[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Graham,

I know of one multi-seat agency that felt the cost for Cinema 4D was too high, so they replaced it with Blender.
Don’t get me wrong, Maxon has nice tool on paper. But if their sales department are so far up their own backside that you run the risk of getting a kaleidoscope effect of their face every time they open their mouth. Then they are going to be struggling. I simply gave up waiting for a price for updating my Red Giant perpetual licence. Not surprised if other loyal customers will have had the same experience.

But although C4D can feed in to other packages like Blender. Question is when Unity Technologies and Unreal Engine will be best in class on sculpting, painting and animating?
Both of those have got a number of industries, including Film and Television, that they are developing tools for. Not sure that the enterprise model will be more cost effective, but the usage will be cross platform.

Just thinking out loud.

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[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Ulf,

DV appears to be back in fashion.
It is many years since I used Windows, so did a Google search.
Reversed engineered that advice, and got this:

<time datetime=””>andrew129260 – 24 Apr 2014:</time>
Click [Windows Button]
Type the word: autoplay. Click the top result. In the window that pops
up, scroll down to devices. For your phone [DV VTR], choose the action you want
to happen every time.

Do let us know if this worked?

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Mads

https://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/324701-automatically-launch-software-connection-device.html

sevenforums.com

automatically launch software on connection of device - Windows 7 Help Forums

I thought this would be simple. All I want to do is automatically launch Samsung KIES when I connect my phone. The autoplay window opens when I connect the phone and shows the device, I can select 'vi

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Jeff,

Sorry to be a bit harsh here, but if your footage is not showing on your computer, it is because you do not have the codec installed – no amount of changing the camera out, can change that.

Panasonic towards the bottom of their specs page states following under “Standard Accessories – Software”:

• Playback / Editing

  • ･The software to process RAW file on computer is not bundled with this camera. To do this, SILKYPIX Developer Studio is available for download at Ichikawa Soft Laboratory’s website using computer connected to the Internet.
    http://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/p/ (For Windows / Mac)

Please do let us know if this works for you?

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Mads

http://www.isl.co.jp/SILKYPIX/english/p/

isl.co.jp

SILKYPIX Developer Studio SE Version

SILKYPIX Developer Studio SE Version

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Matt,

I too have just recently started the move to Davinci, as Adobe is going out of their way to destroy the development of their professional tools. And, promote Adobe Express, which I have heard from clients does not do a very good job.

There is plenty of tutorials available for Davinci + you have tighter integration with hardware too. I purchased the Blackmagic mini panel as it comes with Davinci Studio included… – You can start for free with the free version.

I am also moving back in to Avid Media Composer just for the sake of it.

In effect, if you build your system right, you should be able to have all three of the above installed. And, use at your convenience.

HDD is a spinning thing, bulky, and will never spin as fast as you want it to. Particularly when the operating system are fighting with the NLE software, whilst writing ot virtual memory, and accessing other pieces of software. Not forgetting that anying mechanical has a higher possibility of breaking down -having said that, SSD also has it own set of problems.

My current system (Laptop PC) has got 1 x 1Tb SSD for operating system and software. Then I put in 2 x 4Tb Samsung 990 M2 Pro SSDs (Up to 7,450 transfer rate) with space for a 3rd drive.

Amen to not using proxies. Just recently had a project presented where the proxies had the wrong audio configuration, which PPro could not work with.

On the above setup I can comfortably work with 4 tracks of 4K in my PPro sequence.

My best advice: By all means use HDD for back-up. Just make sure to disconnect when not using them. As they will randomly stop and start – which will slow down your system. Or worse, your NLE software will decide that they have the files they need, and start scanning them. Maybe evn add them tour project.

Depending on who pays for your work, you should also consider that SSD external drives are reaching a cost for archieving comparable to video tapes of yesterday, if you can charge that back to the client?

My go to is the Samsung T7 or T9 drives.

Hope that this helps.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Hassan,

That is a real old piece of software that you are using.

Are you “broadcasting” whilst doing fault-finding?

It is many years since I worked in play-out, so keep that in mind.

The two obvious areas to investigate are your hard-drives (do a scan for bad sector’s etc).
The other more likely scenario is your video-card for the overlay. Particularly if you have changed the VGA driver(s). Keep in mind that unless you have spare parts, you are using a system that is very old. Which in effect means that when it is end-of-life, it is end-of life.

It is likely that you’ll need to “roll-back” on the VGA driver.

Have you reached out to Cinegy support?
They might just be kind to give you the answer you seek + use your set-up as a testimonial to how long their system(s) can last – that is a genuine positive comment on my part. As today we are often asked to change our computer every 2-3 years to use the latest super-sized codecs and software version.

Check out this help page to see if that give you something to start with (Do keep in mind that this page is likely to be written for Cinegy version 24…)
https://helpdesk.cinegy.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/7/1/the-on-air-item-preview-is-not-visible

This is their main sales page for the current version:
https://www.cinegy.com/products/cinegy-air-pro/

Please come back, once you find it, and share the solution.

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Mads

helpdesk.cinegy.com

The on-air item preview is not visible - Powered by Kayako Help Desk Software

The on-air item preview is not visible - Powered by Kayako Help Desk Software

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Robert,

I am so really pleased for you.

In distant past I have worked on feature films where either the project data was wrong, or in other cases the drives lost all the footage (not on Adobe, as back then it was yet to reach v2….). But the cost and time in fixing such situation, in one instance cost my client £ 10K, simply because of a TimeCode conversion gone wrong.

Please do me a favour: If you now have a good version of your project, please save a copy of it. And preferably to a cloud drive (Belt & braces). Make it a habit to do it every day, even if you eventually will end up with a version 60, you should never lose more than one days work.

Good Speed!

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

In theory ProRes should work on Avid Media Composer, but do recommend that you test it before going full in.

And, also check if you are getting enough resolution out of the ProRes too.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Jeff,

Sounds like the actual video codec is not installed on your computer.

Out of interest, have you tried to play it in VLC?

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Bryce,

Sorry, I am only just going through old emails and realised that I never replied.

I hear you on the good old days, where it was one tape format, delivered to one set of specs.

A part from either getting an assistant, or you yourself, contact all of the different companies. There is one obvious place to start, and that is with the business manager at your firm that signed the contract for delivery.

As that contract should state what is to be delivered. And, if the format is not in the contract, your business manager should reach out to the “other side” and get them at top-level to ask for delivery specs to be forwarded to you.

I know, one should not have to go OTT, but you’ll find that when the boss calls: Everybody will be on the same page.

Once again, sorry for missing your post. Hope that this helps?

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Eric,

Yes, that is a bit of a nasty discovery, not least as the FX3 appears to have it…

How much processing does the catalyst software require you to do, or would it be faster to use Warp-Stabilize or something like Mocha to do the job?

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Mads