[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “There are pros and cons.”

The one thing that is consistent is my bad timing. The last time I needed to configure a new system was — spring of 2013. 3 months too soon for the first nMPro. Now it’s 3 years later and I’m waiting on Apple again. I don’t sweat it when it comes to peripherals like GFX cards or monitors, but it is irksome when it comes to buying the heavy metal. Oh well, at least I’m not buying a house.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “Another only-slightly-crazy option is a separate iMac or Mac Mini on your network, running Adobe Media Encoder and a watch folder.”

In which case I’m transcoding with a mac mini and wasting my Nvidia 1080 and Xeons.

[Walter Soyka] “We use MacDrive on our PCs to deal with Mac hard drives”

Does Mac Drive write as well as read? I thought it was read only.

I’m not being difficult, I’m actually considering going PC as an option. I’m also considering buying another 2010 MacPro tower and upgrading it and living without Thunderbolt. Time will tell.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Walter Soyka] “Assimilate SCRATCH? It’s the real deal, an officially-licensed Apple ProRes encoder on Windows. We’ve been using it for our ProRes deliverables.”

So when I’m in Ppro and go to export media will ProRes come up as a listed codec? And when I send it to my clients will their Macs be able to read my hard drives? If the answer is yes, I’ll strongly consider switching over.

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] “Perhaps ask what the return date is.”

Good idea, thanks.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Ryan Holmes] “I’ve been looking more seriously at the HP Z workstations.”

All my deliverables are ProRes and even though there are some third party apps that work in PC’s, I don’t believe in messing around with deliverables. If it weren’t for that I would have been off the Mac band wagon years ago.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[nick ring] “new macs will not be at the September 7th event, but quite possibly in October…conveniently just outside your window”

I believe it’s called Karma. Which leads me to ask myself just how big a pr**k was I in my previous life.

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] “I think the next Apple Event is September 7? It might only be iPhone related, though…Still, you could wait until then,”

I’m happy to wait till September 20th – I’m just hoping I know what’s up by then.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Daniel Grixti] “Does anyone know how to create a multi-cam sequence so that each camera will be given it’s own track, rather than each clip?”

You can’t create them but you can fix them. Once the multicam source has been created right click and choose “open in timeline.” The multicam will open as a regular timeline. Now just go through your timeline and consolidate all the clips for each camera on a single track – making sure you don’t slip out of sync as you move vertically among the tracks.

It would be nice if Ppro understood that all the clips from the same source should be aligned on the same track, but it doesn’t. The fix is easy enough to do so I guess there isn’t a lot of pressure on Adobe to fix this.

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

[Herb Sevush]

As always, it’s interesting to see what other editors are interested in and what they need. I can now see why there is such a dearth of sophisticated Credit Roll software – nobody seems to want it but me.

Many here talk about building a graphic in Photoshop, AE or Motion and then using basic keyframe animation. This works perfectly as long as you don’t mind manually changing the color on 300 separate lines of Role Names when your client decides that he wants the roles to be in yellow and the names to be in white – yes, that’s better, but can you make the yellow a little more orange, that’s nice but can we make the names larger and change the roles to all caps – I just showed it to the Exec and we would like to see it in double columns, except for the Producer credits at the end, which we want centered but bigger – I just spoke to the AP and can you have the double columns be centered instead of flush and can we go back to all white …?

It might just be my Karma, but clients who send me formatted credit text usually want changes once they see it as a roll, often because there are too many credits and not enough time and once they see the strobing, or the motion blur to prevent the strobing, all the original formatting goes out the window.

I’ve looked at both AE scripts and Ripple tools and neither works for me – so I’ve gone back to CHV text tool which I can use as a Motion plug-in. It’s UI must be over 10 years old and it isn’t quite as flexible as I would like but it comes close – 9 different layouts that can be intermixed, each layout assigned by adding an embedded code in your text document that allows you to differentiate the different parts of your credits so that you can change the “roles” without affecting the “names.” It can handle up to 9 logos in the roll. Using word to do global search and replace based on looking for carriage returns makes locating and embedding the various codes much faster than anything you can do in AE, Photoshop, or Motion. Once the codes are embedded it’s child’s play in a Word doc to change them around, and even easier to alter font, color and positioning within Motion.

I guess it’s back to the future.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Scott Witthaus] “Is it just me … that feels it’s kind of crazy to have to use 3 different software packages to do credits?”

It’s not just you and that was the point of my rant. This should not be that hard and yet it is.

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