[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

You are very welcome, Trevor.

Anytime 🙂

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Rich,

Ann called it correctly, likely to be spanned clips.

The Canon XF105 camera is from 2011. Back then, some files were limited to about 4GB in size. If memory serves me right, this was a size limitation due to the operating system on the camera.

Not sure that this covers your camera, but it does describe the issue.
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3482729

In “modern” cameras you have a text file that get the editing software to stitch together the individual files to one continuous file. If you go inside PPro, you may find that one of the XF105 camera named files, is the total length of all the continuous files.

Hope this helps?

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Mads

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Yes to that observation. I did get the Davinci Mini (rather big for “mini”) in December, as it provided a free Davinci Studio licence.

All as an escape plan from Adobe, as it is clear that Adobe is reducing in investment in pro-tools and shutting down services such as “Cloud” to make Freelancers and SMEs worse off.

I know of broadcast news organisations that have discontinued with Adobe as PPro is buggy and expensive, in comparison to Davinci.

However, for the large corporations, and bigger projects, Avid IMHO still have the edge on media management. Except, they too don’t really care about giving freelancers the opportunity to train on Avid MC for free – to get that advantage, you’ll need to be a student.

At the cost of giving a freelancer 6 or 12 months + a (refresher) course for free, Avid might be missing an opportunity.

Currently there are no dust on my PPro (for now), AE and Davinci keyboards, only Avid and FCPX keyboards might as well go back in the box.

With regard to iPad, still not convinved that the iPad Pro is value for money. And, the standard iPad is lovely for many things, but not professional editing.

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Mads

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Should add, that if you have WinXConverter from Digiarty on a life-time purchase, I’ve just found that I got a free upgrade to their latest A.I. version.

It does not appear to have as much functionality as the VideoProc Converter (also with life-time upgrades).

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Echo Michael on Topaz.

I am currently taking a 4:3 PAL Betacam SP interview from 2002 up to 1920/1080 full screen – the results are impressive.

However, no amount of Topaz, or any of the other software/plug-in packages out there, can make up for a bad virtual meeting recording.

On first impression, HitPaw Video Enhancer ($42.99 down from $85.99 for a 1-month subscription, or $349.99 for lifetime down from $699.99) .
Is more expensive to run than Topaz ($299.00 buy-out + often has 25% discount offers around holidays etc), or many of the other tools.

Alternatives to consider:

BorisFX have added A.I. sharpening to their Continuum suite.

VideoProc Converter A.I. is the one to beat in price – although A.I. features are currently Windows only. But claims to be optimized for NVidia.
I have several of their other products, which often helps me out of a tight spot.
Mightydeals are currently offering it at the low price of $25.95 with lifetime upgrades:
https://www.mightydeals.com/product/videoproc-converter-ai-ai-video-image-upscaler/

Go figure 😀

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Mads

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Hey Bob,

I have recently started using Google Meet as I upgraded my Google Drive to a 2TB paid version. Which comes with several benefits apart from the user being able to use a html link to log in without downloading software. It has this description:

Google Workspace premium features

• Enhanced appointment scheduling on Calendar

Create multiple booking pages for different types of appointments, set up automatic email reminders and connect multiple calendars to avoid conflicts.

• Enhanced video calls on Meet

  Enjoy longer group video calls, call recording and noise cancellation.

• Live streaming on YouTube

  Let people watch your Meet video call without joining.

I have a few people that I meet with regularly. As I am already a “heavy” user of Google Calendar, it makes a big difference that my Google Meet link is included in all of my Calendar invites.

Still working up to doing a Live Streaming on YouTube. But what I take away from that feature, is that Google Meet are using YouTube high-quality network and processing for Google Meet.

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Mads

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Hey Ben,

I agree, this latest upgrade to FCPX is just underwhelming.

One long list of fixes, rather than getting in the game.
Maybe they are saving it for version 11, or maybe not.

But then, Adobe PPro/Creative Cloud is currently not that different.
Adobe appears to be busy removing functionality + making claims on our work (which they have now rescinded on – but they did it without consideration to their customers).

Short version is that in these big companies C-Level and Product Development Management have run out of ideas. And, it is likely that they are running scared of the $1BN+ A.I. companies that want to use 5-legged/12 fingered/4 eyed humans to peddle the next generation of Generative A.I.

I suspect that with the price of Avid MC dropping, and that Avid is still putting media management first, that we might be pushed back to that – not that I think that Avid is the perfect solution. They are not, but compared to how the current “industry leaders” are behaving, we might be better off…

Just an opinion.

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Mads

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Hey Mark,

Curiosity got the better of me, so I started looking for BorisFX RED effects, which did not give me anything 😀

However, it did spew a few interesting links, which may or may not work in FCPX:

FCPX Trail tutorial:
https://youtu.be/zLFH3sE-OhQ?si=CK2Iq6XPPmKWYk1A

CreativeCow anno 2007:
https://creativecow.net/forums/thread/how-to-make-a-drug-pov-with-smear-or-trails-fx/

BorisFX Sapphire within Avid MC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lJPBHzfOU
BorisFX Sapphire tutorial which may be reversed engineered in FCPX:
https://borisfx.com/documentation/sapphire/ae/feedback/
Same for Continuum:
https://borisfx.com/documentation/continuum/bcc-trails-basic/

Hope this helps you get a bit closer, to what was back in the time, very easy to make with a Tube camera and DVE on live television 😉

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Mads

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Hey Dan,

Great that you found a solution.
Sounds like iPhone is intended to export video out, and less so to import it.

Out of interest, not that it should make a difference, but what happens if you “feed” the iPhone a ProRes format?

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Mads

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Hey Dan,

“iPhone Camera Roll” is not a lot of information to go on.

I suggest that you check what codecs your specific iPhone can handle?

But in Premiere Pro, you can either:

Under New Sequence select “Social” for various “Social Media” settings for the actual edit,

or,

In the Media Export Preset manager under “system presets” (“more presets” in “Preset” drop-down menu) you have 4 presets dedicated to “Mobile Device” in the alphabetic order of presets, up to 4K.

Hope that this helps?

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Mads