[Herb Sevush]

[Don Scioli] “Give me those days of an ARRi BL, a Steenbeck and 5247!”

You were definitely living large – for me it was the days of the Eclair ACL, a Moviola flatbed, and 7247.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[John Rofrano] “Any more than we already have?”

If you need PCI then yes, more than you already have.

[John Rofrano] ” You just can’t upgrade the GPU.”

I love it when people use the word “just”, it generally signifies that the author trying to fudge the most significant point in an argument. Yes, you cannot only not upgrade the GPU, you are locked out of Invidia GPUs or the ability to add more than 2GPUs.

[John Rofrano] “. Adobe CC should run just fine”

By all accounts Ppro does not run nearly as well as FCPX on the nMP – possibly because of the lack of Nvidia cards, possibly because Adobe can’t afford to spend the time to optimize Ppro for just this one machine the way Apple has with FCPX.

[John Rofrano] “Late last year I bought a 5 year old 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core for $2,275 from eBay because it was 1/2 the price of a new Mac Pro 8-core.”

Name one other computer where you would actually consider buying something built in 2010 to buying a newer model because you can get near equivalent performance for less price. Would you consider buying a 2012 Imac or MBP to save some money – I think not. And the reason you wouldn’t is that the technological advances of the past 3 years make that type of saving pointless compared to the disadvantages. But with the 2010 MacPro vs the 2013 nMP it really is something to consider – and this fact alone is proof of what a wasted opportunity the nMP is.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Tom Sefton] “I just haven’t seen anything but impressive performance from it.”

I’m sure that’s true –

… If you don’t mind living in a morass of cables and external boxes
… If you don’t mind having a system with absolutely zero upgrade capability
… If you never have to edit with software other than FCPX

For everyone else it is not quite so impressive, which is why Steve is thinking about buying a 6 year old used MacPro off of eBay. The fact that he’s even considering this option speaks volumes.

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

[Herb Sevush]

I am just shocked to learn that everything I thought about the Trash Can when it was first announced turns out to be true. The only thing Pro about the nMP is the price. And yes Bill, some editors still need something more than a laptop, no matter how nifty-keen they are to edit with around the pool.

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

[Herb Sevush]

Nice article, thanks for posting.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Matthew Plourde] “More information on PluralEyes. It easily syncs the audio. But when it exports to an XML and I place that in premiere I then have a down-mixed stereo track.”

After importing the PE XML into Ppro, check your clips in the bin, not the timeline, by right clicking, choose Modify/Audio Channels – I’m guessing it says “1 track/stereo” – you can change it to “2 track/mono” or whatever you need right there. This will not change any clips in your timeline – you will have to re-lay them using time code or whatever.

My suggestion would be to use multiclips as I described. There are many tutorials for this but the basics are to select your files in the bin, right click and choose “Create Multicamera Source Sequence” – then a dialogue box comes up – the important choices are to choose “Audio” in the syncronize area leaving all boxes in that area un-checked, Then check the box for “Move source to processed clips bin” in the Sequence Preset area – which should be left on automatic, then in the Audio area
choose Camera 1 for Sequence Settings and Automatic for Audio Channels and then hit OK. You will now have a multicam sequence for every paired video and audio clip with the original sources being moved into a new bin marked “processed.” Anything it couldn’t sync will remain in the original bin. These multicam sequences are just a special type of nested sequence – they will act like normal clips for your setup because you only have one video clip per sequence. To load each clip in the viewer you have to highlight them in the bin, right click and choose “open in Source Monitor” – unlike a normal clip double clicking will open them up in the timeline, not load them in the monitor.

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

[Herb Sevush]

Mathew –

First of all, having your audio off by 1/2, let alone 1/16 of a frame is not a real problem in terms of lip sync – at 1/16 of a frame, your off by 1/480th of a second (or 1/384th if shooting at 24). There are some situations where this could be an issue – cutting the same piece of music from different sources – but otherwise it’s just not a big deal.

Secondly if your having problems with the “merge” feature, which I never use, I would suggest that you sync your audio to video as a “multi-clip” even though it’s just 1 camera and 1 audio source. If you need more info on how to do that let me know.

Finally, take your Zoom mono sources, lay them on a timeline and export them out as a single multi-chanel source to match your other audio. Ppro multiclips work great with multi-channel audio sources – just choose “Camera 1” under “Audio Sequence Settings” when you create your multiclips.

Good luck.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Joseph Owens] ”
If you can find it, there is also an interview with post supervisor Michael Cioni on this forum…”

The thing is that while I think Fincher is a fine director, with all his 5K folderol his version of “The Girl with …” is no better, and probably not as good as, the original Swedish version, which probably cost a third as much to make.

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

[Herb Sevush]

[Tangier Clarke] “Does this feature distinguish between clips that only need to be merged vs. ones that need to be made into multicam clips?”

This feature is strictly for multicam use. It can create a single timeline that has all your clips laid out in sync so I guess you could easily go in and merge from there, but I never use merge so I can’t be to helpful on that subject.

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

[Herb Sevush]

Yes, you can batch sync multicam clips in Ppro using the “create multi-camera source sequence” function.

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