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[Eric Santiago] “However dark mode isnt doing well with my farsight issue :(“

There is a terminal hack that allows the dark mode to operate like in High Sierra. You get a dark menu bar without all backgrounds going dark. I’ve run it on a dozen machines and it seems OK on all of them.

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There’s a lot of focus on the new Cut Page, but later in he covers new Fairlight functions and Object Removal in the Color Page.

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“So basically, until we get camera that record AND monitors ProRes RAW internally (hopefully with full Rec2020 HDR monitoring so you can see what you’re actually shooting) the rigs are pretty unwieldy.”

I presume that will have to wait until the results of Apple’s challenge to the RED patent. Of course, you can simply shoot log now and achieve the same results.

– Oliver

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Part 2

https://www.fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/2206-1-year-30-000-km-on-the-road-with-fcpx-part-2-editing

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“No difference between 8 and 4K in your opinion?”

I think it depends on distance from the screen and screen size. The first thing you need is a high-quality 8K stream to the TV. Otherwise, you are just seeing great interpolation in the set’s electronics.

6K cameras look best at 4K, so 6K scaled to 4K, scaled back up to 8K is probably going to look pretty good. Sony was showing stuff like that at NAB. Then, of course, lenses are a huge factor. But IMHO, I’ve looked at a lot of 4K at 1:1 and haven’t been too impressed.

In the end it’s going to depend on a lot of things; but I suspect, few people will see much difference between good 4K and good 8K sets with equivalent distances, pixel ratios, and screen sizes.

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“It was nice to see the comment gather pretty negative feedback from those who commented. But someone still felt comfortable publicly posting that, so there is clearly a good bit of that sentiment still being articulated.”

The COW doesn’t seem to be feeling well tonight, so quotes in replies aren’t working correctly.

In any case, even with that context, that sentence from the post doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. But of course, finding people saying dumb things is a lot of what Reddit is all about. Not to mention that very few, if any, active professional film/TV editors working at the high end, ever really hang out at any public forum. Many of those actually have more experience with multiple platforms than you might think.

– Oliver

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[Oliver Peters]

Bill,

Without context, it’s very hard to understand what this quote you referenced means:

“from the titanic to noahs ark. a tour of editors that the industry as a whole has left behind. An article that almost no-one will need.”

Quite frankly, it sounds like an FCPX fan talking about Avid editors, more so than anything else. And honestly, if you are going to Reddit for civil conversation, you’re probably in the wrong place.

– Oliver

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If it looks correct, then that should work, too. But I think you’ll still need to uniformly zoom in slightly.

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[Oliver Peters]

Click on the forums tab. It works from there.

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[Oliver Peters]

I think you mean 2944 x 2160, which would be correct for Alexa. (See image from Switch’s info panel from a similar media file that I have.)

So if you are in a 2K DCI formatted project, Frameflex in Source settings should take care of you. Here’s a settings grab from one of these media files. In other words, changing all of the source settings for Frameflex will probably hurt, rather than help. The automatics seem to be correct.

It will edit to the timeline as you see it in the lower image in that pane. However, because of the differences between size and aperture, and 2.66 versus 2.39/2.40, you will still have to zoom in slightly (timeline effects control, not source settings) to make sure your image sides go all the way to the edge of the sequence raster. Does that make it clearer?

– Oliver

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