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Re: Workflow for syncing R3ds in FCP x - 10 years ago
FCPX with a reasonable GPU handles RED natively as well. Just throw the .R3D files directly into FCPX. To make sure you get smooth playback (unless you have a RED Rocket card), change "Choose Viewer Display Options" (the little switch top right of the viewer) to "better performance". You might need to install the RED drivers and codecs - check for an update anyway ifby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 10 years ago
I must say I've found the latest Adobe Media Encoder CC is incredibly fast.by Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 10 years ago
I get ya. I've yet to do a really long HD or 4k project on FCPX but I did a showreel from about 600 hours of SD footage on one if the first X iterations and had no issues - keyword collections and proper metadata are so important though. When media managing however I still prefer to have original or transcoded media that contains a good and relevant filename rather than the awful Avid/FCPXby Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 10 years ago
On a feature I really don't think there is a great deal of issue using whatever NLE you want to use. After all some feature editors are even using iPads to cut! I guess part of the issue with features is that there is still so many people stuck in older workflows for a variety of reasons. Personally, I'd still prefer to use FCP7 on a feature than Avid but thats just because I've always hateby Ben King - Café LA - X
Seasons Greetings! - 10 years ago
Hey all Here's wishing you all Merry Christmas and a Wonderful 2014! (and hoping Santa bungs me $10k for a top-spec Mac Pro! ) All the best for you and yours! Benby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Sound sync after Maverick FC7 - 10 years ago
Ok thats brilliant - any other issues let us know!by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Sound sync after Maverick FC7 - 10 years ago
Blimey! 3 seconds!!! You can try the offset but I've never had such a large delay before. The Apple documentation links I put above describe how set the offset. Alternatively here's a simple explanation from our friendly neighbourhood Jordan via the magic of internet video! Let us know how you get on, but I fear a call to Blackmagic support might be in order; as the most I've encountered oby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP 7 - 24p to dvd / blu ray? - 10 years ago
Sorry for the confusion Dennis! I was not contradicting you, no no no! I was describing the other way of exporting time-matched second-for-second standards conversion where 24 is mapped onto 25 or visa versa - not the frame-for-frame you described. Indeed setting it up as you mentioned will also work to produce a similar output as the cinema tools conform method.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: BR-D disc burning speeds - 10 years ago
I don't now produce enough to say without any doubt but certainly I've never had any issue with the fastest burners or discs. Just make sure you keep your device dust free - the media dust/scratch free especially when burning and make sure you use BD-RW to do a test burn of your BR projects before you commit to burning your BD-Rs.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Sound sync after Maverick FC7 - 10 years ago
Hi Doug Sound delay on FCP 7 but via the Decklink HD Extreme to what output? Have you updated all your drivers including decklink? Have you set the output correctly via the HD Extreme? Are you going HDMI Video and Audio via another route? If so you can't do this as HDMI introduces a "processing lag" and you will need to monitor the sound from the HDMI device not the Deckliby Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP 7 - 24p to dvd / blu ray? - 10 years ago
If you have Final Cut Studio 1, 2 or 3 you will have Cinema Tools included. It really is the quickest way - short of using another app. It also is a lossless conversion as it only tells the movie file to play the frames already encoded at the new rate. I also use this process for some 50p and 60p slomo conversions to 25p. Going the "standards conversion" Compressor route way where 24by Ben King - Café LA
Re: "Operation not allowed" problem - 10 years ago
Yeah this happens with a corrupt project - always a good idea to have Digital Rebellion tools for dealing with corrupt projects and make a backup of your projects in XML format as this can be more easily rescued.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: FCP 7 - 24p to dvd / blu ray? - 10 years ago
Cinema Tools and Pre-rendering the SD version are your friends here. To make NTSC 23.98 version Make a copy of your master video 1080p24 file. Bring it into Cinema Tools and conform to 23.98 fps Bring this back into FCP7 pop it onto a 720x480 16:9 Anamorphic 23.98fps NDF timeline and export a self-contained quicktime movie. Use this file to create the NTSC DVD. To make PAL 2by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Yet another other - 10 years ago
Just tried the demo and sluggish on skippy playback on my old MacBookPro 2010 17" whereas FCP7, Premiere, Avid work fine and FCPX screams. Also you can't drag and drop edit or import which is perhaps weirdly always the first thing I check on an NLE... Not impressed so far.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Yet another other - 10 years ago
Yeah just got mailed about this - anyone tried it yet?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Is it possible to gang multiple finder windows together? - 10 years ago
QuoteWhat I remember seeing was not a 3rd party interface but three OS-X finder windows ganged together, so if you moved, opened, or closed one, they all do the same thing. I've not seen this but those apps do comparison and allow you to sync and compare - I've not used it but kaleidoscope has a lot going for it and doesn't look too far from the Mac OS finder. As Andrew said Carbon Copy Clby Ben King - Café LA
Re: OT: which MacPro to buy for $500 - 10 years ago
Or just get a PC GPU flashed to Mac from MacVidCards...by Ben King - Café LA
Re: OSX Mavericks + FCP 7? - 10 years ago
Tested Plugins with Mavericks on FCP7 that work unless stated otherwise: 1z1 Eureka! Alex4D Andy's Filters AutomaticDuck CoreMelt Too Much Too Soon Joe's Filters CGM Digital Heaven Reincarnation 2.0 FurnaceCore (all except F_DeFlicker (4.1)) FxFactory seems to be stable idustrial revolution (ParticleMetrix) Nattress (Tested most if not all Filters and FX) Neat Video - Reduce Noiby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Any Blackmagic UltraStudio 4k Users? - 10 years ago
Have you tried turning off the use 1080p and not 1080PsF?by Ben King - Café LA - X
Re: OT: which MacPro to buy for $500 - 10 years ago
If you are running Mountain Lion or Mavericks you can get a PC version of the GTX285 or higher to work with the Mac with no hacking needed anymore. I currently run a GTX580 with 3GB VRAM but you need an external PSU to run it well.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Upconverting older FCP4 files to FCP7 - 10 years ago
Not as far as I can remember - certainly your best bet is to export an XML from FCP4 as well as updating your FCP4 files. Remember to always keep a backup of your FCP4 files too! The only caveat I can think of might be older incompatible FX or plugins might be missing unless you have the FCP7 versions installed.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Is it possible to gang multiple finder windows together? - 10 years ago
You are looking for file comparison or "difference" apps there are a few that come to mind:by Ben King - Café LA
Re: OSX Mavericks + FCP 7? - 10 years ago
Interesting Andrew... I'll look out for that on Client drives! But Western Digital and LaCie losing data? Now there's a surprise! Always my mantra is to stick to HGST (Hitachi) or Samsung for your HDDs even though WD own HGST they haven't screwed up the Hitachi tech yet!by Ben King - Café LA
Re: OSX Mavericks + FCP 7? - 10 years ago
QuoteIn the QT 7.6.6 player (which works!) playback is smooth but I get a thin white right border in fullscreen mode. I'm not seeing this on mine - what CODEC, fps and pixel size are you playing?by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Audio rates 44100/32 vs 48000/6 - 10 years ago
Do you have scratch sound recorded on the camera? If so then FCPX or PluralEyes is your beast of burden for linking files. If not then making sure the sound and camera TC is jam-synced means you can do it via TC and an app like Sync-N-Link or sequenceLiner Otherwise if you have no matching sound or TC go through and put a marker on the Video Clapper clap and then on the audio fileby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Known Working FCP7/OS combinations - 10 years ago
Mac Pro 8-Core Intel Xeon 3 GHz 32 GB RAM GTX580 3GB (PC version) 32TB SAS RAID 6 Blackmagic Multibridge Pro FCP7.03 FCPX Adobe CC QuicktimePro 7.6.6 Currently running Mavericks 10.9 (Stable), Previously Mountain Lion (Stable), Lion (buggy), Snow Leopard (Stable), etc... Works fine on FCP7.03 and other Final Cut Studio 3 apps - also works with FCPX and Adobe CC. I have a workingby Ben King - Café LA
Re: Audio rates 44100/32 vs 48000/6 - 10 years ago
It depends entirely what your sound people want and if they would benefit from using 32bit Floating Point Audio. You could convert to 24Bit 48KHz but to be fair you won't get a higher quality just because you up the sample rate - it's already recorded at the lower rate and you might also find you limit the dynamic range of what you recorded so much they can't get the best out of the files.by Ben King - Café LA
Re: Visual Effects workflow - 10 years ago
QuoteMost of the colorists I've worked with want the VFX on the ungraded media so they're not constrained later on if regrades or tweaks are needed. This is how I generally deliver VFX - I'll work with a LUT applied to an adjustment layer or on the output from the Video Card the LUT might even be from the grade so I can see roughly what the FX will look like with a grade applied but then deliveby Ben King - Café LA
Re: CONVERSION FROM MAC TO NTFS - 10 years ago
Yes the Canon MKIII uses H.264 MP4 encoded movies and can use exFat formatted CF Cards (for larger than 4GB files). Just format an external HDD (or SSD or USB stick) to exFat using Disk Utility on Mac OS or on Windows and transfer your MP4s onto their PCs from that. Alternatively set up file sharing over a wired or wireless network: FYI exFat could theoretically store a file-size up toby Ben King - Café LA
Sapphire launches HD 7950 Mac Edition graphics card - 11 years ago
Sapphire launches HD 7950 Mac Edition graphics card Apparently only for Mac Pro 4,1 (2010) and upwards. Still - for those wishing to avoid hacking a PC card to get a bit more out of your old MacPro it looks like a good card for ProApps and OpenCL.by Ben King - Café LA
