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Re: OT: DVD printing recommendations - 14 years ago
Casey, I don't use the Epson CD print software at all. It's bad. I use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and a template I found online for centering the graphics on the disk properly. Yeah, the old Epson's are too slow to print hundreds. But for a few it works great. But the real key is the Taiyo disks.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: DVD printing recommendations - 14 years ago
I am using an old Epson R300. I get very professional looking DVD printing using the Taiyo Yuden "Water Shield" disks. They have a glossy finish and are "dry" basically as soon as they come out of the printer. The only thing you have to watch out for is if you bleed your design off the edge of printable surface and onto the thin band of raw DVD plastic. You need to wipe that oby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: i don't get adobe's master collection 3.3 logic... - 14 years ago
Just got off the phone with Adobe to upgrade my Master Collection. The guy told me they started shipping it two days ago. I ordered the full installer disks, not the download version, so we shall see how soon it is delivered.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Purchasing a new Mac Pro for FCP - 14 years ago
Thanks guys. The stock ATI 2600XT seems like a good bet for now. I appreciate the input.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Purchasing a new Mac Pro for FCP - 14 years ago
Looking to replace my old G5 with a new Mac Pro and had questions about the video card options as relates to Motion. I was reading somewhere that one of the stock cards you can choose when you configure the system has been disappointing for use with Motion. Anyone know which is the best card to option? I also read that the new ATI Radeon HD 3870 is a really great card for not a lot of money.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: You want me to sign what?!?!!??! - 14 years ago
Gregory, you cannot sign a contract like that. By taking the liability off themselves they will feel free to take risks with copyright material.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: You want me to sign what?!?!!??! - 14 years ago
Forcing you to have E&O is absurd. I have no idea if an individual can get E&O for himself but I worked on a series commissioned by Discovery a couple years ago and the E&O for it was something around $50,000 with the insurance company recommended by Discovery. Not one single editor I have ever met has E&O. Does the production company have it? Sounds like they are doing projby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: need to use music from movie soundtrack in project - 14 years ago
Regarding the "work for hire" comment. I have worked on DVD extras for several feature film re-issues and we certainly had to deal with getting permission from and paying the original film composer even though it was as much as a decade later. This was for using the original score in the DVD extras. You can't be too careful with music licensing. If you are looking to license high proby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: la cie big disk extreme is 'read only'! - 14 years ago
"The f*&^ing thing chose that day to die, and he lost a whole day's shoot before he could even mount the thing for long enough to do a backup. So before you go into the mentality of saying "Oh, it's working fine for now", ask yourself how much your media, time, creativity and your crew's manpower are worth." I am so paranoid about this stuff that I take two drives to tby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: avid snobbery - whatever! - 14 years ago
Not commenting regarding FCP vs. Avid, but I work on an Adrenaline quite a bit and there is no rendering of alpha channel graphics even over color correction and dissolves. But there is really no place for snobbishness anymore.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Magic Bullet Suite Sale - 14 years ago
Hey folks, I know product plugs are not normally posted here but I thought I would mention that Magic Bullet Suite is half off today at Toolfarm. They are running one of their periodic one day/half off sales. Colorista is in the package. If you have been on the fence about it, today might be a good day to go for it. There are a few other gems on sale as well. No personal affiliation with Toolfby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: Which monitor to buy - definitively not a Dell for me - 14 years ago
Joe, do you have the 2407 or the 2408. Seems like most people here are happy with their 2407's or earlier. It's seems that the 2408 have problems isolated to them. I was thinking about getting a 2408 but the problems have led me to think that a 2407 from ebay would be better.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Swap and Go Hard Drive - 14 years ago
Some companies are making protective sleeves like these . I would use anti static bags as well.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Swap and Go Hard Drive - 14 years ago
Exactly my point. It is still a type of RAID. Only RAID 1 is redundant. The others are predictive. I can see how my post can be read differently than intended. I meant RAID 0 is as much a type of RAID as are the other RAID schemes which are protected.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Swap and Go Hard Drive - 14 years ago
Just for clarity, RAID 0 is as much a raid type as the other protected schemes. So a general statement that all RAID's are protected isn't true. Of all the RAID types, only RAID 1 is actually "redundant".by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Best LCD Monitor for FC Studio 2 - 14 years ago
bigbossbmb, Thanks for that info. I was not able to go to NAB this year and really wanted to evaluate this monitor. The Panasonics are too green I think and the reference Sony's way too expensive. I have seen some magazine reviews but no reviews from working editors. A question, how do they deal with SD screen size? Do they scale it up or just place the image smaller in the center of the screen?by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Rates... - 14 years ago
Apologies if my comment came off too harsh. It just seems as though the idea that "management" so to speak has extra "force of law" behind them is kind of a self defeating way of looking at things. Television/film producers basically know what they are going to spend when hiring. Some compensate fairly, some don't. But they really don't need any "law" behind themby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Best LCD Monitor for FC Studio 2 - 14 years ago
I have some questions myself that I am going to throw in here. I was thinking about getting a 30" and Dell has a high end at $2000 but it has a contrast range of 3000:1. The lower price 30 and the 24 are 1000:1. The Apple is 700:1. Just wondering what impact this has when using the monitor for projects that may include print output as well as video. Can you properly calibrate the highby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Rates... - 14 years ago
It is not illegal for individuals to discuss these things. Michael is not running a union here, there is no attempt to regulate rates or coerce people into a billing model. People are just exercising free speech here. Freelancers negotiate with employers one-on-one and discussions here have no weight to bring to bear on those negotiations. No weight that would fall under any labor law. It's kiby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: 3D Titling Software Recommendations? - 14 years ago
You might go ahead and try Invigorator Pro or Classic. I think you can download a trial version or run it unlicensed with watermark. I know people who swear by it. But I use Lightwave myself. Of course you will need After Effects.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: OT: It's official -- Apple is NOT selling FCP - 14 years ago
Reading Cringley is usually entertaining because it's hubris fueled by a fair amount of knowledge. But he's crippled by an astonishingly large ego. His predictions are frequently wrong and occasionally he will fess up to it. I enjoy his column but consider it entertainment. Hopefully no one makes purchasing decisions on what Cringley says.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: The Look Suite - 14 years ago
Where I am, we mostly call the last steps "finishing". You can finish in your desktop editor or in a Flame suite. Whatever suites the project. The terms offline and online are used less and less.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: The Look Suite - 14 years ago
Joe, you are forcing those definitions to fit your argument. Both terms "color grading" and "color correction" have now been stretched to the point where it's hard to define where "grading" ends and "FX" begins. Your long statement concerning "what is a look" could be simplified by just saying that a "look" is what you get after the &by Sprocketz - Café LA
Apple and NAB - 14 years ago
Just curious if Apple is having a press event today to talk about anything or is the recent quite upgrade to 6.0.3 about it? Also, any rumors of anything new from Aja, Blackmagic, etc. ?by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Editing for TV, how do i do the breaks and timing - 15 years ago
There is a possibility the distributor is asking for some kind of genericized version to use as an initial sales tool. You will have to make a custom version for any cable network they sell it to. Not only the formatting of acts and the way commercial breaks are layed out, but also audio mix levels, possibly having to pass a Dolby LM100 loudness inspection. It's a lot harder to pass that test thaby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Pro Tools LE and FCP on one or two machines - 15 years ago
Just a note on the G-Raid. Although I highly recommend the G-Raid products, there are certainly several other options for hardware raids who's raid structure is invisible to the computers operating system. With a new MacPro I might look for a hardware raid with an esata interface instead of firewire for increased speed. Especially if your audio projects have a lot of tracks. That said, I like FWby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Pro Tools LE and FCP on one or two machines - 15 years ago
I have a Firewire 800 card in an expansion slot and a G-Raid for my audio work. Since the G-Raid is a hardware raid the computer sees it as one drive and Pro Tools works fine with it. The G-Raid gets plugged into the expansion card and my Digi003 (was the 002) goes into the front FW400 plug. That makes it easy to switch it for the AJA Io when needed. I usually have two G-Raids attached to the FW8by Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Pro Tools LE and FCP on one or two machines - 15 years ago
Stephen, I don't have an intel mac yet so I can't speak to that. But I do have Pro Tools LE 7.3 and FCS2 running on a dual proc G5. I have been running various releases of FC and Pro Tools LE for the last 3 years on the same machine with no problems whatsoever. Don't see why this wouldn't continue to be the case on an intel machine but you never know.by Sprocketz - Café LA
Interesting Audio Plug - 15 years ago
I don't use Soundtrack Pro, I have a Pro Tools setup. But I thought some here might be interested in a pretty amazing new plugin for music production. I assume Soundtrack Pro will take at least one of the sound plugin formats this can work in. It can be used as VST, AU or RTAS. It operates on pre-recorded sound (not midi) such as loops, samples or recorded performances. Not available till fallby Sprocketz - Café LA
Re: Digi Beta ??? - 15 years ago
Just keep in mind the maintenance costs. If you use the machine a lot the heads can wear out in as little as a year and the replacement cost is approx $5000. The older decks like the A500 wore out heads about once a year if you used them a lot. The newer models have longer head life. When you buy a new digibeta you also purchase the maintenance contract which was for the A500 $5000/year. Heaby Sprocketz - Café LA
