Michael Sanders
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Whilst I agree on the whole with Bill, its worth looking at some of the modern TV’s.
I have a Panasonic 32″ LED TV and its got a wide range of control’s including Gamma, R G and B Hue and cutoff. Plus you can turn off all the tricky.
I’ve got mine pretty well set up using various test pattens. It’s not perfect but not bad for a domestic TV.
Just remember alot can’t do proper 1080P over HDMI. I have to keep remember to switch my T Tap and Ultrastudio over to PsF.
Michael Sanders
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Motion? Pulse the opacity and then loop it.
Michael Sanders
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There is definitely something up…. Cineassist doesn’t track to X. But X on my MBP screen compares well to the same video when shown on my Panasonic HD TV streaming from Vimeo on the Apple TV.
Michael Sanders
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Er No – we all saw it! You mean that bit in the middle of the Mac Pro demo where he said “The FCP X team are working hard on a release that will make full use of the GPU’s” and a shot of FCP X on three screens.. that bit!
Michael Sanders
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And lets be honest – Countries have been doing this for ages, lowering tax rates or giving tax breaks to gain business.
The US has it worse with its federal system with states competing against each other.
Apparently there is a map in Amazon’s office of states that management are not allowed to visit for fear of triggering arrest/tax payments.
Michael Sanders
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[Jeff Kirkland] “I’ve oscillated between keeping media in the events folder and just linking to it over the time I’ve been using FCPX. There are definite advantages to just linking and if I do, then I use Magic Bullet Grinder, ClipWrap, or MPEG Streamclip to ingest/transcode. On the other hand, there’s a certain simplicity to just letting FCPX import everything to an event folder. It makes final archiving a breeze and I never have to wonder if I’m leaving any media behind. “
As I said it works very well if you ingest in X then quite and pull the media out to another directory. When you restart X it will relink the media.
I think this is the way I’m going from now on..
Michael Sanders
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I’ve been messing with this the past few days as I’ve just retired my old Drobo S as its too slow…
The first thing I do is make optical copies of the rushes. I have a LG blu ray burner for this reason. 50GB discs are about £6 ea now and I make sure I add a day to edit quotes to cover my time.
I personally keep camera rushes out of the event file. The trick here is to ingest via FCP X, then when its done, quit X, move the media out of the event to say “Projects-XX Project-Rushes”. Fire up FCP X and then relink to this destination. X will then create symbolic links (assuming you don’t tick move media) to the files in their new destination.
The beauty of doing this is: Like you I you chronosync or CCC to dupe my work drive. If you forget to move the projects and events with event manager at least it doesn’t need to recopy everything.
One thing I do when archiving a project to an archive drive is delete the render files – they can be huge. Once you do all this, event and project folders are much smaller and easier to backup to a NAS or similar.
It’s still my biggest biggest bug bear with X, the fact this (ie backup/archiving) is not simple.
Michael Sanders
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What happens if you export to Quicktime?
What does the scope/wfm say?
Michael Sanders
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[craig slattery] “I met up with some other editors working for the BBC cutting news in X just last week”
Craig, that’s really interesting because I’ve always thought X would be great for news. Is this at NBH or out on the road?
Michael Sanders
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A good friend is a local GP (doctor) here in the UK.
I asked him once what were his thoughts about people looking up their symptoms online first and coming in with printiouts of this condition and that condition.
His reply was quite funny. The problem is on the whole people only bother to complain when something is wrong or really serious.
Most of us, when we’re happy with something say nothing. This makes PR/Marketers life hard.
Michael Sanders
London Based DP/Editor