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Re: FCP 7 DEATH KNELL Canon Mark III, L and T wont work. Keeps crashing, loaded EOS plugin 1.3 - 11 years agoI don't own a 5D MkIII but I try to obtain test footage for new cameras that come out and the 5D MkIII files I received just seemed to be H.264s with timecode tracks built in. The timecode tracks are standard QT timecode tracks and were successfully recognized by QuickTime Player 7 and QT Edit.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: MacPro, iMac, FCPX and my theory on desktop hardware - 11 years agoThat's all well and good, but what are people supposed to do in the meantime? We've been waiting two years for a new Mac Pro and now we've got to wait another?by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: Using FCP X on a Feature - Good Idea? - 11 years agobruce7 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We have several seats of FCP 7 and have been using > it for years, > but we have no experience with FCP X and as of > right now do not even > own a copy. I would not advise using an app you're not familiar with on a large project.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: OT-Testing out Adobe Suite on a New 8 core Mac -AE kicks on it! - 11 years agoInteresting... apparently the opposite is true of Premiere.by Jon Chappell - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Which software to learn and use for grading? - 11 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The > lite version is also free, and that is a huge deal > if you want to learn how the software works. It's amazing how many features they're giving away for nothing in Davinci Resolve Lite. For some workflows there's little reason to move to the paid version.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Introducing Pro Versioner - backup and versioning for your projects - 11 years agoWe're pleased to introduce our newest product, Pro Versioner for Mac, an extensive backup and versioning tool for your creative projects. Pro Versioner is a 64-bit upgrade to FCP Versioner that offers a complete UI overhaul. The app automatically takes screenshots of your workspace and allows you to annotate backups to help differentiate between them. It is now app-agnostic, meaning youby Jon Chappell - News and Announcements Re: $999 FCP to Avid Symphony crossgrade offer - 11 years agostrypes Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Speaking of which, I kinda wonder if the price > point of SMac will cause Nuke users to switch. > It's a great time for post guys. How do the compositing features in Smoke compare with Nuke? I'm still using Shake and was planning to switch to Nuke this year, but your comment has intrigued me.by Jon Chappell - Avid Media Composer Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 11 years agoI've seen several cameras and apps offer DNxHD support at additional cost so I would suspect there are licensing fees involved.by Jon Chappell - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Avid MXF Player - 11 years agoIt seems like it would be possible to adapt for the Mac. ffmpeg is very powerful.by Jon Chappell - Avid Media Composer Re: Premiere Pro CS6 announced - 11 years agoYou need Final Cut Pro 7 or X installed in order to be able to encode to ProRes, so that may be another factor in Adobe's reluctance.by Jon Chappell - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Larry Jordan reveals Apple's FCPX Roadmap - 12 years agocraig seeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It does seem PPro is heading > in that direction as well though. I certainly hope not. As a developer, I love that Adobe is using XML for all of their project and settings files.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: Adding to favorites - 12 years agoArt of the Guillotine links to many post production-centric sites. I'd recommend browsing around and bookmarking ones that you find interesting:by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: Compressor won't Submit - 12 years agoHave you tried Compressor Repair?by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: FCP X 10.0.4 is in the AppStore updates - 12 years agoYou'd think they'd want a bigger bang before NAB.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: FCP X 10.0.4 is in the AppStore updates - 12 years agoYou may need to delete the app and then redownload it from the Purchased tab in the App Store.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: data wrangling Arri Alexa Plus footage - 12 years agoGood point. On my current project we're editing 1080p ProRes LT with baked-in LUTs and conforming back to the ProRes 4444 Log-C media for grading.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: data wrangling Arri Alexa Plus footage - 12 years agoFCP 6 is not a good environment for the later versions of ProRes (LT, Proxy and 4444) because you cannot get RT performance. This means that you have to keep rendering everything. I would recommend finding a copy of FCP 7 on eBay or using another NLE. (As a side note: we make a similar tool to Alexa Data Manager that will work with any camera and comes in a pack with 9 additional tools: )by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: Another Other NLE - 12 years agoI used to do image editing in Shake because I preferred the nodal UI and didn't know Photoshop very well.by Jon Chappell - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: Another Other NLE - 12 years agoI think this is a smart move by Adobe. Photoshop has a huge userbase and its users will be able to edit video within their comfort zone, much like some After Effects artists I know who insist on editing in AE because they don't understand Premiere or any other NLEs nearly as well.by Jon Chappell - Adobe Premiere Pro CC Re: FCPX doesn't save for days at a time - 12 years agoAre you using 10.0.3? I've heard less about this issue from users of the latest version.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: OT: Oh Compressor... - 12 years agoVery strange... But Compressor's email alerts have never been great because they require you to have a mail server running on your system or an anonymous login to a remote server. Other apps like Avid have much better email notification systems that allow you to enter more details about the server. Our Render Watcher app is much more reliable at sending Compressor alerts than Compressor's buiby Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: Deleting a Project - 12 years agoSelect the project in the Project Browser and press Cmd+Backspace.by Jon Chappell - Café LA - X Re: "Lighting Tab" in the Browser Window - 12 years agoIt's not built into the app. I would assume that it's a third-party plugin folder created by something like FxFactory and then docked into the Browser by double-clicking the bin to open it in a new window and then dragging the tab into the browser header.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: "Lighting Tab" in the Browser Window - 12 years agoI'm not sure what you mean by the Lighting Tab. The closest thing I can think of is the 3-way Color Corrector which is available in the Effects menu and appears as a tab in the Viewer.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: General Error -- making life miserable. Time urgent! - 12 years agoFinal Cut Pro uses QuickTime and is susceptible to errors that can prevent QuickTime from reading a file. However, it also has its own layer of additional bugs that can render a movie unreadable even if QuickTime can play it just fine and it meets QuickTime specifications. The latter situation is much harder to locate and fix.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: Little/Big Endian - 12 years agoAs far as I'm aware, it is always Big Endian. The conversion from Big Endian to Little (and vice versa) is very inexpensive so the performance difference should be negligible.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: Frozen frame when video playback selected - 12 years agoI had this problem the other day with a Blackmagic card when I set it to output 24 fps instead of 23.98 by mistake.by Jon Chappell - Café LA Re: any cure for this problem footage due to incorrect shutter or "pseudo progressive - 12 years agoThis problem may not be fixable but I would recommend trying some of the Frame Controls options on a short segment of the file to see if it makes a difference. Pay attention to the Deinterlace, Anti-Alias and Details Level controls in particular. I wrote up a guide for the various Frame Controls options here:by Jon Chappell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: HD DVD and Player - 12 years agoYou're probably not going to get much benefit from Compressor 4. It's pretty much identical to Compressor 3.5 except they changed it so that it was self-contained in one application instead of having lots of files dotted about the hard drive. FCS can't export directly to Compressor 4 but you can create a QuickTime movie and bring it in.by Jon Chappell - DVD Studio Pro Re: HD DVD and Player - 12 years agoI still use DVDSP and so do many others on this forum. I'll continue to use it until a future version of OS X breaks it. I would recommend using the DVD presets in Compressor to encode MPEG-2 files and then bring those files into DVDSP. Compressor's encoder is superior to that of DVDSP.by Jon Chappell - DVD Studio Pro |
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