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Richard Cooper
March 27, 2012 at 9:59 pm in reply to: Smooth scrolling in the CS5.5 timeline

Thanks Chris, I will build a RAID and see what that does. Makes perfect sense. What speed are you getting out of your RAID5?
I see the other big difference in our systems is the Quatro 4000. I think that is on my short list as well so I can take full advantage of the Mercury Playback engine. I am sure I will see great improvements in other areas with this card.

Thanks for your input.

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
March 20, 2012 at 6:40 pm in reply to: Sony ex3 audio channels

Hello Hagai,
the EX3 only records 2 channels of audio, not 4. But if the camera audio settings were set up properly, you should have two discrete audio channels rather than a stereo mix.

To import these clips into Premiere (i’m on CS 5.5.2) with discrete and separate MONO audio channels, you must go into Premiere Preferences>audio and select the default audio track to MONO…. BEFORE you import the clips. Otherwise it will bring in the clips with a stereo audio channel.

Just make sure you change it back to stereo before importing any music tracks or they will come in as two mono tracks.

Kind of weird but this is what I have found. If anyone has a better way I would love to hear it. It is kind of a pain in the A*s and I would love to not have to worry about changing this back and forth throughout a project.

Good luck!

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
February 2, 2012 at 6:11 pm in reply to: Missing iLok Authorization for PT 10 and Avid MC6 on MAC OS X Lion

Look here

You need an ilok thumb drive (dongle) and need to have it authorized with Avid/iLok

My PT10 package came with the iLok TD but not all do… sometimes you need to purchase them separately. ProTools will not run without this authorization. It is actually cool because you can put ProTools on multiple systems and just plug the iLok into the machine that you want to use… even if it is someone elses.

Hope this helps

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
January 19, 2012 at 11:32 pm in reply to: Best H.264 workflow?

Hi Brad.
All of my h.264 exports through Adobe Media encoder (CS5.X) are always stunning. I have never failed to get a pristine conversion. Not sure why you are having troubles, but can you post your workflow in detail? Maybe there is a problem there that can be identified.
All the best,

Rich

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
December 7, 2011 at 11:40 pm in reply to: Transcoding XDcam footage of premiere project for DaVinci Resolve import…

I am just coming over from COLOR my self and starting to learn Resolve so don’t take this as gospel, but can you export a single master file of your Premiere timeline, then export an EDL of the timeline, put the master video in our Resolve media pool and import the EDL, and grade that? I actually read about this workflow and experimented with it (but only once) and it seemed to work quite nicely. All the cuts and dissolves showed up on the Resolve timeline perfectly.

Let me know how this works.
Good Luck!

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
November 8, 2011 at 10:16 pm in reply to: Credit Card Merchant Account

We use https://www.squareup.com

Takes VISA, AMEX, MasterCard and Discover…. Simple, take CC with your iPhone, iPad, Android, with or without card. (Swiping and manual number entry) they only charge, if memory serves correctly, 2.75% per transaction. I Have even used this with an international client (London based) over the phone with no problems.
Deposits (each transaction) the next day.

No monthly fees and/or hidden charges, and the card reader and iOS software are FREE.

Hope this helps!

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
September 3, 2011 at 5:35 pm in reply to: purchasing the AVID Media Composer trial

Ah… I found it… got caught up in my Gmail spam folder… Good to go.
Thanks.
Richard Cooper
September 3, 2011 at 5:33 pm in reply to: Best way to archive FCP projects including its Graphic files etc

Unless you have the volume (and Value) of work to justify a $5000 – $10,000 investment Cash~A LTO archive appliance then there is only one choice. Get some backup hard drives. They are cheap!

If you want to archive the project move all of your project/media files (media managed or not, your choice) to a small USB or Firewire drive. (we do this with 2TB SATAII drives) once everything is transferred, eject your main media drive to test and reconnect media files to the new drive. Once it is all there and working on the archive drive, save, and then copy that drive to ANOTHER identical drive. Now you have two complete copies to put on the shelf. Once you have these two copies and they both have a working copy of your project you are ready to delete the project off of your original media drive. Keep doing this for each project you finish until the 2 drives are near full… rinse and repeat. (not literally of course) just go out and get another pair of drives and keep going. Depending on your work volume you may want to keep a log in Excel of the drives and what is on them.

Good Luck

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
September 3, 2011 at 1:56 am in reply to: purchasing the AVID Media Composer trial

“…then went to Avid’s site and inputted my FCP serial number, to which they sent me the confirmation e-mail containing the discount code.”

Tim, How long did it take them to send you the code via email? I did this earlier this week and have not yet received my cross-grade code. :~(

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com
Richard Cooper
September 2, 2011 at 10:46 pm in reply to: Final Cut 7.03 and the error 600 making life really difficult

A few things to try…

Error-600 means:
procNotFound
No eligible process with specified process serial number.

So, in the in the preferences folder there are preferences that FCP reads to run…if these get corrupted, well…. they cant run. Try trashing FCP preferences and see if that solves the issue. FCP will create new fresh ones to replace them.

From the web site of Larry Jordan:
Preference files get corrupted during normal operations, a crash, force quit, or other natural disaster. There are five rules for trashing preferences:

Only trash preference files when Final Cut Pro is NOT working properly. This is not a maintenance procedure – this ia a repair procedure.
Always quit Final Cut before trashing preferences. It must not be running.
Trash all preference files as a group, they are linked together, don’t trash just one or two
Only trash files, never trash folders
After trashing preference files, always empty the trash.

When preference files get hosed, Final Cut loses a great deal of its stability. To regain it’s equilibrium, do the following:

FCP 7.0x

Go to your Home directory then inside it to: Library > Preferences
Drag com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist to the trash
Scroll down to the Final Cut Pro User Data folder
Drag Final Cut Pro 7.0 Prefs to the trash
Drag Final Cut Pro Obj Cache to the trash
Drag Final Cut Pro Prof Cache to the trash
Empty the trash

Also…Have you tried trans-coding the HDV stuff to ProRes? This would be the proper thing to do especially on such a large project…

Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com

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