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Jim Blokland
June 16, 2011 at 4:52 pm in reply to: FCP 7 XDCAM EX woes…still…

Oh well, if you were on AVID, you’d best transcode to DNx codec anyway, as I’ve heard AVID’s direct import (name escapes me at the moment) can be a bit funky too.

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
June 16, 2011 at 2:55 am in reply to: FCP 7 XDCAM EX woes…still…

Hey Eduardo:

I ended up biting the bullet and transcoding to ProRes proxy (80 hours of footage!), and that cleared the problem up, for the most part. For the DI, I re-linked back to the original XDCAM and output a Quicktime.

Hope this helps. Good luck finishing your feature!

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
June 3, 2011 at 3:43 pm in reply to: Film about a film editor

Aha! I may have jumped to a conclusion suggesting CQ – although the main character directs the film, he starts off as an editor who is promoted – thus the confusion. Modern Romance looks like a fun film as well. I’ll have to check it out.

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
June 3, 2011 at 3:54 am in reply to: Film about a film editor

The movie was called ‘CQ’ and it was directed by Roman Coppola – yes, son of Francis Ford.

Here’s a link to it on IMDB:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254199/

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
May 20, 2011 at 8:27 pm in reply to: Anyone have issues after ProKit update?

Hello:

Thanks to all for the replies, just thought I’d post a status update. After running repair permissions several times, and doing rebuilds on all the media drive catalog trees etc, the system seems to be running okay.

I figure at this point, I’ll keep working for a few more days and see if the problem reoccurs. If not, I guess I’ll just go forward without a definitive answer! And yes, all drives are mounting now – even the Hitachi 3TB. So maybe I don’t have to abandon the bigger storage solutions just yet. : > )

Thanks to all for chiming in/offering suggestions.

Best, JIM.

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Mac Pro Octo Westmere
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Jim Blokland
April 25, 2011 at 2:42 pm in reply to: Workflow questions

Anyone care to comment on second part of question, regarding mixing XDCAM HD422 with ProRes on the same timeline?

Thanks,
JIM.

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Jim Blokland
April 20, 2011 at 4:11 pm in reply to: COMPRESSOR – how to keep file names the same

And thank you Jeremy for the MOV tip. That’s going to make it identical. Perfect.

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
April 20, 2011 at 4:08 pm in reply to: COMPRESSOR – how to keep file names the same

Thanks for your reply Everest. I think I’ve found a work-around. I made my own custom destination, then set the default destination in Compressor’s Preferences, and it seems to work without adding any extra to the filename!

Thank goodness. Saves me a ^%$#-load of typing!

Best, JIM.

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Jim Blokland
November 5, 2010 at 6:38 pm in reply to: FCP 7 XDCAM EX woes…still…

Thanks Andrew. I’m working with the ProRes files now, system is much more stable. Still a few kinks to work out, but overall much better.

Thanks again for your advice. Very helpful.

Best, JIM.

Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Mac Pro Octo Westmere
14 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5870
Matrox MX02 Mini
Seritek 4 TB RAID
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 5 // FCS3
Jim Blokland
November 3, 2010 at 11:29 pm in reply to: FCP 7 XDCAM EX woes…still…

Yeah, it’s a tricky one to diagnose. So many links in the chain. I tried not using my Matrox MX02 mini, but experienced crashes just the same. As for video cards, I upgraded to the 5870 and I don’t think the 5770 would work any better/worse regarding this issue. Probably uses the same driver…

Once I get through the next 8 hours of transcoding, I’ll be able to test and see if going ProRes solves the problem. I sure hope it does.

Best, JIM.

Snow Leopard 10.6.4
Mac Pro Octo Westmere
14 GB RAM
ATI Radeon 5870
Matrox MX02 Mini
Seritek 4 TB RAID
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER 5 // FCS3

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