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Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
Depends entirely on the size of the files you want to use. Bigger blocks can mean faster transfer for larger more continuous files, but slower with smaller chunks of data and visa versa.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: data wrangling Arri Alexa Plus footage - 10 years ago
For those people with a Blackmagic Decklink, AJA Kona or similar you can set the video output from the card to output the correct colour via a LUT. I use this so I don't have to apply a LUT to the footage and its just a quick setting on the control panel. You see the LOG footage on the Mac screen and the corrected footage on the output monitor.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: ProApps Codecs 1.0.5 - 10 years ago
So far not had any issues on FCP7, FCPX and Adobe using the new and updated codecs.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: dropped frames in Cambodia - 10 years ago
I think Dennis has touched on a point here, in that you should actually test your own equipment to know what it is capable of. That way you won't be surprised when things take longer to read/write than you'd calculated for that client who wants to know when they can expect the master file! It is why a lot of people come to the forums namely; their own system does not function as it should orby Ben King - Café LA
Re: dropped frames in Cambodia - 10 years ago
Here's a good guide with visuals of what Dennis is explaining. But to add that regardless of Dennis' personal housekeeping (which works form for him) It is advised a "rule of thumb" that you keep at least 80% free and preferably more on all disks regardless of their use. Of course with higher capacities of HDD (2TB+) the margin could easily be pushed to 90% / 10% (even on systemby Ben King - Café LA
Re: dropped frames in Cambodia - 10 years ago
Maybe so but defragging DOES come with a risk of damaging your data in the process of moving and rewriting. If for instance you had a power failure or even just a brown-out in the middle of a rewrite. Using a UPS on your media disks and your computer is always a good idea. Despite never having a mess up - if you defrag make sure you have a backup first! A file by file backup actually defragby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Looking for External Raid...Which is best? - 10 years ago
Come... in... Barry...?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: dropped frames in Cambodia - 10 years ago
I've had all manner of playback issues on older FCP systems when stressing the GPU out to the max - dropped frames is but one issue, often in collaboration with some effects that are GPU accelerated. Usually though on even older GPUs than the GT120 with 512MB VRAM or less.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Looking for External Raid...Which is best? - 10 years ago
Loads of options but very limited if you want to buy one that will work great on your old mac and with thunderbolt of the new ones. what size and budget do you have in mind?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: dropped frames in Cambodia - 10 years ago
The GPU is a pretty poor one to be sure but dropped frames is usually due to A. the disk B. the media and C. unrendered effects and/or being on a timeline that isn't the same size/rate/codec as the source. So A. Are your media disks very full? SATA HDDs slow down as they fill up - don't fill past 50% if you want good Read/Write speeds - and no more than 80% full for safely storing datby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Transcoding .MXF files for FCP7 - 10 years ago
You could get the free trial of Premiere or After Effects or all the apps which should come with it... At the bottom of the pricing:by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Transcoding .MXF files for FCP7 - 10 years ago
We use Adobe Media Encoder CC at the BBC to transcode all MXF and a number of other formats to ProRes for editing.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: How can i transfer AVI to Pro Res (compressor) - 10 years ago
AVI is like MOV or MXF - basically it's a container that holds a CODEC for Audio and Video - A CODEC like ProRes or AAC, etc. What you need to know is what CODECs are inside that AVI. Have you tried downloading VLC and checking it? Some AVIs can be converted by Quicktime 7 Pro if you can get the CODECs for it. Otherwise Perian might work its no longer updated but can still be used.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 10 years ago
QuoteI do not have a reason to use cs6 yet but got it with plans for the cylinder. So don't upgrade to CC. QuoteIf business goes sour for a while I still have my software and it's not costing me anything. Some people just do not chase upgrades unless they are necessary. As I pointed out - you have already paid for it and if you don't use the boxed version it's still cost that upfront fee fby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
It's not a problem Dennis but you have made it one. The point of a caveat like "approximate" is that until you go and write the full accurate report it does not need to be - that IS the point of using a clause that gives a rough estimate or rounded figures - useful for a quick guide and not to be taken as the whole truth. If I had stated that these are all 100% accurate I would underby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Red Flag - "Missing Proxy" - 10 years ago
Try deleting the preferences - I've had some really bizarre bugs recently! First quit FCPX and then save ~/Library/Preferences/Com.apple.FinalCut.plist and ~/Library/Application Support/Final Cut Pro (Whole folder) to your Desktop. Then delete both the plist and the folder from their original locations and see if that resolves this issue. If that doesn't work, look for a file similar tby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
Dennis I think you misread a lot of the posts! Perhaps my use of some English grammatical structure and spelling is not familiar to you? Regardless, this thread is getting a little argumentative to my mind. Please do not misquote me: QuoteApprox. Connection bandwidths Firewire 400 (400Mbps or ~50MBps) rarely achieves over 40MBps Firewire 800 (800Mbps or ~100MBps) rarely achievesby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
Oh by the way in case its not clear. I'm not advocating one connection over another - simply pointing out the reality of it. I have many eSATA enclosures that as Dennis work just fine, likewise I have USB3.0, FireWire, Ethernet and the big RAIDs are all SAS. Hopefully though this has covered most of the questions you may ever have about HDD drive speeds, some of the most common connectorby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
QuoteThe discrepancy between 125 and 100 is much too large to be explained by the binary vs. decimal terminological matters Ben discussed. Correct - and apologies if it wasn't made clear guys. The established overheads are already applied in the case of SATA as prescribed in the format and are a known quantity for direct SATA connection. I should have explained that they also call SATA I, Iby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Question about drives and transfer rates? - 10 years ago
Mbps is slightly misleading as its not always clear what it means. "mega bits per second" is thought by most to be 1024 kilobits per second. However it is not. Transfer speeds, data-rates are all measured typically in decimal so actually 1Mb = 1000 x 1000 bits NOT 1024 x 1024 bits. This confusion also applies to data-storage sizes!!! Manufacturers always preferred to use thby Ben King - Café LA
Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 10 years ago
Yeah I'm still cutting on a 9600 Avid system in avr12 cud that's how I role... Not Can't agree with you guys - sorry but it's the difference between little and often and gorging yourself. Either way you pay.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 10 years ago
and I'd rather pay a small fee for up-to-date software and not $1200 or more every other year to keep up. Also on a monthly sub you can stop and continue whenever you want. You cannot guarantee as a freelancer or business owner than your outlay will be covered on big box costsby Ben King - Café LA
Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 10 years ago
If you don't like it - find another industry where you only have to pay for your "indestructible infallible machinery" once and stay at the same level making money only for yourself and never contributing to progress forever.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: The cost of editing is becoming perpetual. - 10 years ago
It always is and always has been this way - just now in smaller increments as things change so rapidly. Please don't tell you that haven't upgraded anything at all in the last couple of years? That would be A. dumb and B. contributing to market stagnation. The computer market and indeed any market must evolve and offer new things and people must purchase them in order to keep companies inby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Final Cut 7 on new Mac Pro -- can't read C300 files - 10 years ago
Yeah same here for any FCP7 reinstall I have my DMG copies so no DVD-ROM necessary although any USB or Thunderbolt/Firewire DVD or Blu-ray would drive would attach just fine.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Ray Trace on new Mac Pros - 10 years ago
If you need to do 4K then you will need 6GB or more per GPU and a lot of RAM if you want to use DaVinci Resolve well - the top of the line GPUs in the Mac Pro are really worth the upgrade cost especially as the PC versions (AMD FirePro W9000) retail around $3k to $4k each.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Ray Trace on new Mac Pros - 10 years ago
I am seriously thinking of ordering parts for a Hackintosh soon - so once I go ahead will write up a breakdown. To give you an overview though. Dual 8 Core E5-2687W v2 3.4GHz (4GHz Turbo) - 16 cores total - 32 Threads 64GB RAM (initially - then upgrading to 256GB) 7 PCIe 3.0 slots which will accommodate my RAID cards and Blackmagic card and have space for one other. Blu-ray Burner (forby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCPX Feature Wish List - 10 years ago
Much of what we asked for is there now but some things haven't made it in such as: Timecode overlays for clips The ability to just type in TC values like all other NLEs! Instead of having to roll over the TC window!! Not to mention that if say typing 12:53:26:00 it does it's dumbass calculation thang (to make TC writing easier?) and come up with 12:35:26:00!!! Although at least you can tby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Sound sync after Maverick FC7 - 10 years ago
Weirdly I have just developed this same bug! I know have a 1 second and perhaps 1 frame delay on just the HDMI audio!!! Annoying! Perhaps something to do with the new Quicktime/AV Foundations? Dunno - will ask around. Tried downgrading the BM Drivers but nothing. Signed Annoyed of edit suiteby Ben King - Café LA
