[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Bob,

Do you need a mirror in the cloud for the “180+TB NAS”, or just to be able to lay off footage to be used remotely?

It comes down to how much you want to spend, and how much you can manage the IT infrastructure in-house. Or if you need external help.

You could go AWS (Amazon).
Or Dropbox, which used to run on AWS (don’t know what they use today).

Of the services that I use, I am currently leaning towards Google being the most flexible. They have a monthly plan that can take you to 30TB @ £119.99/month. I would expect them to go higher if needed.

The other one, where I am involved, is NOVA. They have a storage solution with “Video Analyzer”. Where it uses A.I. to analyze your footage – on bigger productions, identifying all of the elements, actors, spoken word etc, might cost money initially, but be a live-saver later.
To save money, you can switch off the analyzing. They’ve just relaunched their website to make it faster. If you contact them, ask for Michael (CEO) and send him my best regards.
My link: https://app.wearenova.ai/signup?ref=madsnybojorgensen2

A friend of mine is very impressed with https://iogates.com/home/ which is dedicated high-end secure storage for TV and Film productions. Ask for Jesper (Founder and CEO) and tell him that Søren from London was singing his praises earlier to me.
😀

I’m sure that there are plenty of other choices out there. But above are 5 very diverse offerings. Do listen out for some of the excellent specialist storage experts on the COW.

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Mads

app.wearenova.ai

Nova

Nova

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey TB,

Am I right in thinking that the audio was recorded separate from the camera files?

If so, could you make a multicam sequence for camera A, and then one for camera B, and “merge” them afterwards?

I would also check whether you are leading on the audio, or the camera?

But, by the time you’ve figured it out, it might still work fastest moving the files into the track that you want them on.
There is one slightly old suggestion out on the Adobe forum where you put each camera in a nested track.

Although it is too late on this job, I always ask my crew on location not to stop the camera, unless told to – better having one one continuous video file to sync, rather than multiple clips that Adobe treats as separate camera channels.

But Adobe has many years ago been informed that this is an issue, which
IMHO could be mitigated by PPro treating each “camera folder” in the project as a separate camera channel. However, Adobe is currently busy with
developing Adobe Express A.I. tools and killing off the Cloud in Creative Cloud, so do not hold your breath on that one.

Hope that this helps – there are smarter people than me around here, who might have found a way of doing it.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Simon,

There are a variety of ways of recreating a Super Panavision-70 Camera look.

First of all: Super Panavision used spherical lenses to create a final aspect ratio of 2.20:1.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Panavision_70

Unless you have a projector with the right lens that can play that format, you’ll never fill out the screen. However, you can add black bars to simulate that ratio. You also need to consider whether you are HD, 4K or maybe even 8K to blow it up big enough. Or just use a big telly for a small crowd.

On the look itself, I would start by finding the right film emulsion – there are plenty of plug-ins/overlays out there that could be useful in meeting the look.

Then fine tune the final look in the grade.

The other way is to transfer your video file on to film, and then project it on a compatible projector – it is not inexpensive to do..

Hope that this helps.

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Mads

en.wikipedia.org

Super Panavision 70 - Wikipedia

Super Panavision 70 - Wikipedia

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Dhiren,

Out of interest, is there a reason for why you don’t want to upgrade your After Effects?

Just suggesting that one would expect the latest version to be close to compatible on the operating system and specs, with that of 2020.

Although, looking at the link that Brie provided above, there is some solid advice on that thread.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

In reverse to your experience, I have only just “recently” started using FCPX, as a client has a lot of them that needs an eitor.

Adobe: They killed the Cloud functionality in Creative Cloud Video tools for Freelancers, SME’s and students – anyone with a single licence can forget about syncing files for their two installs using the Adobe cloud – makes it less creative, IMHO.

The best way of describing it. If like me, you have a system in the home office, and another one you bring into work at client location. Then you can forget all about using Creative Cloud for storing anything to be used in Adobe CC video tools – even Rush has been taken “off-line” from the cloud. No more automatic sync.

Only upside is that neither will Adobe fill up your laptop drive with everything that is in your “Cloud”. But not being able to sync Rush to your Premiere Pro, is just Adobe being mean and treating a group of their users unfairly.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Gareth,

This might help from the Adobe community page, even if it is from 2018.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/time-remapping-speed-line-to-0/td-p/9812680

Credit for this solution should rightfully go to Ann Benns.
(https://creativecow.net/members/annbens/)

community.adobe.com

Time remapping speed line to 0

How to set time remapping speed line to 0? I can not drag the line below 1%.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Rickie,

It is called a “Beta” version for a reason, which should be avoided at all costs when it comes to Adobe, IMHO – but then again, often the software crashes even in full release.

Having said that: If you are a Freelancer/SME/Student user (Single licence), then Adobe has killed the “Cloud” in CreativeCloud for their professional video products – so unless you want to go to Adobe Express, then…

I recommend that you move the files out of your CreativeCloud folder, and see if that fixes the problem.
If not, either copy Sequence into a new Project and/or render out bite-size chunks, until you find the offending part.

Hope that this helps.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey Matthew,

Trash your renders and preferences first.

If that doesn’t help:
It could be many things, but often I find in nested sequences that it is either a track that is not extended to cover the entire part of the nest itself (Sudden “blank” holes appears).

Also worth checking if you have copied and pasted elements inside the nested track, and they somehow have switched tracks inside the nest – that is really fun to investigate. To speed it up, you can have two or more timelines (sequences) stacked open simultaneously. If you have a timeline that is the last good known version, return to that to make compare with.

It could also be a random “blend mode” setting changed on a clip. In which case you need to click the clip and look at the Effects Control panel.

Best advice is to render that part of timeline In-Out, or export the clip, to find out whether it is a random bug, or if it happens on the same spot.

Not sure that any of the above was helpful, but there are smarter people around here who will know better.

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Mads

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Yes, and it may be that Apple has changed how apps and api’s are working – but DropBox should have an easy fix for you, I hope.

I DM’ed them on Twitter: @DropboxSupport

Just checked, they responded with a fix within 20 minutes.

At least you are not a freelancer or SME on Adobe CreativeCloud, as Adobe has killed the Cloud – letter going in this week to EU Authority and UK Competition and Markets Authority. As Adobe clearly seems fixed on making their users worse off, initially to pay for Figma.

They should at the time have disclosed these changes to the authorities, but it appears they didn’t…

Sorry, I just went of on one – not sure Adobe ever visits the FCPX forum 😀

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey James,

FCPX and DropBox is never a good combination. All too often I found that FCPX started downloading random files from DropBox filling up my system. When I wanted to delete them, DropBox insisted on keeping them in the hidden cache.

However, DropBox did, when I asked, provide me with a solution.
I suggest that you reach out to them ASAP – they might have a hidden link that can help you. Or certainly a work around. The one they gave me to clear the cache, I would never have found on my own.

Hope that this helps?

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Mads