[Michael Murphy]

The rumor is that the 7DII was delayed from 2Q to 3Q due to the lingering effects of the floods on sensor availability. I think Canon has also diverted resources to upgrading the much higher margin Cinema EOS camera sensors.

If so, Canon may also delay the 6Ti. I am hoping that it will include Dual Pixel Auto Focus, like the 70D.

If it does that would make it a fairly large upgrade for video shooters, so definitely worth waiting for. People seem very happy with DPAF on the 70D and C100.

People are also expecting a new, higher DR sensor on the 7DII. If the 6Ti shared a variation of that sensor & DPAF, Canon would not want to steal the thunder/sales from the 7DII by rel;easing the 6Ti first.

Given that the lenses were just announced – including one with STM – I would assume that the 6Ti announcement was also scheduled at that time & pushed back.

Most are expecting the 7DIII to be announced in August for Photokina.

I bought my T4i around the first week of June 2 years ago. I got it the first week that the camera shipped, only 2-3 weeks after it was announced.

As a former pro, that was the first Rebel body that had auto focus and other features – like the touch screen and STM video auto focus – usable to me. It is a great camera in many ways. The 70D is also supposed to be an excellent camera.

All speculation of course …

Cheers!

Best,
Michael

[Michael Murphy]

Sorry, I have “Photo Looks”, but not “Looks” (great naming or what}? ;>)

Can you open just any .mov or .jpg, etc., file in Photoshop and apply that look?

What about Premiere? After Effects?

If so, that starts to narrow it to a specific aspect of your composition in After Effects – an Effect, like “warp Stabilizer”. etc.

Then you might see if you apply the “Misfire Look”, before you apply the “Effect”?

If not, it sounds like you have a more global problem with your install, or some software component.

I hope that makes sense?

Good luck!

Michael

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

Andrew has detailed an After Effects workflow for the BMC files at his site, EOSHD, that doesn’t require conversion wit the tool.

I’m not sure if it is allowed to link?

https://www.eoshd.com/content/8822/lossless-blackmagic-cinema-dng-2-5k-workflow-for-adobe-premiere-cs5-5-with-smooth-playback-and-editing

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

Try to apply in Photoshop or After Effects?

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

I haven’t tried to save transitions, but I did save an Effect (Unsharp Mask with special settings) from the Effects Panel in the Source monitor.

Via a right click? I forget.

You can also set the Default for Transitions in the Project Settings from the main menu. You can set both the default type & number of frames.

When you add a clip to the timeline from the Source monitor, you can add it automatically with the Default Transition. Probably the easiest route for you.

Good luck!

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

Conflict between the cards?

I have had to disable on-board cards in the BIOS in the past when installing new cards in a slot. Same can apply to two cards in slots.

You might also check that the card is correctly enabled in the text file? though it would not show up as “Mercury Hardwate Acceleration” if not.

You do have to re-enable hardware acceleration after an upgrade if you used the hack.

Some reading – might help??

https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

Good luck!

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

This is a 16 page Adobe document on workflow in CS6 with Panasonic P2 files. I am not sure, but I would think it would cover yoyr questions? I tried to do a quick scan.

https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/premiere/cs6/pdfs/adobe-premiere-pro-cs6-p2.pdf

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

The GTX 480 is a great card that will help immensely with CS6.

I am not familiar with the card that you are replacing – does it support Open CL, do you have ity enabled, etc?

There is a lot of infotmation on cards here:

https://www.studio1productions.com/Articles/PremiereCS5.htm

You can also look at the configuartion of the higher performing machines in this database (for CS5.5) The GTX 480 is a very popular card:

https://ppbm5.com/DB-PPBM5-2.php

Good luck!

Michael

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

Tom,

Whenever I build a new machine, I clone a copy of the main (OS) hard drive for emergency use.

I have a bunch of older 160GB hard drives around, so I create a copy on one of those. If I have free slots in the machine, I leave the HDD unplugged and labelled right in the machine.

Just in case a hard drive crashes, or something flaky happens, or I just want to totally restage a machine to a clean start point with all of my setting (background color set, drivers, etc.)

I also write up a “build sheet” of the build process, applications installed, and all settings, in case I want to manually restage it.

I never use that for most machines – I found the drive 3 years later in one machine and couldn’t figure out what it was for!

But it is nice to have for a production machine, where you might have to just restart and keep going to get a jop done, rather than spend time futzing with hardware.

I know I tend to restage my laptops about once per year to get rid of all of the accumalted bookmarks, e-mail, trial applications, pictures, etc. etc. that start to build up (after backing them up of courcse. I have one 3GB external drive with the contents of 5 or more lattops, going back 10 years.)

Cheers! Have fun! Envious …

Best,
Michael

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Michael

[Michael Murphy]

> Also, I may have a logic error, thinking the 600D raw material comes in at say, 2 gig, and I should be able to render out at about the same size, not 5 or ten times the size.

It comes in compressed. If you stayed in Adobe Premiere and After Effects, for example, you would not have to transcode or render in between steps.

But as long as yopu have to transcode, redner, or export as an immediate step, you need to use an uncompressed codec, or at the worst a loss less compression. Otherwise you are introducing additional compression artifacts at each step of the way.

Sort of like importing a JPEG, then re-saving the file as a JPEG over and over again while editing. You are progressively destroying the image data.

So in Photoshop, for example, you read in a JPEG, then store as a DNG or Photoshop file, until final output as a JPEG for the web, or a print, etc.

Storage is cheap right now. I just bought some Seagate Barracuda 2TB drives for $110 each. I have an external 3TB USB drive that was $150 about 6 months ago.

There are probably cleaner workflows, but if you can afford to get rid of intermediate renderings when you are done with a project (won’t have to revisit intermediate steps, etc.), it is only a temporary hit with multiple files.

Good luck!
Michael

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Michael