[Greg Janza]

unfortunately, until you upgrade your entire computer you’ll probably continue to deal with playback issues.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

kevin, yes I’ve worked in professional sports programming so I have experience with highlight reels.

As to your intentions, wow!! you might be in the running for parent of the year honors. I’ve worked in professional video for over 25 years and I’m a parent of two kids (one in competitive soccer) and I gotta say I would never even contemplate what you’re thinking about doing. But I also don’t want to be working on video projects in my spare time.

As long as you know going into it that this is not a profit making venture then heck, go for it. I guess I’d ask other people in the league if they know of other parent videographers and maybe you can get tips and tricks.

as for compressing dnxhr/pro-res, you could simply make high quality h264 files from the dnx and use those as your masters. the default youtube settings in media encoder will make a file that you would have quite a hard time noticing being any different than your dnx master files.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

Sean, maybe ask for some advice in the Apple OSX forum. I’m a former Mac user but I now work primarily on a PC.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

sean, your system needs upgrading. Your graphics card isn’t supported and you’re lacking in RAM.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

The reason to sync multiple camera angles is so that you can easily cut to each camera angle in your timeline. Are you intending to do something else with the synced cameras?

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

It’s very simple. Create a multi-cam sequence with the three cameras by selecting all three camera clips and then control click and select create multi-cam sequence and select sync by timecode. And then open the newly created multi-cam sequence in a timeline and you’ll then see your cameras like you want- cam1 on v1, cam 2 on v2, cam3 on v3, etc.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

Your dedication as the official videographer of your childs’ soccer team is admirable. It’s a lot of work for no pay. It’s also admirable that you’ve attempted to record as high end as possible.

Having said that though, your current recording setup is seriously overkill for your needs. For a project such as yours, the first thing is to think about is what the final delivery method will be. I’m guessing that your final delivery method will be a youtube link to the highlight reel for coaches to check out.

If Youtube is the logical endpoint, then the simplest approach would be to build a normal 1920×1080 HD master which will get compressed into an H264 file for Youtube.

4k is nowhere near mainstream adoption. While it’s true that you can find 4k videos on youtube it’s still quite a niche area. And television in general is currently being delivered to most people as highly compressed HD.

There are a variety of compression settings with your sony camera. I would experiment a bit and shoot with a compression setting that gives you a good balance between quality and file size. DNxR HQ is a very high quality codec but there are other codecs that will give you a high quality image and with much smaller file sizes.

I’d also recommend that you create highlight selects after each game. The game is 1.25 hours in length but the actual highlights of your childs’ play will probably not be more than 5-10mins.

The creation of the end of season highlight reel will be so much easier to put together if you take a bit of time each week and collect the real highlights and discard the rest. you really have no need for large amounts of storage.

If you really want to keep everything 4k that’s fine but it’ll be even more important to get rid of the non-usable footage each week. This is the norm for any and all kinds of sports highlight reels.

Best of luck!

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

I work with slog3 footage regularly and my normal workflow is to add a kodak lut (5203 NEG) to all of the footage. I’ve also used filmconvert in the past and that works well too.

the key to adding these LUTS to a timeline is being able to make use of the Mercury Playback engine (CUDA). this allows for easy playback and faster rendering.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

sounds like you’re best option is a raid like a Pegasus or OWC Thunderbay but definitely ask bob z.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles

[Greg Janza]

bill, time for a paradigm shift.

circa 1998 an Avid system cost $66,500
in the early 2000’s a fully loaded Media100 cost $44,000
and in 2011, FCP7 was $1000

so the notion of fretting about $120 seems silly. It’s true that getting money back is nearly impossible these days but luckily it’s a nominal amount.

I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can’t Stop Eating Peanuts.
– Orson Welles