[Jim Press]

Thanks Rob; thanks Rolf- I think photo jpeg was the default but I’ve never used it so thanks for the tip. I’ll do a test and see if the size difference is prohibitive or not.

[Jim Press]

Thanks Bryson. You chiming in means a lot. Yes we’re on Macs. We’re seeing if we can function without the Worker node to start with I set off over 600 proxy builds last might so it’ll be interesting to see how fast that’s progressed.

BTW those videos of your presentation on YouTube are still a fabulous resource , even though they’re aging a bit now. Perhaps we might be lucky enough to see a newer presentation soon? 😉

Thanks again,

Jim

[Jim Press]

That’s a good workflow, especially as you must have the space to keep all your ‘old’ tape footage as ProRes online all the time- presumably on a decent XSAN or similar (our ASAN is only 8TB so we are limited in what we can keep online- hence the need to keep very small proxies).

Interesting that you get Squeeze to compress faster than Compressor on your 8 Core machines- are you using QMaster to set up a cluster? We have 2 6-core (3.33GHz) 2010 machines, giving 24 virtual cores and Compressor just smashes files, but I haven’t got that set up in CatDV yet (possibly we need the Worker Node to do that??).

[Jim Press]

Thanks for the fulsome reply Robb. That sounds like a very functional workflow. 90% of our footage is RED, the r3ds of which we archive to LTO after shooting and transcode to ProRes LT 720 to use as our online for a web finish. Our proxies in CatDV are really for use simply as an online library rather than for any editing, although the points you make about being able to use ProRes or jpegs for offline editing directly from CatDV is very interesting. We don’t want to keep the proxies in ProRes as they’ll just take up too much space, hence the reason we used h264 in FCS and are thinking we’d do the same for CatDV. But we obviously have a different workflow from you, and treating CatDV as a source of offline material clearly makes a lot of sense in your case.

[Jim Press]

Thanks Jon! Much appreciated general overview. Look forward to more, especially re FCS migration tool.

[Jim Press]

The yellow line is just a grid line, which appears because ‘Snap’ is turned on (it’s the same feature as snapping in FCP)–which can drive you insane, so press N to turn snapping off.

Make sure you’ve then selected the arrow tool, and you should be able to move the SHAPE, NOT the red diamond point (the red point represents the centre of the shape–don’t try to move it, rather move the whole shape by clicking and hold sown whilst the cursor os over the shape).

Trust this helps.

[Jim Press]

Put your cursor over the shape/mask, and right click and select ‘Edit points’. The view of the mask will change to only show you the bezier shape for that particular frame. You can then adjust it frame by frame, but make sure you turn on the red record button under the viewer window, so that it records each frame’s movement.

[Jim Press]

Has anyone upgrade to 6.0 yet? Is it definitely stable? I’d like to upgrade so I don’t have to reboot my Mac every time I plug in/out the Io, but I’m just a bit hesitant to change something that is fundamentally working…

[Jim Press]

Thanks so much Ty–your and others’ experience and accessibility on this forum is incredibly helpful. (You’ve already seen I’ve gone straight to the source and ordered your book!)

I will absorb all you say and hopefully it resolves the issues.