Al Bergstein
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Yes, the masking seems to be the way to go, or using something like After Effects you can actually set up layers that create that “New Ken Burns” affect, which is a traveling 3D background behind a foreground figure. If I had 98 hours in each day, I might be doing a lot more of that, but …(G)
I wasn’t aware of the NB effect. I’ll have to look into it, if it doesn’t crash my install.. thx for that tip. If it works that would be great, because it’s likely easier than mastering AE. That’s a career in and of itself.
Al
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Did you figure this out?
Al
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All great thoughts and touch on all my ideas. At 60, I can tell you one thing that someone your age forgets, or doesn’t know yet, Patrick. We all were your age once. We all had your kind of passion for shooting movies on film back then, or the beginnings of video. We had energy and nothing to lose, everything to gain. Now, that’s not true for a variety of reasons. Some of us just don’t care to work that hard, though are still passionate, some of us can’t work that hard, some can’t afford to. But hell, I’d love to have an assistant with your ability to know when to help, and when to just stand back and learn.
The problems for the established businesses that have risen lately are built on the changes from a business where someone your age was unlikely to be able to afford the gear, and *had* to apprentice themselves to the older folks (like I did), to today, where the cost of entry is essentially zero. Now, it’s all about your vision, your professionalism, and whether you can survive on the unlikely pay that you will get for doing great work, which often is zero, or close to it. And anyone can buy a camera and swagger around pretending to be a “filmmaker”, (young or old!).
But there are young filmmakers *kicking butt* right now. Eric Becker in Seattle. Fabulous. And my Vimeo account has over 190 “likes”, most of them your age or close to it. Check out Cascada for an example. https://vimeo.com/57343365. Brilliant filmmaking. You won’t catch me down there in the jungles of Mexico doing this! Chase Jarvis, now in his 30s, is also a kick ass film maker, who also knows how to market himself in this new world.
I actually got back *into* the business because of all this. It’s the best time to be telling stories with movies. The best. But there are still basics that you can learn from those of us doing it for decades. Shortcuts, how to tell a story, business management issues that they don’t teach you in film school, like how to actually succeed in running a business, getting loans, lease vs. buy, etc. A lot of what I didn’t know at 23 was how to tell a story in a filmic manner. I had lots of ability, but no history.
You can buy all the gear you want, but it won’t help you succeed in the *business* of production. It’s all about trust, completing on time and under budget, getting out and marketing yourself, and letting the gear come in secondary to the storytelling. My clients could care less what camera I use. They care that I can tell their story. My main client continually has told me, since the first day we started a few years ago, “I hope we can make champagne on a beer budget”. So far, so good. And the comment above about “your friends telling you, that you are awesome”, will not pay the rent. Believe me, been there, done that!
Please don’t think we hate you because you’re young. It’s a bit of jealousy, and yes, some people are losing their livelihoods to the fact that the price of production has fallen through the floor. The problem for those that you have read that are complaining, is that, after the best of intentions and work, they are being priced out of the market, for no fault of their own. It’s also happening in the music business. We are in a time of massive destruction of industries and have been for a few decades now, because of the Internet. There *will* be winners and losers, as always. Where it will lead is anyone’s guess.
Best of luck, and if you ever are near Seattle, give a shout.
Al
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I have run CS 6. on a MBP with 8 GBs. It does work. But I agree, while your MBP will work, it is not an optimum situation. Be sure to have enough hard disk free and use an external FW800 or esata card express card for all your media. Start saving for an upgrade (G).
Al
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Thanks. I apparently have to register for this, which I’ll do. But it seems awfully Sony specific. Like the other software viewer from them, I’ll have to see whether it works with Canon’s version of MXF.
Obviously in the future I’ll just run the MXF footage (If there’s a next time for this client) through Adobe ‘s converter. It appears that FCP X’s Compressor does not do this kind of conversion, or if it does, it’s not advertised.
The odd thing was that when I tried to do it in Adobe’s converter, it would only allow me to do interlaced conversion from 1080p footage, or take it down to 720p. Wierd. I wonder why that is? I’ll have to ask the Adobe boards.
Anyone know for sure if Compressor does convert mxf files to mov?
Al
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Just installed it. Nope. It appears to have some way of looking at non Sony MXF files and not showing them. Nice try though! Thanks! I’ll certainly keep this handy if I shoot with a Sony user!
Al
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So IMHO the design is very cool, and again, sort of locks you into Apple expansion, I would bet.
I am unclear about whether the TB will provide the video bandwidth for many multiple monitors while simultaneously driving very fast external drives. I just don’t know yet.
More than enough RAM for my needs.
More than enough bandwidth .
If Adobe says they will support the ATI graphics set, great. We’ll see.Biggest issue is that this is likely to be, given current Mac Pro prices, even more expensive. I have to say that I will continue to use my lower cost and very capable (maybe not as capable but plenty capable) W7 devices until this thing is shipped and wrung out in production.
I’m not going to FCPX if I can help it. Apple proved with FCP 7 that they have no idea how to market professional software to professionals. Adobes’ latest cloud efforts don’t change my mind on that in the least.
Would I love to own such a cool looking device, sure, but it’s still got to compete in the marketplace.
so, I guess, we’ll see.
Al
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Have you tried transcoding everything bur Red to Prores? Maybe theres a bug in their handling of one of the codecs?beyond that, I’d say theres a bug in the drivers with your specific config, given that turning it off the GPU stops it. Also, is there an ATI driver upgrade?
Al
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Has this been fixed by Adobe? This is the most annoying thing and like others on this thread,I’ve been putting up with it for months now. If Adobe can’t fix this it will be the thing that drives me off the product. I just wasted 15 minutes waiting for a bunch of thumbnails to render. And it still rerenders them when I go past the first video page of thumbnails. We all know that Adobe has known and admitted this is an issue for months now! Thoughts?
Premiere 6.0.3 on Windows 7 64 bit w NVidea GTX 570
Al
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I can’t remember if conforming is done with any of the graphics memory or not. I don’t know Mort, 512MB seems not enough, and I sold my MacBook Pro with 512MB to go to 1GB. It made a big difference. Also, you say that your AVCHD files are not that big. How big are they?
Why are you editing on the same drive as the OS? That’s always been a ‘worse practices’ situation. I would first try to move your footage to an external drive (usb 3, fw800 OR usb 3.0) and retest. With the laptop model you have and editing on the OS drive, you are sort of setting yourself up for poor performance.
I am also shooting C100 footage and have done some work on my Macbook, I would not describe my performance with 6.0 as “sluggish”. But I would say that if I loaded one of my standard C100 documentary shoots onto the internal drive, and tried to edit, I would expect it to be very sluggish.
I have no experience with FCPX.
Good luck!
Al