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Erik Lindahl
February 16, 2012 at 11:57 pm in reply to: After Effects CS5.5

Not sure if this is still an issue in After Effects but in previous versions using either highly compressed audio (i.e mp3) or audio that had a different sample rate than your preview settings (i.e. 44KHz vs 48KHz) would cause audio previews to become very slow.

But, I haven’t noticed this for quite some time – given I’m far more strict with media preparation these day so it could be one still has this issue.

You could also in the past change the duration of the audio preview, this would with the above greatly affect render times for audio previews.

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Erik Lindahl
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Erik Lindahl
January 24, 2012 at 12:22 pm in reply to: distortion on image when panning

The main artifact (if you can even call it that) comes from motion blur due to camera movement. “Low shutter speed” I can only read as a “slow shutter” – i.e. you’ve probably shot the footage at 1/30th or something. I think rolling shutter has little to do with the issue here, given this does cause some distortion also.

Solutions are few really. It depends if you want to simply salvage 1 moving frame or if you want the sequence of frames to look more crisp. For the single frame, smart sharpen in Photoshop sort of does the trick. For motion I’d have to see the clip.

See link below.

https://www.uptownmedia.se/move_correction.jpg

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Erik Lindahl
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Erik Lindahl
December 13, 2011 at 4:10 pm in reply to: FCP 7 and Lion

You can reinstall MacOSX 10.7 on a new machine even if you didn’t get a install disc.

https://www.apple.com/macosx/recovery/

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
December 13, 2011 at 2:50 pm in reply to: FCP 7 and Lion

I’ve used FCP7 on two different systems (2008 MacPro, 2011 iMac) with Lion and it works *fine* in regards to not crashing or completely freaking out. Something is probably wrong at your end and I’d suggest doing with a the above poster stated – clean install from scratch with both Lion and FCS3.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
December 13, 2011 at 1:19 pm in reply to: Learning to love FCP X

This would be awesome! But please include normal output over a videocard as well.

Building support into OSX would have all kinds of benifits for other apps in both cases.

My experience with FCPX has been head-bashing in my testings. More will come when we actually have true broadcast output howvever.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
November 28, 2011 at 10:42 pm in reply to: Downscale from 2k to SD

AE isn’t all that for downscaling material. Your solution should work but sounds very time-consuming. I’d just use FCP7 directly on your 2K-file. Be sure to set the file interlace property to “none”, put it in a anamorphic SD timeline with the same setting and apply the “Flicker filter” under “Video”. Set it to max.

Scaling interlaced-footage can end up looking like garbage in FCP (or any application for that matter). Also a problem with downscaling is getting too sharp image on TVs / monitors and thus introducing a lot of flickering from all the aliasing.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
November 22, 2011 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Final Part of Murch Interview

His idéa of having a “filemaker of video editors” is something I’ve thought of many times as well. An editor is essentially as he states a relation database and a picture editor. Opening up the database / GUI-section would vasty open up the application for different uses and different user defined “modes” or “views” of the same data.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
November 18, 2011 at 3:24 pm in reply to: FCPx day 1 vs MC 6 day 1

Something very discomforting with MC6 is the messy and partially ugly UI. Aliaised text in 2011? How can they even accomplish that on MacOSX? Moving UI elements around is always quite laggy / stuttery. Why oh why…

Can one send bug-reports / feature requests somewhere to AVID?

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
November 16, 2011 at 11:29 am in reply to: The x264 open source alternative to the H.264 Apple encoder

x264 beats more commercial h264 encoders oddly. Apple Compressor (which I’d say is probably the worst of the pack) and Episode (which is reliant on MainConcept to some degree) give far worse results. I can highly recommend this also.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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Erik Lindahl
November 16, 2011 at 10:14 am in reply to: gridiron nucleo pro 3 slows down AE?

AE CS5 is a monster in terms of RAM-usage (and quite the evil citizen in OSX when you run out of RAM). I’d say a minimum of 8GB RAM for using this application. Even at work with 16GB of RAM I run into issues quite often on HD projects.

Suggested settings for an 8GB system would be in the lines of:
– Leave 2GB of free memory for other applications
– You can use multiprocessor rendering even with 8GB of total memory, however I’d limit it to 2 actual CPUs

The multi-cpu option only really is a benefit – I THINK – if you have more than 2 cores.

On my 16GB system at work I leave 6GB for other apps and AE CS5 can still make the machine come to a crawl on heftier renders. This is not the fact the CPU is overloaded – I think the system is drained on RAM and doing a massive i/o to disk to compensate.

The beauty of 64-bit apps. I think FCPX can cause similar issues to a system given it hogs the GPU which causes other “issues”.

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Erik Lindahl
Freecloud Post Production Services
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