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Re: OT: R.I.P. Steve Jobs - 12 years agoSuch as shame for any man (or woman) to go out at 56. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. A big thank you to Mr Steve Jobs, (to my mind) the single, most influential man in the history of computing - a visionary - that along with the teams he built and the products they created; changed the world of technology for the better. I would say "RIP Steve"... but Steveby Ben King - Café LA Re: O/T Drive crash. - 12 years agoIt really is a last resort so if you simply cannot get anything from it you have nothing to lose. The only other thing you can do is go to a forensic data recovery specialist who will remove the platters and extract the data albeit, for a very large sum of money. Even seriously burned or battered HDDs can have data partially recovered.by Ben King - Café LA Re: O/T Drive crash. - 12 years agoArrrrrgh! Maxtor strikes again! Horrid Horrid Tech (spit). Interesting that it will mount - have you had any luck in transferring any files at all? I have had limited success with file recovery apps like DataRescue. Last resort: Using the Voodoo technique of taking the HDD out of the Mac - wrapping it in tissue paper then putting in a zip-lock bag and put in the freezer for about aby Ben King - Café LA Re: Re-install FCPX - 12 years agoI had the exact same issue. I used the FCS Remover from Digital Rebellion to remove only FCPX and all the associated FCPX receipts and prefs then reinstalled from the App store.by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: FCPX 10.0.1 is out - 12 years agoCraig. Don't you mean... "FCPX 10.0.0.1 is Not Out Yet"? Still no update on Software Update or on the App Store...by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: force fcp to recreate titles? - 12 years agoAye... its only when you cut and paste that titles will conform to the new settings. If you want to keep the timing exact from the start you can either cut and paste at the start time of the first title or do it the brainless easy way adding a slug at the start and copy and paste all the titles and slug then paste them all deleting the slug afterwards. This keeps everything in the correct posiby Ben King - Café LA Re: Can't burn Blu-Ray from FCP X (Update) - 12 years agoQuoteOne simple fix in FCP for this issue is to leave a half second slug of black pre and post "content" on the FCP timeline. I have seen this loop issue on both SD and HD projects so this has become standard procedure for looped DVDs or BDs Nice idea but not really a fix if you want a seamless motion menu (unless you want a dip to black!). Sure DVDs often pause for a moment as theby Ben King - Café LA - X Re: Embeded 48Khz / 20 Bits - 12 years agoBlimey! I haven't heard of anyone using 20bit audio or devices for years - are you sure they have that correct? I've always wondered who uses 20bit audio... never had a project with it or need it... Anyway you can do 8bit 16bit and 24bit Audio not 20bit in FCP. Set it up in your sequence settings. Ask the client - I presume they should be able to handle 24bit PCM audio with a XDCAM HD422by Ben King - Café LA Re: Simple ProRes proxy question - 12 years agoQuoteI can also obviously see the difference in speed between your computer setup and mine...based on the Larry Jordan article, should I see results if I simply switch from FW800 to eSata drives? Not really for simple renders with only one layer of video. Your FireWire 800 should be giving you at least 35 to 70 MBps maybe more depending on the chipset and HDD but maxing out well short of 1by Ben King - Café LA Re: Simple ProRes proxy question - 12 years agoDatarate should only really be compared with the same codec with the same frame-rate, pixel size and colour depth. For instance H.264 is considered better at lower datarates than MPEG-2. Also not all encoders are equal and the quality varies between manufacturers and versions. Besides I ran a test and figured out why you are having such bad render times... I was basing my initial suby Ben King - Café LA Re: Simple ProRes proxy question - 12 years agoIt sounds like FCPX might actually be a better option for you as you could just edit all the formats together on the Timeline and chuck out out a final edit. That is if you have a Mac with the required GPU. I use XDCAM EX on a ProRes 422 Timeline if there is no option/time of pre-transcoding the footage. Otherwise I get it all ProRes 422 as in my experience it is the most stable and fastest roby Ben King - Café LA Re: Simple ProRes proxy question - 12 years agoBoth Proxy and ProResLT should only be considered as offline CODECs - use 422 or 422HQ or 444 if you want to retain the image - even from 8bit XDCAM EX. I'm currently editing a feature with ProResLT offline files and I would definitely NOT recommend it as a final as you have very little picture detail to play around with on certain types of shots. Most notably dark and/or subtle gradient shotsby Ben King - Café LA Re: best downsampling workflow from prores422 to SD - 12 years agoNo problem Eric - hope it smooths out the flow or at least increase the quality of the output.by Ben King - Café LA Re: best downsampling workflow from prores422 to SD - 12 years agoQuoteYour best approach is still a capture card; bypass software conversion of the media altogether, and output an HD timeline directly to SD tape. Bit of a problem when using an iMac as you have no Card slot and external FireWire devices that can do Hardware SD downconversion such as the AJA IO HD will not play nice with FireWire Media Storage on the Same FireWire Bus (eg connected to the iMacby Ben King - Café LA Re: best downsampling workflow from prores422 to SD - 12 years agoAh D you just got in there before me!by Ben King - Café LA Re: best downsampling workflow from prores422 to SD - 12 years agoProcessing will very much depend on your Mac(s) you could easily set up a Qmaster network with Compressor to share the transcoding. What Mac/FCP/RAID setup are you using? Is there a reason why you don't cut the masters in HD and then do the SD master afterwards? Certainly I would always advocate this as you will then have an HD master for future (showreels, broadcast or library footage) anby Ben King - Café LA Re: Can't burn Blu-Ray from FCP X - 12 years agoYes you can. Sort of... You can encode Blu-ray and DVD from the same HD source file within Encore. But honestly don't use Encore to create the Blu-ray encodes - do the H.264 Blu-ray and MPEG-2 SD DVD files in Compressor or Adobe Media Encoder and import them for mastering in Encore. For some reason encoding H.264 Blu-ray within Encore often loses the "renders" in the same annoying waby Ben King - Café LA - X Re: OT: ProRes White Papers - 12 years agoYes for certain I use and have used all the above in FCP in realtime. It really does work (if your Mac meets the minimum the system requirements for ProRes).by Ben King - Café LA Re: Alexa Guide Track Sync - 12 years agoHey Joe Could you just confirm: You have no issue with AV sync on Alexa SxS using ProRes 444 codec? But there are issues on the ProRes 422? Has anyone fed this back to Arri?by Ben King - Café LA Re: Can't burn Blu-Ray from FCP X - 12 years agoJust a quick tip... When testing Blu-ray encodes use a BD-RE (Re-writable Blu-ray). Some people I know have used the same BD-RE for master testing for over 2 years so its worth buying a decent quality one as you will avoid wasting money on failed BD-R discs. I am not sure what the issue is with FCP-X but personally I would not use it for BR burning - instead I'd encode using Compressor oby Ben King - Café LA - X Re: Can Avid coexist with FCP on same system drive? - 12 years agoAvid don't upgrade very often and when they do they are usually an OS or two behind on both Mac and PC so I'd put it on a separate drive if you think you might update the system disk with FCP often. On the MBP you could always create a FireWire boot disk which could load either/or. I know people running both on the same drive without issues, but in my case I like to install all the latest uby Ben King - Avid Media Composer Re: Hello, I'm a FCP - 12 years agoQuotein London for instance to date there have been 4 suicides at post houses in the city as sentimental editors dispair at the travesty of Apple's FCP-X 'practical joke' I don't think that is fair to say that... ... almost certainly they were Lion assisted.by Ben King - Café LA - X Re: Lion and FCP7 (Studio 3) - 12 years agoI'm holding off relying on it - lots of issues with many Apps and general sluggish behaviour. If you can - clone your boot drive and run a copy onto it and check how it works on your system. I had mucho updates and still not found a satisfactory way of using Quicktime Pro 7 even though it sort of works for playback. So currently I'm running Mac OS X SL 10.6.8 when I'm working on critical stby Ben King - Café LA Re: OT: DaVinci Resolve Lite (Mac) FREE DOWNLOAD with full manuals!! - 12 years agoSweeeeeetby Ben King - Café LA Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoThe good news is that QT7pro does work. The bad news is I cannot guarantee that its stable as I can playback most QT CODECs but cannot export without the app crashing. Still not closer to finding a Preview/Quick Look solution for ProRes.by Ben King - Café LA Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoThanks Jon Interesting - so have they just removed the access to older CODECs? Would like to be able to use QT7 if I can get them working. Do you think there is a work-around for the QuickView ProRes issue? I thought they were dumping QT in Favour of AVfoundations. Do you think for the interim its for legacy products such as FCP7 et al or still integral to the Mac OS? Gotta delby Ben King - Café LA Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years ago...going to blame that faux pas on the lack of coffee and the shear excitement of installing a new OS. :|by Ben King - Café LA Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoDAMN I missed out the vital words: "ProRes" Sorry guys... I didn't make it clear All other CODECs that are covered under AV Foundations work fine. However you can view ProRes and other non-supported Quicktime CODECs via QTX as it seems to access the old CODECs I have on my system. Going to see if there is a fix for ProRes in QuickView - maybe reinstalling FCPX?by Ben King - Café LA Re: Mac OS X Lion, New MacBook Air & Mac Minis - 12 years agoOne REALLY annoying thing. Now that the Quicktime Framework has been EOL'd under Lion you cannot use Quick Look or Finder Preview to see movies. I imagine this will be the same for other CODECs too. Going to investigate...by Ben King - Café LA |
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