Chris Borjis
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I came from an IT background to pursuit IT in the video world.
A properly secured network won’t pose a threat to any of your systems.
Your IT guy is being lazy, arbitrary or both.
(a tendency of IT folk that gives the rest of us a bad rap)When I used to do consulting I was utterly shocked at the number of huge national corporations that had little or no security at all on their networks. Where was the IT department there?
Same goes for all of our Government systems apparently.
I often wonder how these IT peole actually qualify when they can’t do the most rudimentary and first task of the job…..security your net.I could go on and on……. 😉
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It’s happened with other software, so no I have not said anything to apple.
It has something to do with .tga and .tif, because it doesn’t seem to happen with any other formats.
now that I think about it, I think it actually only happens with .tif sequences.
ITs a .tif thing.
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right.
The minimum bits to do a smooth gradient is 10.
10-bit uncompressed is the only set that will keep it all smooth.
Not on any HD though.
HDCAM and DVCPROHD are 8-bit HD formats.
D5 and HDCAM-SR are 10-bit HD Formats.
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I forgot to add that though you can use motion I would avoid it.
I do .tga animation sequences to black magic 10-bit about every other week.
There is some odd thing with .tga .tif files that the picture might end upside down if you render it from motion.
Quicktime or After Effects does not have this strange problem.
fyi
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You don’t want to go straight from Maya to a quicktime.
IF something happens and the render doesn’t finish your whole
sequence is toast. Rendering frames, you only have to pick
up from where the rendering stopped. If a problem arises.
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is your sequence set for 10-bit?
It has to be at least 10-bits to have a smooth gradient.
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Its got nothing to do with rendering.
I would have to render it anyways to see it on the monitor.
Without the transition it does not shift, with it, it does.
running fcp 5.04
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I noticed something similar, a 3 or 4 pixel shift, when viewing a dissolve on a sequence of .tga files (8 second frames to show pictures)
The shift happens at the beginning and end of the transition.
Looks awful.
The motion tab settings are set for high.
The person working on it had to resize every picture to 720×486 by hand in photoshop to get it to go away.
Can’t FCP handle something as simple as still frames that are not exactly D1 size? Vegas can do it no problem.
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That is so cool!
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DVCProHD is 960×720 size with some sort of dct compression.
It is NOT full raster 1280×720.
Thats part of the reason why it works over firewire without any more special equipment.
Ideally you would do everything at 10-bit full raster beyond the initial capture stage. So don’t compress to DVCPRO HD again if you an avoid it.
I prefer to work in full raster at all times regardless if I’m capturing HDCAM or BetaSP.