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[hamish boyd] “A mate of mine has this desk…”
Yes, but does he have those stiletto heels? I think Eddie Izzard has a few pairs!
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If your audio keyframes are being ignored, try deleting the audio render files with the Render Manager and then re-render your audio using Sequence>Render>Audio Mixdown.
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The P2 names are sequential. If you sort by either name or timecode you’ll be sorting in the order that they’re made.
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[enrico parents] “I am working on a political documentary on U.S military big part of our archive footage comes from mpeg2 sources from the pentagon channel. “
Have you considered contacting the Dept. of Defense to get better quality copies of these shots? You would have to contact their public information office, or find a media liaison.
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I play all edit related audio through my Kona, all other computer audio through the Mac’s audio out. Both go through the same mixer to the same speakers.
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[Aaron Barrocas] “I’m about to shoot an HD feature. I have FCP6, so I’m all set up to cut 1080i material at ProRes 422.
Problem is, I don’t have a terrific HD monitor with AJA system and all that business.
What I do have is a beautiful CRT SD monitor.
My situation is that I cannot set up a proper HD monitor output with the budget I have.”How important is this project to you? Is it important at all? Important enough to maybe want to do a proper job of it? Would you like to maybe sell it to someone for theatrical, TV, even direct to DVD?
If the answer to any of these is “yes”, then maybe you should invest a little money into making it more successful, and making your life with it easier.
If you only spend 6 months of 40 hour weeks on this project you will spend over a thousand hours living with it. That doesn’t account for OT, the time spent discussing it with the director on the phone over the weekend, the time you spend obsessing over it while trying to get to sleep, in the shower, stuck in traffic on the freeway, etc.
It would be better if all of this off-hour worry was about how to tell the story, not about how to get your system to work more smoothly. It would be better if you could complain to the director that you can’t work faster because he’s such a pain, not that you can’t work faster because you chose to pinch pennies and now your workflow is ca-ca.
A Kona LHi card will run you about $1500, a Decklink HD Extreme about a grand. You can get a used PVM-14L5 on eBay for $500 and up, a PVM20-L5 could be had for under $2k. Or you could buy the Flanders that Walter recommends. The $2k-$5k that you spend on a HD capture card & monitor will save you hundreds of hours of render time, and will give you a much more accurate preview of your work, so that your end result will be better and more easily arrived at.
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[Fabio Basone] “Also, how do i contact Google? – Email takes too long for a response and their UK office is just for press queries and there’s never any answer…any ideas?”
https://www.google.com/intl/en/contact/
Note the telephone number when you scroll down.
BTW, I found this by “google.com” into my web browser, then clicking the “About Google” button just below the search field, then the “Contact Us” button under the “More Google” banner.
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[John Langley] “I am using two 2TB external drives and have about 9 GBs left on my Macbook Pro HD drive (I know 20 GB is recommended but I don’t know where to free up more space.”
Simple, you buy another drive and move some of whatever is filling up your system drive onto it.
And before you complain about the expense, remember, drives are cheaper than they’ve ever been before and time is money.
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[Mike Cohen] “The data appears as a CD volume on a Windows desktop, separate from the available space on the chip, as a separate disk volume.”
Very curious. Is the “DVD” being copied onto the flash drive as a disk image, or as a Video-TS folder?
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Transport keys! Fiendishly clever! Totally unreadable! Fiendishly dumb!
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