Clark Cooper
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That’s the ticket! Thank you, Adam!
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Thank you for clarifying, Brian. So is there another way to re-size the Magnet tool besides a shortcut key? Or am I stuck with a massive, one-size, and fairly useless Magnet?
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Thank you, Adam. But nothing is working. It’s as if the feature has been locked by some other mutually exclusive setting elsewhere in the program. My commands are still set to the defaults in the command editor ([ and ], or < and > (actually , and .))
Has anybody run into this before? Any suggestions, other settings that might prevent the Magnet tool from re-sizing either from the keyboard or with the mouse?
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I may not be following you completely. Much of the footage you bring from any pro source (i.e. Panasonic P2 camera, etc) will have time code embedded in the clip. If the footage was shot with freerun time code, you could have a clip who’s time code is 00:02:27:02. Nothing wrong with that.
Perhaps your client is referring to the time code on the timeline, not a source clip, (which will usually/always?) start at 0:00:00:00.
If that’s not the case, then it simply sounds like the client hasn’t supplied all of the necessary clips…
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Thomas,
According to this thread, it looks like it may no longer be an option in Premiere Pro CS5.5, but if you have Photoshop Extended, you might be able to do it:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/725841
I hope that helps.
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Did any of these suggestions fix your problem? Or were the units bad? Follow up?
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What have you tried or not tried? Mercury Playback Engine settings (assuming compatible GPU)? Are your export settings the same as they were before the upgrade? etc, etc?
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XG can be ignored, it is just part of a model number.
Chronologically, the four series are H, R, A, and E. As Panasonic puts it, “The four main differences are the transfer speed, price, card lifetime and the type of flash memory utilized”. You’re not likely to come across many of the original H series. The H, R and A series have all been discontinued in favor of the E series, which has the fastest data transfer rate (1.2 Gbps, or 1200 Mbps). I think savvy shooters quickly realized that the even the “reduced-life” E series was going to outlive the P2 format itself — unless you really do shoot with these cards to FULL capacity, TWICE a day, EVERY day for 2.5 years — and that realization put the slower A and R series in an early grave.
Having said that, I know some news crews for whom the A series still makes sense. They’re gathering and dumping footage multiple times per day, and they do this day in and day out. The A series card can dump footage at 800Mbps, given the right card reader and hardware. But The PCD2 USB 2.0 Single-slot card reader is going to slow you down to around 300 Mbps anyway. So if you’ll be using the single-slot USB2 reader (and it’s a perfectly fine reader for many applications), you might as well go with the older R series (640 Mbps). If you use a Firewire 800 reader, then the A series is a great match.
There are only a few expensive devices that can read the E series cards at their full speed. What we need from Panasonic is a USB 3.0, single-slot card reader, then the E series cards would truly be the optimal card.
I HAVE seen a P2 cards truly fail (go irreparably bad) just once (out of at least a hundred A, R and E series cards we’ve owned over the years), but in that case user error was suspect. It happened to be an A series card, but I don’t really think it would have made a difference. Panasonic simply swapped out the card for us.
In short: Unless you need ultimate speed, no matter the cost, or until Panasonic releases a USB 3.0 single-slot card reader, buy what is most affordable. They’re all ROCK SOLID!
Clark Cooper
Abbey HD Camera Rentals
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As Panasonic puts it, “The four main differences are the transfer speed, price, card lifetime and the type of flash memory utilized”. The original H series (you won’t see many of these around), R series and the later A series have all been discontinued in favor of the E series, which has the fastest data transfer rate (1.2 Gbps, or 1200 Mbps). I think savvy shooters quickly realized that the E series was going to outlast the P2 format — unless you really do shoot with these cards to FULL capacity, TWICE a day, EVERY day for 2.5 years — and that realization put the slower A and R series in an early grave.
Having said that, I know some news crews for whom the A series still makes sense. They’re gathering and dumping footage multiple times per day, and they do this day in and day out. The A series card can dump footage at 800Mbps, given the right card reader and hardware. But The PCD2 USB 2.0 Single-slot card reader is going to slow you down to around 300 Mbps anyway. So if you’ll be using the single-slot USB2 reader (and it’s a perfectly fine reader for many applications), you might as well go with the older R series (640 Mbps). If you use a Firewire 800 reader, then the A series is a great match.
There are only a few expensive devices that can read the E series cards at their full speed. What we need from Panasonic is a USB 3.0, single-slot card reader, then the E series cards would truly be the optimal card.
I HAVE seen a P2 cards truly fail (go irreparably bad) just once (out of at least a hundred A, R and E series cards we’ve owned over the years), but in that case user error was suspect. It happened to be an A series card, but I don’t really think it would have made a difference. Panasonic simply swapped out the card for us.
In short: Unless you need ultimate speed, no matter the cost, or until Panasonic releases a USB 3.0 single-slot card reader, buy what is most affordable. They’re all ROCK SOLID!
Clark Cooper
Abbey HD Camera Rentals
https://www.AbbeyHD.com/ -
I also stand by SanDisk Extreme. The 90MB/s (600x) cards are probably overkill for the 5D and 7D. Since prices for CF cards continually drop like a rock, I’d get what you need now and if you have heaftier data-rates to deal with in the future (Nanoflash, Gemini, KiPro Mini, Ninja, etc, etc.) you can upgrade (cheaper) later.
I run the SanDisk 60MB/s (400x) cards in my 7D and 5Dii (and in the Nanoflash at 180Mbps) without a hitch.
Clark Cooper
Abbey HD Camera Rentals
https://www.AbbeyHD.com/