[David Mcgiffert]

Chris,

I also have to agree about how helpful the SheerVideo folks are.
I emailed one of the guys asking why there was no HDV SheerVideo codec
when HDV was first hitting the market.
They came up with a codec change that allowed me to use SheerVideo
with HDV, emailed me a link to it and asked me to keep talking to them
if I had any problems.
They represent one of the best examples of
being responsive to the customer base I have ever come across.

Also, not meaning to pile on here, but I think looking through the folders
of an unfamilier program is kind of necessary to understand how they
set out their information.

fwiw,

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Chris,

Good point.
I have a plenty fast Intel Mac,
I tried that work flow after reading your article on the subject…and it worked fine, it just ate up a touch more disk space than I was comfortable with.

However, if this method would prevent the kind of mind-numbing re-do that I am now involved in,
I’ll go back to it.

Thanks,

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Hi Walter, thank you for taking the time to respond.

In answer to your question, yes, it was the correct timeline.
This is an established workflow I have been getting great results with.
As I said, I have never seen this happen.
It has be alittle spooked because
to re-correct this twenty minutes is, as you well know,
very time consuming,
and I haven’t worked out whether it can happen again.
I guess I’ll re-correct a few clips, use the same export procedure and
see what happens.

Anyway, thanks.

btw, I like that you duplicate your final seq. then color correct,
I’m going to adopt it.

David

[David Mcgiffert]

This may not solve your question,
but it gives a method for making a traveling line on a map.
Good luck.

https://videoinasnap.chuckengels.com/source/steve/steve_tips.htm

Another is G-Lines from the amazing Graham Nattress

https://www.nattress.com/Products/BigBox/Generators/GLines.htm

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Thank you David,

You are one of the prime sources here of great information,
just enough patience and a killer sense of humor.
It is always appreciated when you choose to post.

(another) David

[David Mcgiffert]

Alan,

The only bump for me when I look at your plans, is Leopard.
I am (still) leary to move it it – especially in mid-project,
despite the many highly respected folks here
and elsewhere who have made the jump with few problems.

But that’s just me.

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Yes, I did it.

I used CCC to clone my old computers drive (which had
FCS-original and OSX 10.4.11 on it), onto a firewire drive.
I took the FW drive down to ProMax who was configuring
my new computer. They used it to clone my HD
as one half of a partition on the boot drive .
On the second partition I had them put OSX 10.4.11
and FCS2 on it.

I then used the two partitions to migrage an in-progress
project from my original drive onto the new partition bit
by bit.

I had all my footage files backed up on a PCIe drive
that I used to see if the new partition would work
well enough to migrate over to and work from.

It all worked very well…so well that ProMax told me they
were going to use that method with some other customers who
wanted the same kind of set-up.

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Here Erik,

Take two of these and get some well deserved rest.
We all know what it’s like…

All the best,

David

[David Mcgiffert]

I loved this tutorial.
Very helpful and well done.

David

[David Mcgiffert]

FORE!

(come on guys, let him play through, he’s on vacation)

David