Rick Lang
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Chuck Pelini:
“I upgraded to Mountain Lion and have no problems opening LiveType.”Very interesting. What machine is running you Mountain Lion?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I suspect this was a result of the new ProKit 7.3 in Mountain Lion even though it didn’t break Soundtrack 1.5. Final Cut Express HD 3.5 still works too by the way. I don’t use these any longer but always nice to have them working in case I wanted to revisit old material.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I agree LiveType 2.1 refuses to load on my iMac, but I checked Soundtrack 1.5 and it loaded! I posted a note on Apple Discussions in the Mountain Lion group to see if anyone has any insight into a solution:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4157174
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Juan Salvo:
“Resolve always works in RGB space.”The Blackmagic Cinema Camera will save in ProRes and DNxHD in the YUV space. Of course it is designed to be ingested or edited in both DaVinci Resolve and FCP X. Ninjas thought Apple used RGB but a posting on BMCuser.combrecently said that apple switched from using RGB to YUV in their displays as of 2011. Is there a problem with these changes in colour space or is it transparent going from YUV from the BlackMagic Cinema Camera to RGB in DaVinci Resolve and then to YUV presumably in FCP X and back for grading in Resolve in RGB? I was surprised to read Apple has switched from RGB to YUV in 2011.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Jonathan:
“What do you think of converting 1080 24 into 720 24? or is it just better to shoot it in 720 60 frames? will it fit onto a dual layer dvd?”I would shoot in the highest quality the camera supports, (1920×1080, 24 fps) even if you eventually will only be producing DVD (720×480). You’ll get better results through edits and grades. It sounds like you’ve given up on producing Blu-Ray although that would produce the best results. Still if DVD satisfies the client, you can do that. As for the dual layer, can your client handle it or will they expect a conventional DVD to pop into the typical player and select a movie from a menu? Not all players can handle dual layer DVD.
As for size, the process of creating the DVD, includes the logic to squeeze your footage into the available space on a single layer DVD. Not sure if it can handle nearly three hours of video but it might. One or lwo hour, yes. You can test this by going through the process using a test of any scene with some motion. Just keep shooting traffic at a modest distance for example for 20 minutes (and add the clip 8 times in FCPX’s timeline to get 2.75 hours) of H.264/mpeg-4 video (full HD), then quickly edit it into one FCPX project and then create your DVD and look at the results (hopefully with the client) so you can watch it on a HDTV and decide well before the theatrical event if this is what they want. If you’re not happy with the quality, ask if they’ll consider Blu-Ray. Does this help? Any other opinions from anyone most welcome?
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Craig:
“There appears to be more to Retina than meets the eye.”There an ‘Extremely Detailed Review of the rMBP that Andrew Richards posted recently in this forum. It’s AnandTech’s opus on the new machine with some revelations about the magic that Apple performed to pull this rabbit out of the hat. It’s understandable that there may be the occasional update to get it all right. To make a long story short Apple has coded aspects of the machine that result in their unique approach to impenentling such a high resolution physical screen. It’s far more complicated than the coding to support the retina screen on the iPhone and the iPad. Some day when you can take some time off, you might peruse that review if you haven’t seen it.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Craig:
“It’s also clear the issue is specific to MBPr since the non r MBPs don’t have the issue. It’s something about managing access to the GPU and it’s involvement with the display it would seem.”I would think it may be related to the current release that isn’t specifically ‘retina ready’ since I can understand that Adobe may not have done much with their video products yet as possibly they were concentrating on having a version of Photoshop that was ready for the new Macbook Pro Retina first. All should be well when the retina-ready versions of CS6 are released.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Having two identical cameras available with an adequate number of recording cards makes a difference to the feasibility of using the 5D Mark III. It may not be the best camera for the job as others have noted but if you’re determined to go with the 5D, then you can at least manage the recording time limitations. I would run both cameras but delay the start of the second camera about 15 minutes so you’ll be assured that you have time to load a new card into camera A while camera B is still rolling. And so on… May take a few cards but you can run a test to calculate how many cards you need depending upon the size of the card. You may find that information on the Internet as well if no one here tells you.
Of course the size of the recording space also depends upon the rate you record. I’d go with the highest quality recording and certainly use 1920×1080 24 fps and possibly the ciné mode to do some grading in-camera if you like. Or you can grade it in FCPX or with BlackMagic Design’s Resolve Lite if you like.
Do you have a Blu-Ray drive on your Mac and drivers? Do you have Blu-Ray authoring software so your Blu-Ray movie will have all the movie professional-looking bells and whistles? You should be fine as long as you know your client!s requirements and they are met by Blu-Ray. DVDs are not the way to go if the client will accept Blu-Ray.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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John:
“I have searched for hours and cannot seem to get an answer.”Can you do a test where you shoot some moving subjects and verify if you can be successful? If the play has no intermissions or scene breaks, your camera may be the wrong choice for the job as it will stop continuous recording at 29′ 59″. And if DVD is the only delivery medium, it’s really best for durations between one and two hours for good quality. Hopefully you can rent a camera that can record SD rather than HD and record continuously for three hours.
When I have recorded long events on tape, there’s always been an opportunity to swap in a new tape every hour but you may not have that opportunity unless you know there is time between acts to do it. If you use tapeless recording, you are going to have a problem with the file size limits you can record continuously. Your camera manual will describe those recording limits (29′ 59″).
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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Likely this will be addressed very quickly since it appears the discrete GPU was not used. Interesting results then showing the Intel 4000 integrated graphics’ performance. Until then the benchmark is useful to explain why the MacBook Pro Retina may be underperforming in some operations with CS6.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB