[Mpigott]

You need to copy your BPAV over to your PC, not the transferred footage that is probably ProRes on the Mac, which is not compatible with Premier on the PC.

Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.net

Sony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut Studio

HP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite

I will try that!
Bye the way, ProRes is 100% compatible on the PC, as long as you
have the most recent QT player. I transfer ProRes to Adobe Encore, Premiere, and After Effects all the time.

Thanks for the help

p.s the camera we use is the Cinealta F350

[Mpigott]

“It’s watermarked because it’s a trial version.”

Even 3ds Max gives you a 30 day fully functioning demo, and this
is a $3500 program.

They go to great ends to protect a $130 program.

Never was able to get cS4 to load anything XDCAM-ish through the
browser, again it doesn’t work as advertised.

Anytime I need to go Mac to PC, I will henceforth convert to ProRes,
as this is a rock solid codec, and it actually does work!

I’m not too happy about this, but the reason I bought the CS4 suite
was for the so-called out of the box XDCAM support, which doesn’t
exist.

Thanks for your help.
Over and out

[Mpigott]

No, I have CS4 on the Windows platform.

I tried the Calibrated Demo, but it is severely watermarked.
I guess I will go back to exporting to ProRes, something
a PC with the new QT can read.

I feel Adobe was less than forthcoming with XDCAM support,
when in reality it is not out of the box.

[Mpigott]

That’s quite the performance hit from normal to high.

That scene would easilly be maybe 10 minutes with 3ds Max. so
12 hours is harsh.

[Mpigott]

It’s not that either application is broken; it is the fact that
3ds Max used the right-handed rule for xyz, whilst adobe after effects
and apple motion use the left-handed rule.

It means as I happily animate in 3ds Max, I know up and down are z.
Whilst when I switch to 3d after effects I have to mentally know that
y is the up-down co-ordinates.

Its a matter of convenience, that’s all.

[Mpigott]

Just so people know, it will not work with OS X 4.11 though.

[Mpigott]

Either view your bins as list to see this info, or Apple-9 the text in
question, this brings up object properties in FCP.

[Mpigott]

Did you check the interlace flag in FCP. Sometimes NONE gets switched to LOWER.

[Mpigott]

Even the almighty Particle Flow in 3ds Max is still not
multi-threaded. So even if you have a i7 with lots of Ram,
it still processes particles on one core!

Both Apple and Autodesk have their work cut out for them

[Mpigott]

Ron Kilby said
“Actually what I would like to do is output a QT or WMV from clipbrowser that keeps the timecode, that I can email or sneaker-net to my producer. This does not seem possible.

As for the DVD with TC, the quick and dirty way I do it is go composite out from the camera to a DVD recorder, with “display on” set. This gives them too much information but at least the TC is visible.

BTW in Avid, you can lay all your clips in a sequence then put a TC effect on the top empty track, set it to “source” and it will display TC for each clip in real time, no rendering. You can then just play that out to a DVD recorder, or go the usual route of exporting to DVD. ”

Would this work with playing the 23G contents off disk?
I have a F350 and enabled TC display in the menu
but yet all got was video and no timecode overlay.

Thanks