[Mark Palmos]

[Tim Kolb] “I’ve never had the opportunity to even consider the invisible clip feature’s potential uses yet (and I’ve had the app for a bit) …I’ll reserve judgement.”

It is only useless if you want to use it to slice bread, inflate your car tyres or use it as an Avid-style effects apply track. It does not have a lot of use for me, but it is 100% useful for what it does – ie it is useless at doing what it was not designed to do!

Mark

[Mark Palmos]

[ken adolph] “I have an AxioHD system and this is not exactly correct.
You cannot create low-rez files from the high-rez stuff you have captured. You have to capture in low-rez, edit and then recapture the high-rez.”

Ken, that is a HUGE relief! Pat, and I’m sure everyone who does projects with hours of footage, would not be impressed by having to capture at high res FIRST then working at low res! That would be completely pointless unless you were copying low res stuff to use on a laptop or on a system without Axio.

Could you please tell us what compression ratios you can choose from, and if these choices are avialable regardless of whether your source is DV, SDI, Component, YC, Composite, HD, HDV…

What file format does Axio create?

Thanks Ken,

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Carl

you remind me of someone baning their head against a wall shouting damn door, open up stupid door, door? why dont you open, damned door, it is 98.765% useless!!!

Hello?

It is not a door.

[Mark Palmos]

[Steven L. Gotz] ”
Well, I thought I should mention that Bridge is quite useful if you are inclined to change the meta data of clips you are importing into a project before you import them. That way, more of the columns in the project window become useful.”

Hi there Steven,
Yeah, but then again this is the kind of thing one should be able to do in PP, not have some clunky outside app to do it.

Speaking of metadata, do you know if Bridge can add the kind of Metadata which Media Encoder in PP misses?

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello David,

I’m curious about this.

Prospect HD say:
“Prospect HD-Ingest/Edit includes all features of Prospect HD-Edit but also offers ingest of single-link HD-SDI material or component HD with real-time conversion into CineForm Intermediate prior to writing the file to disk. This important feature reduces the cost of the drive subsystem in your video store by approximately 8X. HD-SDI and component HD I/O is supported through the AJA Xena-LH card.”

but the LH card is not supported on PP2 (BUMMER!), so how would one input?

catcha later,
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

hello richard,

well, bridge is about as connected to your PP project as windows explorer.
there is no practical use for it, the first and last time I looked at it, it was so slow I never went back, it took ages, and then I could not see the time code of my clips.
using bridge with adobe after effects was also a big waste of time.
I expected to be able to browse the text effects presets and see animated picons to show what each effect would do, but instead I got some generic picon for all the presets.
there were some other complete misses, and not a single “ah, that’s nice…” so for now I see it as an alpha code experiment of something that may become useful sometime in the future.

besides all that, what a good nle should have is great INTERNAL media management, no need to open a separate app, unless it was a way to drag and drop timelines, bins and other assets from one job to another ala Discreet Jobnet.

till later,

mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Larry Sherwood] “I’m trying to get the new Transparent Video clip to apply an effect to a series of clips on V1.”

hey Larry,

the only way at present is to apply the effect to one clip, copy that effect in the Edit Control Panel, then multiple select the clips you want to effect and paste… all clips will get that/those effects you copied.

catcha later
Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

Hello Richard,

I like PP2 a lot, but bridge is absolute crap.
It is very slow and adds nothing but time to the process.
There is no use for it in PP at this time.

Mark.

[Mark Palmos]

[Aanarav Sareen] “I have been converting a lot of my productions to Xvid/DivX formats without seeing any negative impact on my editing.”

Hello Aanarav,

What do you mean by converting your productions to xvid?

Do you mean exporting Xvid for delivery to client?

Mark

[Mark Palmos]

hi bob
i had read mostly the threads about audio.
and just to add some vague nothingness to what ive said already, there are some ok things, some not so great, and some absolutely bloody fantastic ones.
catcha later
mark.