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Doug Normington
June 21, 2011 at 6:26 pm in reply to: Clips and Sequences keep changing names

That is pretty brutal. A clean install could take an entire day.

Is there a upgrade for ver 7? Like a ver 7.1?

Id so does that fix it?

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
June 21, 2011 at 1:34 am in reply to: Clips and Sequences keep changing names

What is this bullet proof procedure?

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
June 21, 2011 at 1:31 am in reply to: Clips and Sequences keep changing names

I know this sounds weird…. I followed the instructions that came with the software. I was not aware of any work arounds and now I am stuck with this thing renaming everything the same name.

Disapointing to say the least as I am in the middle of a project due Friday.

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
June 20, 2011 at 9:58 pm in reply to: Sequence and clip names keep changing

Hi,

Where do I get 7.0.1? I just went to the Apple site and searched for it. Didn’t see it.

Thanks

Doug

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
January 25, 2011 at 6:04 pm in reply to: Signs of the Apocalypse

If it was the Apocalypse I would probably take the afternoon off. Maybe have some good food… Wow… you guys… “What’s the matter with kids these days?” Musicals have been written about this. Here is what I see as the Apocolypse Trifecta.

1. There is a certain point in your career where you are suddenly older than your customers and a lot of your long term customers are downsized, layed off, or retired! It is only a matter of time. So watch for that one.:>) It’s inevitable. Have patience
2. The advent of inexpensive and very effective software for video editing has led to a lot of companies doing video themselves in-house to try and save money.(however badly) I just did a large event where the client showed up with 16 videos that one of their people had done in-house. Normally we would have done that for them. We had to fix them onsite during the rehearsal.
3. The availability of inexpensive and very effective editing capability has also removed the price barrier for getting in the business. Today $4000.00 gets you approx. what $40k got you ten years ago. Photography studios are shooting video on their $2500 DSLRs, etc… Fewer viable jobs. More Competition For Them. Not everybody is positioned to work in the high end of the market. But that is the only place where you don’t run into the Do It Yourselfers with their FlipCams.

The end result is well… the current Apocolypse.

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
October 21, 2010 at 10:43 pm in reply to: After Effects looks jittery in XDCam Sequence

1. No fits and starts
2. No horo lines

It really looks like frame order but as I described earlier I have rendered it in all flavors and none of them look good. I checked with the client and he confirmed that he shot XDCAM 1080i60. Field Dominant Upper.

He did the edit in FCP with the sequence as XDCAM 1080i60 1440 – 1080. Now this video is being used to make a SD DVD… So as a work around what if he converted the Final Cut edit to SD something else before he added the graphics… then I could make him a version in SD and he cold at least get the SD DVD out the door without any visible problems… Clients these days want to shoot in HD so they have it for future use but they are releasing content in SD for DVD etc….

Doug

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
October 21, 2010 at 9:30 pm in reply to: After Effects looks jittery in XDCam Sequence

Hi,

I rendered upper field, lower field, no fields… they all looked bad lower looked the worst.

I still do not have a solution for this.

Does a nwer version of AFX help?

Doug

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
October 21, 2010 at 9:02 pm in reply to: After Effects looks jittery in XDCam Sequence

Hi, Thank you for your response.

1. The footage I imported into After EFX was XDCAM codec 1440_1080 16:9 — 1
field dominance UPPER XDCAM 1080i60

2. The ram preview looked fine on the computer monitor… BUT… I have a Matrox MXO2 and AfterEffects can play out previews through that to a monitor. the MXO2 output looked jittery…

3. When I rendered out of After Effects I used h.264 I also used a lossless codec ANIMATION.

4. Also… Whenever I tried to look at my rendered animations in quicktime pro they would only play the first 5-8 seconds and then hangup. They will play through in Final Cut but again they look jittery.

Doug

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
August 16, 2010 at 4:34 pm in reply to: Aftger Effects graphics look crunchy in FCP

I have used prorez50 and 8 and 10 bit and it looks the same. Kind of frayed on the edges. The font is generated in aftereffects…

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel
Doug Normington
January 28, 2010 at 9:56 pm in reply to: using Face Light and Vignette in FCP

Where do I get Face Light? I would like a copy. Everytime I find a webpage that has a link to download it… the page is dead.

Doug

Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel

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