Jason Brown
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Apple Final Cut Pro X Coin
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COW Coin
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The Greenberg/Shapiro session was great!! Those guys have an energy and passion that is contagious…
Nice work guys!
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Or maybe the plan was to wait till the last minute and create so much buzz as to create the longest creative cow thread!! 🙂
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great thread and discussion guys! 🙂
I’m holding firmly onto my ticket…excited about the evening!
And when Walter starts spreading “talk” I know it’s rooted in fact…you guys are all such great industry leaders (shane, david, walter, etc). Hope to get a chance to meet u guys out there.
-Jason
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I’m using free as well…speed has never presented an ussue for me.
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I use it routinely, never had an issue. I regularly deliver projects and media on large portable drives formatted ntfs.
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Good points Craig, it reminds me of something I heard Aahron (sp?) say a long time ago–u can use a shoe to hammer a nail, but a hammer does it faster and better. Right tool for right job.
Craig, r u gonna be at nab? I’d like to meet u, I’m a fan! 🙂
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I’d say no, but someone else might have more insight.
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This may have been mentioned…but I didn’t see it.
I don’t EVER install Final Cut Studio from the discs. Make disc images of each disc, save to portable drive…then mount all images and run installer. It will install over lunch. Creating the disc images does take some time, but it can run in the background and you don’t have to stop using FCP while your OS makes the image.
-Jason
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In my experience…QT7 is an amazingly powerful tool. If you open movie properties CMD+J … you can extract any of the tracks, see if there are any external referenced files, and edit metadata.
QT7 isn’t recompressing anything unless you “export”. Just doing a “save as” will retain same codec and just save the frames you’ve trimmed to selection.
It’s important to note that if you trim to selection and simply “save”, you’ll keep the same file size…but not be able to access any of that media you cropped. You have to do a “save as” to truncate the file size to only your desired frames.
-Jason
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I was in the same boat (sort-of)…I needed to do multiple tests and work to find the best quality for the content at the lowest file sizes. I can tell you that the 400 dollar CompressHD card revolutionized my life! Besides creating good looking transcodes…you can make several test files in minutes. So you can take their presets and if the file size is too large, just tweak it…then you can check the new file you create. h264 was a thorn in my side for many years…until I got this card, you’ll save 400 dollars worth of time in one week if you do a lot of h264 encoding.
As far as your specific issues, I’ve found what works for me by doing multiple encodes and taking notes of my settings for each one and determining what was working for what type of content. I do a lot of different stuff, soft – doc style, long dissolves, moves on photos…all the way to people standing at a podium for and hour. I can tell you that extending your GOP and reducing the bit-rate can save you a ton of file size on a podium piece, but you’ll hate the way it looks on more complicated stuff. You have to have sets of encoding settings to work with different content.
-Jason