John Young
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When you do Batch List in Mpeg Streamclip, a dialogue box opens asking you to “Please Choose A Task”. Make sure “Joint all the files” is not checked.
John
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Something is wrong with your Sequence Settings. You can see that they do not match your source footage (you’ve got black bars on the side of your program monitor).
I would start with dragging the source clip in the Project window on to the “New Item” icon. (You can also right click and select “New Sequence From Clip”). This will create a sequence that matching the settings of your clip.John
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Ann is right. I was kind of baffled by this at first. But after I looked into it evidently Mpeg4 has different levels. Level 3.2 (which is the Widescreen YouTube preset) has a frame size limit. Level 4.0 will allow for full 1920×1080 video.
The latest specification suggestions (including 1080p) for YouTube can be found here.
https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1722171John
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I have both cameras and each has it advantages and disadvantages and they each do really well in different situations. What kind of videography do you do?
John
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Don’t think you have to spend $1000 to get good quality glass. They have been making high quality photography lenses for a long time, which means their are a lot of them out there, which means that they are fairly inexpensive. I have two Nikon manual focus primes that cost me $100 and $300 respectively that look better than my $1,000 EF-S zoom lens.
Might be something to look into.John
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The stuff going on with the brick is not noise, it is moire. Do some research on it, because as great as DSLRs are, moire is something you have to learn to avoid.
Moire is something that almost every camera has to some extent, but DSLRs have terrible problems with this. It is due to the line skipping in getting a sensor with a resolution of 5616 x 3744 to output 1920 x 1080 video.Lots of stuff out there to read up on. Here is a start.
https://www.dvxuser.com/articles/article.php/20The pan, however, is not an inherit problem with a camera like the 60D. It looks to me more like a processing issue. I would check your NLE settings. It looks to me like 30 fps footage being played at 24fps.
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The ‘track select tool’ (Ctrl/Opt – A) will select all downstream clips in the track that you click on. If you Shift-Click it will select all clips on all tracks. This selects all track downstream of your cursor, not your CTI but it works the same.
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I am currently deep into researching a new machine of my own so hopefully some of this knowledge I have acquired can be useful to you.
The single biggest boost to your system would be a Adobe certified GPU so you could use the accelerated Mercury Playback Engine. But from what I have found, that is not possible on an iMac. In fact the only Apple option for the MPE is a modified Mac Pro. (That is why I am probably switch from Mac to PC for this system).
Other than that, you hard drive configuration can help. You want to avoid reading and writing to the same drive at the same time. For me, it helps to think of it in terms of a Program Drive, a Source Drive, and a Render Drive. I think the optimal Hard Drive situation is :
Program Drive – Solid State Drive – for OS and programs only (240GB should be enough space) The research that I have done suggests that SSDs are not ideal for media storage and have not proven their reliability yet.
Source Drive- 1TB Internal. This would be for media you are actively using. Ideally this would be a RAID system, but you can configure some sort of backup system if your internal drive cannot have a RAID configuration.
Render Drive – Internal. This doesn’t need to be gigantic in size, but having it separate from your Source drive will really speed things up.
Storage Drive – External 1TB RAID. I would use this as an output drive and to store media that you are not actively working on.
I am not a computer expert, but I have been researching this stuff for two weeks now and feel like I have a bit of a grasp on this.
Some links that I have found helpful.
Premiere Pro Benchmark Resultshttps://ppbm5.com/index.html
Adobe Forums- Hardware https://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/hardware_forum
Hope it helps.John
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Mike,
Thanks for being polite and articulate in your response. Maybe that is more of what caused me to put that P.S. into my post.“[John Young] “P.S. It is threads like this that makes me worry the Cow forums are becoming more focused on complaining and arguing rather than helping people out.””
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Josh
1) They are right. You need to have a skillset and a plan in order to succeed. If you don’t you will fail and even if you do, you might fail.
2) They are wrong. There have been many many successful startups that have began with less than you have right now, both in terms of experience and startup capital. I chuckled at Mr. Sheriff’s response “10K might be OK for a hobbyist/dilettante to buy something to noodle around making YT videos.” That is the whole point. The market is changing by the day, the technology and tools are changing by the day. There is a huge market for making small videos with small niche audiences (and yes, that means YouTube/Internet and no, that doesn’t automatically mean amateur/hobbyist/dilettante). Just because it is not on the Discovery Channel doesn’t mean it is not worth doing right. And many many clients out there know this.That does not mean, by any stretch, that you are guaranteed success, and in fact I think the statistics are stacked against you (as many have mentioned the current saturation of the market) But, I personally think you have it right. Start small ($10,000) and then build as you go and as your business grows. If you wait until you have enough to build a $100,000 editing suite, you will probably never get off the ground.
Maybe you are not ready and maybe you will fail, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it is worth doing.
Answer- I would go with the Mac Pro. It will give you that room to grow. I would also look at PC’s. They have really improved in the last 2-3 years, and give you much more bang for the buck (which you need if you are bootstrapping it.)
P.S. It is threads like this that makes me worry the Cow forums are becoming more focused on complaining and arguing rather than helping people out.