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Re: OT: March 24 lafcpug meeting maybe the last one - 13 years ago
During the time LAFCPUG met at the LA Film School, I attended several times and had no problem finding parking in the school's structure unless you were late. You had to pay for parking as I recall but it was not prohibitively expensive for a once a month event. Seems like it was about $5.00. Parking in the adjacent Border's bookstore building is very expensive without a validation from a mercby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: March 24 lafcpug meeting maybe the last one - 13 years ago
Michael, I used the link and sent an email to the Councilman. Hope they see these messages by the time the Monday morning meeting starts. It would be a shame to lose these meetings right here in the heart of "Hollywood". This should be a rallying cry to support the LAFCPUG and DMA/LA.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Edit To Tape: Insert vs. Assemble - 13 years ago
Are you using firewire to control the deck? Also, assemble editing is not necessarily a perfectly clean in. It depends on the deck and it's maintenance. The control track sequence at the assemble edit point can be disturbed enough to create problems for devices that might control the tape playback later such as station automation gear and particularly audio work stations doing laybacks.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Render 24PN normal - 13 years ago
24PN is actually true 24 in that it is NOT embedded in a 60i stream but is just straight 24 (at 23.98} The advantage is the 20% space savings/record time available on the P2 cards when you shoot this way.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Safe To Use Snow Leopard With FCS3 Yet? - 13 years ago
Thanks for that link Andy. I got this on the 21st of January from AJA: "Unfortunately there are no Snow Leopard capable drivers for the SD Io products and none coming as far as I know. Sorry I don't have better news." Then I recieved an email from Jon Thorn at AJA regarding the issue. He went on a some length explaining the history of the IO starting in 2003 through various vby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Safe To Use Snow Leopard With FCS3 Yet? - 13 years ago
Getting ready for CS5 as you mention but currently Lightwave has an open beta version available and that is what I use for some light 3D work. Syntheyes is 64 bit as well.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Safe To Use Snow Leopard With FCS3 Yet? - 13 years ago
Thanks for that list Joey!by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Safe To Use Snow Leopard With FCS3 Yet? - 13 years ago
I have been having serious problems with transitioning my Harpertown 8 core to Snow Leopard. Reinstalled everything 4 times now. All drives have developed access permissions problems requiring typing in the password just to copy a file into them. Admin account seems to get really screwy. Last Friday, with two firewire drives attached, the computer locked access to all the drives, includingby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Protools users group - 13 years ago
The DUC as they call it really isn't very useful for solving problems. You will look and see many questions go completely unanswered. Of all the post production forums I watch, the DUC is the worst. It's Digi's in-house forum and they really keep a lot of tech help under the paid support offerings. Here on LAFCPUG, you almost always get an answer to a problem. Even if no one knows the answer,by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: Blu-ray on Macs soon? Don't hold your breath. - 13 years ago
What Jobs means by the "mess" is the licensing scheme involved with creating any commercially distributed bluray title, even small runs. Sony has mentioned some kind of streamlined licensing method with lower fees, but the fees are likely still pretty high. Plus Sony has not show any signs of licensing the various patents involved with authoring bluray disks to an inexpensive applby Sprocketz - Café LA
Motu HDX-SDI, anybody heard any advance information? - 13 years ago
Product page: Anyone heard or discussed any disadvantages with this product? It is certainly a lot less expensive than the Aja IO HD. Lots of input and output but is anything important missing? B&H preorder price is $795 Never heard one way or another about their earlier product, the V4HD.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Toggle filters off question - 13 years ago
Just wondering if there is a way to toggle off all filters in a sequence. Not remove them, just turn them off temporarily so you can see footage play realtime that won't with filters on them.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: What's the best place in LA to learn - 13 years ago
xavpil, You have not said what kind of shooting you are doing. Are you trying to shoot industrials? Documentaries? Drama Commercials It's different for each. If you are just going to do "doc" type shooting, with interviews for instance, here is a great place: You will not really be able to learn specific camera operations from a textbook. You will need hands-on time.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: THE TEXT that only Big Boys can do. - 13 years ago
J. You referenced someone from TBS as giving you advice. First rule in asking for this kind of "advice" is to keep the BS meter handy at all times. Just because they work for a network doesn't mean they know anything. Don't know where you picked up the term "gen" but it's not helping you. The advice you got was just BS. "Settled/matched"? That's just a selby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: I'm Looking for Realistic animated 3D Interior/exterior Backgrounds. - 13 years ago
You haven't really specified what sort of images you are looking for. Cityscapes? Rooms? Futuristic? Urban? Search on variations of "virtual sets" and you may find something close or maybe a lead. Here is one site where you can buy prefab virtual sets with both still images or they can provide the 3D source files if you want to use them for animation. I have looked for thiby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
OK, made it out to tape. Thanks for you input guys, you saved the day!by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
OK, Been running 30 minutes now. I did want to mention the Frames plug in as I had some specific problems with it. There are two motion interpolation settings in MB Frames, "motion" and "blend". The default when you apply the filter is "motion". This looked really great. Did the trick nicely and when it's used in a 29.97 sequence you don't get the much judby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Sorry, meant 650 gig in the original post, should have added the "gig"by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Hey Derek, as I mentioned it is a Rocstore FW 800. 1 tb, 650 gig available. It stopped with a skipped frames warning. Seems to be having through put issues from the drive occasionally. We have been editing with it fine, but play out is a different matter. The drive was supplied by the client with raw footage already digitized. I believe the "drive" houses only 1 disk instead oby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
OK, Although the reference movie was saying 30 minutes at first, it finished in just a few minute. I started a new sequence, loaded the quicktime ref which is picture only and cut the 4 channels of mixed audio from the sound mixer. It now seems to be working. Ooopps. It just stopped as I was writing this. However, it let me pick up an insert edit where it stopped. So I am crossinby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Trying again with quicktime export with "make self contained" unchecked. Strangely now it is say 30 min.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Tried making exporting a quicktime, just 3 minutes worth. Started a new project and tried insert editing to a blacked tape. Worked fine. If I make a quicktime of the entire show will it need to be broken up into parts or can the whole thing be exported at once? Can't re-render the the whole show. It took something like 35 hrs to render over the weekend as it is. Frames is taking thby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Drive is Rocstore FW 800. 1 tb, 650 available. Not that full. This was supplied to us from the client. It has been working fine. I did export-quicktime-video only , unchecked 'make movie self contained. Still says 2 hours to exportby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
D1, 720x486 8 bit uncompressed Thought of sending it out to a quicktime. 2 hours to make it. Already missed the deadlineby Sprocketz - Café LA
Big problem laying off to tape. Crashing out of FC when starting an edit to tape. - 13 years ago
Having a big problem. 1 hr. show, Standard Def Going out to digibeta FC 6.04 8 core mac 10 meg ram Lots of drive space Already trashed preferences Will not edit to tape. If I just make a new sequence with just bars and tone it will edit to tape. But when I try the main sequence it I get spinning ball of death and then crash out. Magic Bullet frames on entire sequence but itby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Snow Leopard Spells TROUBLE for SxS Users with Express 34 - 13 years ago
This quote from a Sony dealer was posted on the CML yesterday. "Unfortunately because of the significant changes to the OS current XDCAM Software versions WILL NOT RUN under SNOW LEOPARD. In fact the device may hang once the SxS card is inserted to begin a Transfer." "Since this is a very recent release from Apple that involves significant change to the Mac OS it may take seby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: MacBook Pro: 5400rpm system drive vs. 7200. - 13 years ago
I kind of think that for some applications it's better faster and some it's not. Editing I think will be fine on a 5400 as long as the media is on an external drive. Graphics maybe not as good, hard to say. Photoshop with caching on the system drive surely slower. Since we need to get started this weekend I think we will go with the 5400, but if it really dogs we can always replace the dby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: MacBook Pro: 5400rpm system drive vs. 7200. - 13 years ago
Thanks Shane, I figured it wouldn't be a problem but I just wanted to put any concerns to rest. Have a nice weekend, hope your are not working like we are!by Sprocketz - Café LA
MacBook Pro: 5400rpm system drive vs. 7200. - 13 years ago
Hey guys, we are getting a new 17" MacBook Pro for portable editing. We use an 8 core MacPro for everyday work in the office. The company wants to go down to an Apple store today but the stores only stock models with the 5400rpm system drives. We would like to start working over the weekend if we could and doing a build to order from Apple makes that impossible. All media will beby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: While using FCP got a popup window saying to SHUT DOWN the computer. - 13 years ago
This from Wikipedia regarding kernel panics.by Sprocketz - Café LA
