[Phil Balsdon]

I’ve tried without the BMD out, same probs. Spent a few hours yesterday trying all sorts of options to isolate the issue.

Three possible solutions for me.
1) Put up with it and wait for the next update.
2) Go back to FCP7 which is working fine.
3) Re-instal the old system and CS6.01 (which was also working fine) from the back up drive.

Could also try doing a clean system install upgrade to Mountain Lion, but this going to create hassles with a whole load of archived material .mov files from a Firestore drive when Apple broke them with Quicktime and iTunes upgrades. (7 system re-installs last year due to this).

If I took my car in for a scheduled service and they broke it in Australia I’d be able to appeal to the Motor Traders Authority. I’m trying to run business here.

Cinematographer, Steadicam Operator, Final Cut Pro Post Production.
https://philming.com.au
https://www.steadi-onfilms.com.au/

[Phil Balsdon]

I really don’t think a clean install should be necessary for a CS6 update only. With the number of updates that come out I’d never get time to do any work between clean re-installs, especially without discs or dmg.s on another drive.

I do have a Carbon Copy Clone of the system drive from just prior to the update though.

The problem seems to be erratic though, for Walter Bascardi it fixed problems. Over on the Adobe support forum it seems to have created problems for Windows users, especially those with more RAM on their machines.

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[Phil Balsdon]

I’d convert the native H264 to better editing codec first. ProRes perhaps

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[Phil Balsdon]

In that case have you tried key framing the “rotation” in Premiere Pro. If only tilts one way during the shot you should only need a key frame at the beginning and end. If the shot starts to rock the other way in the middle of the shot you’ll need another frame there too. You’ll need to zoom the shot slightly too.

There’s a lot of technique involved in balancing and operating a steadicam. Most of the world’s best started out or early on in their career took a workshop. https://www.thesteadicamworkshops.com/

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[Phil Balsdon]

Problems since updating to CS 6.02. Initially problems with playing or stopping a sequence in the timeline at all.
Deleted preferences, cache, checked NVidia and Blackmagic drivers (which were all up to date) etc. etc.

Now there is a few frames delay stopping the timeline playing, (very annoying) and occasionally hen opening a project sequences in the timeline won’t respond to play (keyboard or play arrow). Solution is to close the all the sequences and re-open them.

I had none of these problems prior to the upgrade.

I’m not the only one with this problem; https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/930228

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[Phil Balsdon]

I can only speak from experience of Canon cameras. The 60D is a good camera, it is technically the same as the 7D but records to SD cards. Big advantage is the rotating viewfinder that will allow you to see the shot with camera set at high and low lens heights.

Canon cameras change exposure in 1/3 stop increments so are not suitable for adjusting during recording. The way around this is a variable ND filter which will allow this by rotating it, this is actually a good way to pull the exposure as you won’t see depth of field changes. You’ll need some form of ND if shooting in bright outdoor light anyway. Buy one that suits your largest diameter lens and step up rings to suit any smaller lenses, this way you only need to buy the one filter.

If you’re going to be shooting in very low light to you’ll need a fast lens, these are more expensive than “basic kit” lenses. Alternatively as well as a kit lens zoom buy a 50mm f1.4 for when the light levels are very low. 50mm on ASP-C sized sensors is a good portrait focal length.

Re audio, use a good wireless lav mic, Sennheiser G3 is very popular. Buy a Juicelink or Beachtek box for the camera. This will help eliminate the “hiss” associated with the poorer quality audio pre-amps in the HDSLR cameras.

I have, but rarely use, a Litepanels on camera LED light, buy it with the battery back that matches your camera batteries so you only need to carry one type of battery and charger.

I’m currently making the transition from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro CS6. In FCP you need to ingest camera files through Log and Transfer as ProRes, Adode Premiere will edit them natively. I think FCP-X edits H264 files natively too, but I have no experience with it. Checkout Shane Ross’ tapeless workflow tutorial here on Creative Cow.

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[Phil Balsdon]

Just spent a couple of hours going through the same process Greg. Everything plays okay from the source monitor but occasionally when I open a project sequences will only play audio in the timeline. The solution seems to be to close the sequence in the timeline and re-open it (not too bigger deal but it shouldn’t be like that and it wasn’t like that before the update).

The lag however still persists and this is extremely annoying.

Everything was okay until the 6.0.2 update. I’ve tried all configurations, single screen edit, dual screen edit, turn off the Blackmagic Studio output. Updated NVIDIA and Blackmagic drivers. Deleted Preferences, cleaned out cache files etc etc.

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[Phil Balsdon]

This is normal on all Canon HDSLRs prior to 5D Mk III (which can do 29.59mins but with broken sequential files).
One of a number of compromises when using a digital still photo camera to shoot video.

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[Phil Balsdon]

I have problems with timeline intermittently not wanting to play video only audio in timeline since updating to 6.0.2 yesterday. Doesn’t respond to space bar stopping or starting.

Mac Pro 4.1 / Quad 2.8Ghz / GTX285, / 10Gb RAM

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[Phil Balsdon]

https://library.creativecow.net/harrington_richard/CS6_Warp-Stabilizer/1

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