Michael Phillips
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There’s no setting, but I thought there as an update that allowed up to 16. It may be 6.5.3, but I am not sure. For some reason I thought it was 6.5. I need to test to make sure.
Michael
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For Arri, you just need to create an account – a bit of a pain, but works.
Michael
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I agree, but since it is possible to relink, the whole idea of the warning message saying it can’t is not true. There is a timecode column for every frame rate and pulldown type in the bins – there really is no reason why a transcode conversion cannot still be tracked with original timecode in addition to current project rate. I put it into the bucket of incomplete solution design. The same way there needs to be a setting for frame for frame.
Michael
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Should anyone ever have a need to relink back to original frames rates after a transcode…
https://24p.com/wordpress/?p=22
Michael
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Lots of good info there. In v7 you can choose to relink V, A, or VA, etc so you don’t have to subsequence the tracks out anymore. I would also make sure to check with whomever did the DNxHD36 proxies that the original filename was properly applied to the proxies in either TAPE or SOURCE FILE column.
Michael
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Media Composer will manage on its own RAM and CPU needs as it goes along. There is no allocation you need to do. I would recommend that all media (video and audio) files go on an external drive, or better yet RAID for performance needs depending on format being used. A fast connection to the CPU would be good too – for example, eSATA over USB2 or FireWire.
Media Composer project and bins are relatively small files and usually live on the C: drive in your example, but you can put that anywhere in the project window with how you want to manage that.
Beyond that, it starts to become personal preferences of how you want to organize all other files related to a project or projects.
Michael
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For each card or drive of media that comes in, I would recommend AMA linking to it. Then select one of the clips and go to source settings and go to one a frame where there is black or very dark. Look at the histogram – is it at 0 or 16? (or higher?). Form the source setting s you can apply the proper image color space.
Also, AMA transcode at least twice as fast as an import.If you just want to deal with it all in color correction later, import/AMA link at Rec.709 or full range for everything.
Michael
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My “guess” is when Mavericks ships.
Michael
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You may need to install it. Go back to your MC Installer and is if it’s there. Your purchase would have included the license to run it.
Michael
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Interesting to see where this conversation has gone! But I don’t think that Apple cares about revenue from the software apps as they position themselves as the Apple experience when buying an Apple iOS device (with new system only). There could be many reasons why they chose to do that, and one of them may be that sales of new devices in a crowded market needed more than just a device to differentiate. Currently, there are ~600 million iOS devices in the world (best estimate found). Buying the 5 apps today is a total of $40. That’s a $24B total addressable market. Other guesstimates and polls say that ~40% of existing users will upgrade. So if it was about revenue from software, they are leaving a potential $9.6B on the table. Even a 10% penetration into that is close to $1B revenue.
So I am only having fun at trying to second guess Apple which we all know is almost impossible. But based on precedence of having done it for a market that is hundreds of times bigger than niche pro video markets, why would the revenue of software apps matter there?
On the other hand, they could very well take the position of “if they can afford a new MacPro, then they can afford half a grand for the “pro” apps. But let’s play with some numbers here too – let’s say there are 1M pro editors in the world and they spend $500 for all the pro apps. That’s $500M revenue – compared to the estimated $9.6B that is nothing. Even the 10% penetration is 2x revenue. But the marketing and goodness around getting a new MacPro and “that’s all you’ll ever need” message for video (even up to 4K!) and audio creation might be a tempting thing to do. They did it with the 80% off add a few years ago and are doing a subtle version of that with the new iPhone camera showing the camera bad, lenses, light meter, Macbeth chart, etc.
These conversations are really better served with a few rounds of beer. I also reserve the right to have all my numbers and calculations wrong, but something has to be put down on the table in order for a discussion to happen. 🙂
Michael