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It was a well thought out survey in my view. It’s not a simple application, so there was quite a bit to go through.
I appreciated that although they were sparse, there were boxes to write fuller, more meaningful answers. But you should probably grab a large cup of coffee before you start and the time will fly by.
Ben
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“Broadcast standard” is a rather fuzzy term nowadays. :o)
People have used MJPEG and PhotoJPEG for years. They’re both lossy, but work well for naturally shot footage and you can choose how lossy they are.
Have a look at other how the big stock footage companies serve up their files. That should also give you some good ideas.
Cheers,
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Are you trying to do something particularly heavy? Large images, lots of particles, that sort of thing? I do sometimes experience a bit of “sensitivity” in these circumstances.
A couple of things to check. Make sure you close all projects other than the one you’re working on, then do the trash-prefs/repair disk permissions voodoo.
Good luck,
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You always have to redigitize the media when importing an EDL.
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You can actually change the drive from FAT32 to NTFS without losing your data. But it’s a one way trip and has some big disadvantages for a cross platform workflow. Link here.
NTFS drives can be read by Macs (10.3 and above I think) but you can’t write back to them without some hacks. I’ve read about them, but never tried, so can’t vouch for them.
Windows machines can read HFS drives with some additional software such as Macdrive and others. I used Macdrive a while back but as it involves installing software, it’s not perfect if your client’s Windows machine doesn’t have it installed.
My less than perfect strategy for my most mobile drive is to format it 65% NTFS & 35% FAT32. That way I can easily write >4GB files on the Windows box that can be read all over. And write <4GB files to it from the Mac.
Drives are so cheap now though, that I also have a stack of portable drives formatted HFS & NTFS. It's generally easier that way :o)
All the best,
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Nope.
I assume when you say filters you mean the plug-in filters. Check with the software company to see if they have Mac compatible filters and what their cross-grade options are.
Cheers,
Ben
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Hi Carly,
Next time, before you trash the drive or reformat give Disk Warrior a go. It’s saved me a couple of times.
If you don’t keep a decent amount of space free on your drive it will be forced to work harder. If a drive is full or near full it’s at its most vulnerable. I’ve had a couple go bad like this and lock up. I’ve learnt my lesson and leave 10% free on my RAID and between 15-20% free on my portable drives (even with my MP3 player).
Cheers,
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Hi David,
You should check out the speed of your drives. 5 uncompressed streams will be needing throughput of at least 100MB/second. If your drives are full(ish) or fragmented then this may be the root of your problem.
Have you thought about doing a compressed offline edit then rediging up to full rez at the end?
Good luck,
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Have you clicked on track fields?
That’d be my first guess.
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Before you reinstall, try trashing the preferences file. Do a search for com.apple.motion.plist. It should be in your System Drive > Users > Username > Library > Preferences.
Then use the Disk Utility to repair disk permissions.
After that’s done, restart the application.
Good luck,
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