Duke Sweden
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Hi Jeff,
I have no budget for an editing PC. Take your idea of a total amateur who does this for his own enjoyment, and then cut that assessment in half. That’s me. Only reason I was looking into this was I’d read where the Z820 was an excellent machine. I also read that they go for upwards of $2-6,000.00. So when I saw one for bid on Ebay at $780.00 I jumped in. As it turned out it didn’t have hard drives, and the final bid was $1500+. I was just looking for opinions on it before I committed a bid. I’ve since found out that you need to add a lot of stuff to an editing workstation, so I will continue to trudge along with my measly HP Envy w/12 gigs of RAM and Intel graphics card.Thanks for responding, though!
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I knew you guys would come through. I wish I could read your comments while responding. This message board is soooo 1996!!!
Chris, see, I didn’t know that 512 whatever it was would be overkill for me. Anyway as it happened, the one I was going to get had NO hard drives so I backed out. But with the info you gave me I definitely will go in that direction. It did have two Xeon’s, Dave. I forget what else you had asked but, like I said, it’s a moot point now. But as Chris said, definitely overkill for my needs.Thanks again for taking the time to answer the questions of lil ol’ me 😉
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Nevermind, I just did it and it does combine them into one file. Great!
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Thanks, Tero, but once imported do you have to place all of them into the timeline or does it become one big file. The short clip I tried out, about 14 seconds, did produce a clean alpha channel, but there were 437 images, 2.08 mgs each.
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Thanks again, Chris, for taking the time to try and figure this out. But, doesn’t using a PNG sequence result in hundreds or thousands of individual image files? I can see guys like you all dealing with that but I never saw the need for me with my limited drive space. Plus I’ve always wondered how to work with PNG’s. Do you drag all 1,000 files into the timeline? Sorry, just thinking to myself 😉
As I said, I’m more than satisfied with having to use After Effects for exporting alpha channels. Plus it seems like I’m the only one having this problem anyway, so even the greater good won’t be helped 😉
Again, thanks for your time. Much appreciated.
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Thanks again, Chris, for taking the time to try and figure this out. But, doesn’t using a PNG sequence result in hundreds or thousands of individual image files? I can see guys like you all dealing with that but I never saw the need for me with my limited drive space.
As I said, I’m more than satisfied with having to use After Effects for exporting alpha channels if need be. Plus it seems like I’m the only one having this problem anyway, so even the greater good won’t be helped 😉
Again, thanks for your time. Much appreciated.
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Sorry for the multiple posts, there doesn’t seem to be an edit function here. Anyway, I just tried keying and rendering another clip that I shot the other day but I got the same result so it wasn’t a problem with the clip I had been using. Don’t pull your hair out trying to figure this out. I can still render out of After Effects. Plus I’m pretty sure it must be the compression of the original h264 video file that’s causing the problem.
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ok, no go. Same result.
This is what it looks like in PPro, and the rendered result grabbed from Media Player
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EDIT: I just noticed that I do not have the prores option in my formats or presets. Will try quicktime again with no Lumetri LUT.
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No, I’m just trying a straight keyed out 10 second clip with just a LUT added in the Lumetri Creative panel. If your suggestion doesn’t work I’ll try removing the LUT and report back.
