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Re: OT: Safari 4 Beta Released - 15 years agoauto-fill works fine for me. and i havent seen an update in well over a month - but we digress my apologies. my attempt at humor seems to have BRIEFLY hijacked the thread.by wayne granzin - Café LA CRAZY-HELLA-OT: apple mail and itunes - 15 years agois it me or does apples "mail" look way too much like iTunes? i keep checking my "party shuffle" for new emails...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: OT: Safari 4 Beta Released - 15 years agoi have a better answer: - just kiddin ; ) the mini-coverflow thing is kinda sexy. though im curious in real-world use how truly helpful it will be... i wonder if apple might be getting a bit gadget-happy lately?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: OT: Exported DVCPro HD 720 30p for After Effects Import G JOE - 15 years agojust export either an animation, photojpeg, animation or other lossless formatby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: MacPro Purchase for FCP Editing - 15 years agoQuoteOWC has been my single-source provider of RAM and hard drives for years and years. me too. wouldnt go anywhere else.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Automating the Bake Process - 15 years agowhat the hell are you talking about?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: MacPro Purchase for FCP Editing - 15 years agoQuoteThey are mostly training videos for my office, plus personal family stuff. in this case, it doesnt sound like youre dealing with huge deadlines and mission critical content. i say simplify things. get the second from the fastest mac pro (the fastest is generally like only 200mhz faster or so and you wont see enough performance gain justify the price - you could spend the money better onby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: 1st pass evaluation of pixelmator - 15 years agointeresting point jeff. i saw what corbett did as far as "roto" goes and it seems that outside of pricey edge detection software there may not have been any other way to go. which leads us to an interesting question. what he did was cut a hockey player in action out of a scene over a 2 second time frame. so he had to cut out the ice, boards, other players and crowd - a pretty busyby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: 1st pass evaluation of pixelmator - 15 years agoQuoteI figure I will need to get good with this version before i move on to Production Suite CS4. nah, the things i learned about photoshop back in 1993 arent functionally much if any different in CS4by wayne granzin - Café LA 1st pass evaluation of pixelmator - 15 years agoive downloaded and tried pixelmator. and for what ive seen in 20 min of playin with it - it does pretty much the basic things a video guy would need. exports to psd with alpha intact (saved a file as psd in pixelmator. behaved as expected in after effects) lasso works as well as photoshop does layers seem to work as they do in photoshop several of the same key combinations as photoshop oby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: BE AWARE: yes, Yes, YES this is great Pixelmator - 15 years agolets not make this another pro/con of photoshop thread. j. i dont think youre understanding my point. its not about "goodies" its about end product. as i mentioned earlier, a jpeg output from one raster program is not necessarily the same as jpeg output from another raster program. we need to test the output from a program before we can make any judgements... what i ran into betby wayne granzin - Café LA BE AWARE: yes, Yes, YES this is great Pixelmator - 15 years agook, this is great for those who are cash strapped or (like the O.P.) have a mental block about photoshop. BUT - be aware. just because an app seems to do what you need, it may or may not do it as well as its competitor. and im not just speaking of features, read on... i was called in to troubleshoot a problematic flash project several years back. for some reason the jpgs were looking bad aby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: exporting hd to sd - 15 years agolots of ways. tell us more about what you want to do.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: hooking up hdtv to PowerMac G5 - 15 years agoi think youre putting in a lot of time effort into finding a poorly devised non-standard solution. there is a reason that every video editor i know of uses 2, 20"-24" monitors. its the most realestate you can get for the money.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: hooking up hdtv to PowerMac G5 - 15 years agothere is no way a tv is going to look as good as a monitor - they arent made to. thats why they are cheaper. the dell ultrasharp 24" is a favorite here on the forum.by wayne granzin - Café LA OT - velociraptor drive mechanism... - 15 years agoi know its made by WD, so that doesnt conjure up happy thoughts. but does anyone have any real-world experience using the newest velociraptor drive mech?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Radio Microphone Question - 15 years agoas far as sound quality, ive never A/B tested them against anything else, and im happy as a clam with my sennheisers. so im not trying to talk you out of them - but you'll see lectrosonic in way more pro audio bags than sennheiser. what i like about lectrosonic is: 1. made in america. and thats RARE these days. 2. WAY more purchase options than sennheiser what i dont like about lectrosoniby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Radio Microphone Question - 15 years agohave you looked into lectrosonic koz?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Radio Microphone Question - 15 years agoi think the 300 series is an in ear monitoring system. or maybe its fixed euro freq - dunno. there isnt consistent info anywhere... what youre looking for is the 100 or 500 and what seperates them seems to be autoscanning and multiple input types on the 500. i say get the 100. i use them, they are fine. where are you buying from? they should be able to clear it up... how are u planniby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: AU Dynamics Processor audio filter broken? - 15 years agoever since upgrading to fcp 6 im noticing a few random anomalies as well. like clips just missing from the timeline next time the project is opened. not disconnected - just no longer on the timeline...by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Recommendations for Mic Preamp - 15 years agoit all depends on your budget. i have an old powerbook G4 connected via firewire to a digidesign digi002 rack, dod headpnone amp and furman power conditioner all in a 4 space rack and a rode nt2 (a mic many have compared to a neumann u87) and ive yet to have anyone complain about my sound quality. im not sure what you mean by sennheiser "stick" - but im pretty sure its not the besby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: OT: How do you know when RAM is going bad? - 15 years agoa lot of things could contribute to that scenario: cheap corrupt fonts failing drive data scattered across too many drives software conflicts using any kind of virus control or system mod stuffby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: AVI file conversion? - 15 years agoDOH! thank you! it came from camtasia. i didnt install the techsmith codec. i knew something was odd damned new computer!by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Optimizing photos for HD import - 15 years agothe logic ive always applied has been: lets say youre working on a 1920x1080 HD show. you have a still photo that youre prepping in photoshop. you know that you want to be able to scale it up to 200% and not lose quality. so you build it at 3840x2160. now im like joey in that everything ive ever built in photoshop for video has been 72dpi - just because thats the way ive done it since liby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: AVI file conversion? - 15 years agoderek, i may be having a brain-fart as ive not avi'd in quite a while. but i opened an avi in quicktime player on my mac a couple days ago and it gave me the missing codec error. is there some plugin ive neglected to install?by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Removing logos - 15 years agoduplicate the clip (put the duplicate track in a track directly over the source. gausian blur the copied track. apply a mask shape filter to the new track. adjust the scale to cover your logo. keyframe the mask position (to follow the action if any) using the "center" option. apply a mask feather filter (to soften the mask edge) render, done.by wayne granzin - Café LA Re: Export HDV in format that plays on DVDs in Mac's w/o FCP - 15 years agoh.264 is pretty safeby wayne granzin - Café LA Re: (((OT))) Photoshop: using a shape to adjust a single potion of an image - 15 years agosimplest way is to: change your selection tool from rectangle to a circle. then click the center of the circle. holding shift (to confine to a perfect circle - if of course your clock is a perfect circle) and option (to draw from center as opposed to edge) drag out until your circle is the size of the clock. then to either a levels (command L), color balance (command b) or hue/saturation (by wayne granzin - Café LA |
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