Jason Porthouse
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[walter biscardi] “Actually we’re an all-volunteer force.”
I wasn’t sure whether you were or weren’t – but in that case, kudos to you all.
J
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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In an earlier post Walter said something apposite to your problem, but I guess you missed it…
‘Final Cut Pro requires at least 2GB of RAM to run properly.’
thats 2, yes 2, not 1 but 2!!!
I think you’ve been lucky so far. You’ve got away with running FCP on a barely adequate machine. Now, for some reason, it’s had enough…have you checked your RAM is still OK? Can you stump for another 1Gig from Crucial?
Failing that I’d try stripping your project of all but essentials. Can you make a new project containing just the sequences you need? Try and see if that helps.
One last thing. Your second post. To me, you sound like a whiny kid whose about to throw their rattles out of the pram. I appreciate your frustration in being unable to sort a problem out, but realise that this is a FREE forum. It ain’t a tech support service – it’s a forum. The moderators are here to help and guide, and they may well get paid to do it, but they aren’t at our beck and call. So with that in mind, re-read that post, imagining you’re a COW leader. Or even one of the herd. Would you want to help someone like that?
Now, if there’s any other way we can help, we will…
J
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Dan et al,
Whilst I can totally see that a $4k radio system is going to whup a $1k setup, in my experience the Sennheiser produced perfectly acceptable results in a variety of adverse conditions, from shooting on a freezing glacier to the deserts of Australia. Ultimate range wasn’t great, but I found it a versatile addition to my shooting setup – with the caveat that every take was listened to carefully, as should be done. If you’re a one-man self shooter this should be a given anyway. Audio quality again was fine – an I don’t mean to damn with faint praise, but it was absolutely adequate for the broadcast programmes we were making. Yes, dynamic range wasn’t the best, but it’s a bit like hi-fi. There comes a poiunt in the cost/performance equation when to get appreciably better cost a whole lot more. So Brian, I’d stronly suggest trying the Sennheiser G2, and let your ears decide what’s good enough for you. I bet 90% of your customers wouldn’t know the difference.
HTH
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Use the 3-way, and read up on how to isolate a color. Use the limit tab – it’s on the bottom of the 3-way in visual mode, but you need to click a little button (bottom left AFAIK) to let you see it. There you’ll see 3 limiters – it’s the top one you need, with the color spectrum. Click the radio button next to it to activate. Now you see the two lines in the middle? Start playing with those – slide the colour spectrum to get orange in the middle (the bright part) and use the handles on the lines to isolate the colour range accurately. Then any correction you do on the 3-way wheels will be limited to this colour range. But RTFM for more detail – that’s only of the top of my head…
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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[walter biscardi] “I would just invest in a Kona 3 board and do all the upconverts yourself in realtime. That’s what we do here.”
Or…if dropping 3K on a Kona is a little OTT for one job (nice though they are) consider Digital Anarchy’s ReSizer… $140 bucks and a great tool. Will upscale SD to HD very well. The downside? Rendering, rendering, rendering. Not too slow though.
HTH
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Just a thought – something like a Panny plasma is ideal for ISF calibration. In the UK this costs around £250, but a good calibrator will get as close as the monitor will allow to the REC709 colorspace standard for HD. They may well also be able to calibrate one of the custom settings for 601 for SD work.
There are some ‘consumer’ panels that respond well too – the Sony W3000 can be calibrated to be spot on 709 by a decent calibrator. Scaling SD is another matter…
I have to say I’m mightily impressed by my Panny (a PH9) for it’s abillity to handle SD. It upscales the output from my Multibridge very elegantly. Colour wise it’s not bad, and I haven’t really started to play with it yet…
HTH
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Some domestic cameras use USB… I learnt this after insisting my friend must have got it wrong when he told me and he really meant firewire. Boy, didn’t I look the pro editor when he used the USB on his laptop to connect the camera…
Anyway, I digress… Your friend’s camera may indeed have a USB, and it will probably ship with some software to download on to a PC (90% probability the software will be PC only). It may result in a file that, if trasferred to FCP via network or HDD, may play. OTOH it may not – so I guess trial and error will be the only way to go. Bare in mind that any TC info your camera may produce will quite probably be lost in the process, so if you do treat the files as masters.
HTH
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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I’ve seen CatDV and I have to say it looks extremely impressive. So customisable and some of the features really enhance the workflow. Integration with FCP is great too.
Get a demo if you can.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Man, you’re screwed. Next time you start FCP… well I’d say give it a few hours before the Apple police turn up. They might look like a bunch of stoner hippies on Segways but you don’t wanna mess with them. Don’t be fooled by the gentle waft of patchouli and their inevitable request for a cup of mate. They know how to get medieval on yo’ ass…
Be afraid.
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*
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Hmm. It’s a funny one this. I’ve just finished posting a 95 minute documentary and the project has all been on one timeline. I’ve duped the timeline every so often (for reversioning) and occasionally cleaned up the project. But no issues with slowdown or crazy behaviour. I’ve had a few people look at me as if I’m mad, but all fine so far (touch wood)
Jason
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Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes.
Then when you do criticise him, you’ll be a mile away. And have his shoes.*the artist formally known as Jaymags*