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Alan Lacey
May 17, 2009 at 1:07 pm in reply to: FCS Motion tab scaling of nests?

Thanks guys, I guessed this would be the case. I’d do it in Motion.

Alan
Alan Lacey
May 17, 2009 at 10:59 am in reply to: Setting Scratch Disks for Projects

What about using environmental variables? I know next to nothing about this but reading through the Shake manual it seems that you can define $foldernames for the system.

I’ve been meaning to try this in FCP for ages as I too think the scratch disk settings in FCP should be a project thing rather than system wide.

Try this. Tell FCP that the scratch settings are $scratch and then using terminal (I can’t remember how to do this but I’m sure they’re are people here who can!) each time you change projects set the environmental $scratch to the scratch folders for that particular project.

If it works please let us know.

Alan (London)
Alan Lacey
April 14, 2009 at 7:49 am in reply to: Model Olympic medal

Wow Adam,

What an amazing bit of creative thinking. I’ll certainly try the technique in the future, but as you say I can’t see it working with such a shallow object.

Thanks for the thought though.

Regards Alan
Alan Lacey
April 13, 2009 at 7:05 am in reply to: Model Olympic medal

PS fprgot to mention!

It’s the 1924 Olymipcs and it appears that the current commercially available models are all more recent.

Alan
Alan Lacey
January 21, 2009 at 5:22 pm in reply to: Quicktime 32 on Vista Ultimate 64?

Let us know how you get on with QT64 Norman.

I’m in a similar situation but generally don’t use QT files in Vegas.

I do however have both Vegas8.0c(32bit) and Vegas8.1(64bit) running happilly on my new Dell m6400 laptop side by side (Vista64 Ultimate)

I’ve not had much of a chance to test them severely yet but so far all is good.

One thing I did notice was that after loading vegas I lost all the DX plugins for a previously successfully loaded SoundForge8 and haven’t been able to access them or my Noise Reduction software since.
Alan Lacey
January 21, 2009 at 5:09 pm in reply to: Wacom question for Walter

Valid points all!

Thanks for your comments

Alan
Alan Lacey
January 17, 2009 at 11:43 am in reply to: Does Vegas import .dv files?

Thanks again Mike,

I didn’t make clear what the application was.

We’re installing video hardware (cams, monitors and some suitably chosen recording solution) in the clinics and operating rooms of a Teaching Hospital.

The proposal is that the doctors and surgeons will have access to the kit for aquisition, and are then on their own (with some limited support from me) to edit, post produce pr do whatever they want with their material.

Full-time, part-time, visiting fellows etc, some are very video savvy, most not. Some Macheads but predominantly PC hence the MovieMaker requirement. Transcoding the .dv files won’t be a possibility as this material is produced in a continual way from many many sources.

Alan
Alan Lacey
January 16, 2009 at 9:08 pm in reply to: Does Vegas import .dv files?

Thanks Mike, I didn’t see that reference to QT.

I’ve tried in Vegas now and it does import. Problem is that being QT based, other editing apps won’t import – specifically Windows MovieMaker- so this unit is a no no for us.

Shame it is ideal, unique actually in many ways for us.

Alan
Alan Lacey
January 14, 2009 at 7:20 pm in reply to: Load ps CS4 on a flash drive – No No?

Thanks Richard,

I’ll go ahead then, but what do Adobe mean when they say it won’t load onto flash based media?

Regards Alan
Alan Lacey
December 17, 2008 at 2:00 pm in reply to: XDcam in Vegas

Thanks Perrone,

That’s helpful, what options do I have for useful transcode to more edit-friendly codecs on the PC? On the Mac I generally use ProRes.

Uncompressed would be too resorce hungry for me I think. And what about transcoding time? Can this be reasonably fast? I know nothing about Cineform is that just a codec or a hardware/codec combo?

Thanks for the info.

Alan