[Martin Curtis]

[Mark Suszko] “I work for a government agency and things just don’t work that fast. “
I hear ya. If FCS X Gold Edition came out tomorrow I still couldn’t get it until FY 2012/13. The 2011/12 budget is set and it’s slim. As it is I’m trying to be a good boy until 2012/13 so I can ask for the Holy Trinity: new iMac, new FCS and new camera. It’s going to be a long 12 months.

[Martin Curtis]

Bad RAM.

[Martin Curtis]

Not my area at all so the interest is academic, but if you advertise as having a half-day rate, does that imply a start time of sometime in the morning and finishing mid-day-ish (or starting mid-day-ish and finishing afternoon-ish) or is it generally any block of up to 5 hours at any time of day?

[Martin Curtis]

I watched it in the browser. I watched it in QuickTime at full size, full speed. I watched it in QT at full size frame by frame. I couldn’t see anything technically untoward (apart from the general DSLR issues others have commented on) and especially nothing around 2:12.

As for the content, fine by me. Nothing better than watching pretty girls doing, well, what ever they want to.

[Martin Curtis]

[Thomas Morter-Laing] “White paper about prores”
Link here. An interesting read.

Here’s a relevant table:

[Martin Curtis]

If I can jump in on this one, if I was cutting HD footage Logged and Transferred as ProRes, would I be able to bring in SD footage imported as DV and cut away with no need to render (excessively) and keep the DV frame size as SD (small and squarish) in the HD frame?

I think that’s how I’m reading both this thread and Apple’s info.
“Freely edit a combination of HD and SD, including NTSC and PAL, all in real time. Final Cut Pro 7 offers real-time scaling and playback for video in various camera-native formats as well as members of the Apple ProRes family.”

[Martin Curtis]

I saw a vid video by Chase Jarvis on what he does at his place. Bit of an ad for G-Technology, but he goes with what works.

Crikey. I just previewed this and there it is mid-sentence.

[Martin Curtis]

[Mark Suszko] ” Tools made for noobs, in the hands of pros, can do remarkable things. Witness the DV camcorder revolution. And nobody should blithely dismiss iMovie: remember, the most powerful and common transitions are cuts and dissolves, you don’t necessAarily need an entire suite to do just that and still make art. If you know what you’re doing, that is.”

Remember the first “movie” shot and edited on the iPhone HD? It was very well done. Sure, the guy and his crew were professionals and had lots of supplementary gear and it was fiddly work, but they did it and that’s kind of the point.

My iPhone vids still look shaky and wobbly, but that’s the point too.

Nifty things are coming. Some are already here.

[Martin Curtis]

The reason Clip Wrap is fast is because it’s just taking the file and putting it in a MOV container so it plays nicely-ish with QuickTime. During playback, QuickTime still has to decode it, hence the lag. Voltaic is transcoding, which is why it’s slow.

You can set ClipWrap to transcode, but it, too, will be slow.

19 hours is a lot and it won’t fit on one DVD so no matter which way you cut it (no pun intended) it’s not going to be a trivial task.

If the client comes back and says they want clips x, y and z from discs 2 and 3, organisation now may save time later

[Martin Curtis]

The 15″ MBP comes with an SDXC slot. It would be interesting to see how fast its transfer rate is compared to the Express Card slot readers.