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Re: Finishing in Premiere - 10 years ago
Wow, you're really flying that thing hard Strypes! I've just spent three sessions teaching a large government media department transitioning from FCP7 to PPCC and my favourite bit was when I asked one of the guys who was apprehensive at the beginning if he was OK with the program at the end he said 'Not OK. I LOVE it!' Right now we're cutting a series for Nat Geo, and have a new 4k series aboby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Warp stabilizer vs smooth cam - 10 years ago
Yup, like Strypes says, it will only work with the clip on your timeline. It's WAYYY faster than smoothcam. Large bumps in the footage can sometimes make the whole thing go wobbly, but if you've got stuff that's not terrible to begin with, it's really lovely.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Three monitor setup with mac mini? - 10 years ago
Or maybe a Thunderbolt hub?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere - Best workflow for setting scratch discs? - 10 years ago
When I was on the job where we moved stations a lot last year all the data was stored on a central server, and yet whenever a project was opened on a machine different to the one it was opened on last time, it wanted to remake all the files. This took AGES. Not sure if this is still the case. Where I am now we have a large SAN but hardly ever move work from station to station. Maybe there's soby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Question not showing up on your site - 10 years ago
I found it in the FCPX forum and moved it to hereby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere - Best workflow for setting scratch discs? - 10 years ago
Yeah, but if it moves, you don;t have the option to reset it before loading the project, and it wants to default to the documents folder, so as soon you get the project open it starts putting junk in your documents folder. It's also a pain on some SANs - it seems to want to rebuild every time you open a project on a new workstation. Or at least it was when I was at a place where I had to moveby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Premiere - Best workflow for setting scratch discs? - 10 years ago
Yeah keeping them on a dedicated drive is good. Wish I had a better answer for this too.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Weird Premiere project issue - 10 years ago
I have Memoryclean (from the App Store too) installed, and I can see the memory binding up right in my menu bar. It also allows you to 'clean' the memory from there when it's not doing so well. Like Strypes, I think this might be part of the problem, but since you say other projects are not having any trouble, what is the different thing about this project? Just the media type? Just the size?by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Fade shortcut wanted - 10 years ago
I used to use a 'dip to colour' transition, set to black, or to white if I wanted a white fade.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Keying out the sky - 10 years ago
I was in the same place. I was thinking that what you were doing really should be working, and then it hit me lolby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Keying out the sky - 10 years ago
Oh, doh, I just realised the problem - you're using the wrong filter. You need to use a Key to remove something, The CC secondaries just selects them for changes to hue and so on. So put your good clip on V1, the blown out clip on V2. Add a Chroma Key (of your choice) to the top layer and click with the eyedropper to select the basic colour. The hold shift and use the eyedropper to select morby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Keying out the sky - 10 years ago
You used secondary colour section to remove the sky on the top clip, yes? Are you viewing the result in the correct mode? It should really work.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Stock Compositor's Glue Source - 10 years ago
Nice - thanks Clay. I love trawling these for ideas too.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Stock Compositor's Glue Source - 10 years ago
Well, I have some redeeming qualities, clearly Do you KNOW how hard it is to be a non-drinker in Australia?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Stock Compositor's Glue Source - 10 years ago
Videohive is great on price and usually has a lot of choices. this one is $4 Fireby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere's sync by audio waveform feature - 10 years ago
Weird - I used your first method a while ago for hundreds of clips and it worked fine. Does the video actually have any audio to sync to? Styrpes method is better though, since you can do lots at once.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Workflow for syncing R3ds in FCP x - 10 years ago
Why not just sync in Premiere and cut native? Here's a tutorial from Strypes : Audio Sync using Multicam in Premiere Pro It seems redundant to go through one program to make an XML for another program which can do the same thing. Also, Premiere can handle the R3D files without transcoding, while FCP7 can't. Unless you're maybe taking this opportunity to learn FCPX.by Jude Cotter - Café LA - X
Re: Canon mark iii Raw footage workflow. - 10 years ago
I'm not at all familiar with this camera, but I did read that Premiere CC was including it as native (Cinema DNG) last october : "Responding to rapid changes in the industry with the move to Ultra High Definition 4K formats and beyond, Premiere Pro’s outstanding native media support has been given a major boost this release. New native file format support for Cinema DNG, Sony RAW, Phantby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 10 Almost New Shortcuts in Premiere Pro (And a Couple of Others) - 10 years ago
I have to admit to using the FCP keys. Which is bad and wrong, and something I counseled people against for years when switching from Avid to FCP. It's just that when you have to get work out quick, its so easy to let your muscle memory do the walking. But I'm with Clay in thinking that they're not going to include this keyset forever, so if you've got the time it would be lots better to learby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Multiple frame rates in an FCP7 timeline, It's export time! - 10 years ago
>>It all plays fine in sync in the timeline start to finish however. << >>It's an old personal project not for a client<< How about a screen capture of the playout right from the timeline, using something like iShowU? Even if you have to stop a few times you can stitch the capture back together in FCP if required.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Trouble Importing XDCAM footage into FCP 7 - 10 years ago
Can you explain what you're doing to import? You're using Log and Transfer, not Log and capture, right? Then what?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere's sync by audio waveform feature - 10 years ago
I used it that way and it worked fine. Strypes actually sent me a way to use multicam instead to sync everything at once and I was supposed to do a tutorial on it with his permission, but I just haven't had any time. This is from his notes to me : For DSLR it's remarkably simple - just put the video in the same bin as its related audio, select all (or select the bins containing the clips), aby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Re-capture tape clips in high rez from FCP 7 original project into X. - 10 years ago
Do you have or can you you get an XML out of FCP7? Premiere will probably recognise it, and there's also a free trial of that.by Jude Cotter - Café LA - X
Re: OT: HAPPY 30th, MAC!!! - 10 years ago
Crazy. To think lots of us were there before there were 'personal' computers. It was one of the most significant things to happen last century, I reckon. Interestingly, I remember that when you could buy a Mac SE brand new it was about the same price as it would be today to buy a new MacPro.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 10 years ago
I don't think anyone with Premiere cares enough about why it works well in Premiere and not in FCP7 to do tests. It works, ergo, we work. If it matters a lot to you, you could download a free 30 day trial and do the tests with that.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Known Working FCP7/OS combinations - 10 years ago
Just FCP7, but Premiere and AE are installed. I just started cutting something shot on the Blackmagic camera that shoots ProRes, and have converted a bunch of Canon H.264s for use in the same project, all running off an external Thunderbolt drive. So far no real issues, but I'm only on the first cuts, so no fx. I can test something specific for you next week when I'm there again if you like?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Known Working FCP7/OS combinations - 10 years ago
One of my workplaces has just set up a 2013 iMac with Maverick and so far it's running fine with ProRes HQ footage. Not really any discernible differences from the older MacPro running Lion.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Video image control filters not working. - 10 years ago
Wow. That's odd. What is the footage? Anything different from your normal work? What has changed since the last time the system worked? New gear? Camera? Ingest system? Filter pack? Anything?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Video image control filters not working. - 10 years ago
Do the images play OK on the timeline? Or are they freezing? Are you connected to an external monitor? What happens if you export a short section with a radical change on a filter applied? Does the export show the changes?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: unlinking stereo pairs on clips either in the bin or viewer - 10 years ago
If you only have one track patched on the timeline, it will only allow the patched track to come in on the timeline, which is not an unlinking, but allows you to add video with only one track of stereo audio. Not sure if this is what you need it to do though. What is it that you're trying to achieve?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
