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Peter Steinberg
February 2, 2018 at 4:44 am in reply to: iMac Pro thoughts

Apologies for what I imagine is an ignorant question, but why do you connect the iMac Pros to the QNAP 1282T3 via the 10GbE connections rather than via the Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gbps) connections?
Peter Steinberg
July 20, 2016 at 7:13 pm in reply to: Looking for new UI monitor

I’ve had an LG ultra wide (flat) for about six months now and I’m ambivalent. Is having a lot of screen real estate great? Of course. But, is the extremely horizontal arrangement ideal? I’m not sure. There are as many times I curse my monitor for not being taller as there are times I bless it for being so wide.
Peter Steinberg
February 4, 2015 at 10:27 pm in reply to: First serious edit on FCPX

When you add the stills to your timeline, you can select them (individually or en masse), and go to Inspector>Video tab>Spatial Conform and choose Type: None. It would be great if you could make this the default behavior, but I think it has to be done after the stills are cut into the timeline.
Peter Steinberg
July 9, 2011 at 2:38 pm in reply to: Blend Modes – Luma

Thanks Brendan, thanks Nick!
Peter Steinberg
July 9, 2011 at 4:50 am in reply to: Blend Modes – Luma

Very nice. How did you get the drop shadow?
Peter Steinberg
July 8, 2011 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Layers and transitions

You don’t mention what sort of transitions you need, but on the off chance that it’s just dissolves, perhaps you could overlap the connected clips and ride the opacity levels instead. That way you could leave elements as connected clips (rather than promoting them to storyline status) and still have use of compositing modes, if you want ’em.
Peter Steinberg
July 3, 2011 at 4:56 pm in reply to: Zen and the Art of Edit Suite Maintenance

While it’s very generous of you to note that “genocide is a totally different matter”, as someone who lost family in the Holocaust, I have to say that your comparison is quite facile and deeply offensive.
Peter Steinberg
July 2, 2011 at 1:18 am in reply to: A couple of questions…

Here’s what I’ve come up with:

1) You can click on the tc in the center of the screen (is it called the ‘dashboard’ in the new parlance?), or hit Control-P, and then type either an absolute tc (such as “20000” for two minutes from the head), or a relative tc using + or – (such as “+10” for ten frames from where the skim bar currently resides).

4) The direct export from FCPX can be ProRes, H264, MPEG IMX, DV, or DVCPRO50, but not DVCPRO100 (aka DVCPROHD). I would think you could use Compressor to take it the rest of the way, but I don’t know how this would impact the quality of your video?

Hope this is useful!
Peter Steinberg
July 1, 2011 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Risk and failure

Chris: Nice post!
Peter Steinberg
June 30, 2011 at 5:18 am in reply to: Flip / Flop filter?

inspector pane> video tab > transform > scale > [set x or y as needed to -100%]