Chad Brewer
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Bob,
I’ve read many of your posts and responded to some of them. I enjoy your humor and appreciate your experience in the field.I look forward to future punishment in this forum.
chad
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Gary,
Thank you for including the answer to my question in your unnecessary smart ass response:“RGB with Alpha – ProRes alpha is up to 16 bit. (65,536 levels of grey)”
chad
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Next to my refrigerator, I have a D1 deck.
I archive everything to D1.
It’s basically preparation for the end of the world.Honestly though, I know exactly what 4:4:4 is. What is 4444?
Am I color blind?chad
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Jeremy,
How about a “never, sometimes, or always” attitude here?
Your optimism is killing me.
Come on, yes and no is too easy these days.Weren’t the Hollywood movies from the 1980’s a sign for us all.
We’re taking back control from the machines.
Well, yes and no.chad
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Here in Chicago, I’ve seen enough snow to not like it anymore – part of the reason I’ve been more than hesitant to go with adopting a Snow Leopard.
I’m running FCP 7 on a dual duo MacPro Kona3, a 6 month old dual quad MacPro Blackmagic, and an absolutely brand new dual quad MacPro Kona3.All three machines are on OSX 10.5.6 and the two Kona machines are on Kona 7 drivers. Haven’t had one single problem with FCP 7.
The brand new MacPro came with 10.5.6 on it with a promised Snow Leopard disc dropped in the box before shipping. That install disc is quarantined in a file cabinet in the basement where it will remain for now. I just leave some food and water out for it every couple days and change the litter once a week.
I would never torture myself with undergoing an OS and ProApp upgrade at the same time. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. If you don’t need it, don’t use it.
That’s been my experience.chad
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The 1200 and 1400 will cross 1080 to 720 and 1080 to 720 going out.
They will not do these conversions coming in to the deck. Whatever comes in, comes in.
You could save yourself a lot of time without compressor by using Panasonic’s cross conversion capabilites between 1080 and 720 on their SDI outputs. Good quality for the price tag of the decks. Look in the menus.chad
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Shane is right. It’s 3-point editing. Pick your edit points wisely from your source material. If you want to “fit to fill,” then you have to deal with the necessary adjustments afterwards.
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Walter:
“I’m not sure if the Panasonic 1400 will make that conversion during record. It can actually do this during playback, but I’ve never tried it during record. My inclination would be no, it does not do that.”You’re right. The Panasonic decks will do cross conversions going out, but not in. Panasonic’s outgoing conversions are far superior to Sony’s at this point – even on my SRW5500. This is why I got the Teranex VC300. It can turn apples in to oranges.
chad
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Derek,
My facility has both Kona 3 and even better, top of the line Teranex hardware for broadcast quality uprez as Walter and Shane were describing. If the project is really important for broadcast, don’t settle on software for such a task.Let me know if my company can assist you in any way.
chad
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When not fully rendered, I know I’m not full quality. At the time it was all I could use to meet the deadline. (End result being a DVD, therefore green render playback cut it this time.)
I had to adjust the speed of the main clip in the sequence to compress the film for time – slightly shorter TRT and a slightly faster pace that the director was looking for. Then of course adjust the audio for pitch, etc. adjustments.