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Michael Kammes
January 18, 2011 at 3:37 pm in reply to: mc5 hangup

What version of MC5? This is important.

Media Composer has been known to have the occasional memory leak, which can certainly cause slow downs. Does rebooting help? Does the problem persist if all of the media is local and not on a SAN?

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 3:48 pm in reply to: Multicamera Streaming Solution

Wireless WILL be expensive. Not a real way around it.

I am working with a client who wants to do motorcycle races – and wants to do the same thing.

Best solution was hardwired cameras to a NewTek TriCaster unit (various SD & HD flavors) with a wireless card, pushing to ustream.tv. Ustream.tv is not very expensive…they will pout ads on the stream (lower third) until you devise a way to monetize it and pay to remove the lower thirds or move to a different provider.

The Tricaster excels at taking baseband feeds (Composite, Component, SVideo, SDI) and doing real time fade, wipes, dissolves, lower thirds, chromkeying, audio mixing, titling AND streaming. It’s portable, too. I have no found a better all in one solution that is as reliable.

The benefit of a lightly higher end (quality) solution is that you not only can stream the event, but you can save it, and produce downloadable content or discs of the event and sell them after the fact.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 3:10 pm in reply to: HD Map Animation in AVID – Largest file size possible?

I had no idea, Michael…how do you get around the resizing on import?

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 2:59 pm in reply to: HD Map Animation in AVID – Largest file size possible?

Keep in mind that Avid – at max- can handle an HD frame size (1920 x 1080). Any imported image (or AMA linked, except for some funny business with RED material) will be scaled to an HD frame size (provided your project is HD) – and that’s it.

Thus, your image will get progressively more pixlelated as you zoom in to the image.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 4:57 am in reply to: OSX 10.6 + FCP7 + Avid Unity = 1 Giant Headache

A few other notes:

Expect a 30% hit on performance when using FCP on Unity. Known issue, although some will debate the 30% hit. Maybe yours is 20%. But it’s there.

Once you verify Fibre card driver, firmware, and OS settings.. ..(VERY IMPORTANT)

I’m willing to bet you’re in a 64bit Kernel. Try booting into a 32bit kernel, and see if things get any better. Did you install the client software in 64 or 32? 32 is supported.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 4:52 am in reply to: Recovering Final cut pro

2 Ways:

1) use the original install DVDs.

2) connect your old boot drive to the machine, and attempt to import settings and applications from that drive to your new OS….if the old bad drive is still salvageable. If it did indeed crash hard, then your files may be corrupt, in which disregard this.

You mention that you had FCP on an external drive. I presume you mean you had your FCP Projects and Media, NOT the application itself. If you did have the application on an external drive (very rare) you could attempt #2 as well from that drive.

All of this being said – install from the original DVDs – you’ll be much better off.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 2:02 am in reply to: Asset Management

CatDV will not ingest from multiple sources concurrently, that is, unless you have multiple capture stations (FCP, Avid, etc) and a watch folder that CatDV can monitor and them pickup the files when they are done recording.

CatDV has nothing specific for After Effects, but it can certainly be used along side of it.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 13, 2011 at 1:11 am in reply to: Which Avid HD Codec is recommended?

The files will NOT get recompressed on the import if you export DNxHD media. If you reimport, Avid will recognize that the file is DNxHD and simply wrap it into an MXF wrapper. You can also link via AMA, which does no transcoding as well.

Bumping up 220 to 1:1 will only help later if you plan do do high end effects and grading. Visually you will NOT see a difference…period. If you are that concerned about it, export a short test at 220x and at 1:1 and see if you can spot a difference.

You can look at it this way: If you cut at 220x, and did fx at 1:1, and export at 220x, then your graphics will be technically be compressed, although I doubt you will see any difference. If you export at 1:1, graphics are untouched and your footage is bumped up….and no visual quality loss (or gain), and it will just take up extra space on the drive.

Since you will be archiving this (I’m assuming to disk?), go out and buy 2 or 3 cheap 500GB or 1TB drives. Archive to both, put them on the shelf. regardless of the codec, you wont be touching them, and they will both fit on 1 drive…heck, do both 😉

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 12, 2011 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Asset Management

Hands down, it’s CatDV. It is what Final Cut Server should have been. 😉

There is a forum here on the ‘Cow, or check out https://www.squarebox.co.uk/

It’s been far and away, the most reliable, yet cost effective asset management solution.

In the interests of playing fair, apace has an integrated storage and asset management solution, as does Avid…

But for FCP it’s really only CatDV or FCServer. And FCServer is far from easy to learn and administer.

~Michael

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Michael Kammes
January 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm in reply to: Which Avid HD Codec is recommended?

Did some calculations:

DNxHD 220x @ 30min = 49GB.
1:1 10bit 1080i/59.94 @30 min = 250GB

So, not exactly the 10x, but it’s a solid 5x.

I think DNxHD220x will be fine. That being said, if this is only thing going on a hard drive, then why not buy a couple cheap 1TB drive and use them (after all, 3 backups or it’s not a backup, right?)

~Michael

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