[Herb Sevush]

[Joseph Owens] “You could argue that 1440×1080 was a kind of anamorphosis.”

And you would be right. You can also argue that since DVCPRO Hd is 960×720 and stretches out to 1280×720 it’s anamorphic as well. These are interesting technical arguments, but the thread was about helping someone figure out what to do and in the world of FCP both of these formats are not anamorphic because they don’t use the
anamorphic checkbox in the sequence settings. So when in FCP all HD formats are non anamorphic. And that’s not an argument but a simple workable fact.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Russ Carlin] “Is letterbox the same as anamorphic?”

Letterbox is a description of what happens when you put a complete 16 x 9 formatted picture into a 3 x 4 formatted frame (or anytime you put a mismatched format into another without cropping) – the result is a frame with black on top and bottom to fill out the image. Your other 2 options when dealing with mismatched formats is to center crop, that is just use the center 3×4 area of the original 16×9 image and get rid of the rest, or to squeeze it anamorphically. This last choice means you squeeze the image while encoding and then unsqueeze it during playback. This uses the whole 720×480 area of the Standard Def frame to playback the 16×9 image. It’s much higher quality than letterboxing but requires both encoder and playback to be able and aware that you are going anamorphic.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[David Roth Weiss] “The best of all worlds for your data safety is three levels of storage:

1) ONLINE STORAGE: RAID-5 protected storage (or 6 if you’re big)
2) NEARLINE BACKUP: a 2nd tier redundant copy to inexpensive storage
3) LONG TERM ARCHIVAL: LTO tape or BluRay disc”

I know this is the basic business archival plan but I don’t really see the value in “nearline backup” if you can afford LTO. An LTO drive is on my shopping list and one of the ways I can justify it’s cost is by no longer storing backups on hard drives. The whole “nearline/long term” backup system seems to be more the preserve of big business where they have off sight LTO storage, as opposed to an editorial environment.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Hopefully my iPhone will someday learn thecaiacity really means the capacity, becuase this obviously not my fault.”

Don’t know if you’ve seen this site of mangled iphone texts. bound to make you laugh.

https://damnyouautocorrect.com/13603/the-25-funniest-autocorrects-of-dyacs-first-year/

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Jeremy Garchow] “Raid6 also knocks thecaiacity down by two full drives. “

I’ve often had problems with my thecaiacity, but I find if I just lay down for a few minutes it clears up.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Steve Eisen] “The P2 camera I have, HPX-500 has a native sensor of 960×720. When dropped into FCP, it detects the footage and stretches it to 1280×720.”

DVCPRO HD uses all sorts of tricks to generate a 16×9 image but it’s not considered an anamorphic format. If you check your sequence settings you’ll see that anamorphic is un-checked.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Russ Carlin] “I’m editing some footage at the moment in 16:9 ratio and was just having a look at my settings and saw that anamorphic isn’t ticket. I ticked”

HD is 16×9 and NOT anamorphic, it’s the natural aspect ratio. Anamorphic is most often used trying to squeeze a 16×9 picture out of the 3×4 area of a Standard Def image.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Mark Slocombe] “Does RAID 6 offer any advantages?”

More security, less storage, less speed. But even raid 6 is not totally safe – I’ve had a raid get corrupted even without drive failure. You have to find your own balance.

That being said, most editors are either raid 0 for speed or raid 5 for safety.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “The big problem is that simple things that I used to be able to do relatively quickly under the Finder – seem to drag on and on under the FCP-X. “

Bill, let me be the first to congratulate you on finally acknowledging that even for you FCPX is less then perfect. I can now take your praise of X a little more seriously.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf

[Herb Sevush]

[Bill Davis] “How many truck drivers does the future need compared to “information workers?””

Until you can transmit a potato or a couch over the internet truckers will be in high demand, cause even a couch potato can’t eat a picture of a pizza. The US mail may be in trouble but the teamsters are doing fine. And while your software is internet downloadable your iphone, ipad and ibook are not.

Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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nothin’ attached to nothin’
“Deciding the spine is the process of editing” F. Bieberkopf