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Flanders Scientific launching new 21 and 23" monitors - 12 years agoDan Desmet from FSI stopped by the shop today with two new monitors that will be released tomorrow on their website. New, lower cost options for folks who want a great monitor but for less than $5000. He allowed me to post info and images on my blog tonight. Watch their website tomorrow for the formal press release / more info.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Have you used either of these RAID 5 enclosures? - 12 years agoIf RAID 5 isn't good for video then how come we've been running RAID 5 for something like four or five years now in our shop without problems? In fact it's saved us at least two times. I have not used either product you're looking at. We run Small Tree and Maxx Digital RAIDs here primarily and have one WiebeTech RAID unit. Recommend all three.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Upgrading Mac Pro hardware? - 12 years agoAll indications I've seen and heard through my little network of friends tells me there is a new Mac Pro pretty close to be released. Some folks say it's a little smaller, others say it's the same size. But there is one coming according to them and it's due any time now. i'm personally waiting on a new Mac Pro until they are released.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Plasma vs LCD vs LED for external monitoring - 12 years agoOk, first off LED and LCD are the same TV. They both have an LCD panel on the front. LED refers to the lighting that is behind the panel. The standard LCD has a fluoresent backlight while the LED has an LED backlight. We have both LED and fluoresent backlight monitors from Flanders Scientific in our shop. For large screen viewing we only use Panasonic Plasma screens. Black levels are fby walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: access to fcp 7 upgrade... - 12 years agoFinal Cut Pro 7 is not available. Apple pulled it, it's gone from the all retail stores too. The only people who might get more copies of it are enterprise level facilities that already have it, might be allowed to buy more licenses.by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X Re: OT: DaVinci Resolve Lite (Mac) FREE DOWNLOAD with full manuals!! - 12 years agoAnd actually the new Resolve is making it even easier now with putting color wheels in which are much more familiar to editors. Now maybe we can go ahead and put Resolve in every edit suite.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Now that Final Cut Server is EOL... - 12 years agoWell yeah, why not?. It's a digital asset management system, not a shared media storage system. We run CatDV on a Mac Mini Server here and it's brilliant. I know a lot of folks who think that Final Cut Server is a shared media storage system, but it never was. It was always just digital asset management which can operate on an iMac or MacMini or even a laptop if need be.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: learning premiere pro on a pc?? - 12 years agoYou can download the book "An Editor's Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro" from Richard Harrington, Robbie Carmen and Jeff Greenberg. That's the book I'm reading, though I have the physical book because it comes with a DVD loaded with extra materials and chapter files. It covers both Mac / Windows because there's really no difference between the two, just a few of the keyboard keys areby walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Adobe releases known OS 10.7 Lion Issues - 12 years agoAdobe has released a pretty detailed report on CS 5.5 with OS 10.7 Lion.by walterbiscardi - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoWe don't edit with our Mini, it's a Server and we also load it from time to time with videos to play out on our big quad screen video wall.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Betting Everything on FCP X - 12 years agoActually it just sounds like someone conforming a show. Assembling a bunch of previously cut pieces into the final show. I could see that in "17 minutes" but even there, you'd want to at least watch the show roll down before you ship it which would add at least another 28 minutes to the edit. I do like the billing question though. If folks can edit that quickly, we will be able toby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoMac Mini has had HDMI out for at least 6 months or so. We have one of them here and use it to play out to one of our large screens from time to time.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Avid Hardware Interface - 12 years agoAJA Io Express and a Matrox unit work today with MC 5.5 As Avid has alluded to both to me personally and at recent events, more third party support including AJA is coming soon. We all take that to mean they will include the AJA Kona boards but the exact timeframe for this to happen is not known at this time. But if you don't have any third party hardware yet, the Io Express is a sweet liby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: Which way? - 12 years agoGoing to be Avid or Adobe here and possibly one Smoke if I can justify the costs. Might even be a combination of Avid / Adobe quite honestly. Loving Adobe right now and am putting it through the wringer right now with a 200 hour, 4000 clip documentary project. Yeah, there are a few issues and we're working through them now with Adobe to find out where those issues are. Also this projectby walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Maintaining proper format - 12 years agoThe video is squeezed because 1440 x 1080 is NOT the proper aspect ratio for output. That's an anamorphic ratio which most video cameras shoot these days. So what you're seeing in your Quicktime Player IS correct. What you really want to do is put your clips into a 1920 x 1080 ProRes timeline and THEN export. ProRes is a square pixel format and the result will be a proper 1920 x 1080 Quicktby walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 12 years agoderekmok Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- And our business will pay. that's my biggest fear with the "FCP X will do everything for you so you don't have to think" mentality. Incredibly bad habits and even worse workflows. Part of being a "professional" is understanding the workflow and organization required to tell a story. Not just gettby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 12 years agoInterestingly enough, Color Correction / Color Grading are very high on the list of improved features Adobe is planning moving forward. They readily admit they need to step up their game there and in several talks now with the folks on that team, they are sounding pretty serious about making color grading much better within the application. Will be interesting to see where this goes. Wish theby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 12 years agoWell if you crossgrade now, you'll be able to upgrade to MC6 later which will be cheaper than buying brand new when MC6 comes out.by walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: Avid goes 64 bits - 12 years agoThat does look awesome, doesn't it? I'm hoping the Avid folks will at least be able to show us a few screen shots of that at our Atlanta Cutters meeting next week.by walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: What is it that will make FCP 7 unusable? - 12 years agoGiven that FCP 7 is EOL, I find it pointless to start too many new projects in that app. As FCP X is not something we are going to move to, it makes sense to make a clean break as quickly as possible and get my editors up to speed on something else.by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X Re: Just curious about Avid/Adobe switchers and color correction. - 12 years agoYep, Adobe has heard this one "loud and clear" as they told me recently. And actually they said the color corrector was not bad, but the UI was terrible. I'll agree there. Colorista II works very nicely alongside Magic Bullet Suite inside Adobe Premiere Pro and of course, there is always the XML roundtrip to Color if we are working in something Color understands like ProRes. Anby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: Pixar uses Avid?? - 12 years agoAvid has never fully left Hollywood and based on the recent surveys going around, FCP has been losing marketshare pretty quickly over the past two years out there. They will use what's best for their workflow, not just something that the owner might say you MUST use. Quite smart.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Editing on an Airplane - 12 years agoLaCie Rugged drives will work, but they will drain your Mac battery in a hurry. I would guess you might get 2 hours of editing time if you have a brand new battery fully charged before the flight. You may or may not get fully smooth playback, but I'm always surprised how much performance I can get from one of those little drives.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Basic cost to switch to Adobe - 12 years agoYou are not required to have an nVidia card. I'm running on ATI based systems and it's running beautifully. In my case the cost to switch was essentially 0. I did update from CS 5 to CS 5.5 but we already have the Production Premium package running in all our suites already so it's jut the time to learn the new software.by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Thought for the day - 12 years agoYou recommend Mac Pros to your family?!?by walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Thought for the day - 12 years agoFCP X is 1.0. Metadata is sexier than ever. That's the mantra we're supposed to follow according to "those who know better than us." I don't buy it and am not giving Apple any leeway after waiting two years for something I wouldn't put in my shop today or for the foreseeable future. Apple decided the "way of doing things" was not their way any longer so they had to re-inby walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Just curious about Avid/Adobe switchers and color correction. - 12 years agoFor us Apple Color still works so we can continue to use that. We also have Resolve in the shop so we can XML back and forth between than, though there are a few issues with that at the moment. Internal to the system, we installed the Magic Bullet 11 Suite which has both Colorista and Looks along with the new Cosmo which is really nice for skin tone. Adobe told me straight up they had a weby walterbiscardi - Avid Media Composer Re: FCPX Monitoring WAS Re: Briefing for professionals in London by Apple - 12 years agoMy favorite is the AirPlay idea. Almost made me spit out my coffee I laughed so hard. Not sure if that's in either of the threads you pointed out, but I read it on his site. I also noticed that he seems to equate "critical color monitoring" with color correction suites only. ALL edit suites should have a critical color monitor. In fact I mentioned that in one of his threads coby walterbiscardi - Café LA - X Re: OT- Best way to tell a story in a documentary - 12 years agoThere is no best way because each story requires what works best for that story. Personally I prefer all natural sound, all in their own words types of documentaries. But there are some stories, like the global health docs we're doing, that do require some narration to explain elements in a concise, clear way to the audience. My least favorite documentaries are the ones that use wall to waby walterbiscardi - Café LA Re: Fair and Balanced review: FCP X - great or not? - 12 years agoI would suspect iTunes or maybe some sort of a reverse connect to camera type of deal where you can simply "Send to iPad" or "Export to iPad" when it's connected.by walterbiscardi - Café LA - X |
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