Richard Crook
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Try undocking the panel (select from top right of multicam window) and make the window smaller. Worked for me, as I had it blown up to screen size and it wouldn’t work right.
Richard Allen Crook
Cinemetographer | Editor
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No I haven’t yet. The camera works great with my 24-105 L series lens.
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I have updated the guide for the new Magic Lantern (0.1.8) that works with the 2.0.4 firmware. At the time of this posting, there is only a beta release available that I made possible to download from within the guide. The official stable release is not out yet.
Use at your own risk…but I’ve been using it for a month and the only problem I have is a freeze-up when I switch to/from Live View. Trammel notes that they are still working to get this fixed.
THE COMPLETE IDIOT’S GUIDE TO 5DMKII CINEMATOGRAPHY: ADOBE PREMIERE EDITION
*************UPDATED for 2.0.4 AND Magic Lantern 0.1.8!********************
crookedpathfilms.com/blog/2010/02/04/a-comprehensive-guide-to-the-canon-5d-mk-ii-and-adobe-premiere-cs4/ -
The one I got was the brand new prototype silicone rubber shoulder pad. He knows what I do and offered it to me for a discount for publicity. It’s really nice. If his auctions come back online I would just ask him for the silicone shoulder pad. He’s really nice when I talked to him on the phone. And the shipping is ridiculous fast. (2 days from Korea to Texas!)
The slider in the Dealy piece is called a “Zaza Slider.” You can read about it on DVXUser.com. Thanks for watching it!
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1) does it come with hand grips, or just bare rods as shown on the eBay link.
Bare rods. I ended up getting bicycle grips for it. The rods are too small for the grips so I had to wrap the rods with some spare tape and pieces of garden hose to thicken them up.
2) are these 15mm rods at standard spacings? Can the Gini system be mixed and matched with other components? In other words, what about matte box and follow focus?
Yes…they are perfectly compatible. I definately recommend this system. I’ve seen the Zacuto and these are just as good at a fraction of the cost.
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I upgraded from CS3 to CS4 and the troubles far outway the benefits of this upgrade…at least for me. I didn’t have nearly the amount of crashes or troubles that Aaron has…but I’m going by the 3-strike rule. Strike #1: Inability to save your export setting’s bitrate for a saved Quicktime/H264 setting. It will always default to the max bitrate. Strike #2: Media Encoder is horrendously slow regardless of XMP data compared to CS3. Strike #3: Media Encoder stalls half the time when about 75% of the way through the encode. Don’t know why, don’t really care.
Once I downgraded to CS3 every single problem went away. My only issue is that I can no longer remove effects from all clips like you can in CS4…but like I said…the problems with Cs4 far outweigh the benefits!
My recommendation to people is to not upgrade to CS4 unless you upgrade your system to 64bit Windows 7. And then you might as well wait for Cs5.
I’m jealous of those who can use CS4 with little or no problems. Truly I am. But I just don’t have the time to sift through hours of troubleshooting for a few improvements that I hardly use anyway.
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Well, unfortunately simply ‘not using’ QT as an export option…is not an option. My client wants QT and that’s what he will get. I’ve noticed though that the same thing happens in H264 too.
Someone posted a workaround by clicking “custom” on AME after it pops up and changing the bitrate there, but sadly that isn’t working either as the settings arent sticking.
Just a little background…I’m shooting actor auditions for major roles and the studios require Quicktime H.264 files in MOV format…UNDER 10MB. So it’s imperitive that I be able to adjust the bitrate.
What I’ve been doing is export to QT, allowing a stupid large file to be made despite my settings, and then I must open it in quicktime player and export again.
Did I mention that I am starting to despise CS4? I’m not bitter or anything….haha.
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Looking in the Adobe site’s info, it says that both programs should save the presets in the same location: application settings/adobe/adobe media encoder/4.0/presets. Sadly, Premiere saves it’s presets to premiere/presets and not the path above.
My workaround is when I save a preset in Premiere, save it AGAIN to application settings/adobe/adobe media encoder/4.0/presets and it should show up in AME.
Man, not happy with CS4 AT ALL. I’m trying to figure out how to alter the bitrate in QT exports, because it won’t let your custom settings stick. How retarded. I’ll be reverting back to CS3 in the next couple weeks when I have time. What a disappointment.
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Hey Guys,
I had the exact same problem everyone else is having, and did all the tweaks and troubleshooting outlined here and everywhere else. I was a week past the deadline on a color grading job and just didn’t know what to do. I watched the render progress, taking careful note as to which frame it was on when it crashed and was able to find the exact clip causing the problems. I had a Magic Bullet Look Suite effect applied causing the render to fail at that exact clip with “error compiling movie.” I’ve used this damn effect 50 times before and never had a problem. I just didn’t get it. If I ereased the effect and re-did it, it would work. Hmmm.
Then it dawned on me. When I was through with color grading the entire movie (but before I attempted the encoding), I downloaded a trial of Magic Bullet Looks, which is different and much better than Look Suite. I dropped the Premiere plugins into the plugins folder and then did some moving around of the plugin files.
My theory was…just like when you move a video file around after importing and dropping into your timeline….Premiere asks where you moved it too. But with plugins, Premiere doesn’t know where you moved it to and is unable to render the effect…but it doesn’t ask you where it is.
I realized that I needed to place the MB Look Suite plugin in it’s previous place, therefore making Premire “find” it, but I didn’t know where it used to be before I moved it. So, I copied the plugin and proceeded to paste a copy of it in every single sub-folder withing the plugin folder.
When I went to encode the movie….not only did it render seamlessly without any errors of any kind…it was about 50% faster at rendering.
So a word of advice….if you want to move your plugin files, make sure there are no unfinished projects on your computer, or export the project to a clean file before you start messing around.
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You also wrote this in another thread:
“Audition will do the 5.1 uncompressed WAV. Bring that into Encore and let encore convert the WAV into the ac3 there. I’ve had plenty of success with it and it sounds great.”
I have my audio exported in 5.1 WAV and it sounds great, but Encore won’t let me import it, saying something about it only being able to support 2 channels, or something like that. You are saying here that you can import 5.1 WAVs. How can I do that?