Phil Hawes
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Yes, the gamma shift is what I was trying to avoid.
Seriously is AMA that unreliable in MC6 that you can’t even print to tape? -
How about printing to tape?
Will the performance be good enough for playback?
It will be a SD file output to DigiBeta. -
Thank you! Much appreciated!
I’m a fan of Color Finesse and look forward to teaching it. -
Third party plug-ins are even more of a pain in an educational lab.
Some of them have licenses that can be controlled through a server but in general I tend to install them only in the “higher-end” rooms.Thanks for the heads-up!
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I tried to like Motion, but every time I wanted to complete a project in Motion 4 something was missing. In the middle of a composite project for example I might want to color correct one layer but the color correction tool was poor. Or I found that I had to save a lot because Motion was just unstable. Once you learn After Effects you pretty much forget about Motion. The Keylight tool in AE has many options so there are many details to learn but that’s a good thing in my opinion.
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If the keying tools are the same in Motion 5 as they are in Motion 4 then After Effects is by far your best choice. It comes with Keylight.
This is a very sophisticated tool for keying and has solved many of my green screen woes. -
I’m just commenting on how the product has been marketed.
Obviously I don’t know what the final product is and perhaps neither does Apple. I’m also making sure they know what I think.
As a professional I’ve been ignored by this marketing. Why? -
From what I read of the reports of the demo of the new Final Cut X, the new features demonstrated are targeted towards the amateur video maker with a camcorder or DSLR. Features like stabilization, rolling shutter correction, noise cancellation, and audio sync, all supposedly happening on import, are targeting users who have basic production equipment problems. These are all features to compensate for amateur errors. A lot of these tools are problematic and not what a professional is asking for.
Nor does the professional want a new “event list” , filmstrip viewers, a new iMovie like trim editor, or pop up color correction.
The only feature here that any professional would want is 64 bit and multi-threading and not so they could edit H.264 natively in an iMovie like environment or have a no transcoding workflow. A 64 bit multi-threaded Final Cut 7 would have satisfied most people and taken away a lot of headaches.
If the demo had been targeted towards professionals the following features may have been shown: better Media Management tools, improvement for filters (10 bit), a better Compressor interface, better integration with Color, and perhaps Motion working in 10 bit with more finesse.
It remains to be seen what the actual Final Cut X really is but as for now it is definitely not being marketed to the professional. Does Apple really have the audacity to believe that they can rewrite the history of video editing with a Final Cut GUI change? I think not. I just suspect that they are shifting their market.
Phil
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I’ll be pillar boxing (is that a verb?) not cropping.
Yes, I had thought that it was just the overscan area.Thanks for the confirmation.
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Thank you for all your advice.
Sorry that I am jumping back into this thread so late.Yes, the regular Pro Res 422 will be fine and save space!
The best video source is HDCAM (not SR) and all the film transfers are SD Uncompressed for one reason or another.Also, I will not be making “multi-generational” copies as they say in the Pro Res white paper so there is no real need for HQ.
Believe me, if I had a more robust RAID I would use it!
Phil