Joel Hufford
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Hey Jess,
Yep, sounds like you’ve got it right! When submitting your Compressor job, just select the VirtualCluster you created in the Cluster drop down box.
Also, remember that another guideline Apple suggests when setting up VirtualClusters is to create a single instance for ever gigabyte of RAM in your machine. So if you have any issues with the 11 instance setup, try scaling back using that number of instances. Compressor and QMaster can be a bit touchy!
Good luck!
joel
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Hi William,
I would recommend using a ProRes version of the movie. That format was specifically designed to work efficiently in the Quicktime environment. The high complexity present in MP4 compression is more often what leads to dropped frames during playback.
However, I would also say that I would never play back HD content using a single hard drive. The better option would be to use a RAID array of disks to increase the read speed of the drive. This could be accomplished using an external RAID tower, like the ones you see advertised here on the COW, or better yet, using a MacPro tower.
Hope that helps.
joel
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Hey Daniel,
Basic motion describes all of the most straightforward aspects of motion you might want to adjust or animate. Things like the scale of the clip, the rotation of the clip, the position of the clip and any cropping parameters.Joel
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Hi Michael,
It sounds like your hard drive is formatted as an NTFS drive. Mac OSX cannot write to drives formatted as NTFS out of the box, so you’ll need to install some additional software in order to be able to read and write to the drive.
There are a couple of ways to go about this. Here is the the route I’ve gone on my Mac and it works fine, plus its free!
First, you’ll need to download and install MacFUSE
https://code.google.com/p/macfuse/then download and install NTFS-3G
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/ntfs3g.htmlThe NTFS-3G link above is for an older version of the software, however, it is the only version I have found that is free and it does everything I need it to do.
The only option you’ll be asked about is whether or not you’d like to enable caching on the drive. I always configure the software to enable the UBLIO caching as it speeds up the read/write process on the drive. However, if the drive is unmounted improperly, such as unplugging it or you experience a power outage, it is possible to lose information when the caching feature is enabled. The safer route would be to disable caching.
Hope that helps!
joel
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Hi Jess,
You should know that Apple does not recommend utilizing all of the available cores in your machine for Qmaster.The two prevailing schools of thought are:
Total Number of Cores -1 (11 for you)
or
1 Core per GB of RAM
The reason for this is that the computer still needs some headroom to handle background and system processing.
Hope that helps.
joel
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Hi Daniel,
Inside the “Sequence…Settings…” Dialog box, there should be a button in the bottom left hand corner “Load Sequence Preset…” If you click on that button, you should be able to load the “Apple Intermediate Codec 1920x1080i60” Preset. This will setup your sequence to the proper format, however the clips inside your sequence will retain their DV size (720×480).
To correct the sizing distortion, you’ll have to select all of your clips and then go to “Edit…Remove Attributes…” and select “Basic Motion.” But please keep in mind that this will reset all of the Basic Motion settings of your selected clips, including any changes you made on purpose. Those will have to be redone after you fix the distortion
Hope that helps!
joel
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Hi Peter,
I think there are a couple of options out there for you.1: VLC Media Player is a very simple and very powerful multipurpose media playback application that is built to handle virtually every codec imaginable (I say virtually because, to my knowledge, VLC can not handle the ProRes codec) Because it won’t playback ProRes files you would have to transcode them into something like h.264 to use VLC. The playlist functionality is very easy to interface with, and the open source developers of the program have released a companion app that allows you to turn your iPhone or Android phone into a wireless remote for the computer you’re using. Perhaps best of all, both the player and the app are free!
2: Import all of your videos into iTunes and use the playlist functionality there to build your presentation. iTunes will still let you display your videos full screen.
3. (and I think this one is least ideal, but is an option) If your movies are all the same resolution, you can copy and paste them into a single QuickTime file, assuming you have QuickTime Pro, and then save that movie as a Reference Movie from the Save As… dialog. Then your movies would play together as a single video, without the need to edit it. Again, not very ideal, but it is one way you could use QuickTime, and only QuickTime, if that was your main concern.
Hope that helps!
Good Luck!joel
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Al,
I know in the past I’ve had issues with some lower quality boardroom projectors that didn’t like seeing a 60Hz refresh rate, and changing the video card to a 75Hz refresh rate fixed the problem. However, the display would appear incorrect until you changed the refresh rate, it wasn’t an intermittent problem like the one you’re describing.
What happens when you remove all of the transitions and view the presentation on the projector? Does the creasing still show up?
joel
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With regard to the OP’s question, I’ve found BusyCal to be a great expansion of iCal’s basic functionalities. It is especially well suited to small business environments where many people need to be able to see and modify shared calendars. The application does utilize Google Calendars to make the sharing possible, but it has a great User Interface that feels very much like a native Mac OS X App.
I would agree with most people that Apple’s Mail works fine for email, but as far as Address Book goes, I think it’s the worst piece of software that ships with the operating system.
It has been a frustrating journey to try to integrate that as we phase out our old Now Up To Date and Now Contact applications. I’m still waiting for a great alternative, an “Address Book Pro” if you will, but have been surprised to find so few options.
joel
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Hi Scott,
If I’m understanding what you want to do correctly, then this is possible using QT7 Pro.
You need to isolate the track of audio you want to add to your movie in a separate QT player window. So either open the audio file directly in QuickTime, or open the video it’s embedded in, go into the “Movie Properties” menu (Command + J), select the audio track you want and then hit “Extract.”
With your newly isolated audio track window active, select all (Command + A) and copy to the clipboard. Activate your destination movie, select all again, and go to “Edit…Add To Movie” (Should be Command + Option + V). You should now see two audio tracks in your destination movie properties.
Keep in mind that you’ll have to save or export this new dual audio track movie as a new quicktime movie
Hope that was what you’re looking for!
joel
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