Olof Ekbergh
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The Miller Solo tripods and heads are great and fit that price, but the Carbon fiber legs are really good.
I have 2 of these and love them
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/293493-REG/Miller_1511_SOLO_DV10_Carbon_Fiber.html
Olof Ekbergh
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I have noticed some strange behavior in Color when Boris red comps are part of a seq sent from FCP7.
Only some of the layers show up. The rest are flagged offline, no crashing.
Well Red is not approved for FCP7 anyway.
Other than that most of my stuff seems to work very well on 2 systems (testing only). One on MBP complete uninstall (5hrs). One on a new 8core MP, just update. Both run fine so far. I am loading old project with hundreds of clips, to see if I can break something.
Olof Ekbergh
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Use the composite out and set menus up to down convert to SD.
I believe the Pilot has a SD monitor. And make sure to use NTSC for NTSC monitor. Or if You have PAL set to PAL.
I know this works well on my EX3 and old Stedicam Mini (Pilot’s predecessor) .
Try on another SD monitor, if you can’t get a SD signal out then send cam in to Sony.
If it works on another SD monitor, then I would suspect the Pilots monitor is bad. Send it a known good SD signal from another source (like a deck).
Also sometimes cables can be bad, check them.
Olof Ekbergh
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There are a lot of parts of the help system that requires an internet connection. The only PDF is the:
Final Cut Pro 7: Exploring Final Cut Pro
Provides a fast‑paced introduction to the main features and tasks in Final Cut Pro, encouraging hands‑on exploration for new users. This document is a PDF version of the printed Exploring Final Cut Pro manual.Have you noticed that if you don’t navigate to the index page through package content you don’t get a full Safari window.
It is better when you open this page then you can use tabs for marking pages and create shortcuts. Printing is still a major pain.
I know a lot of manuals come this way but I think it is a big mistake and we should point that out to Apple.
Maybe Apple is doing this to be nice to all the people who write manuals and training sites. But I still think it is not nice for users. We deserve full PDF manuals.
Apple could easily do this and post them on the WEB.
Olof Ekbergh
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“Is there no PDF file in the Help menu as there is in FCP6? “
Not that I can find.
You actually get a crippled Safari window with a lot of links to Apple’s website, most of the manual is on your disc. But it is not a pdf. It is Browser based.
You can only print 1 page at a time not an entire chapter or whole manual.
I guess all the manuals are there but it is a real pain to deal with.
I would be happy to pay $50-100 for real hard manuals. Less for PDF’s, but there really should be pdf’s.
Olof Ekbergh
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Like I said, that manual system is useless.
What we really need i PDF manuals, that are fast to load, not partially web based proprietary manuals.
I really liked the FCS 2 hard manuals. PDF versions like those would be fine.
I am calling apple and complaining about that “help system”. I would encourage anyone else that feels the same way to call as well.
Olof Ekbergh
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You guys are a bunch of wimps.
I remember paying out over $10,000.00 a couple times for video editing and DVD authoring solutions that simply did not work at all.
OK I am talking about the 90’s.
The first edit suite that worked for me was Media 100 at over $30,000.00 not including computer (my third purchase, anyone remember Radius Telecast).
The first DVD authoring that worked, Spruce about $20,000.00 w/o computer, I still have it in the box. DVDSP runs circles around it.
We are really spoiled now, almost everything works out of the box and it is really cheap.
Remember when a good camera was over $100,000.00.
Olof Ekbergh
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I have actually used my Umatic SP twice this year. Once for some vintage ski footage a client brought in and once to pull some old footage I got 25 years ago about a construction project.
I was amazed it still works. And the tapes were OK too. I wonder if bluray players and discs will be any good in 2035. Personally I doubt it.
Progress.
Olof Ekbergh
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It is better to use clip browser or the Transfer app. Less chance of corrupt files.
It would be fine to use Raid 1 mirror. No problems as far as video files go.
I prefer to copy to 2 different drives and store them in different physical locations. I also Back up to Bluray DVD’s or standard DVD’s.
Olof Ekbergh
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Basically I would not recommend archiving in SD.
I was just saying if you have to for a client. I would make the tapes from a timeline and have that timeline be the same as what you are burning onto Bluray or whatever, and HD’s.
The Database has fields for Number (auto indexed) and name of DVD, and hard drives footage is stored on with Folder name. It would be easy to add a field with tape #/name.
Olof Ekbergh