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Re: Questions about editing with canon 5dmark ii footage on FCP7 - 9 years ago
H.264 is stable in Premiere. You can cut and manipulate it as if it were any 'proper' codec.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: OT: advice on upgrades/workflow for 2014 - 9 years ago
I'd say that Premiere is gaining ground quickly in terms of userbase. Like you say, whichever way you turn you have to invest some money, so your choices are limited, but you have to go somewhere eventually. You could try asking your freelancers what they are comfortable with and go with that? I've personally cut probably about 60 or 70 spots on Premiere CC now, from broadcast to TVCs toby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Non internet connected edit systems - 9 years ago
In all my years with all my clients there's only one guy I know who isn't connected to the net on his edit suite, and it's because I told him a million years ago not to, when FCP first came out and we were on tight weekly deadlines. Now I can't convince him that it's OK. No idea what I said all those years ago, but it must have been scary. Most of the TV stations I work for have very paranoidby Jude Cotter - Café LA - X
Re: OT: advice on upgrades/workflow for 2014 - 9 years ago
What is it that's making you unhappy with Premiere? It could be tweaking some settings or workflow issues could clear up your reticence. If you are going to buy new software, it might as well be more CC licenses as FCPX or anything else. Apart from that, if you don't want to go Avid, then maybe download a trial of FCPX and see how it runs and feels in your shop. Also, maybe check out Smoke - iby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 9 years ago
Well done for walking, AK. It's hard to lose the money, but wow, people, buy the gear you need to run your businesses.by Jude Cotter - Café LA - X
Re: Anyone like the FCP X update? - 9 years ago
I'll vouch for Premiere CC being stable on long form too. I've overseen one hour-long broadcast spot that had about 24 hours of HD footage, and recently, one 'straight to DVD' project with hundreds of hours of extremely mixed format stuff. Not a hiccup on either. Not sure where this idea of instability comes from.by Jude Cotter - Café LA - X
Re: Capturing DVD i - 9 years ago
MPEG Streamclip is free and used by many pros. Highly recommend it.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: incorrect merged clips? - 9 years ago
My first guess would be a corrupt file, especially if the project quits on the same clip all the time. .wav and .aiff are both fine for use in FCP7. If you can identify the bad clip, remove it at the finder level and see if playback improves.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Big News! I now have backup hardware - 9 years ago
>>I am suffering from the childish delusion that I know you all as personal friends. << It's not a delusion, Harry. We may not know each other on the street, but here we all know you as a funny, genuine and peace loving guy. Who wouldn't want someone like that as a friend? As for storage, I have no strong opinions. The options are all flawed in one way or another, I reckon. Yoby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Seasons Greetings! - 9 years ago
Belated Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to everyone. Hope 2014 is a great year for you all.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Best codec for H.264 camera footage - 9 years ago
I'm with the 'don't go there' crew. H.264 is not stable in FCP7, and the damage is not reversible once a glitch occurs, in my experience. Better to convert to ProRes before editing, or use a different program.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Subclips and sequence errors in FCP7 - 9 years ago
It sounds like your system is getting pretty stressed out. What are you running the media off? Do all the connected drives, and your system drive have a good amount of free space? How much? The thing where your undo list is getting trashed sounds to me like a processor struggling to remember everything at once without enough brain to do it with.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: 10 Almost New Shortcuts in Premiere Pro (And a Couple of Others) - 9 years ago
Nice one Strypes. I was immediately grateful for the 'option-twirly' shortcut today. One of the cool things I noticed on the latest release that there's now an option in the export media panel to burn in timecode on the way out, or embed captions, or add a last minute grade using the built-in Lumetri set and a couple of other things. It's a nice quiet little addition.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
OT : Photoshop CC on special - 9 years ago
Photoshop with Lightroom is on special via CC until December 2nd for $9.99 month. If you have friends who use PS pretty exclusively, this is a deal to jump on.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: FCP 6 & Dip to Color Issue - 9 years ago
Do you have handles on the clip that it won't apply to that give you enough room for the transition to happen? Or does it start (or end) with the very first (last) frame of the clip?by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: LKFS delivery - 9 years ago
There are loudness radar meters in CC? How do I do this, Strypes? Edit : Never mind, should have Googled it before I asked lol. Ta - this looks pretty perfect.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
LKFS delivery - 9 years ago
I'm having a hard time trying to get my audio over the line with a system that demands LKFS levels delivery to conform to OP48. Of course, they have a button I can press that will 'fix' my audio for $55 a pop, but if this is the new standard, surely there must be a way to figure out how to meet the standard before submission. Is anyone using something that can show your timeline (in any NLE)by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: JCV MPG4 ingest issue - 9 years ago
Loren, if you get really stuck send me a short MP4 clip and I'll see if I can open it in Premiere. Don't worry about the folder structure. If so, you can download a trial for free and export out to something that FCP can handle a bit easier. So far Premiere has been the bomb for tricky ingests for me.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Upscaling DV-NTSC to HD? - 9 years ago
I'm pretty sure the system they have set up goes from a physical source to a 'recorded' file, but I'll have to check. I think it's real time too, since you have to play out the source, which we're getting quite unused to in the world of semi instant files. But yeah, excellent quality, and lots of on-the-fly adjustments available.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 9 years ago
Hey Jon, really enjoyed seeing you on the latest video on LAFCPUGs YouTube. I'm telling all my locals about Kollaborate, in the hopes that they'll take it up and make my life a bit more streamlined.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 9 years ago
We did it here once on a product we ordered that was never delivered. It took a while, but wasn't too demanding.by Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Creative Cloud Open Letter - 9 years ago
You know, when FCPX came out many of us hated it. HATED it. But there were three options. Some moved to an alternative, some stayed where they were, and others just sucked it up. Those are pretty much the same options now with Adobe. The fact that the products are killer apps with few viable alternatives makes it hard to switch, so really it's stay where you are, or drink the new Kool Aid. I pby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: Upscaling DV-NTSC to HD? - 9 years ago
I second Premiere, but also one of my workplaces recently got a Teranex for, I think, $1500. Or maybe it was $2k. In any case - it's an amazing price drop.by Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Editing in a foreign language - 9 years ago
It's hard to muddle through in another language, even with a translation. Even with a translator sitting right beside you. I haven't done any features, but I've done a few jobs where the entire product was in languages I didn't speak a word of. I had one interview job where a translator was telling me the guy was talking about something, but when a second translator checked the subtitles oveby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Premiere Templates - 9 years ago
and have a ton of templates that are pretty cheap, and there's great free tutorials at and as well as (some promoting this guy's plug-ins, but not all) And here's a link to a bunch of AE template sitesby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Re: CONVERSION FROM MAC TO NTFS - 9 years ago
NTFS is the format of a hard drive drive, not anything to do with the format of your clips. You can reformat an external drive to be ExFAT and that should work on both Mac and PC with larger files, or you could get an app called 'Paragon', which allows your Mac to write to an NTFS drive. As for the clips, I'm not positive about the III, but aren't they just standard H.264? I think most computby Jude Cotter - Café LA
Re: Adobe updates all video apps - coming in October - 9 years ago
I think SG has a way to go, because it's only really on it's first couple of revisions. But I am loving the path that they are taking. Like you say, a HUGE advantage has been setup in the workflow, and if there is something that Adobe does well, it's listen to the people at the coalface. I'm not a dedicated coulourist by a long shot, but I'm looking forward to this, because I have to do a faiby Jude Cotter - Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Known Working FCP7/OS combinations - 9 years ago
FCP7 is no longer supported by Apple and will have no further revisions, but MacOS's will continue to evolve. Therefore, this list is intended as a guide to known working combinations of MacOs's and FCP7/Quicktime. Please add a combination if you personally have run or are running it successfully - or if there are caveats, please add those as well. Right now I have a working combination onby Jude Cotter - Café LA
