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Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 11 years ago
Really looking forward to your reports on FCP X. I know there is a lot of hate around here for FCP X but the rendering advantages alone are enough for me to seriously look at this app. The amount of money we FCP users flush down the toilet with our machines hogtied with rendering is just silly in 2011 especially on a system that is sitting on 2 layers of UNIX with multithreading built right downby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 11 years ago
I've got an 8500 sitting in a closet that I put about $7500 worth of memory in at the time in order to meet some stupid deadlines I had in, I believe, the summer of 94. 64 meg sticks I recall at $1500 a pop. I refuse to get rid of it. It's the only machine I will hang on to over time. I retired it around 98 so there is a lot of early internet history on it. Booting it up every couple of years givby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 11 years ago
That is a very encouraging endorsement Joey. Tricked out the way you have it puts the machine a bit under 4 grand in my country. But if it performs as fast/faster than a desktop and Thunderbolt will give us the I/O for our future raid devices and ostensibly capture cards, electronic scopes and so on, then it looks like desktop replacements have truly arrived once all the thunderbolt gak is readilby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Final Cut Pro X - still Pro - 11 years ago
Does anyone have knowledge of when FCPX is being released in June?by Andrew Stone - Café LA - X
Re: Monitor Recommendations needed - 12 years ago
The Dell U2410 is the current model of UltraSharp Dell variety. It's has a 1920 x 1200 pixel ratio. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: OT: Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 update released - 12 years ago
What is the nature of the crashing in DVDSP with the errant ProKit Update installed? -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Dual Screen Menu following - 12 years ago
Use "Spaces" in Mac OS 10.6, assuming you are running 10.6. It is creates virtual desktops that you can access by using a modifier key and the up-down-right-left arrow keys.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Retaining high bitrate data in XDCAM HD using FCS - 12 years ago
I have received no word on this. I have posed the question a couple of times to the people who would know (or know the people to ask) and the reply has been silence. If there is a 50 Mbit cap in FCP (Quicktime) it would be with the XDCAM codec. If you go iFrame it shouldn't have that potential limitation and the workflow is better in my view. The only negative is the file sizes are bigger andby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Retaining high bitrate data in XDCAM HD using FCS - 12 years ago
Hi Jen, Converting to ProRes is your solution. If you have a lot of footage and have to do an overnight render, may I suggest you start your edit with your nanoFlash material but just do cutting and then do a reconnect media to the ProRes stuff once you do your overnight render. Even though it is a lot more space consuming I am using iFrame 220 when I can. If it is long event stuff I don'tby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: My Mac Pro 1.1 is too darn slow. Help! - 12 years ago
I didn't but beer and learning about heady things like distributed computing don't go well together unless retention isn't a concern. You should be settled once you do some reading, system tweaking and get some beefy drives.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: My Mac Pro 1.1 is too darn slow. Help! - 12 years ago
Rick, first off. You are now on the right track. Your head is pointing in the right direction. Drives could be a problem. Easily fixed. You have 4 drive bays. You can pickup 1.5 terrabyte drives to stick in your machine for between $100 and $150 right now. I'm presently using Western Digital, the green ones. There are other brands: Samsung, Seagate, etc. These manufacturers have had major probby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: My Mac Pro 1.1 is too darn slow. Help! - 12 years ago
Have you set up Qmaster to use the 4 cores in your machine? Are you rendering out/exporting a single file from the FCP sequence before going to Compressor? If so when you submit your exported movie in Compressor are you selecting the checkbox to grab available computers which will harness the multiple cores on your computer? A video card will help with some rendering in the overall workflow buby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX Workflow? - 12 years ago
I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Shaky cam and the sound was really well done.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Retaining high bitrate data in XDCAM HD using FCS - 12 years ago
Would like to know if the editors here have found a way to guarantee retention of the high bitrate source data that one can get from nanoFlash recorders. A brief summary of the matter for those unfamiliar.... NanoFlash units are able to capture video source from either HD-SDI and HDMI and record it into (primarily) LongGOP XDCAM HD or iFrame. The problem, as I understand it, is in Final Cut whby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: eSata Expresscard recommendation for MBP - 12 years ago
I have been using the Sonnet eSata card mentioned above with a hard drive dock (Startech.com). I have used it with straight up drives and configured in RAID 0. Works well and throughput is good. Sonnet now has a standard version of this card and "pro" version which they allude (but won't state) is faster. The one I have is the standard one and the throughput is good. It was around $50 iby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: OT: Which one of you paid for your H.264? - 12 years ago
Jeff Harrell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >can you not link to blatant trolling > like that? I know it's been making the rounds...There might be an > important discussion to be had about licensing > codecs... This topic actually has been brought up and chewed over elsewhere -- months ago -- on DVinfo.net. Apple was approached with the questionby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: A mixed frame rate mess - 12 years ago
To convert your material down to 24p fire up Cinema Tools and crack open the PDF manual. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Steve Jobs and FCP - 12 years ago
Jeff's analysis and suggestions are bang on in my view. (Apple) El Jobso had to say something given that Adobe CS5 is threatening Apple's perceived hegemony in post software/hardware solutions. And let's not forget Apple and Adobe are now at war with each other. He issued 3 sentences to a blogger. That's it. I'm as guilty as most people who have been using Apple products for decades who oftby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: RAID Advice - 12 years ago
Like Ben I have been running an 8 drive RAID (as a RAID 5) for a couple of years and it has been rock solid. I use the HighPoint 3522 Raid controller card. You have to get a couple of miniSAS cables and a box that has a SAS controller in it. This protocol that this HighPoint card uses is about as fast as it gets short of going to a fiber link solution. The price jump to fiber is about double theby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: OT: Blu-ray on Macs soon? Don't hold your breath. - 13 years ago
VPiccin Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I just put one of these in a 2009 Mac Pro... The only issue is that you > have to remove the faceplate from the drive tray. There is another place that sells Blu-ray burners for the Mac: MCE.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: OT: Anyone here going to CES this week? - 13 years ago
Michael Horton Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Did you read the new SDXC cards? > They will hold 2TBs. Holy crap. > > Canon announced a boatload of stuff today. Holy smokes Canon has updated its VIXIA line. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Best sub-$2500 monitoring solution for DVCPROHD workflow? - 13 years ago
Shane Ross Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > out to a GOOD > Panasonic plasma (the 12UK in the 42" range)... Shane, I did a quick google on this monitor. Couldn't pull up much. Is there a more complete model number available or do you have a webpage indicating this model? -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: need to read SxS card on a G5 - 13 years ago
Dean, Typically in situations where an editor is doing a relatively "low paying" gig for a client or if it is a freebee, the onus is on the person who supplied the materials to allow the editor to get the material onto the system with relative ease. Supplying the camera is typical or supplying, in your case, the Sony USB SxS card reader. If you can, I would get (borrow, rent) theby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: off topic crane or stedycam - 13 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This operator has little > control over the shot which denotes remote control > over Steadicam. A good Steadicam operator wouldn't > be that wild. Unless the spiral shot was "motivated" by the sheer cheese of the performance. Method camera operation.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: off topic crane or stedycam - 13 years ago
It does look like Steadicam but you can see that camera all the way through is on a remotely controlled crane style cam which would also kinda explain the "headroom" issue when the camera spins around the guy. That kind of spin around people is a common steadicam move but you want to control the headroom when you do a 360 like that. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Motu HDX-SDI, anybody heard any advance information? - 13 years ago
Hi Andy, I got a bit exuberant when I saw the promo material then I shot off a post before I had properly thought things through. In the course of you writing your post I had corrected my post realizing that the MOTU unit didn't do cross conversion. I saw all the IO, the price and got a bit over excited. Sorry for the confusion.by Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Motu HDX-SDI, anybody heard any advance information? - 13 years ago
I have owned 2 MOTU (still own) audio interfaces. Just bought a Traveler mkIII for several hundred dollars more than this. On first blush, this is an incredible bargin for editors and post people. At the very least if the video conversion is a bust, you have an audio interface that will do 5.1 and even 7.1 audio management and monitoring at a reasonable price. It appears if you are going toby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: Looking for a FCP Tutorial Recommendation - 13 years ago
I would also heartly endorse Diana Weynand's book. Once done her book, Michael Wohl's advanced editing book, in the same series, is superb as well. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: XDCAM EX 1080p 25 in FCP question? - 13 years ago
Twixtor is the popular tool of choice for smoothing out intra frame extrapolation. Based on you using 1080 and not 720 you couldn't have done the slomo/overcrank "in camera" Other than the obvious, like rendering the timeline if you have done any processing to the footage should fix video display issues. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
Re: After Effects to XDCam EX settings? - 13 years ago
I would deliver in both XDCAM EX and in ProRes. This assumes your client will be doing their work on a Mac. Odd they would ask for it to be rendered out in XDCAM EX. -Andrewby Andrew Stone - Café LA
