John Davidson
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You did run software update first, right? I seem to recall reading about som e imac display issues in the past, but there were software updates that I think addressed them. If that doesn’t work, make an appt at the Genius bar and hopefully you’ll be able to recreate the issue in front of them.
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The best way to decide who gets into heaven or hell should be if St. Peter asks “what’s the best way to archive a project?”. Anyone who answers “EDL?” will immediately be cast into the lake of fire.
I had a client demand EDL’s from me for years, refusing to hear me when I carefully explained how useless they were. Eventually all the vendors just started giving blank text files with ‘edl’ on them. Unfortunately, I have an allergy to stupidity, so I had to fire the client. Ended up getting an incredible client that paid more and demanded less. Ahhhhhh.
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15 Years ago in college I was taking a telecommunications class. The Professor there was teaching us about Dats and DVDs and anecdotally made comments about how he didn’t like digital, preferring a rotary telephone and vinyl records. He refused to get a touchtone telephone and was the primary person sending kids out into a digital broadcasting world that was in the process of being turned onto it’s head.
I wish that age was really the discriminating factor here – it would so much easier to differentiate between those who fear learning new things and those who don’t. I think it’s more of a frame of mind that occurs at any age. I have a 32 yr old producer friend who for the last 3 years has refused to back up her macbook with pictures of her kids on it. I’ve been trying and trying to get her to listen, to the point where she would pretend she didn’t get emails where I begged her to back up her system via time machine. Guess who I got a call from last week screaming about her blue folder with a question mark? Guess who lost the last 2 years of her kids pictures?
I had another guy tell me over the summer that he ‘knows’ final cut. I asked which version of final cut he had, and he told me he thinks it’s version 3, on his G3. I laughed at him and told him he needed to get a real mac and learn real Final Cut. His reply? “I don’t really want to learn anything new, I just wanna get a steady-paying 9-5 gig.” This man is not 50.
Meanwhile, for her birthday we gave my mom her first mac. She runs time machine, scans pics, plays with her iphone, and gets excited reading ‘macs for dummies’. My mom is 71.
The problem isn’t age related – it’s more about a persons frame of mind. If the concept of ‘new’ things, new features, new plugins, new software, and new ways to do things excites you, it won’t matter if you’re 100 years old, you’ll learn these new things and, even at it’s most frustrating, the process will bring joy to you.
If, like my friend who’s hard drive crashed, you cry about how you don’t have enough time to learn anything new (spending 10 minutes crying over something you could have learned in 1 minute), then any new concepts will blow you away, and one day you’ll be unemployed jealously wondering why everyone else is so happy and doing things you don’t understand.
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There have been few experiences more joyful, fulfilling, and financially rewarding than when we switched from PC/Avid to FCP 4 years ago. The real shame was I learned on Avid – they had me – but they didn’t see the dark horse of FCP coming for them until it was too late. Who was really going to drop 50k just to get SDI in/outs? Come on, man….
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Sounds like a good reason to update software on all your macs more often. That’s nearly a year old version, with security holes that have been patched since then. Might not be a bad idea to put a nice fat time machine backup on the mac pro as well. I use a 2Tb Green Power WD drive in an avail slot on my mac pro. It doesn’t back up my big media RAID, but it covers my OS and internal drives.
Next time you run into an issue like this, run software update. If it is a hacker/malware issue, and you’re running exposed software, at least you’ll eliminate all known back doors, which may further help you track down the source of your problem.
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If this helps for now, I’m using the default preset for ProRes in compressor.
Under ‘settings’ in compressor, it’s in Apple/Formats/QuickTime/Apple ProRes. Not really sure how it deals with the interlace issue, but it’s not causing me any headaches yet.
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I’m starting to come around to it, especially when running a cluster. Seems like over 10 clips and it’ll freak out. Is the quality of MPEG streamclip as good as what you get out of compressor, when compressor works right?
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I use cinema tools to change the frame rate from 60p to 24p (when shooting 720), to get the slow mo look. Then I convert via compressor to 1080i prores. You may need to convert to Prores HQ to keep 1080p.
h264 is the codec used to record these files, which is keeps sizes low, but sucks for editing. -
I don’t think you’re gonna “get it” no matter what anybody says. This is a prosumer camera capable of making beautiful cinematic shots similar to ones found on much more expensive professional cameras.
This isn’t an ENG camera – and nobody is trying to sell it as such.
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I know, right? You could also point out that Final Cut should/could support editing via H.264. Apple sure pushed that codec down our throats hard enough a few years ago. That doesn’t make me a sucker to Apple, that just means Apple still has work to do. I’m not going to refuse to work in FCP because of it.
I also think it would be pretty awesome to have a pontoon boat capable car. That doesn’t mean I’d only drive it on rivers, but the option would be nice!