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Re: AVCHD conversion to ProRes quality? - 13 years agoQuote Is log and transfer from an AVCHD file to ProRes the optimum quality you will get out of the file? Yes. You can empty a five-pound sack of manure into a twenty-pound sack, but you'll never end up with more than five pounds of manure. QuoteA low budget feature that I'm not sure why I took because the money is so low, god I'm doing it for the glory of it, please help me. Working is betby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Monitor and i/o hardware advice for fcp 6 editor - 13 years agoThere is no supported configuration that will give you three graphics outputs (whether DVI or DisplayPort or whatever) on a Final Cut Pro system.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Monitor and i/o hardware advice for fcp 6 editor - 13 years agoNo, and no.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Apple Pro Res or 10 bit uncompressed for DVD - 13 years agoYou're converting interlaced HD to interlaced SD. This is an extremely difficult conversion to pull off well. You're going to need to make a custom preset in Compressor (just copying the DVD preset of your choice is a good way to start) and turn frame controls on. Be prepared to wait; the better scaling algorithms take much longer to process.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: RAID 5? - 13 years agoSounds like your tech has some very old info. Back in the day, RAID 3 was strongly preferred over RAID 5, for performance reasons. Sequential read was better on RAID 5 because it could ignore the parity drive ? or something. I forget the details. This was fifteen years ago. These days, drives, buses and controllers are faster, and data rates are lower thanks to compressed intermediate formatsby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: RAID 5? - 13 years agoRAID 6 gives you more reliability than RAID 5. RAID 5+1 is better still. There's a cost-benefit tipping point.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Video Format - Work Flow - NanoFlash - 14 years agoIf your delivery spec is 60i, then shoot 60i. But don't use photo-jpeg. It doesn't work at all with interlaced material.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: ProRes (Proxy) in Power PC - 14 years agoProRes Proxy is one of the codecs included with Final Cut 7 that is not in any earlier version. I'm really not sure how you're going to be able to work effectively with that media without upgrading. And of course Final Cut 7 is Intel-only. I'd consider renting an Intel-based system with Final Cut 7. The only other practical option I can think of is to batch-convert all the media to ProRes 422by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: 24 FPS TO 29.97 Conversions - 14 years agoDave, Compressor cannot add 3:2.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: 24 FPS TO 29.97 Conversions - 14 years agoQuote what does it do, like 2/2/4/4 or something 2:2:2:4. That is to say, it doubles every fourth frame. Ends up looking stuttery, 'cause it is.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: COLOR SYNC REC 709 CINEMA HD MONITOR - 14 years agoCalibrating your broadcast monitor once a week is overkill. Heck, even once a quarter is pretty frequently. Most folks I know have it done every six months.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: H.264 COLOR SYNC & GAMMA - 14 years agoAnimation is not lossless. It's uncompressed, but it's not even close to being lossless. You lose far more by taking a 10-bit source down to 8-bit RGB than you do by rendering to ProRes 422.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: H.264 COLOR SYNC & GAMMA - 14 years agoThere are two real answers. The first is don't use Animation. That's an ancient 8-bit RGB format with well-known issues. The second is don't judge your footage on a computer monitor.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: ACE Blog Slams FCP - 14 years agoI think it hasn't been discussed here because it's just not that interesting. Editor has bad assistant(s), operator errors go unfixed, editor has a bad time, editor gets frustrated. It's a dog-bites-man story.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Camera - 14 years agoQuote The chips are stacked against you. HA! Seriously, though. The Intel transition happened between summer 2005 and summer 2006. Apple hasn't shipped a PowerPC-based Mac in over forty months. All PowerPC-based Macs in the world are now fully depreciated, and not counting ones that were bought through Apple Enterprise that might have come with five years of AppleCare, they're all well out oby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Media Manager or Compressor - 14 years agoIn Qmaster parlance, "instance" means one running ? um ? instance. @#$%&. Okay, go to the dock. Click Safari once. That's one instance of Safari running. Click it again. Nothing happens. But if something did happen, you'd have two instances of Safari running. An instance is not a thread (if you know that term), and it's not a processor. It's a single process, in Unix terminology.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Media Manager or Compressor - 14 years agoSomething I've learned about Compressor, Tom, is that you should figure out how many processors you want it to use, then fire off half that many instances of it. At least on 3.0.6 (I haven't really pushed 3.5 heavily) each transcode process takes up about two CPUs worth of cycles. So if you've got an eight-proc system and you want to reserve four to work on, tell Qmaster to start two Compressor iby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Media Manager or Compressor - 14 years agoYes, just edit the name. But Compressor won't overwrite an existing file. Also, you should really start a new thread when you have an unrelated question. Lots of people don't bother to read threads they aren't interested in directly or can't contribute to.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Media Manager or Compressor - 14 years agoMost important of all, Compressor doesn't tie up your edit system. You can process on just a few processors in the background while continuing to work.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Install 2X FCP on a single machine? - 14 years agoQuote There are no obvious problems, at least nothing else than running FCP. It's running two apps at the same time - sharing the same prefs. Where is the problem? To give you the answer you deserve, I'd have to dive into the details of how CFPreferences (the low-level foundation of NSUserDefaults that Final Cut Pro uses; CF for Core Foundation) works. The short version is that CFPreferences iby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Camera - 14 years agoAs Derek points out, you can use Apple Intermediate instead of DVCPRO HD, but you shouldn't, because Apple Intermediate sucks out loud.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Camera - 14 years agoArg. Okay, fine. If you're willing to throw preprocessing workarounds into the equation, then you can do just about anything with Final Cut 5. Convert everything to DVCPRO HD first, and go to town. But ? ow. The mere thought of it hurts my brain.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Camera - 14 years agoSee if you can get an HVX200 at a good price. Or just buy the dang upgrade already. It's been five years.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Install 2X FCP on a single machine? - 14 years agoGuys, this is a really bad idea. Apart from all the obvious problems you'll run into with real-time performance (or the conspicuous lack thereof) and multiple applications trying to access I/O drivers simultaneously, having multiple processes access CFPreferences through the same application ID at the same time is a recipe for disaster. Do not do this.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Questions for any Phantom experienced editors. - 14 years agoPhantom is a camera. Or a series of cameras, I guess.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: Which one of you paid for your H.264? - 14 years agoMan, Gerard, can you not link to blatant trolling like that? I know it's been making the rounds ? I saw it myself over the weekend on Twitter or something. But come on. There might be an important discussion to be had about licensing codecs, but that kind of radical political bullshit isn't the way to start it. Google up the author sometime. I don't know her personally, but I'm familiar with hby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Any FCP filters or plugins to turn 2D into 3D? - 14 years agoYou don't.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Any FCP filters or plugins to turn 2D into 3D? - 14 years agoI'm a little reluctant to bring it up, since I strongly disagree with the very first sentence of Vic's post. But you don't need a special output or monitor to preview 3D. Avid, and Final Cut with the right set of add ons, will output either an interlaced or anaglyph image which you can watch with the appropriate headgear. That said, 3D is amazingly hard to do well, and if it's done less-than-pby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Red footage Log and Transfer problem! - 14 years agoMake sure the versions of Redcode and the log-and-transfer plugin you have installed are the versions that are compatible with the firmware version that was running on the camera that shot the footage.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA |
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