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Show all posts by userPost here to discuss "Motion," Apple's new Graphic Design Application.
Re: RAIDS - 13 years agoStrypes via what interface? 2x DPX streams has to be pretty high bandwidth. The only experience I have with that is on a Quantel Pablo with their own fibre attached custom arrays.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: RAIDS - 13 years agoBen- Lets see if I can knock 'em off in order: Capacity. When I backed the drive up before shipping for testing I moved ~2TB off the 8TB (6 formatted) unit. All connections are esata via OWC recommended interfaces. 2 OWC techs tell me that RAID 5 is not a good video format. My experiences suggest otherwise. This is on OSX 10.6. Spotlight could well be the culprit. I will look into that tby VPiccin - Café LA Re: RAIDS - 13 years agoWow thanks for all the suggestions. Gotta love this board. Walter the wiebetech.com drives look interesting. They have so many different arrangements that their site is a bit confusing, but one of their wizards suggested a device that seems exactly what I am looking for. Joe Brown, I took a look at MacGurus.com, but didn't see a product that had RAID hardware internal to the drive. Becauseby VPiccin - Café LA RAIDS - 13 years agoI have two clients who as it happens are both in the market for similar RAIDS. Both are looking for a device that offers: 4 Drives in a single enclosure Built in RAID 5 eSata Interface On one system the drives would be connected to an express buss card on a laptop, on the other to an iMac with a modification from OWC to externalize a Sata Port. Neither system has many options on ways to gby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Exporting an entire feature - 13 years agoScott- H .264 compression is pretty processor intensive. Depending on what kind of a machine you are using it can take a long time. Even heavily compressed a full feature as a single movie is going to be an impressively large file for internet based transfers. Is is possible to break it into reels or acts? If you could knock that down into 5 to 10 pieces you will find it more manageable.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Formats for Commercial use? - 13 years agoThere are two basic approaches. You can produce your product to a specific target format or you can produce it at the highest possible quality, then convert for delivery on various platforms. In years past, prior to HD, there were limited choices for delivery, basically PAL or NTSC delivered on one of a handful of tape formats. At that point in history is was best to produce your product in tby VPiccin - Café LA Re: OT: Essential Mac software we couldn't or shouldn't be without... - 13 years agoInteresting to see so many mentions for Disk Warrior. Do you folks experience that many directory corruptions? -Vanceby VPiccin - Café LA Re: FCS Maintenance Pack - 13 years agoYea Joey I hope there were a few lessons learned here: - Consumer cables don't lock. Not everything is a BNC or XLR. Gaffers tape is not expensive. - Posted shows do really require making a recording. The record time listed on the tape box may not apply to your recording. KNOW when you will need a tape change. - Stagger your recordings so that all the tapes do not roll out at the same timeby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Print to Tape / Deck / Timecode - 13 years agoSorry I misread the OP. I thought we were talking about capture not output. I pulled out my original, useless response and point to Jude's advice below.by VPiccin - Café LA FCS Maintenance Pack - 13 years agoJust wanted to post a public thanks to Digital Rebellion and Jon Chappell for creating FCS Maintenance Pack. It saved my butt last week. I was editing a show for one of the ESPN networks. The idea what to capture to Final Cut onsite, for later post. We also had back up recordings in HD and SD. Well that was the plan. The first problem was when the Firewire cable got kicked out of the AJA IO 9by VPiccin - Café LA Re: changing audio in timeline from 16 bit to 24 bit - 13 years agoQuotestrypes Wrote: -FCP plays nice, and only plays nice with PCM audio, preferably 48k (aiff or wav). I wasn't aware that FCP would work with .wav files nicely. By force of habit I always transcode audio to .aiff when I import it. -Vby VPiccin - Café LA Re: changing audio in timeline from 16 bit to 24 bit - 13 years agoAny chance the file they gave you is a different codec? Perhaps a .wav? -Vanceby VPiccin - Café LA Re: JPegs stills are choking uo my FCP timeline. - 13 years agoThis does not sound like your problem, but a related issue. Don't use movies made of sequential stills. FCP treats every asset as a separate file. If you are doing something like a timelapse or are working with say a targa sequence of hundreds or thousands of still it will just kill performance. Instead import them into QT Pro or Motion and render a movie in your edit codec.by VPiccin - Café LA Re: MBP external DVI monitor recommendation - 13 years agoI bought one of these this summer: Great picture, and a lot of ways to get signal to it. In addition to HDMI, you can chose VGA, two x DVI. Also analog in composite and component. It does list 60Hz as optimal refresh rate. I have not tried sending 50Hz to it, but if you can wait till this evening (or morning for you) I'll try that. I usually feed it DVI via an SDI to DVI convertor boby VPiccin - Café LA Re: 5.1 surround question - 13 years agoMy experience in using FCP for 5.1 has all been "pass along" with existing tracks. You have identified one of the big problems with the way Final Cut handles track mapping. While you can easily assign channels to outputs, there is not a good matrix function that allows you to send a single track to multiple channels, or to mix those assignments. For that you need a good mix program. Likby VPiccin - Café LA Re: DVCPRO HD (tape) workflow?... - 13 years agoQuoteWhy is it that when I lay off a project to tape and then capture it using the deck's (AJHD1400) downconversion and run that through compressor using the 90min Best template, it looks better than when I run a Self Contained Quicktime through compressor and into DVDSP? I am just taking a guess here, using something I have observed doing web compressions from HD Digital Masters. I have founby VPiccin - Café LA Re: track matte question - 13 years agoHave you tried putting the shots on either side on a track above your effect then dissolving them to/from the empty space?by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Time to Upgrade my G5 Quad??? - 13 years agoI recently replaced my G5 quad, and faced the same questions. When I build machines for my corporate clients I tend to spec the biggest, baddest machine I can, based on the assumption that a 5 year purchase cycle will have the machine I build be an antique before it is retired. For my personal systems, tho I can replace them whenever I want. Rather than pay a premium for the latest and greatesby VPiccin - Café LA Re: ProRes 4444 alpha in Motion - 13 years agoSo your exports did not have alpha that FCP would recognize? I didn't have a problem with that, it was only when I brought the export into a different Motion project that the alpha was an issue. -Vby VPiccin - Motion ProRes 4444 alpha in Motion - 13 years agoI just had something strange happen, and I wonder if anyone else sees this. I made an animation in Motion and exported using Prores 4444 with alpha. When I used the animation in FCP in my rough cut all was well. When I went back to Motion to finish the section and composite my pre-baked animation with other elements parts of the Motion program don't recognize the alpha. I say parts, because thby VPiccin - Motion Re: it's time for 1080p50 and 1080p60 - 13 years agoQuoteJeff Higher frame rates are used most notably for things like live sports, but honestly, if you've ever seen any NFL Films footage ? which is all shot at 24p ? you know it's freakin' gorgeous. One of the cable networks ? ESPN Classics, I think it is ? sometimes runs whole games that were transferred from the NFL Films archival footage, and they're beautiful. I, personally, would watch sportsby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Need suggestions for sharing drives - 13 years ago====> Well. To be fair, Xsan is actually quite trivial to set up ====> Setting up your first one should take no less than about four weeks. Oh the irony!by VPiccin - Café LA Re: Need suggestions for sharing drives - 13 years agoYou say that you are "getting" a RAID. Meaning already purchased, or do you have some flexibility as to what system you are going to install? There are several technologies for shared storage. As Jeff points out building these kinds of systems in non-trivial. X-SAN and Fiber is the most robust and time tested. However, it is not a DYI project, unless you moonlight as an IT engineer.by VPiccin - Café LA EditShare - 13 years agoAnyone using the EditShare products? I have a client who is taking a close look and is interested in other users experience with the company and their solutions. -Vanceby VPiccin - Café LA Re: bad edges with title tool - 13 years ago===> The one thing I never understood was why highly saturated colors, especially the ones outside of broadcast safe, fares worse under video compression. I was fighting this battle yesterday with some stuff I was compressing for web delivery. In my case it was over saturated blues on a set. When the blue (actually a bright cyan) was out of gamut, at camera cuts in the program there wouldby VPiccin - Café LA Re: FCP in the workplace. - 13 years agoI have worked in a broad ranges of conditions. The worst is on gear sitting on empty shipping boxes in a tent. The best, a plush, dim, quite room with all the best toys, and a plethora of client services people offering delicious tidbits on crystal plates. I have been creative in both. Look budget is a consideration. Some projects just won't get done if you have to factor a Sushi chef intoby VPiccin - Café LA Re: FCP in the workplace. - 13 years agoJC- Sounds like you have identified a market and built a business to take advantage of it. That is great business acumen. I tip my hat to you. I wish I had better business skills, but alas my strong points are not in that area. That budget of $1500 for a spot scare me a bit. You have crew to pay, prepro, shoot day and post. Sounds like your hourly rate is approaching the fast food server zby VPiccin - Café LA Re: Timecode does not match the timecode on the original Digibeta tapes. - 13 years ago==>I have a Digi reader and a SDI-DV breakaway box What models do you have. Final cut needs a way to see the timecode on tape. Usually it gets there by traveling with the 9pin control signals (RS422) to the DV convertor, which puts it in the firewire stream. Is that how your system is wired? -Vby VPiccin - Café LA |
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