David Chai
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JBL 305’s are great. They are even better when you add the sub LSR310s. Add a decent sound card and you get awesome sound you can mix with and translates well to other speakers.
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Thunderbolt 3 card add-in card is compatible with a lot of motherboards if you flash the bios. Check Gigabytes website to see if your motherboard is compatible.
Can buy it here:
https://www.frys.com/product/9175378But be aware you need Thunderbolt 3 cable adapters to use thunderbolt 2 equipment as the port is different.
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Sorry Robin,
I wasn’t meaning to be giving attitude. I’ve had another look at Affinity photo’s tools and it seems it is indeed much better than using Motion. I found the selection brush tool works pretty well. If you have more specific tools and techniques to share for green screen that would be appreciated.
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Guys, I already have Affinity Photo.
Not sure you read or tried to understand my post. I dare you to try keying a Green Screen photo in Affinity Photo, and see if you think you like the result versus using the keyer in motion with complete matte tools and edge cleanup and light wrap tools.
Just keep an open mind and you may be surprised. I just wanted to share using motion for something unorthodox but I found worked much better than I expected.
David
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Had a 2522 that was freezing like you said in Yosemite. Firmware update solved the issue.
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I haven’t used it or seen one, but if price is a concern and you need SDI, B&H sell something called the View Z VZ-215LED-SN for around $755 US. From what I’ve gathered around the internet, they are a South Korean company that make OEM displays for broadcast and other industries. Now they launched their own label, so the quality should be decent. But I can’t vouch for them since I haven’t used one, but B&H typically don’t stock things if they are not somewhat reputable.
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Why not a microphone like the Apogee MiC that can connect to an iphone or ipad and record anywhere?
I use an apogee one (which has a built in mic) and can directly record through FCPX or Digital Performer. I don’t like Pro Tools upgrade pricing. MOTU sound cards come with the free Audiodesk, which is a full featured audio editor.————————
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The most important thing you can buy if you are using cheap monitors that don’t come calibrated is a probe. I like the X-rite I1 Display Pro. If you get the free calibration software HCFR you can also calibrate TV’s and even professional monitors using the I1 probe. I have calibrated various LCD monitors and when placed side by side with a flanders are about 90%-95% accurate. Before calibration they would so wildly off it was laughable. Depending on what type of material you are working on that may be good enough. I have a panasonic BT-3DL2550 HDSDI monitor as well, and many pro monitors can be picked up cheap on ebay. Out of the box it also wasn’t quite accurate and needed to be adjusted. I find that the REC 709 color space has stronger red tones than most computer displays, and subsequently have to also use my GUI monitor for checking how reds will show up on most computer monitors. I use an HP ZR2740w for GUI.
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FCP7 runs just fine on Mavericks on a Hackintosh. For all intensive purposes there are very few differences to a real mac software wise. Updating software for the most part just means you just have to patch audio driver. If you have the right GPU, then it’s almost plug and play. On GPU’s that are a bit different you have to read forums and be aware of the right boot flags, drivers, etc. But Hackintoshes are definitely not for everyone. They require above average knowledge of building PC’s, and troubleshooting. They can take time to setup and get running stable. Updates could break them, but that’s just the tradeoffs you have to live with when you want to DIY. What you gain is flexibility to build the machine that you want, at an affordable price. If you are are billing big clients a big hourly rate though, just get a real mac pro.
I’m currently working on a project on Resolve 11 b2. Very stable and fast so far.
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I have a Decklink extreme 3D PCIe card. And I already have an external USB 3 drive dock, and older firewire 800 4 bay enclosures to go along with my system. Regarding imac. I have 2 existing monitors that I use in a dual screen setup, and personally hate glossy displays. Besides only the current top end imac graphics card can beat my current GTX 570 2.5GB, and my graphics card can be upgraded to the GTX 780, Titan or upcoming GTX 880 when it’s out leaving the imac in the dust. My cpu is an ivy bridge i7 3770k, which is easily overclocked to 4.5ghz. Any gpu on the imac will never equal a top desktop gpu. Thermals and airflow make that impossible. All said my hack cost me around $1600 in 2012, which included an at the time pretty expensive 256 GB samsung SSD. The macpro at the time if you remember hadn’t had an update since 2010.
I have 2 older mac pros 1,1 quad, 3,1 8 core and a 2011 macbook pro. I have an ipad air, and iphone 5s. I’m about as apple fanboy as it gets. But the imac doesn’t give me the expandability I want and is stuck with a glossy display. I know the pro’s and con’s and what I would need to pay to get back to my current setup. But it’s not something I can justify at this point in time, when I can complete all my current jobs without any issue.