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Re: DVD Duplicator - 16 years agoGents, Thanks for the recommendations and tips, much appreciated. Started a new sideline: whatthiscountryneedsisagood10centdvdduplicate.com. Should be able to sell it for billions once the traffic builds. Clayby ClayC - Café LA DVD Duplicator - 16 years agoWhat's a good brand DVD Duplicator for small runs of up to about 50 discs? Something the secretary can operate and produce best quality standard DVD/CD's. Thanks for any suggestions. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Creation date work-around? - 16 years agoGood question, it seems so obvious. Tried to figure it out once too. The answer we came up with was that FCP doesn't save sequence creation date information in the project file although it should be easy enough for it to do so. Meantime, we always include a date in sequence names. Seems to be the only solution for the moment. Good feature request tho' for the next tweak.by ClayC - Café LA Re: HD Format recommendation? - 16 years agoMark, Just playing devil's advocate here, but seriously; Jude says we're talking "high end corporate in a remote area" and with a director who "comes from a much higher end spec world". Thus the thought that for a 5 minute piece, film would be the best way to go. 16mm can also be very cool for the interview stuff if you mix it together with 35 for the beauty shots.by ClayC - Café LA Re: HD Format recommendation? - 16 years agoThis might sound archaic, but in an extreme location situation I'd shoot Super16 or 35mm. A film kit is a lot more robust for that kind of thing. Iffy power supplies and no tech support for the equivalent in finicky and sensitive video gear are not an issue. More expensive? Sometimes not if it saves you travelling and lodging extra video crew and gear with the backups you'll need to keep yoby ClayC - Café LA Re: Oops-small correction to my earlier post - 17 years agoShane, Understand what you're saying. However, in my neck of the woods, the camera rental price is only nominally different. On a weekly or longer basis, negotiable to the same. If you capture from HDCam to DVCProHD, then you can use the small Sony JH series player (again, only slightly more than the small DVCProHD deck), connect via one BNC cable from the deck to the player to a basic HDby ClayC - Café LA Re: Oops-small correction to my earlier post - 17 years agoJust curious, jumping in on the end of the discussion, but: why shoot on Varicam in the first place if all the footage is at the same frame rate?? Much easier and no synch problems to shoot HDCam, and import it via HD/SDI to whatever you want to work in (i.e. DVCProHD) on the fly. A $600 capture card will do the trick with multiple tracks of audio. I'm a big Varicam fan, but only when off-spby ClayC - Café LA Re: 1,5 TB GRaid Problem - 17 years agoShane, So here's the gist of the support response: G-Tech says that drives of over 1TB need to be partioned into chunks of under 1 TB to maintain proper speeds. They further say that the issue is a bug in OSX whereby the Mac doesn't recognize the larger drives properly on the FW bus. The bug has been reported but yet to be repaired. Being mid-project, I haven't had the chance to try thisby ClayC - Café LA 1,5 TB GRaid Problem - 17 years agoCan anyone tell me why my GRaid2 500GB drive runs at about 80MB/s (off of a FW800 3 Port Card), and a brand new 1,5 TB runs at only 19 MB/s? Both drives are not partitioned, formatted Mac OS Extended (not journaled). I also have a client's 1TB GRaid and it won't do better than 45MB/s. What gives? The speed test numbers (disk read) are from the Blackmagic Disk Speed utility. Clay (Duby ClayC - Café LA Re: mxf video files from Pana HVX200 - 17 years ago>>Any reason why the Import Panasonic P2 function in FCP won't work?<< Dunno. Using import > P2, FCP sees the video folder and the mxf files, but gives me an unkown file type error message. Also tried P2 Log, but that didn't work either with a similar error message. They stumped me this time. I've since given the drive back to the original editor who now can't open the filby ClayC - Café LA Re: mxf video files from Pana HVX200 - 17 years agoShane, Nice tutorial, I've watched it before and I'm used to doing it that way. In this particular situation though they gave me the contents folder on a fw drive. No lastclip.txt file. Although, I don't know if that would apply when importing from a fw disk instead of a P2 card. Is there a tool out there that will do an .mxf to .mov conversion? Thanks, Clayby ClayC - Café LA mxf video files from Pana HVX200 - 17 years agoA client dropped off a drive containing .mxf video files that were shot on a Panasonic HVX200. Never seen this particular codec before. How do I get these into QT and into FCP (5.0.4.)? Help! Got a deadline. Clayby ClayC - Café LA QuickTime Upgrade? - 17 years agoI'm running OS 10.4.6. and FCP 5.0.4. with QuickTime 7.0.4. and a Blackmagic HDPlus card. All is running smoothly, no problems. I need to upgrade to QuickTime 7.1.3. for a podcast project (iTunes 7.0.2. installed). Question is, is it safe to do so via Software Update? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Can AIFF files carry timecode? - 17 years agoNo, aiff files don't carry original tc. Easy fix though is to have the audio guys give you a list of the timecodes at each filestart, and then modify the timecode of the audio clips once you've imported them into FCP. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express - 17 years agoAlso, if you're teaching at a school, be it public or private, Apple has educational versions with special pricing available. A local dealer should be able to help with that. ClayCby ClayC - Café LA Re: Graceful Intermediate HiDef Codec - 17 years ago6 Mins of 10Bit 1080 at 29.97 should be about 60GB. You of course need a drive that's fast enough to play uncompressed HD to be able to view it. I still think that you're best off importing the frames into FCP and dropping them into a 10 Bit uncompressed 1080 timeline. That way, you can then quickly identify any frames that have gone out of sequential order and easily fix things. You canby ClayC - Café LA Re: Graceful Intermediate HiDef Codec - 17 years agoWhat file format are the animation frames? What resolution (SD, HD, 2k, 4k?). Meantime, rather than use the QT Player to open an image sequence, import the folder with the indivdual frames into FCP with still frame duration set at 1 frame. Set preferences to still duration 1 frame prior to import. Select all the frames and drag them into a 10Bit uncompressed sequence, and play out to file tby ClayC - Café LA Re: easy ouput to DVD - 17 years agoThe simple answer to your question is: No. Sure would be nice to have though, so maybe post it on the feature requests thread at the top of the forum list. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Export PNG sequence from FCP? - 17 years agoOr try this: you don't need FCP to create an image sequence from a clip or an exported self-contained sequence. Just open in QT Player. Then Export>Image Sequence>Settings and go. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: NTSC to PAL conversion - 17 years ago>> Is there any way I can convert the entire clips so they are permanently converted in the browser?<< There are several ways. Think about it a minute. One way is to bring a master clip into a sequence, apply the conversion, and export it (as a new self-contained quicktime clip) to a folder labelled Pal2Ntsc or whatever is appropriate. Do that with all the clips you want to convby ClayC - Café LA Re: NTSC to PAL conversion - 17 years agoYou can't do it within FCP as you are trying to do, or via QuickTime conversions. Without going into detail, it's much more complicated than that. Go here to get the plugin filter which will do the trick: www.lafcpug.org/DVD_store_Pop_ups/dvd_nattress_gstandards.html Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Hellboy Premiers in SheerVideo on Cartoon Network - 17 years agoRobert, very informative post. Very interesting to hear about the Sheer codec and your continuing experience. Either Sheer or some other codec that does the same thing (perfect quality at greatly reduced file sizes) is something we just gotta have in the tapeless workflow, at the latest in FCP6. Big time version update request. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: New mac pro, Tiger 10.4.8, fcp 5.1.2, aja kona 3..totally unimpressed - 17 years agoPhil, if the machine isn't even booting properly, then obviously something is essentially wrong with your rig. An no, you shouldn't be getting beach balls, dropped frames, etc. Did you purchase from a regular Apple dealer or an authorized Apple Video Solutions source? If you're not that knowledgeable in the installation, setup and troubleshooting area, the latter will indeed pre-install,by ClayC - Café LA Re: Apple Buys "Final Touch" !!! - 17 years agoPure speculation here, but that would be a majorly important component to include in the rumored FCP Extreme thang. Or, should run real nice in realtime within a 64Bit version of FCP. Hoping, waiting, lighting candles, feeding the piggybank. Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: Question about FCP and varicam - 17 years agoIf they're thinking of saving money by not making DVCam dubs, then they don't quite grasp all the specifics of the DVCProHD workflow. It gets tricky when the DP and/or Director start shooting off-speed shots (i.e. up to 60 fps or below 24 fps), which is the main reason to use the Varicam. DVCam dubs of DVCProHD tapes with varying frame rates on them are useless. You wouldn't be able to edit wiby ClayC - Café LA Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 17 years agoHang on a sec. Don't do anything until you finish your feature, never do an upgrade in the midst of a project. Put it to bed first. Yes, you need FCP5 to edit native HDV. No, you won't lose the captured files. Just import>files after you've done the upgrade to bring them in to a new HDV project. Read the documentation first to learn how to do the install. No, you don't need to doby ClayC - Café LA Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 17 years ago>>sometimes FCP5 disappears suddenly as soon as I click on Boris 3D to begin a title. Poof, it's gone. So I don't dare do anything else but straight cuts. As for Motion, I rarely use it (because I haven't learned it yet)<< Well, none of that is the HDV codec's fault. 1. Learn Motion. If all you need is titling, it's a very fast/intuitive learning curve. 2. If FCP crashes wby ClayC - Café LA Re: cannot capture HDV - 17 years agoOk, sounds good so far. It sounds like the deck is set to "I-link conversion". If yes, turn it off. Also, have you read the FCP FAQ section on this site re HDV issues? Clayby ClayC - Café LA Re: What not to do when editing HDV natively. - 17 years ago<< but without adding any effects or titles>> That part I don't really get, so somewhat curious. You shouldn't have any problem getting transitions or type to look good. The workflow between HDV and Motion in HDV, for example, is actually very fast, does not even require an initial render, and should be giving you very crisp-looking graphics. What have you been monitoring HDV onby ClayC - Café LA Re: cannot capture HDV - 17 years agoStick with the M10E for a moment. Coupla things to make sure of: 1. are you totally sure it's outputting HDV and not DV? Check the menu settings. 2. are you totally sure that your FCP capture preset is set to Sony HDV Firewire? 3. Rewind to the beginning of the tape. Can you see an image on the deck's display when you hit play and does the data overlay display 1080i? 4. Have yoby ClayC - Café LA |
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