if you shoot on a DV camera that does not have a true 16:9 CCD then the image will be cropped to 720x405 and stretched in the camera anyway. I guess it will depend on which other footage you are mixing it with as far as perceived "loss" of quality is concerby Ben King - Café LA Re: HD. HDV and Digi Beta workflow? - 18 years agoOr the Blackmagic Multibridge Extreme/Studioby Ben King - Café LA Re: Shot 4x3, Output 16x9? - 18 years agoOpen a new 16:9 Anamorphic sequence Put your 4:3 footage in the timeline Open up the clip in the viewer and select Motion tab Scale up 133% Move the image up or down to get the best framing.by Ben King - Café LA Re: Macbook Pro for FCP? - 18 years agoAs far as my calculations (from spec) are concerned - it's pretty much what you suspected - the Dual core Intel chips Vs the Dual Core PowerPC G5 are GHz for GHz are a similar computing power - but are MUCH cheaper (and in the case of the MacBook Pro) are cool enough to put into a laptop - the G5 chips (at present) run too hot and consumes too much power for portable computing. A Michael said:by Ben King - Café LA Re: 1080i 24p or 1080 60i is cheaper in the final analysis? - 18 years agoGraeme - I will go see it if it comes out on cinema release in the UK but even from the 1080p Trailer you can see clearly the video like feel. It has a large depth of field and a lot of the shots in the promo (especially the conversation scenes) just look too flat and the lighting in some of them is just awful. A few of the shots do look fantastic; lit, shot and graded well - but this justby Ben King - Café LA Re: 10-BIT UNCOMPRESSED DRIVES - 18 years agoNo I use the Sonnet Tempo X eSATA II 8 Channel card This one is for PCI X but they do a newer version for PCI-Express I use the eSATA II RAID with Uncompressed SD and HD through a Blackmagic Decklnk Pro 4:4:4 as well as DV footage via firewire. Why did you think it was firewire?by Ben King - Café LA Re: OT - ignorant questions... - 18 years agoThe matte box is essentially larger hood to stop lens flare and to hold filters... Follow focus is as Mike points out - pretty much what a focus puller uses. Using a film camera you will often have a 3 person crew: The cameraman (sometimes the Director or D.O.P) - points the camera at the subject Focus puller (aka first assistant camera or 1AC) - uses the follow focus to keep the subject in fby Ben King - Café LA Re: Losing Sync - 18 years agoNaylorM wrote: > screen cuts to a jumble of faded out colors, and it makes and > awful screeching sound. Afterwards, everthing will be fine. Sounds like a corrupt video file - does it show ok in the Canvas window and on your video monitor? You may need to step through frame by frame and check the area it occurs. Have you tried redigitising that particular clip back in? It may also be cby Ben King - Café LA Re: 10-BIT UNCOMPRESSED DRIVES - 18 years agoBear in mind that: Uncompressed NTSC 720 x 486 10-bit SD uses about 100GB per hour (including 2 uncompressed 16-bit 48Khz audio channels) Uncompressed 1920 x 1080 10-bit HD uses nearly 600GB per hour... Remember that filling SATA drives over halfway in a RAID literally halves their performance so you need to allow space for this. I have an external 4TB 8 channel 8 Drive eSATA II RAID that I pby Ben King - Café LA Re: 10-BIT UNCOMPRESSED DRIVES - 18 years ago10bit Uncompressed HD or SD? How much storage (in minutes) do you need? And what sort of budget you have?by Ben King - Café LA |
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