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Re: Color Finesse VS. Final Touch CC systems. - 18 years agoI agree completely with Neil (still I consider CF amazing). Final Touch also is based on GPU acclerated real time playback (like Motion, totally dependent on graphics card power). It can play in RT up to (at least) 1080i resolution. Not sure about 2K. It is very powerful, but from what I've seen it's a new product, and as such it's not completely stable. Or it wasn't completely stable when I sawby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT:AE compatible Plug-ins - 18 years ago"Adolfo, i just need to clear something up about CF: are you saying that it can't do power windows in FCP? that's a drag. that'd steer me away from an FCP grade, i think" Nick: I didn't want to go deeper into that, because I don't want Mike to think we're hijacking the AE plug-ins topic! (Mike, I do believe this is very relevant to the subject). I am not sure what the exact capabilitiby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Setting expressions on my wacom - 18 years agoWithout having that specific model's software in front of me...All the Wacom tablets have a Preference Pane (you know, in the OS preferences) that lets you assign commands globally, or in an per application basis. You could add FCP to the list of applications and then assign specific FCP command sequences to the touch keys. Hope this helps.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT:AE compatible Plug-ins - 18 years agoHello, Grafixjoe. Please read one of my first replies on this topic. There are some AE plug-ins that have versions adapted to work properly in FCP. They are AE plug-ins only in the sense that they are written using the AE plug-in architecture. They are modified a bit to work properly with FCP. For practical purposes, they are After Effects plug-ins with the same functionality and usually the FCPby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AJA vs BlackMagic - 18 years ago".AJA is closer to Apple " Grass Valley is certainly much closer to Cupertino than Melbourne is But seriously, there must be a hundred valid reasons to like AJA over Decklink, better than the"close relationship". What tangible act of "closeness", something truly relevant to users in terms of features or functionality, have you seen from AJA that you didn't see fby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT:AE compatible Plug-ins - 18 years agoGrafixjoe, just in case: The AE version and FCP version are not same one. The version bundled with AE Pro won't work with FCP. If you have the FCP version, maybe you need an update for FCP 5.0x. The latest version is something like 1.57 All the best, Adolfoby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT:AE compatible Plug-ins - 18 years agoI'm not David, Michael, but I would say Color Finesse is really popular. Maybe "popular" is not the right word, probably "important" is more accurate. I know HD online/finishing houses that use it prominently (is that an English word). I'd say at high end FCP suites it's almost a must have, since clients are so impressed by how much of what you normally do on a Davinci systby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: mistaken audio rate - 18 years ago"fwiw, i have worked with 44.1 audio, and also with slightly off-48k audio without problem. just remember to mixdown audio before any export, or preview". Yes, Nick, of course eveything you say is correct. But in my experience, sync problems do appear in FCP when the "labeled" sample rate and the actual sample rate are different. For instance, a digital clip brought and labelby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: mistaken audio rate - 18 years agoIf you capture at 48K you could experience slight sync problems. The best thing would capturing at 44.1K and then batch converting to 48K. There's an article right now on LAFCPUG about automating sample rate conversions. You would have to modify that a little bit (because you're converting Quicktime files, not audio files).by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AVI Export - 18 years agoThe best encoding applications available for Windows (like Procoder and Sorenson Squeeze) can take Quicktime files as sources with no problems. If you use one of those (which would be a good idea if you need to encode on Windows), just export a QT file and feed that to the encoding application. However, I imagine thar if you use Squeeze + Flip4Mac on a Mac, the results should be just as good.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: OT:AE compatible Plug-ins - 18 years agoHello, Michael! The one I find truly amazing is Color Finesse. A fantastic color correction system, with most of the functionality found in really high-end CC systems. A new version was announed last year, but it wasn't released as far as I know. If FCP at some point gets decent masking tools, the usefulness of CF would be spectacular! Bear in mind, however, that usually the plug-ins that workby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AJA vs BlackMagic - 18 years agoHello, Kevin (did you receive an e-mail I sent yesterday?). Well, I would like to friendly disagree, not with the recommendation itself (AJA is great) but with the reasons for it. It's funny I always get into these threads with a "they all are good, see what you like better" approach and finally I end up more like "This one is better!!!!" Let's see...How relevant is it thatby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AJA vs BlackMagic - 18 years agoYes, the IO is SD only, no matter what kind of computer you use it with. AJA does have HD capable PCI cards. The Multibridge is fantastic, but depending on his needs, the other, less expensive cards will work very well too. In fact, the Multibridge is more like a Break Out Box with a Decklink cardby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: AJA vs BlackMagic - 18 years agoBoth brands are extraordinary. They used to work together (AJA provided the hardware and Blackmagic the software). After having products from both, I personally prefer Blackmagic, just because they are very competitive in providing new features for free in their software, several times a year. AJA has more spaced updates, and in some cases (like the IO) they took a long time to deliver promised fby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: dv to HD - 18 years agoWhat you need is called upconversion. While possible, it's much harder than downconversion (going from HD to DV or other SD format). This is because for all bitmap based images (like all video formats are) scaling image size beyond the original size is a very destructive process. Compressor 2 has some very sophisticated technologies, that allow suprisingly good upconversion quality, at the expensby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Spin - 18 years agoFCP has a Basic 3D filter that -as the name implies- allows some elemental 3D transofrmations. It is cabable of doing what you ask. It's up to you deciding if the implementation quality is good enough. To apply it, go to Effects > Video Filters > Perspective > Basic 3D. You need to animate the Y rotation property Hope this helps.by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: FCP 6 Wish List to take to NAB & BEYOND... - 18 years ago1-. Guides/grids/rulers on the canvas, with spatial snapping. Unbelivable FCP doesn't have this. It's the only Apple applicaton which doesn't! 2-. Much better keyframe handling. Ability to copy/cut/pasteindividual keyframes or groups of contiguous/non contiguous keyframes. Temporal graph for center/anchor point properties. 3-. Color curves in the Color Correction tools. FCP is probably the only Nby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Media Manager or Media Mangler? - 18 years agoIt has worked well for me most of the time. Or has produced non significant problems. But of course a "most of the time" is not enough when days, weeks or even months or work are at risk, is it? It certainly seems to have problems with time remaped clips, but how wouldn't it have those when the core application itself producess a complete mess when you press the reset button on Vieweby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Do Plug-Ins like Nattress Film Effects Degrade Image - 18 years agoBrent: If it makes you feel better, I will say that some of the very best film editors I know barely know how to turn a computer on Of course it's a great thing learning the deep possibilities of software, but we are all different and each has his or her strategy to reach a creative potential. Let me oversimplify things a bit. DV compression is really nasty for people (like me unfortunately)by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Do Plug-Ins like Nattress Film Effects Degrade Image - 18 years agoBrent: I can understand your confusion. Uncompressed timeline is a way in which us video geeks mean a Sequence which is set up to edit and process (if needed) images with an uncompressed codec. If you use DV, for example, your sequence (timeline) is set up to work with DV codec, which is not uncompressed (the processing is not lossless, though pure editing and capturing is). Multiple timelines...by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Do Plug-Ins like Nattress Film Effects Degrade Image - 18 years agoGreg: What you say is technologically correct, but a bit dangerous in the context of the question. What should matter is "noticeable degradation". Because Brent might get the idea" I better not touch anything". So, Brent, the idea is that in a production workflow some degradation will ocurr. Some of it you can and want to avoid (by your equipment and worfklow choice), and someby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Timecode Questions - 18 years ago"just finished cutting a spot (DVCPRO50) and need to master back to tape. My question is, is it always necessary to stripe the blank master with black and timecode" No, it's not always necessary. Just make sure you add a couple of minutes of black after your spot in the master tape. That helps if you want to add something in the tape after the spot, and it also makes it easier to caby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Do Plug-Ins like Nattress Film Effects Degrade Image - 18 years agoThat's true for compressed processing (speciially with heavily compressed codecs like HDV), but not so for uncompressed timelines. In that case, there's minimum or no degradation. There are also other things to consider. Sometimes when you use an effect to modify the look of an image, you're perhaps technically supressing information but getting a picture which is more pleasing to you in subjectby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: copy and paste 1 keyframe in a series - 18 years ago"But Adolfo is right -- the Motion tab still looks the same as six years ago. Not exactly a cutting-edge feature. The rationale is probably that FCP is an editing application and is reluctant to go too deeply into graphics control." I know that's the rational But I am not even asking for true new features, just a couple of worfklow enhacement to what is already there in terms of keyfrby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: what ever happened to pixlet? - 18 years agoIt didn't disappear. It's quite useful as a "viewing" codec, specially in animation oriented work. It never was designed as a production codec, but as a lightweight codec (both in terms of space and required processing power). Given todays's hard disk speed and costs, most people doing online post are using uncompressed capture, editing and processing. To understand where Pixlet is useby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: copy and paste 1 keyframe in a series - 18 years agoLisha: I'm afraid your message managed to turn something simple into something very complicated Probably because in 10 years working with keyframes, I haven't ever seen keyframe ranges designated with lettrers! There are many ways in which I could try to decode your message. If you give us more information (or try to make it clearer) we will be able to help you better: From the title of your mby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: Blackmagic with FCP 5 - 18 years agoI have owned both an IO and the Decklink Extreme I currently use. The IO is an SD only card, so I wouldn't directly compare it with a Decklink HD card. You should compare the Decklink HD cards with the Kona 2 card instead. But as you said, they are both very good. A few things I like better about Decklink: * More responsive, less (or no) monitoring latency. * Doesn't have the IO's tendency to diby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: uncompressed SD hardware req... - 18 years agoHey, Wayne. In my opinion, if you add an uncompressed solution like the Decklink (or AJA IO, for the sake of diversity of opinions!) you will have everything you need. The XL2 is an amazing camera in my opinion. Probably the ultimate DV camera. The only camera under $10,000 that will be (or should be) really superior is the Panasonic HVX200, which will not only do DVCPRO HD but DV50 as well, whicby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: uncompressed SD hardware req... - 18 years agoGraeme, with all due respect (as I always feel the need to say to you), there is a need, or at least a strong convenience. When he finally switches sequence settings to uncompressed, then it's more than convenient (to put it lightly) to have uncompressed monitoring, or else you're stilll monitoring DV. If it costed $5000, we could discuss it. But hey, a Decklink Exteme costs $900 a Decklin SP, $6by Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA Re: uncompressed SD hardware req... - 18 years agoOh, it's Decklink vs IO again. I tried to avoid precisely that I have used both for two years. The IO is a fine product, to which I would like to go back at some point if Apple ever releases a laptop that can truly function as a replacement for my desktop. In that case, the IO would be great. But the IO's monopoly of the Firewire bus is not its' only drawback, I'm afraid. Let's see... If you woby Adolfo Rozenfeld - Café LA |
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