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Re: Is there any method of copy protecting one-off DVD copies? - 12 years ago
Thanks very much for the advice, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Is there any method of copy protecting one-off DVD copies? - 12 years ago
Thanks for the reply. I guess you are correct. There is nothing available at the DVD-R level. I'll just stick some sort of notice on the front. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Is there any method of copy protecting one-off DVD copies? - 12 years ago
I have to burn half a dozen DVDs of my current project. Is there anything - anything at all that can be done to at least make a gesture towards copy protecting these? I realize that it is futile in the face of someone knowledgeable or even remotely tech-savvy, however, maybe there is something out there which would act as a technical deterrent? This is not for a long copy run. Just 6 or soby harry323 - Café LA
Re: "codec error" on export. - 12 years ago
Derek, Thank you. I will follow your advice. You are a wonder in space and time. Only you would have the answer to such an arcane question. Best wishes, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
"codec error" on export. - 12 years ago
I am editing a long-form documentary and am getting this fun little message right at the end of a 90 minute export. "codec error". (ProRes 422 24p. FCP 6.0.6.) So I have isolated the 15 minute section where the trouble seems to be and suspect that I may have mistakenly used a non-transcoded shot in there somewhere. In the past, I have been forced to go through every shot to do &quby harry323 - Café LA
Re: G-Raid Death? - 12 years ago
$300 per drive. If he can't recover it you do not pay. I have used them once. Very good. Mine was a G-Raid drive too. You should take a fresh or reliable drive along for him to transfer to (or he will sell you one). Do NOT attempt this yourself ... please. Best Harryby harry323 - Café LA
Re: COLOR RENDERS ERASED - PROJECT HELP - 12 years ago
I have called them off. Best wishes, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: COLOR RENDERS ERASED - PROJECT HELP - 12 years ago
"Somebody here can probably help you with a strategy which avoids Geniuses. " Love it ... xxx. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: COLOR RENDERS ERASED - PROJECT HELP - 12 years ago
Re: strypes message: " ... he has the Color Projects, he can relink to the media and re-render with the exact same settings that he used previously. Better if he can render to the same path as he did previously. Then he can re-connect to the files in FCP. Most of them should re-connect, and for those that can't automatically re-connect due to Color's strange way of naming files, he can maby harry323 - Café LA
Re: COLOR RENDERS ERASED - PROJECT HELP - 12 years ago
Dear strypes, I think you should volunteer for this elementary task. Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: COLOR RENDERS ERASED - PROJECT HELP - 12 years ago
Good evening Mr. EWB. I'm unsure as to how familiar you are with FCS, but render files do have a habit of disconnecting even under normal circumstances. I don't use COLOR myself, but imagine that the same issue exists there. It's a little difficult to tell from your post whether your FCP render files have been disconnected too but, assuming that is so, I regret to tell you from 12 yearby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Ease In or Smooth - 12 years ago
I have now started to use MOTION, after owning it for years I finally was forced to learn it for a job a couple of months ago. It wasn't too bad to get the basics down and it was fun learning how to give people two noses and so on. So, if you can be bothered, I would vote for MOTION, simply because it may lead you to other cool stuff that can't be done in FCP. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Re: Watermarking DVDs individually - is there a practical way? - 12 years ago
Hi Derek, and thank you so much for the reply. I get the point about embedding the watermark in the original image because it is then - well - embedded. However, that means that I have to run 30 compressions of the film - one showing the name of each recipient. And ultimately I will probably be forced to do that. You are a bright guy. Is there any other way that you can suggest of making eby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Watermarking DVDs individually - is there a practical way? - 12 years ago
Hi, Strypes. Thanks so much for the speedy reply. I see what you mean. But I think it would be a deterrent and I have to make some gesture, however futile, towards hampering the thieves. It might at least act as a discouragement. So, Strypes, despite the partial futility, do you reckon it's worth running a test or two? Would putting wording on track 2 throughout (or fading in and out) showby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Ease In or Smooth - 12 years ago
It does the wacky curving trick when you are altering the end position of the center of the frame. If you do a simple zoom in or out, it does not curve. I know what you mean about the ungraceful stop and start. Clunk. And you've discovered the smoothing thing. That's it. FCP has many fine features, but that is not one of them. If you have the strength to crack open MOTION (the program) youby harry323 - Café LA
Watermarking DVDs individually - is there a practical way? - 12 years ago
Dear All, In a couple of months I will be compelled to send out a number of pre-release DVDs to potential distributors and sales agents. Maybe 30 copies of a 90 minute film. I want to watermark each DVD with the name of the individual to whom it was sent. And I want the watermark to either fade in and out occasionally, or if necessary, to be constantly present. I'm prepared to go to consideby harry323 - Café LA
Re: How to speed up render times - 12 years ago
Hi Jude, Funny you should mention that about HDV. I have a confession. I convert ProRes files to HDV for editing. Then I conform back to ProRes for final delivery. Here's why: Using an 8 Core (2 x 3 Ghz Quad Core Intel). Final Cut 6.0.6 on System 10.6.7. Internal 7200rpm drive - not the drive on which either the system or FCP reside. I also rendered to a different drive than theby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Blowing up ProRes 422 to create a CU - any way to do this without loosing resolution? - 12 years ago
Try doing the blowup and then, if you own it, use NEAT VIDEO to remove the resulting grain and to sharpen it up a little. If you don't have NEAT VIDEO, I suggest that you use an EDGE SHARPENER - very very slightly. I know there are other grain reduction plugins, so you probably have one somewhere. I frequently push in a little. There is ALWAYS a loss in quality, but it can be mitigated by dby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Wall Photo Replacement - 12 years ago
Russ, Let's assume that you have your replacement photo on VIDEO track 2 and you have cracked open the motion tab, resized the new photo and keyframed in any changes of position within the frame due to camera pans and tilts. As the actor passes in front of the camera, in the motion tab, go to the "crop" arrow which is about half way down. Now you can keyframe a soft wipe off theby harry323 - Café LA
Re: SCRATCH DISKS LOST - 12 years ago
Here is a straight answer to your question. Go to: Brian Cometa. 323 230 0622. $300 flat fee per drive data recovery. If he can't recover it, you don't pay. brian@300dollardatarecovery.com. www.300dollardatarecovery.com. He's a young guyby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Wall Photo Replacement - 12 years ago
For once I have something to offer: I do precisely this kind of thing quite frequently just using Final Cut Pro (only) by placing a new layer of video with the replacement image over the unwanted image. I then go into the motion tab, fit it in place and keyframe the new image as (or if) it moves around due to a moving camera. I also use one of Andy's plugins - "Andy's better 3D", I tby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Getting rid of hiss on a clip - 12 years ago
PS. If you can't afford RX-2, they have a little program called "Music and Speech Cleaner" for $30. It's not nearly as good, but it may serve your purpose. There's a demo version which will do tests on 30 second chunks. It's a lot easier than messing around in Protools or Soundtrack Pro. Like all noise reduction tools, you must be extremely careful not to overdo it. Best, Harry.by harry323 - Café LA - X
Re: Getting rid of hiss on a clip - 12 years ago
The best audio de-noiser by far is made by "iZotope". It's called RX-2 and it costs about $350. There is a free functional demo version. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA - X
Re: My new audio monitors - 12 years ago
Thank you very much for the reply, Strypes. I will re-route the sound through the Blackmagic card per your advice. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
My new audio monitors - 12 years ago
Good Evening, Happy Editors. I have just installed a new audio monitoring system and tested the audio/video sync with a pop on the audio and a flash on my external picture monitor. The picture monitor is fed by a Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme card, and the audio monitoring comes out of the Mac via USB and through a Digidesign M Box 2 Mini. I am finding that the sound now lags by 3 framby harry323 - Café LA
Lion and FCP 6.0.6 - 12 years ago
I am reading conflicting reports about whether Lion breaks FCP 6.0.6. I'm on a Mac Pro 2,1. 8 Core vintage 2008. 8 gigs RAM. FCP 6.0.6. Currently I am running OS 10.6.7, Quicktime 7.6.6 and ProKit 7.0. I guess the best way to find out is to create another boot drive and try. However, if any of you fine happy editors out there have experience in this, please relay it to me. (I would stayby harry323 - Café LA
Re: Compressor vs MPEG Streamclip file sizes - 12 years ago
Thanks very much. Will try. Best Harry.by harry323 - Café LA
Compressor vs MPEG Streamclip file sizes - 12 years ago
I took an 18 GB ProRes 422 24 minute master and made two H.264 transcodes -- one in Compressor v.3.0.5 and one in MPEG Streamclip v.1.9.1. Size results: Compressor: 1.63 GB MPEG Streamclip: 750 MB I can understand there would be some variation, but over twice the size in Compressor. Does that mean that Compressor is doing a better job - or perhaps a worse one? I am also curious thaby harry323 - Café LA
