John Rofrano
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You might want to look at VASST Scattershot 3D. You can download a copy from our downloads page that will work as a free trial for 15 days. It might accomplish what you want.
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[Paul Gregory] “The resolution & frame rate suggests to me its NTFS”
Me too. That’s definitely an NTSC DVD. Like you said, it may be a country code limitation.
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[Paul Gregory] “Perhaps its all about the control that the large companies try to put in place for releasing new videos in different countries.”
If the DVD has a country code specified it would only play in players that support that code so that could be the problem.
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[Monica F.P.Williams] “Is there anyone that was able to connect a Samsung Syncmaster 305 To a mac book pro? This Samsung is an older 30″ model with a DVI/D Input”
I connect my DVI/D display to my MacBook Pro with a Mini DisplayPort to DVI Adapter and it works great but it sounds like you already have that port in use. You could always get an OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock if you need more ports.
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[Paul Gregory] “The disk I had been lent would not play in one DVD player but would in another as well as on the PC. I was curious as to why one would not play on one player so I looked at files on PC.”
What is the format of the DVD (PAL or NTSC) and what do the DVD players support (PAL or NTSC)? Some PAL players support NTSC, some do not. I don’t know of any NTSC players that support PAL and the PC supports anything.
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[Ron Whitaker] “I believe John Rofrano some time ago recommended an Asus.”
My two ASUS ProArt PA246Q’s are still going strong. I didn’t sell them with my 6-Core PC and I use them now as the primary monitor on my 2008 Mac Pro 8-Core and the secondary monitor my 2010 Mac Pro 12-Core. They are both 5 years old now and I’ve had no issues at all. I can highly recommend them. Obviously they don’t make this model after 5 years but whatever they replaced it with should be great.
They came pre-calibrated from the factory and shipped with a printout of the calibration report. I keep them calibrated with my Spyder 5 Pro but they were set up accurately from the factory. I’ve been very happy with them.
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[Ron Whitaker] “I know this topic has been discussed to the Nth degree, but I recently read that HP has an excellent desktop that could be good for video editing.
Can anyone back that up?”
HP has some excellent video editing systems. They have the HP Z Series Workstations. I have said this before. If someone told me that I had to use a PC and I couldn’t build one myself I would buy an HP Z Workstation. When I was at NAB one year I got a chance to stop by the HP booth and stick my head on one that was open and see the construction inside and it is very well built and they are purposefully build for video editing, graphic designers, and CAD.
Which one should you get? The most powerful one you can afford of course! (Z840 if you can afford it)
They are not cheap because there are built to a higher standard with higher quality parts. Be prepared to spend money. You can’t compare an HP Workstation class machine to their consumer grade desktops so don’t expect to pay the same even though the specs look the same. They do last a lot longer and withstand higher usage though.
[Ron Whitaker] “And how would it compare to the system on the Video Guys website that John Rofrano recommended?”
Well… you are comparing a workstation class machine to a consumer class machine. It’s like comparing a Cadillac to a Volkswagen. Both will get you to work every day but if you are traveling cross country you might me more comfortable in the Cadillac. What VideoGuys recommends is consumer class components. (e.g., Intel Core i7 vs Intel Xeon, Single CPU vs Dual CPU, standard RAM vs ECC RAM, gamer graphics cards vs workstation graphics cards, etc.) It’s suggested for people who don’t want to spend a lot of money but still get a lot of value and don’t mind tinkering a bit to get it all working.
You have to ask yourself if you are willing to pay for a workstation class machine. They are very robust and you can leave them rendering for hours and hours and they will stay cool and keep going and last a long time. That’s not to say that you can’t build a consumer class machine that can do this as well, it’s just that parts like the server class Xeon processor and designed run 24/7 for years without being turned off. ECC memory corrects parity errors itself instead of causing BSODs. Workstation class graphics cards have more stable and well tested drivers and are tuned for workstation workloads (not games). The HP Z Series is a purposefully built system. You won’t be sorry you bought one.
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Yes, Locking Events will also grey them out and disable their movement. Glad you solved that one.
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[Mato Ilijic] “- but the same command performed on some other clips (which have been created and edited in the same way), sends me to the “raw” audio wav clip in the Event (I consider this problematic/undesired behaviour).”
I cannot duplicate this behavior. Whenever I select Open in Browser on a Synchronized Clip it always takes me to the synchronized clip. If I right-click on the clip in the timeline and select Open in Timeline, I can then click on the audio and get to the original raw audio but I do not get this behavior when clicking on the synchronized clip on primary storyline.
I can only assume that it is something about how you make one synchronized clip vs the other which exhibits the correct behavior. Maybe if you tell us more about how you are creating the synchronized clips, someone will spot something in your workflow?
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[Michael Carter] “I’ve tried compound clips, but I can’t maintain synch with those – cut a clip and everything slides sideways, and all those blank clips to deal with. Or does turning magnetic off solve that issue?”
What solves the issue is just using connected clips because they stay connected to the main storyline. If you cut a clip in a series of connected clips just that clip gets deleted and everything else stays in it’s place.
Do you object to using connected clips? Is that the problem? Maybe I misunderstood what you meant by “…and that non-track timeline is a nightmare of stuff leaping up and down every time you blade a cut. ” Are you blading connected clips? Why are things jumping? Perhaps two screen shots would help (a before and after).
I actually prefer FCP X because everything stays connected as I edit. You seem to be having the opposite experience.
~jr
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