Ed Stahr
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Your best best with the T3i would be to install Magic Lantern on the camera. https://www.magiclantern.fm Be sure to read up and watch a couple of tutorials before jumping in. It is a firmware as on that runs from the SD card and will allow you to disable auto-gain, manually set audio gain, etc. Also has a ton of video features (Histogram, zebras, etc).
Hope it helps.
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I’m using a pair of the lower end models to backup “on-line” content. One was DOA and had to be returned, but since the RMA, both have been fine.
They don’t seem super robust in construction, but it’s a lot of storage and features for the cost.
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SmallTree Gigabit 6-Port card that is connected directly to 6 machines via Cat6. Recently added two more machines
How did you add two more machines? Did you have four and now you have six or did you connect to another ethernet port for a total of eight clients?
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There was an issue in Premiere CC where C300 MXF footage was importing improperly. This was fixed the December 2012 update.
If you had a project with C300 MXF media created before the update and re-open it after installing the update, you will get results you are seeing. Only way I have seen to correct it is to re-import the media and re-edit.
You will also see the problems if you open a project created after the update in a Premiere install without the update. This can easily be fixed by updating the machine that is running the older version of CC.
Hope this helps.
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I want to get my hands on the GoPro firmware update with ProTune. Having a Technicolor approve Cinestyle at 35Mbps really changes what can be done with those cameras.
The FS700 was impressive and looked great in the 4k theater (that 4k projector is a consumer model btw). That is going to be a popular camera.
The BlackMagic camera is very interesting. Especially since it has a Canon EF mount. I thought that was the most interesting point. BM is going after the DSLR market, not RED.
The F65 is fantastic on the high end and feature films will be taking advantage of it.
There were a lot of high speed cameras around.
The big points I saw were:
1. 4k is coming from acquisition to display.
2. “flat” highly gradable digital video will be the norm soon for pros.
3. High frame rate capabilities are becoming more common.
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At an NAB breakout session a presenter went through this in some depth. OpenCL support in CS6 for the Macs will give a significant speed boost over CS5.5, but the way that the Windows OS interacts with the video card will give it the edge on performance.
This isn’t too surprising. There is a reason that games has always performed better on Windows. DirectX and API’s for getting access to the hardware.
Of course, there is more to consider than pure speed. Stability, virus and malware control, software and apps you have already invested in, etc.
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If OSX 10.7 and Windows 7 are in evenly matched systems, the Windows Machine will run CS6 faster.
The way Windows 7 interfaces with the video card allows for markedly faster speeds in AE and Premiere.
Make sure you have plenty of wattage in the power supply to handle a decent CUDA graphics card and get plenty of RAM.
You can build/buy a very solid PC for the cost of a 27″ iMac with all the trimmings.
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To the comment on RAID not being a backup.
After experiencing a very bad power failure (voltage crossed to the ground…) and (luckily) losing only a little data, I convinced the powers that be that we had to mirror all of our content.
Find a low cost RAID 5 solution that is of equivalent size of your editing storage. If you are low on funds, this could be a stack of software striped firewire drives, large internal drives striped, an entry level Drobo, etc. You are not as worried about speed on this. It’s the safety net.
You can keep the volumes synced nightly using something at simple as Carbon Copy Cloner. If someone destroys your primary RAID, deletes a file, corrupts a project, etc. You have a nightly backup to restore from.
Just a thought and I know it does not help in your current situation, but wanted to put it out there.
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There is a good tutorial here on the Cow.
https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/DSLR-Slow-Motion/1
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More on the problem with businesses using App Store for OSX 10.7 and FCPX…
If you are very small have 5 to maybe 10 systems, if is feasible to download both application onto each machine, but if you extrapolate that to a larger company (10+ machines), it become very unwieldy.
1. How do you buy in bulk? According to Apple you can install the products on as many machines as your iTunes account is authenticated to. That saves money buy causes other problems.
2. You have to download the application to each machine. How can you do a quick deployment if you have to download 4gb (lion) onto 10+ machines?
3. If you can only authenticate to 5 machines in app store, how do you install it on the rest? (Answer: you can’t without creating dummy accounts)
4. As far as Apple is concerned, whoever’s iTunes account the software was purchased with, is the person who owns the software? If I buy software on App store using my corp credit card, I still own the software, not the company.
5. How does a Value Added Reseller address any of these issues? They can’t sell turnkey systems any more.
Sadly, Apple is not addressing these issues at this time. I have it on pretty good authority that the Enterprise account managers are at a loss for what to do.