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Re: Anyone using Network Attached Storage devices (NAS)? - 13 years agoThe problem with network-attached storage isn't that it's inherently too slow ? gigabit can yield 100 megabytes per second if what's on the other end can keep up, after all. It's that with all the protocol layers in between the application and the hard drives, getting sustained-rate reads or writes is nearly impossible. Even a really good storage array, mounted via a really good protocol, will peby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: FCP sound preview - 13 years agoQuote And when you want to copy files, you can drag directly from a playlist or the library onto an OS folder location. You know how you can use a tool for years and years, and then sometimes somebody will come along and nonchalantly mention how that tool does X and you had no idea that it could do X? This is one of those times.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: FCP sound preview - 13 years agoAroo? I must misunderstand the question. Cause what you described is precisely how it works. You go to the File menu, Import submenu, Files option, then navigate to the folder of choice and click on files to preview them. Works with both audio and video media.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Editing metadata - 13 years agoIf you set your timeline field dominance to "none" when working with PsF footage it disables Final Cut's built-in anisotropic filtering, and your footage is going to jitter like hell.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 13 years agoQuoteMike Hardcastle wrote: *snicker* OKAY I'M DONE.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: 24P Animation Question - 13 years agoWhen you go out to DVD you stay at 23.98 as well. And when you go to tape you get pulldown inserted in real time. There's really no reason to render 24p material to 29.97 in Final Cut.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: FCS4 - Apple is kicking us out. Screw that professional Crowd. Maybe - 13 years agoOld news. Please refer to the currently open thread on this.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: distorted topped-out audio crunches - 13 years agoQuoteosbourne cox wrote: *snicker* QuoteHi, i'm cutting an adult feature *snicker* Quotedoes anyone know of anything that can be done Nope. As with any digital sensor, be it audio or video, once you max it out, you're done. Clipped samples cannot be restored. All you can do is bring the level down to something reasonable, and maybe play with the EQ a little bit, but that second part wby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Render Manager - 13 years agoNo offense meant, but these are very basic questions. Please consult your manual for stuff like this. In particular, refer to the section titled "Managing your render files."by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Stuttering playback question - 13 years agoI'll share with you some wisdom that I learned about fifteen years ago from one of the smartest guys I've ever met: "If you work on a problem for more than ten minutes without making any progress, it's a cable."by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: JBOD expansion recommendations - 13 years agoQuote It's got built in RAID 5 Which means it's not a JBOD.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: My system drive spped. - 13 years agoNothing measurable, no. Besides, how much time do you spend a day opening applications? Three seconds? Five? Even in the worst possible case ? just launching After Effects over and over again ? it wouldn't add up to more than a few minutes a day. Totally not a wise optimization.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Networking issues with Tiger and Snow Leopard - 13 years agoPlease clog up the public board. That's what it's for.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Networking issues with Tiger and Snow Leopard - 13 years agoQuote I would love to know if anyone else has a network that contains both Tiger and Snow Leopard machines Yes. Quote and if they see any weirdness in their file sharing operations? No. No offense meant, Vance, but you're gonna have to share a lot more if you want help.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: JBOD expansion recommendations - 13 years agoYou have to close the door? What are we, animals? I kid. That looks really pretty sexy. I especially like the fact that it's got Firewire on it, so an eSata interface isn't absolutely required. What I like less is the fact that (at least from looking at the specs) it appears you have to plug in each drive separately, rather than having just one cable for for the whole enclosure. I didn't seby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Upgrade to Snow Leopard and newest Final Cut Studio 2? How? - 13 years agoDavid's article is (unless I've missed a segment somewhere) just about restoring your OS disk to a bootable hard drive, and imaging your Final Cut DVDs. It's a performance thing. It's always better to do a fresh install on bare metal than to recover a clone. Often it's only marginally better, so's you wouldn't notice the difference. But it's always better. I would not recommend Sheer any moby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Motherboard=Lost Serialization - 13 years agoWell kids are heavy, dude. He's not Superman.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: FCP Capture (Black Magic Intensity Shuttle) - 13 years agoRead the specs a bit more closely. The Shuttle is a USB 3 device. Which means it's not really supported on anything yet, for all practical purposes. Blackmagic makes an inexpensive HDMI I/O board of some variety or other. Never used it, but from what I've heard it's fine, as long as all you'll ever need is HDMI. If you need SDI, then the price of an I/O board plus an HI-5/HA-5 pair can rival aby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: (Rumor?) Apple scaling Final Cut Studio apps to fit prosumers - 13 years agoI would love to know what you're doing to get "amazingly accurate" results with Dragon. I tried it on my iPad (I was on an app-trying binge the first day with it) and it was rubbish for me.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Upgrade to Snow Leopard and newest Final Cut Studio 2? How? - 13 years agoDon't be reluctant. A fresh install on bare metal is a wonderful feeling. Everything's so clean and neat. I wouldn't rely on Time Machine as my sole backup, though. Don't get me wrong; I love Time Machine, and in my experience ? I know others have different experiences ? it's been 100-percent reliable. It's just that if I were you, I'd just get a new drive. Hard drives are astonishingly cheapby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Export to AVI problems - 13 years agoSometimes when one has a client who still uses Windows and refuses for whatever reason to install Quicktime, figuring out how to get them footage can be a real problem. "I know," you might think. "I'll make an AVI!" Now you have two problems. Try EVERYTHING else. Try sending your client a Quicktime. Try an MPEG-4 file. Try EVERYTHING else before beating your head againstby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Best Codec for 1440X900? - 13 years agoAlways start at the end of your pipeline and work backwards. What format you're delivering informs what format you should master in.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New Motherboard=Lost Serialization - 13 years agoWhen working in commercial post, there are two kinds of things that are immensely valuable: Big, heavy, rack-mounted things with lots of buttons and blinky lights, and wee tiny pieces of paper with strings of numbers and letters on them. My personal trick is to keep copies of all my license keys in a text file in my Dropbox, and also in my Gmail. The Dropbox copy is sync'd to my laptop, my phoby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Steve Jobs responds to my email! - 13 years agoI was thinking of his personal address, the one he's had for decades now. But yes, now that you mention it I bet he's not using that for personal correspondence any more. On the one hand, what you say about having people sort his mail for strategic use seems entirely plausible, even likely. But on the other, I'm somehow delighted by the mental picture of Steve sitting with his MacBook Pro tappby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: (Rumor?) Apple scaling Final Cut Studio apps to fit prosumers - 13 years ago"Reliable" is a fuzzy term. Apple Insider isn't totally wrong every single time they print something, which makes them the grand champion of rumor mills. What they are woefully short on, though, is even basic numb-brained analysis of what they're trying to write about. Which is a bit of a shame.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Compressing video for Archive - 13 years agoI agree with that ? in principle. Right up to the point where you realize that DV tape won't always be readily playable. Today it's not that hard to get your hands on a DV deck or camera ? though it's harder than it was five years ago. Five years from now? Nothing is guaranteed. The tape itself might be long-lived, but that doesn't help if you can't play it back. For that matter, even hard drby Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Steve Jobs responds to my email! - 13 years agoI really have to wonder just how many emails Jobs gets a day. It's not like his personal email address is a closely guarded secret. The number has to be in the thousands, easy.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: Backup to DVD -- larger files - 13 years agoGotta input the WHOLE command, Gerard ol buddy. Or consult the man page for an explanation of the syntax.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: Backup to DVD -- larger files - 13 years agoNot automatically, that I know of, but the "split" and "cat" commands will do just fine. Say your file is called "foo.mov." This command will split it into four-gigabyte chunks: split -b 4000m foo.mov foo. That'll give you files foo.aa through foo.whatever, each four gigs long. To put them back together again: cat foo.?? > foo.movby Jeff Harrell - Café LA |
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