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Re: Exporting a sequence of still images from FCP to DVD Pro - 12 years ago
QuoteBen King ..and if you see an Apple what you you call that key? Well, the Macintosh has always had the command symbol (sometimes referred to as the "fan" symbol, Saint John's Arms, or place of interest sign in Unicode) on the key (and still does). The Apple symbol is now gone (for about four years now), so there's even more reason not to use the incorrect terminology ( "Apby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Exporting a sequence of still images from FCP to DVD Pro - 12 years ago
Nick Munning Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is off-topic, but I used the term Apple instead > of Cmnd, because that's the way it was presented > to me. I will admit that it threw me a little, but > since all that I really care about is getting this > problem fixed, I was able to overcome and go with > the flow. Nevertheless, thanks toby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Exporting a sequence of still images from FCP to DVD Pro - 12 years ago
Off-topic and a bit nit-picky, but why people use the inaccurate term "Apple-" for the keystroke command? It has never been called this. It should be "Command-A", "Command-S", etc. It's even more confusing because the Apple symbol was removed from all keyboards some years ago. It was only ever there for compatibility with older Apple II series computers. The Maciby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Exporting a sequence of still images from FCP to DVD Pro - 12 years ago
QuoteDerek Exported movies should be much larger. As Derek alluded... for NTSC DV/DVCPro video at 29.97 fps, 21 minutes should result in a file size of close to 4.5 GB. -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 upgraded to 7 Question - 12 years ago
bluey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > cheers dave - again - i almost feel like privately > funding an ad campaign to warn editors to NOT use > lacie portable drives, absurd - why bother making > a product that skits out and/or fails after only a > month's use? further more it's not like theres > EVER a good time for problems though, bah neby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Subtitles on authored DVD are going off screen when no command was given in the STL_.txt file - 12 years ago
Since you're using TitleExchange Pro, why don't you ask the developer for help? He's quite nice and helpful (Andreas Kiel). -Daveby D-Mac - DVD Studio Pro
Re: WARNING: Mac OS 10.6.6 UPDATE (ProKit 6.0.2) - 12 years ago
QuoteCinetrade Now this is where the other sites are saying to download an older version but when I got to this stage I realised it was a etc but all I did was go to the trash, right click on the ProKit.framework folder and select Put Back. Don't ask me how this fixed it (I know I haven't really done anything?!) and it may only be for me but all my programs are working again so if even one peby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 upgraded to 7 Question - 12 years ago
bluey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Dave - the thing is it has to be a bus-drive, > not a mains-powered portable . . . mmm G-Technology, WiebeTech, OWC (macsales.com), and CalDigit all sell portable drives that can be bus-powered or AC/DC-powered. I would choose any of these over a LaCie any day... -Dave P.S. - Thanks to Gerard (strypes) fby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP 6 upgraded to 7 Question - 12 years ago
QuoteBluey Hi Jake - the thing is portability is essential, i'm on trains and planes with this project. i do back-up everything to my home studio at the weekends, but for 3 hours a day travel, and on longer trips i'm relying on this rugged 500g. surely they should give warnings out with the drive if it's **** and will fail on you? there must be a reliable bus-drive out there. i'm cuttingby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP6 output to QuickTime taking 13 hours - 12 years ago
Quotesmutcutter Hey there! I am desperate for some help! I am doing an output much like I have a hundred times before. The footage is XDCam -no other settings are different from the many times I have done this before. Is nothing different from before or is the XDCAM footage new to the mix? Please be as clear as possible. Is the footage XDCAM EX/HD/HD422/etc.? Which version FCP are you uby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: has anyone seen this res for broadcast. - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just to double check, open the QuickTime window, > hit apple j and toggle aperture to encoded pixels. > If it really is that oddball frame size, check > with the house that submitted the footage and > check how the oddball frame size came about. The dimensions (1440 x 810) have an aspect ratio of 16:9by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 12 years ago
grafixjoe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for those links Dave. This is VERY > interesting information...and the first I am > hearing of this. Barefeats is all I had to see. > Hmmmm...This needs more research.... > Same for me. I haven't followed the details of SSDs very much, as their lower capacities and high prices haven't seemedby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 12 years ago
Joey, I haven't heard back from the engineer I talked with this evening, but here are two sources, in case you'd like to learn more about this issue with some SSDs: diglloyd's Seasoning SSDs for Testing BareFeats' MacBook Pro drive roundup -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 12 years ago
QuoteJoey Please provide some reputable test results to back up a statement like that. It has been suggested by who? Please post some links. I personally will save the $500 and take the Apple 512 GB SSD BTO upgrade for $1100 instead of OWC's 480 GB SSD for $1599. I am confident Apple would not put a failing SSD in their brand new monster. It's fairly well known among the super techie computerby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! THE NEW MACBOOK PRO'S ARE HERE!! - 12 years ago
A little FYI... Apparently, the SSDs that Apple ships in the new MBPs will degrade in speed/performance after several months... It has been suggested that after market SSDs have better performance stability over time... Something to check into before adding the extra expense of an Apple-provided SSD to one of the new MBPs. In other words, it might make sense to get a "stock"by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: How do you use your monitors? - 12 years ago
xavpil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > D-Mac Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > xavpil Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > I, for one, hate having to click, click, > > click on various tabs to get to different > things >by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: How do you use your monitors? - 12 years ago
xavpil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The problem is that I know what I want, but can't > seem to figure out how to make it happen so I was > hoping that someone might give me an idea while > sharing their set up. > I'll just have to live with my current set ups I > guess. It's not always easy to implement what you "want."by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: How do you use your monitors? - 12 years ago
xavpil Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks everybody! > Still haven't read a setting that would fit my > needs... I may be a bit daft, but I haven't see anyone mention an obvious thing (I probably missed someone mentioning what I'm about to mention)... You should know how you like to work, in terms of window arrangements. And, this setup ofby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: WOW!! New Test of New Macbook Pros on Final Cut. - 12 years ago
Flabasha Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gentlepeople, start your credit cards. > > > er-is-final-cut-pro-on-the-new-22ghz-i7-macbook-pr > os > > The take-away? In compression and rendering, the > new 2.2 ghz i7 is about 3X-4X FASTER than the > previous gen 2.8 ghz Core 2 Duo. (1:26 vs. 4:27 > on transcode, 3:26 vs. 13by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Testing DVD output from COmpressor prior to burning - 12 years ago
harry323 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oops. I am an idiot. > > Harry I really doubt that... Another thing you could try is to take your .m2v and .ac3 files (output from Compressor) and use Toast to make a VIDEO_TS folder, which you can play in DVD Player. Or, do the same with DVD Studio Pro ( don't "burn to disc" ). -Daveby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Apple Monitor, video and Final Cut. - 12 years ago
No matter what you do, your computer monitor will not be an accurate visual reference of the actual look of the video signal. Computer monitors are not designed, nor are most technically capable of properly displaying a video signal. In order to properly visualize a video signal for things such as color correction, you will need a properly configured and calibrated external broadcast monitor,by D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Sync problem with camera files - 12 years ago
Isn't 6 frames in six minutes less than the difference between NDF and DF timecode for NTSC (29.97 fps)? Unless my brain is too caffeine-addled right now, I believe that you drop two frames in the first second of each minute, unless that minute is a multiple of ten. So, for something only six minutes in length, wouldn't that add up to 12 frames offset (if, in fact, the issue is the differenby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Exporting, Recompressing... - 12 years ago
strypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If the shots are so bad that you have to denoise > everything, you really need to consider a reshoot, > as the quality is probably also heavily > compromised. I may be really mistaken, but I believe he is following up on this thread: So, he may only want to process part of his 2 hours plus of footaby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: Compressing Files - 12 years ago
Jon Chappell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I know how VBR works but upon re-reading the topic > I realized I'm arguing a completely different > point so ignore what I just said I figured that either I really misunderstood you or you were "talking about" something else... -Daveby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Compressing Files - 12 years ago
Jon Chappell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I would argue that VBR is less consistent > quality-wise as any peak in the bitrate requires a > corresponding trough to conform to the average > bitrate. Jon, You may be confused about how VBR really works. It exists precisely to perform better than CBR methods at the same average bit rate. VBby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Compression time. Settings. - 12 years ago
Quotelimakid I have a FCP project of 2 hours and 15 minutes aprox. It's divided in 8 "sequences". The goal is to make a DVD. I will use DVD Stdio Pro. Here goes my workflow: 1. In the browser of FCP I select a sequence, right clik>sent to Compressor, in which I selected the DVD setting which offer me the 150 minutes of video (MPEG2-3.7 Mpps.... bla bla bla). I did not open the seby D-Mac - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Workflow for mixing XDCAM, HDV and H.264 from Go Pro cams - 12 years ago
I have done several similar types of projects. I often do the same thing. So, your idea seems pretty good. If space is available I will transcode HDV or XDCAM footage into ProRes 422. If space is tight, I may use ProRes 422 (LT) or leave the footage as is. Regardless, I will always edit in ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 (HQ) sequences, depending on how much I manipulate the image in FCP (filters,by D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP Display Gamma Problem (Everything Dark) - 12 years ago
I'm glad that it was that easy... Too bad you spent time reinstalling FCS... surely, no fun... -Daveby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP Display Gamma Problem (Everything Dark) - 12 years ago
ElysianChris Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I recently let system update do it's thing and > went from 10.6.4 to 10.6.6 including updating to > the latest Pro-Kit. (The Pro-Apps (FCS 3) were all > updated to the latest version while one 10.6.4). > > Suddenly FCP, DVDSP, & Motion show all of my video > files extremely dark (STP &aby D-Mac - Café LA
Re: FCP Matrox O2 NM - 12 years ago
QuoteJVK quoting from Matrox forum One of these utilities will be a comprehensive HDMI calibration tool which looks to identify and compensate for any number of processing errors introduced by the HDMI display circuitry. First of all, calibrating a connected computer display via DVI (using DDC) is an entirely different "beast" compared with calibrating an external video display viaby D-Mac - Café LA
