[Adam Smith]

Ahh.. well that’s a bummer.

I did see FLV uploads dated as recently as a week ago, but nothing that really looked as good as the year-old CC video, guess if they’re re-compressing everything that’d explain it.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

But then again, maybe I’m not misremembering at all!

Here’s a very nice looking Creative Cow promo posted to YouTube in FLV format.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YJZ1tYUytY

From: arabinowitz

About This Video
Upload Format: Flash FLV
Resolution: 450 x 337
Fr…
Upload Format: Flash FLV
Resolution: 450 x 337
Frame Rate: 30 FPS
Key Frame Every: 45 Frames
Video Codec: Sorenson Spark Pro
Audio Codec: Frauhoffer MP3
Video Data Rate: 2000 Kbps
Audio Data Rate: 128 Kbps
Total Data Rate: 2125 Kbps
Sorenson 2-Pass VBR
Total File Size: 15914 KB

Searching for “FLV Upload” I got 133 hits, including several How-To videos.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[David Roth Weiss] “Ah Bret, that’s all fine and dandy, except Youtube doesn’t accept Flash video files…”

I may be wrong or misremembering.. but I coulda swore I read something just recently that stated that sending YouTube a properly-sized flash movie was the best means to maintain quality. The article stated that if it’s within specs they’ll use it as-is, whereas they re-compress any other format to flash before posting.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[Ken Zukin] “Also, does this bug affect the Kona 3 only?”

How about Kona LHe? Suppose I’ll go check the AJA site for info.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[Barry Green] “Busted in FCP. User Clip Name is the one field they don’t allow you access to.”

Well that sucks, but maybe I don’t have to bother setting up new Metadata presets for every shoot, since the rest of the data is easy to modify afterwards.

One last P2 workflow question – how does FCP identify an MXF clip?

Specifically, if I were to duplicate a P2 directory and then modify/rename/delete clips in that copy before importing to FCP, would the original P2 files still serve as valid Relink replacements?

-Adam

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

Rebooted and fixed it.

I got the export-by-copy to work, but on second thought, I suppose having the database may be useful and I can still back up projects with my packet-tape drive if I build the DB with sub-folders by project.

Thanks for the help!

-Adam

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

Ahh.. so rather than actually having it put all the clips in one folder, this method would allow P2CMS to store them as it prefers and then I’d have it make an alias pointer to the selection of clips I want to access with FCP.

Thanks much, that does solve the FCP problem… I was hoping I could actually copy all the selects to one folder, to make it easier to back up and just cause it seems better to have one directory rather than hundreds of directories, but I suppose I could live with this.

Strangest thing tho… after I spit out a couple clips just to test the feature, I can’t get P2CMS to export anything now, in any manner… I was going to try exporting by copy with verify, but it won’t copy/link/move anything now.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

While I’ve never had an Apple Cinema Display to compare, I’m very happy with my two Dell 2407’s. I would have preferred to get the cool matching Apple displays and I’m not a fan of Dell in the least, but these monitors are rather nice, and I feel like I got more for my money while saving $400-500.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[John Pale] “Try this instead. The Avid site has this stuff poorly labeled.”

You’re not kidding… the last 3 times I checked I found the same codecs that didn’t work (even though they were listed as MacIntel compatible), but the installer you linked worked like a charm.

Thanks much!

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

I’m awful sure that’s the version I tried yesterday with the same lack of success as my previous attempts, but I could be wrong… I’ll redownload and try it again when I get home.

Thanks!

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte