Jeremy Loftus-hills
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What OS are you on, Lion? I’m still on Snow Leopard 10.6.8 and can’t get a blink out of my monitor with BMD decklink studio. BMD support aren’t saying much eother.
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Hi John
There are two fixes possible. One is a pixel remap which is pretty cheap, software driven, not a user repair though. But mine was too severe for that so I copped a $950 repair bill. The technician had to replace the sensor and the ND filters. Judging by your pic I’d say you may be in for the megabuck fix, it looks a lot like mine. Looking back I wonder if my camera got too hot in the field one summer’s day.
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Supposing AVID introduces BM compatibility in MC 6.0, what’s the gos on the MC color correction system?I’ve played around with it for an hour or so and it seems easy enough to learn, but I’m only able to see the changes on my computer monitor. What sort of results/productivity does it offer in the real world of color correction?
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Gotcha. That’s ‘Send to QT’, not ‘QT Reference’ from the options drop down. Anyway the workflow works on a short test project, now fo rhte big one! Thanks again.
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OK but how do I export with Pro Res Codec. No such option available on export drop down list. Ref file is exporting with original codec which in this case is XDCAM EX. Is there a setting somehwere deep inside AVID where I can customise the export parameters?
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YES!!! The pro res conversion checked out OK, but what I had overlooked was an EDL import radio button in Color – ‘Import as cut list’. I checked that and then all clips came into Color just perfect. Do you know what the gamma shift is? I found setting master Gamma somewhere between 0.7 and 0.8 set it back where it was. Maybe Compressor can be set so no shift occurs? Thanks Shane that’s a few steps too many but under the circumstances keeps a great correction program alive and well for a us as we make the change to Avid.
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That’s right. Red X on what would otherwise be a clip.
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ThanksShane. I’m nearly there except I can’t get Color to see the converted (to pro res) clips. Is it enough to just tell it where the output from Compressor is, or does it need to know here the clips themselves are?
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Hey Shane, how do you convert QT ref to pro res, in AMC or what?
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Apple can charge a premium for most of its products. The question implicit in many of the FCPX discussions is ‘why?’. To what extent is Apple’s brand driven by ‘cool’, and to what extent is that image driven through brand endorsement by many of the world’s leading creatives?
If the company is selling out its position as the creative person’s platform of choice, how might this impact on total sales? While these figures show sales doubling in 18 months, how sustainable is the new high, especially if by dumbing down software a new generation of managers damage the brand?
Hopefully these are questions that are being discussed urgently at the highest levels in Cupertino. There are graphs like the one you replicate in the history of many corporations, but they don’t trend up forever, especially where the mobile phone is concerned. In fact if you can generalise about the history of large corporations, those that become aloof from their original customer base, EOL successful products (even if they are loss leaders) and release products as ambiguously targeted as FCPX, typically experience a decline as swift and as steep as the kind of sudden rise the Cupertino graph illustrates.