[Paul Nevison]

let us know your findings Walter, will interesting for a lot of users no doubt. I don’t think we will be upgrading straight away, which is a pain as i could use some of the new features, though i guess we get the benefit of the experiences of the early 1.0 beta adopters!

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QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
BMD Decklink Extreme 6.0
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[Paul Nevison]

oh yes of course forgot you were all Kona 3’d out …maybe for that mobile rig of yours?

One question I had about ProRes 4:2:2 is that while it’s built specifically for post, do you loose all that goodness when it comes to delivery? Obviously not when going out to HDCAM or higher but what if your tape options are DVCPRO HD? All that 10 bit goodness gets crushed into the 8bit world of DVCPRO HD….more a thinking out aloud to myself as I was eyeing up ProRes as our main post codec….hmmmm more thinking to do i guess!

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QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
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[Paul Nevison]

Hey Guys

thanks for all your input. i’m sure there is some logic as to why FCP is doing this, just trying to figure out which logic that is and where it is getting confused.

I am capturing via SDI to the PAL DVCPRO 50 codec rather than firewire, which I’m thinking may be the culprit.

As you said Walter, it’s easy to fix by selecting all and removing attributes. I guess I’m just trying to figure out what is causing FCP to interpret the clips this way and whether what I am doing is influencing that process.

PS enjoyed your iv with AJA’s big cheese…..an IO HD added to your shop in the near future perhaps? looks like a killer piece of kit.

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QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
BMD Decklink Extreme 6.0
PAL Land

[Paul Nevison]

Gary,

I understood that’s what the filter is trying to do and is designed to do. It doesn’t explain why it is incorrectly adding the filter as both my capture settings and sequence settings match (DVCPRO 50 PAL), and that’s my real question not what does this filter do, which may not have been clear enough in my original post.

I imagine the answer to this incorrect application of the auto shift field feature could take rather more than 5 seconds to solve, hence the post to my peers.

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QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
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[Paul Nevison]

thanks
typical i guess just download and run – read the manual later 🙂 ill check it out thanks

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QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
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[Paul Nevison]

another thing to take into account that while there are plently of “hacks” out there….in the long view this does bode well for the future of our craft….think of all the students who can now get their hands on these high end tools. What an amazing head start they get and in 10-15 years time when we are all thinking of retirement, they will be at the helm of the industry and think of the quality of work they could be pumping out with all that extra hands on experience.

What student ever gets to sit behind a Da Vinci? Maybe a sneaky film student that gets a contract cleaning job overnight at a colour facility – but other than that it just will not happen.

i feel the pain of those of you that shelled out good cash for this last year….but i think in the long term it bodes well for our industry – hopefully securing some compelling viewing when we are channel surfing in our retirement homes!!!

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[Paul Nevison]

hey Walter,

as always good to read your thoughts on the industry, I see your point, but like craig I have to disagree with you.

“Apple makes it very hard for those of us who have invested greatly in our skills and equipment to differentiate ourselves from the pack, both in the tools used and the rates we can charge.”

For me the great artists will always rise above the pack regardless of the tools. Great editors, composers, camera ops and colourists earn their reputations on the standard of their work not the tools they have installed on their hard drives.

rather than charging premium for programme XYZ that you have in your shop, shouldn’t you be charging that premium for the skill and experience of the operators?

it is not the responsibility of the the software/hardware companies to “make us shine’ just because we can afford the latestest and greatest high ticket products…surely it is our responsibility as professional creatives to master the tools and then produce great work which alone should dictate our price.

In the audio world i will pay the big bucks for Harry Gregson-Williams to score my feature, not for the Pro Tools HD rig that is used….the real value is in, to coin a phrase from biscardi media – the “creative genius” of the skilled and talented operators. the likes of apple and now RED are putting the tools in our hands – it’s now up to us to be the best we can.

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[Paul Nevison]

why do you we still not have a RED forum on the cow? it’s no longer vaporware! maybe no one to champion it here….there’s always reduser.net i guess….seems the cow is missing a piece of the pasture!

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[Paul Nevison]

actually walter should be quite chuffed to have scored the 2k version of final touch for only $5000 – quite the bargain hunter 🙂

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[Paul Nevison]

great thanks walter….looking forward to listening on my way to work….about just how my work will be changing given the new announcements!

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