[John Davidson]

in the selected event clip, you want ‘Shift+i’ for in, and ‘Shift+o’ for out. Check out the keyboard shortcuts in the help menu. 18 months in and we still refer to it often.

Good luck!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Mostly I’m happy to see that someone is going to push the bottom prices, much like Vizio and LG did for HD LED’s 5 or so years ago. Personally I’d prefer a cinema display option for viewing 4k, hopefully with the less reflecty glass used in the current generation iMacs.

If Apple brings out some new cinema displays with the Mac Pros I’ll be all over that – if not, one Seiki wouldn’t be a terrible purchase.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

[David Lawrence] “the Cheezycam review says it drops down to 30hz which is a bummer.”

It drops down there because of the macbook limitations though, right? I would expect the Mac Pros to have no such limitations (knock on wood).

We currently do about as much 4k as we did HD in 2007 (none). 4K mastering isn’t as important to me as using 4K footage – especially in an HD Comp or something like that. Our network clients won’t transition to 4k for at least 5 years, I would (very optimistically) guess. I think 4K won’t be feasible for broadcast until the majority of the country has gigabit internet.

In the meantime though, if I get a blackmagic cinema camera v3 next year I’d love to see videos of my dog in stunning 4k.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

$60 for the Rode Smartlav. Plug it into an iPod touch or iPhone and you’re great.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Same thing happened to us. We ended up just getting a Rode smartllav for iPhone and couldn’t be happier.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Hah! Thank you! I was looking for that article and couldn’t find it – glad you did!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Apparently H265 is 99% the quality of ProRes with 1% the file size. Perhaps that will be the codec of choice in a few years.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

[Oliver Peters] “When you checked, was this on a machine that DID NOT have QT7 or any version of FCP installed?”

We haven’t installed FCP7 or QT7 on anything in a long long time. I feel like it’s been at least two years since we even thought about QT7.

This was a recently clean-installed macbook pro with Mavericks. It does have FCPX installed, but I would guess that if anyone has a photo-jpeg QT to playback, they probably have QT7, FCPX, or even FCP7 installed already.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

[Oliver Peters] “Ironically, Canon is using Grandpa’s M-JPEG codec in MOV wrappers to record 4K video in the 1DC. I guess Apple didn’t give them the memo 😉 “

Have you checked to see if those QT’s work in Mavs? So far photo jpeg codec QT’s work and preview fine in all our Maverick systems. No conversion needed.

Oh. Canon’s CEO is 78 years old. He must be somebody’s grandpa!

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

Oh gosh, I’m not saying PC’s aren’t useful by any means. I keep my old Toshiba laptop around for when we need to shoot pickup shots where a computer gets coffee spilled on it, dropped, or just generally damaged in some way. I find them very useful for that purpose.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.