Malcolm Matusky
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I “once” replied to a “bid” it was for Govt work as well. Total waste of time, the bid required a 6 passenger helicopter to be on call for whenever the client wanted to shoot some video of traffic during a bridge construction job. The spec was written by an idiot, or someone who worked for a helicopter rental service that owned a vhs camcorder. I read enough of the spec to realize that it was a complete waste of time and that someone else was uniquely suited to getting the job, no doubt with a huge kickback for the agency requesting the bid.
I knew enough to pass and have never bid on an “open bid” job since. I do think that this system is highly corrupt, if I were to receive a bid, I would probably charge a few thousand to work up a quote for the client and send them the bill first, you are effectively doing their work for them and they know it, I value my time and if they are to lazy or stupid to hire a line-producer to figure out how to get the job done, then they are a waste of time.
Governments are legally required to receive bids, but you are not required to waste your time! If you are receiving the bid blind, IE you have no personal relationship with anyone within the department requesting the bid, throw it in the garbage. If you know someone, they you at least have a chance, do find out what their potential budget is, and then you can waste your time with confidence, or throw it out. If you are a small company, as most production companies are, think about one thing, if you are unlucky enough to “win” the bid, and cannot do the job because you mis-calculated the costs, too bad, you are screwed! They will sue you, take your home, take your business and then hire someone else to finish the job. Unless you are very careful, never “bid” always “quote” a job. Huge difference legally.
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Had the same issues with h264 & transcoded neoscene files; always set dynamic ram to 0 in preferences. So far so good.
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Crash, Crash, Crash!
“Upgraded” a few days ago, editing was fine, but now I’m grading my cut and am constantly crashing when switching between filters. Sony updates are one step forward and two steps backward in version 11.
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Sorry about the Pro/Elite mixup!
Rec 709 is the HDTV standard; sRGB is the computer standard, the colors are similar but there are other differences between the two standards.
Run calibration, then profile for whatever standard you need for your intended distribution. From all the questions I have asked about this issue, if you are intending to display NTSC on a CRT you need a scan converter and a broadcast monitor to grade. If you are creating programing for the web create an sRGB profile, you are set, for HDTV you should be OK with REC709 profile,according to Jon Rofanno. Check out some past posts to learn more.
Good luck!
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Upgrade to the Pro version of the software and you will be able to “profile” after you calibrate your monitor. REC 709 & sRGB are profiles you can create with the upgraded software. This may help get you close, but is not exactly the same as a “broadcast” monitor and the scan converter you need to run it; but much cheaper and if you are primarily displaying on the web it works fine.
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1/3″ camcorder; DSLR & GoPro2
Get all three for an “adventure documentary” no one camera will do it all, unless you have a lot of money for grip equipment and assistants to carry it all. What about Sound? On camera, wireless units, or cheap Zoom H1+lav for each subject, don’t blow you budget on an expensive “broadcast” camera and forget about sound. What does “broadcast” mean anymore? Flip camera footage is being “broadcast” and so is cell-phone footage. If the footage is great, no one cares that it was not 444 or 222, 420, etc, etc.
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Found that the settings in preferences did not help; but by right clicking on each keyframe in the pan/crop tool and setting it to “smooth” and then setting the value to 50% in the “keyframe interpolation” setting box to the left of the window, finally got me to a smooth move within this plug in.
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I think I’ve crossed the line to a “rant” but I found this post:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/24/941540#941556
Set my dynamic ram to 0, not 128, not 256, not 1024 or any other value for rendering and the damn thing finally rendered my project without crashing, which it has done 50 times or more in the past few days.
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Now I’m back to not being able to render anything! This is very frustrating to say the least.
No word from Sony, naturally.
Malcolm
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