Joseph Owens
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[Alex Frankland] ” it always seems to crash without an error report.”
How does it crash? Does it freeze up or exit?
One thing to check is your file names. If there are any HTML or directory/path characters, it will cause problems similar to what you are describing.
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Have you marked the replacement area on the timeline with In/Out markers?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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…Thinking maybe Compressor would be something to try — it doesn’t have to obey the same rules as FCP. I’d suggest SHAKE, which is old school, but — actually capable of many things.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “Anyone who bet on Color – dead in the water
Anyone who bet on Shake – dead in the water.
Anyone who bet on FCP studio – dead in the water.”But the continuing reality of the multiverse is “Surf, Or Die”. Steven St. Croix, MIX Magazine. From about a hundred years ago.
I bet on Silicon Color Final Touch. Apple grabbed it, but it was walking dead when BM Resolve launched — it wasn’t necessarily Apple that killed COLOR.
I still make some money with Apple SHAKE, even though I still think of it as nreal, but no longer growing, that’s for sure.
I would never have chosen FCP, but it was what everybody else was using, and face it, like a cat at the end of its life, sometimes it isn’t evil to put it down. Too bad the replacement was the runt kitten of the litter, and its competition, if you can stretch the point, continues to be the full-grown big cats, the kind that can’t purr. Up, Simba!
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[osama rasheed] “i dont have an extern monitor for SDi, so do i need any black magic card for the work ?? do thies cards have extra performance befit if i install them ?”
If you do not intend to display an external image, you don’t really need a Decklink I/O card. You may actually get better frame rate performance without the external. But you will also not get an accurate rendition of your grade values.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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I agree somewhat, the response to date has not furnished any new information, and the real reason for that may be that there likely isn’t any. (Skip to “Is there a point?”)
Solid-state displays do look generically similar in build and deployment, but a very large gap in rendition exists which may or may not be bridged — never say never, but very few manufacturers are betting that a commodity market wants accuracy over price. And that is a very big jump for the moment. I did not really pay much attention to the Dreamcolor initiative, since it was mostly positioned to be a consistent 709-like (or P3, or whatever) colorspace that could be distributed among the veal-pens. But it was never meant to be a grade monitor, and now its discontinued? So did that really work out? Or is HP simply “pulling an Apple”?
Maybe a simulator environment is a good training ground — for sure, it would beat, for example, learning dentistry leaning in over a screaming patient, as any high-time individual working in an employee-based post-house would know– that paying clients are generally unsympathetic to the good old bait’n’switch of getting a trainee instead of the high-priced help. But that’s old news, too.
* Is there a point?
For training purposes, learning the software, etc. It doesn’t matter. Figuring out how the curves work, how to make the tracker go, what an outside node is, how to Boolean power windows and qualifiers together, does not require colorimetric accuracy at all. As a senior editor, or anybody experienced in high-level post would know, those are all just knob twisting and button pushing, and as important as they are to the process, they are not the whole process. Whether a display is accurate and precise enough is simply a different environment — like operating an airliner on a specific IFR track as opposed to beating up the countryside in an ultralight.
So honk away and have fun scaring the cows now (unless you have clients who delight in the same) because really daring grades aren’t all that common among the cash-paying, shareholding, actuarial, HR-based clientele. They need their guaranteed annual 12% dividend ROI. Those “expensive” grade-A monitors are mostly insurance policies, but the reality is that they do indeed conform to the CIE spec for reproducing the orthodox colorspace. And unless there is a revolution (and it would not be a quiet one only known to a few), the commodity sRGB graphics displays, the ones that are really really good at text, cannot get there from here.
There is another can of worms if the question was; how do you learn to be a better colorist, outside the profanity of technology?
Regards,
jPo“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Shane Ross] “59.94i Dave…that’s 29.97 fps.”
Shane, Dave is at an ABC affiliate which lives in the world of 720P60, so that’s what that network would want. At least that is my understanding. Interesting that it is one of the formats supported by HDCamSR.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Shane Ross] “How do you do this? Best way is to output to tape the 23.98 timeline via a Kona 3 or other capture card that will add the proper pulldown when it is output.”
True.
But not an option for those of us who also export captions to tape, because the QTCC file has to agree with the timeline or NO GO. I create 29.97i master QTs out of Compressor (extremely time consuming) but “Fast” conversion actually creates a true 2:3 pulldown, instead of that erroneous and lame FCP export/conversion.
Interesting that now that Apple deems broadcast “dead”, we are now explaining how interlace and drop frame works, on a regular basis. Its the numbers that go up faster, not the absolute frame count.
If you stepped through a DF timeline, you would see the counter skip from ;29 to ;02 every minute except on the tens. You have to “get rid of” 108 frames per hour. Its kind of inconvenient that one of them is 59:00:00, which is in the preamble of every tapeout that should start at 1:00:00;00. You would see that 58:59;29 exists, but 59:00;00 and 59:00;01 do NOT. The next counter time is 59:00;02, and that is where your two “extra” frames are.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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[Joel Arvidsson] “Could this be a big issue?”
I don’t think so, but do remember that the processing pipeline between an editorial application and a correction app like Resolve is going to be extremely different. Premiere is only worried about playing it back. Resolve is preparing to change the value of every pixel, whether you change them or not.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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And there’s always Patti Bellantoni’s “If its Purple, Somebody’s Gonna Die”. And no, that doesn’t refer to screwing up the dailies.
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.