Matt Gerard
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My old place bought a smoke and I got to play around with it. I did the tuts an messed with some projects. You gotta think totally different when working with it. I didn’t get the chance to become comfortable with it, but I could see where it would be great for alot of things. Plus knowing arcane operating systems is a plus if you don’t have a tech support staff 😉
Matt
Its more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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In the end, if he screwdriver doesn’t work, get a different screwdriver.
Yes, FCP left alot to be desired in the latest release, but when did anyone ever put out a new version of software and you proclaimed “Dangit, this has everything I ever needed and wanted, and all my quibbles about it are gone!”? Don’t hear that too often.
Premier Pro is indeed a player in this, and along with Encore can do some things that FCP and DVDSP can’t. But, that’s why I use AE for some things, and Motion for others. Our shop used Encore to make some BluRay discs for a client, and while it wasn’t the walk in the park we wanted, we got it to work, and it worked great for our needs. Would it have been nice to do it in DVDSP? Absolutley.
And, as I think about it, I made a comment about people crabbing about raising the price 25% if Apple included BluRay stuff into FCP, and i though that people wouldn’t go for it. I am doing something that doesn’t happen on this forum much. I am changing my opinion. I would definatly pay more for BluRay support. But, just because I don’t like some things about FCP doesn’t mean I’m going to jump ship.
Plus I have other grudges against Premier.
OK, back to work.
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Yep. Instead of bitching about what Apple ISN’T doing for you, go find the tool that does the job the way you want. You threaten to leave apple for Adobe? Yeah, good luck with that. You think Apple cares?
Also, if Apple incorporated full BluRAy capablities including BD recorders/players in the MacPro, the price woud go WAAAAYYYY up, as posted in various articles and quoted by many Apple execs that the BluRay licensing is a nightmare, and quite an expensive one at that. Would you crab about it more if they did include it but at a cost of 25% higher price? I think so.
You pick hardware components that suit your needs the best, cameras, lenses, mics, mixers, all that. I dont hear any bitching that your new Panasonic camera doesn’t shoot XDCAM files or vice versa.
I was bummed about no update to DVDSP as well, but you know what I said? “Aww carp, that’s too bad. Now what shot was I looking for? *mark in, mark out, F10…*”
ENOUGH ALREADY! Move on.
Matt
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aaaaHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Great timing!!!! If i didn’t know any better, I’d say that this was planned!!! Timing was impeccable!!! Although I haven’t gotten my hands on a new copy yet, it says NOWHERE about import the P2 metadata that the cam records. Just that you can create your own upon import.
AVCINTRA native is the cool kicker for me, although we’ll see how well it edits….
matt
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[Jeremy Garchow] “My being the total nerd that I am, it’s acutally what I said if you can believe it.
“Oh, I believe it. Nerd talk I can understand! Being able to compose something like that in my head, nope.
MattIts more fun to ride a slow motorcycle fast than a fast motorcycle slow…
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We were able to maintain a very high quality throughout our production using the Io HD, with a 10-bit end-to-end pipeline……
Wow. Was that a prepared statement, or is that how you usually talk? 😉
Good ideas to keep in the file incase I get more live recording gigs.
matt
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Either the folder structure didn’t stay the same or something got bunged in the copy. I ended up using my PC to download unzip and transfer the update, I just couldn’t get it to work. This happened with the last update as well (which was during the 10.4 times as well) on my mac. I had to copy the folder about 4 times before it showed up in the camera. The mac writes invisible files to any write enabled drive that is mounted to the system. you can see these files if you then go and mount it on a PC.
In this case, bend to the bidding of windblows and use the stinkin PC to do the transfer. I admit I’m a windows-phobe but there are some things you need them for.
Matt
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Yes, those would have been nice options, but this shoot did happen a while ago. I haven’t had one come up again. New options for new times. I still would be nervous about recording live to a computer, but as long as you have a backup, nothing can go wrong, right? 😉
Matt
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[Max Karli] “I’d love to reassure our DP that when we go to post the AppleProresHQ will be great for Color Correction!”
About as good as you can get for FCP.
[Max Karli] “We had a small situation on another film shot on RED as for economical reason we did not go back to the raw footage but corrected the Prores… He was not happy at all. Of course one some sequences he was able to color correct the raw and the difference is HUGE. “
This is a loaded question that brings up a number of factors. What was the RAW Red ftg converted to for the edit? Probably some inferior 8bit codec that doesn’t handle color correcting well. Was the colorist any good? Was the PRORES that you refer to Standard Prores or Prores HQ? Not questioning anything, just bringing up some things that might have caused other issues.
[Max Karli] “Is it ok to color correct the prores or would we have a real gain by conforming the AVC intra! “
You can’t edit AVC-Intra in FCP. So, you can’t conform it in FCP. There probably is a way to convert it to uncompressed HD quicktimes and edit/color correct those, but I hope you got a boatload of storage space and computer horsepower.
Depending on whom you ask, I think that AVC-Intra was not created as a post production codec. It was meant as an aquisition codec to be converted/unwrapped/rewrapped to a post-friendly codec. That is the way you MUST use it within the FCP workflow at this time.
Good luck, I love our HPX2000 and shooting AVC-Intra. Images are beautiful, and I LOVE SQUARE PIXELS!!!! (AVC-Intra100, that is)
Matt
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I had this issue when I was teching a 3 cam switched to tape show. Wanted to capture to FCP, but couldn’t. Had 3 570’s all TC synced along with a deck recording the switched feed. Turn around was critical timing, so I rented 4 Firestores ($50 each per day), one for each camera and one for the DVCMA deck. Worked flawlessly. I was an a@@hole about the camera ops all starting their records within 5 sec of each other, and all the TC matched and I had 3 camera iso’s and the switched feed when I gathered all the files.
Personally, I don’t’ trust a computer to do live recording from a camera. I’ve had too many glitches happen when doing long capture now digitizes from tapes. with the firestores, its a dedicated device that does one thing and one thing only.
Also, saves you an operator for the computer.
Also, cam files and firestore files match start/stops better than capturing to FCP would.
Also TC matches.
Also your camera isn’t tethered to a computer.Logistically it seems a pain in the arse to have to coordinate 2 systems to roll tape(bits?) at (almost) the same time.
I can hear it now in our studio
Director “Talent ready? Yes? OK roll”
cam1 “Rolling”
FCP “wait, spinning ball”
cam1 “stop rolling”
FCP “ok, recording”
cam1 “shite, hang on rolling again”
director “everyone recording?”
cam1 “YES”
fcp “think so”
cam1 “speed”
fcp “uh, spinning ball again, software update just popped to the front”
cam1 ” @#$# stopped rolling”
director “WTF?!?!”
fcp “OK rolling again”
cam1 “ROLLING”
talent “wait, ear prompter didn’t start…”I know people on this forum have had their share of issues with the Firestore products, I have as well, but its another option. Only thing is that you can’t log and organize and edit your clips until you dump the footage off to a laptop, as you would be able to if you were capturing directly to FCP .
Also, if you have CS4, you should have On Location. Have you tried that? I haven’t had the chance to play with it.
Another option is the proxy card for the 3000, we are going to look at getting it for our 2000. That would rock. End of day, hand over an SD card, here’s your edit proxies, mr Client, Enjoy! crew is heading to DQ for a Mr Misty!
Matt (who was at work waaaaaaaayyyyy to late last night, can you tell??)
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