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Re: exporting a Master difficulties - 12 years ago
Not to be that guy, but if your replicator can't handle a Mac-formatted hard drive in 2010, it's long past time you found a new replicator.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: XDCAM Log and Transfer Broken - 12 years ago
XDCAM Transfer and the XDCAM Log and Transfer plug-in are unrelated. In fact, I prefer not even to install XDCAM Transfer at all, cause I don't like putting stuff that's not absolutely required on my production systems. Download the Log and Transfer plugin here:by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Sound upon Successful Compression - 12 years ago
Nothing. That feature is not present.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Scan lines during pans - 12 years ago
Don't waste time on this. What you're seeing is a totally natural consequence of the fact that your computer monitor isn't sync'd to a vertical retrace clock, like a broadcast monitor would be. The direct answer to your question is yes, this is normal.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Mixed HD and SD - which should I offline in? - 12 years ago
Definitely do your offline in SD. You can get truly astonishing real-time performance with ProRes at SD resolutions even on a laptop with a Firewire drive. It's amazing. When you're trying to be creative, you don't want your system slowing you down. You're going to have to deal with your 5D stuff before onlining, though. Depending on how you do your full-res finish, you'll have to convert it tby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Color & Smoke (was FCP and Avid question.) - 12 years ago
Don't even get me started on your bizarre toilet flush ? button ? things.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: FCP and Avid question. - 12 years ago
If they ever get indoor plumbing, I'm sure we'll be able to find out.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Color & Smoke (was FCP and Avid question.) - 12 years ago
Yeah, maybe. But that doesn't change the fact that it's the dead of winter there right now. Explain that, huh?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Color & Smoke (was FCP and Avid question.) - 12 years ago
QuoteHow many of your friends are looking at going the Davinci Resolve route? Any finish in Smoke? The word on the street I've been hearing lately is that Autodesk's astoundingly aggressive Lustre promotion has basically wiped out any interest in Resolve from people who don't base their business on creative color. You've got your Company 3s and whatnot; they're going to stick with whatever highby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: ProRes HQ Footage Looks Dark - 12 years ago
QuoteI'm working in a studio full of PC's. They don't even know what a gamma space is. That's unacceptable. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, but it is. We're not talking about some obscure, nerdy, highly technical nuance of production that most people will never notice. We're talking about one of the most fundamental aspects of ? well, images, really. Your people need to be educated. Maybe nby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Best Terabyte Harddrive--on a Budget? - 12 years ago
Since everybody here has offered their opinions ? valid ones, all ? I'll chime in with mine. When it comes to data protection, there are two things to consider: the chance of permanently losing data, and the inconvenience of temporarily losing access to data. Say you're a commercial editor working in 1996 and your footage was provided to you on a stack of Digibeta tapes. Do you technicallyby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: disk formating and freeze frame? - 12 years ago
Paint and roto. Lots of paint and roto.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: can't import HD into FCP5 on iMac G5 w/Mac OS 10.5.8 - 12 years ago
Hey, we all try to help in our own way. Tom's our resident diagnostician; I'm your unlicensed, slightly drunken priest.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: can't import HD into FCP5 on iMac G5 w/Mac OS 10.5.8 - 12 years ago
If you post the crash log, somebody here might be able to help. Without that, it could be anything from bad RAM to the overwhelming weight of personal guilt. What are you ashamed of? What are your crimes?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: can't import HD into FCP5 on iMac G5 w/Mac OS 10.5.8 - 12 years ago
What does "Woosh! Down goes the Final Cut" mean?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: RT settings - 12 years ago
Batch-process all your source material to ProRes 422 (LT) before editing. Edit: Jinx, Strypes. You owe me a coke.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Any reason to use ProRes over H.264? - 12 years ago
I won't edit HDV or XDCAM stuff without using an intermediate format either, for what that's worth.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Any reason to use ProRes over H.264? - 12 years ago
Then just use LT. You'll never have any more latitude than what comes off the camera body, so any additional "latitude" you get from using a higher-data-rate format will be wasted. If you push any of your shots far enough to see the difference between LT and 422, then your footage will already have fallen apart.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Any reason to use ProRes over H.264? - 12 years ago
I was talking about the footage you get off your Canon bodies. If you're shooting other stuff on film, the rules are entirely different.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Any reason to use ProRes over H.264? - 12 years ago
No. ProRes HQ is a 10-bit, 220-megabit format. What comes off your camera is 8-bit, 50-megabit. It's the worst kind of overkill. And 4444? That's twelve-bit. Complete waste of time. ProRes 422 LT will hold your frames with no visible difference, and still give you transparency across multiple recompressions. If you're really super-paranoid, go with ProRes 422 instead, which gives you an extraby Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Any reason to use ProRes over H.264? - 12 years ago
Yes. H.264 does not edit well at all. It's a bucket of trouble.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion
Re: Anybody used these? - 12 years ago
Call me stupid. Seriously. Don't hold back. But ? how is that different from an EDL? It's every shot in your timeline, without handles, with reel numbers.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Effect questions. - 12 years ago
If I had a nickel for every time somebody said "There isn't really a forgivable excuse for not being able to (do some thing Avid does)," I wouldn't need to charge my clients. Treating effects as if they were source clips is very much the exception, not the rule, in the nonlinear editing world. You don't handle effects as if they were clips in Smoke, for instance, and yet somehow ? mby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: best preset for multiformat. - 12 years ago
It's impossible to answer that, since you haven't told us what your delivery format is. If your delivery format is SD DVD, just to pick one random example, then upscaling all your SD footage to HD is, yes, a bad idea. More specifically, it's a waste of time that will degrade your source footage. Then again, trying to intercut DV, P2, XDCAM and 7D footage in the first place is the bad idea to eby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: best preset for multiformat. - 12 years ago
If you're onlining ? that is to say, if you're not offlining, and if you're offlining, you're already acutely aware of it ? then your timeline format should always be your delivery format. "In HD" is not a delivery format. Even if you haven't been given detailed delivery specs, your show is still obviously going out in some form or fashion; let that form or fashion be your guide. Qby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Nested Sequence in Main Project Timeline Won't Open Anymore in Own Timeline (Tab) - 12 years ago
Okay, I'm gonna speak authoritatively for a minute here, but only because I haven't had any coffee yet and I'm too lazy to type "in my opinion" and "I think" and "in my experience" a lot. Please understand that these are recommendations, not the word of Almighty God. Stop thinking of your timeline like a canvas. You neither need nor want "elbow room." Whby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Drobo, anyone? - 12 years ago
I've got one, just as you say, for an archive. It's small right now, just two two-terabyte drives in a mirror configuration, but it's got two empty slots so I can grow it quite a bit. It's hooked up to my Airport Extreme base station, which also hosts my Time Machine drive via a USB hub. It's basically a flawless setup for me. I can get to the data on it fast enough, given that I don't do bulkby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Nested Sequence in Main Project Timeline Won't Open Anymore in Own Timeline (Tab) - 12 years ago
Yeah, what I was saying is that I thought if you double-clicked a nest on a timeline, it'd open in the viewer as if it were a shot. And if you want to see the innerds of that nest, you option-double-click it to get it to open up as a timeline. Which I thought was the question. But seriously, I have zero confidence on this one. The last time I used nests was three years ago, immediately beforeby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Nested Sequence in Main Project Timeline Won't Open Anymore in Own Timeline (Tab) - 12 years ago
If we can define "advised workflow" as "workflow advised by me, personally," then what you describe is really really not an advised workflow. Unless there's something you left out or I misunderstood, there's absolutely no reason to set up your timeline this way, and myriad reasons not to. You've discovered some of them already. That said, if I remember correctly you need toby Jeff Harrell - Café LA
Re: Hard-drive space while upgrading to 7 - 12 years ago
Nope. Pretty much the same.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA
