[Daniel Mcclintock]

I know I’m probably gonna get heat for this, but I only bought Motion so I could have a inexpensive way to receive the ProRes codec.

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I’d like to throw out my two cents on several things brought up here.

Although Black Magic says they’ll have their camera out by June, they don’t mention if it’s this year or next year. They are notorious for missing their stated deadlines.

Also, it is believed they will use the same chip that they’ve used in their other cameras. If that’s the case, it is horrible with low light. I had a chance to edit and color grade their 4K ProRes footage and was dismayed at the amount of banding in the dark areas of the picture. I had never seen anything that bad before.

I intend to buy the Z100 in a couple of months for several reasons. I do a lot of green screen work so having 4:2:2 color space would be incredible. Plus, scaling the 4K image to HD creates a 4:4:4 color space. Perfect for flawless compositing.

Scaling is another reason I plan to go 4K. I can shoot an interview in 4K and scale it to various shots such wide, medium and CUs in HD without having to stop recording and reframe. That’s a big timesaver in my work.

And finally, a long time ago, a client came to me and said she wanted to shoot her ad in HD. I told her (at the time) that SD was the norm, and it would be less expensive for her. She said a couple of things that stood out for me. She was a nature photographer hobbyist, and she dabbled in medium format. She said her pictures, no matter the size, always looked better because the original negative was larger. And she said SD television was going away, and she wanted to use her ad when our station switched over to HD. Sure enough, three years later we switched, and she was the first advertiser whose ad we played in HD. Those stories have stayed with me for a long time.

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. The issue was even addressed in the article.

“Once Adobe has had some time with the new tower and makes its software work a bit better with the new hardware — the way Apple has with Final Cut Pro X — that will hopefully change.”

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

Thanks, Jonathan.

Getting rid of the preference file seems to have helped. Thanks for your help.

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

Thanks,

I’ll try these out and see if that helps.

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

I think speed tests are not completely reliable. There are many variables in such tests.

I ran the same test on my Spring 2009 Mac Pro with 16 GB ram and a 2.9 quad core processor. My graphics card is a nVidia 4000 with CUDA.

I don’t have FCPX so I can’t compare, but the results for Premiere Pro 6.0.2 were:

Preview: No time. The CUDA card previews in real time with Gaussian blur so there is no render.

Export: 1 minute through the Adobe Media Encoder with ProRes 422. The source video was H.264 1080p.

I think the reason FCPX did well on the tests is because of Open CL, which I don’t think Premiere supports yet. (I could be wrong on that, so don’t crucify me.)

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

CS4 was the last version to use clip notes. To collaborate video, Acrobat is a much better way of doing it.

https://tv.adobe.com/watch/working-with-acrobat-x-suite/sharing-video-using-the-acrobat-x-suite/

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

[Richard Cardonna] “more lost jobs for americans.”

Not just Americans but anyone in the world. If you can obtain a 3D printer by having it replicated by a friend’s 3D printer, that manufacturing job in China or Singapore will have disappeared as well.

An interesting question to ask is if a country has too many workers that have been displaced by technology, what will happen to that country? People who don’t have jobs have no money to buy anything. If there’s no one to buy products, how will a business remain in business? I see a vicious circle approaching.

I have a feeling that the next 20 years will see fundamental shifts in every aspect of world communities. There is no job in the world that technology will not effect. I fear that we will also have a huge population that can’t find employment, not because they aren’t capable, but because they just aren’t needed.

A result of this may be a population implosion.

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

I don’t know if you have access to After Effects. If you do this may help you in converting the film footage. What you need is what’s called 3:2 pulldown.

I’ve used a frame converter in the past from videocopilot.net. Here’s a link:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps.php

I know it’s an answer to only part of your problems, but I hope it helps.

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[Daniel Mcclintock]

“I’m waiting for Speed Razor to come back.”

I’m waiting for NewTek’s Video Toaster to come back. I really need that sheep transistion!

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