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Scott Douglas
June 6, 2013 at 6:25 pm in reply to: Export Module failure

I had a similar problem, one easy work around is to utilize dynamic link between AE and Premiere, if you’re familiar with Premiere. Simply open premiere create a timeline appropriate for what you want to render out of AE, then drop a pic or anything into that timieline, stretch it to the desired time, and send it to your AE project, then drop your comp into that new comp that AE just created, go back into PPro and export out of there.

I had an issue that AE wouldn’t render out the quicktime, the render bar didn’t even start, but I dynamic linked it in PPro, and it exported just fine.

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Scott Douglas
February 26, 2013 at 9:45 pm in reply to: AJA Io HD stopping bootup

ps. The fw800 is plugged into the back port, while I have a fw800 cable plugged into the front port that leads to a mixboard…. not sure if that makes a difference, but I did have them both working fine, once I moved the mixboard fw800 to the front port.

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Scott Douglas
June 27, 2011 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Why use FCPX if you plan on moving up in the industry?

Hi Dustin,

I’m in a very similar setup as yours, and carry basically the same responsibilities as you. I was given the green light to get FCPX when it comes out. I too have held off buying it, I’m going to prep a boot drive to devote to it and snow leopard as to not mess with our current FCP7 setup.

After some reading I found that Premiere would work with our Kona card, while Avid wouldn’t. Avid’s compatibility with AJA products is only starting to grow right now. I was able to get the approval to upgrade from CS5 to 5.5, and while I am continuing to cut on FCP7, I’ll be learning PP.

I learned Avid a while ago, and while it is robust, I always felt it was less efficient than FCP7. Still it is the industry standard. If you can convince your production house to dip in and purchase Avid, you might still be able to get it at the cut rate. If you can get that at what basically is half price, I’d encourage it.

PP and Adobe seem to be taking the steps to replace FCP7 in the industry, everything Adobe is doing and saying seems to point to the fact that they see their window to get PP in the door as a serious competitor to Avid. So if you can get that upgrade to 5.5, I’d go for that too. Cover all your bases.

Walter mentioned in his podcast with Richard Harrington that Turner had just bought 20,000 seats(or some crazy number) of Adobe’s PP. So take that with a grain of salt.

Unless something revolutionary happens, it feels like it’s going to boil down to PP and Avid, at the prices they’re at right now, it’s probably worth it to know how to work with both.

I’m going down the same road as you, and wish you the best of luck in this new journey that Apple has set us on.

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Scott Douglas
June 21, 2011 at 4:57 pm in reply to: ‘New Coke’ syndrome

I still don’t understand why I’m seeing posts from people wondering what they’ll tell their clients now that Apple hasn’t ‘come through for them’.

What exactly were they expecting FCPX to magically do for them. If I was a client who heard ‘just wait for FCPX to come out’ from an editor/post-house/anyone I’m paying, I’d fire them on the spot. IF you have FCS 3 (hell if you have FCS 2 as well), you should be able to thoroughly complete a project at a professional level.

I’m part of group 2, fyi. While looking into upgrading from CS5 to CS5.5 for the production premium suite.

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Scott Douglas
June 2, 2010 at 2:21 am in reply to: Quick and hopefully easy question

Thanks guys, I really really appreciate the help! You’ve given me exactly the lead I was hoping for. Many thanks!

Scott

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Scott Douglas
February 27, 2010 at 4:09 pm in reply to: Is this even possible?

Thanks guys, you’ve been a huge help!!

Scott

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Scott Douglas
February 27, 2010 at 3:47 pm in reply to: Is this even possible?

I believe he has a small 7 inch broadcast monitor that he can monitor everything on.

Are there any alternatives to the Io HD, and I’m guessing that the answer to him being able to go straight from the MacBookPro to the HDCam deck is a definite no?

Scott

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Scott Douglas
January 18, 2010 at 5:35 pm in reply to: BetaSP output color issues from FCP via Kona LHi

I agree Chris, but there are other tvc’s that play on that channel/station that look a lot better, especially with proper saturation and colors. Otherwise we’d write it off as being exclusively the station’s problem.

Scott

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Scott Douglas
January 18, 2010 at 5:16 pm in reply to: BetaSP output color issues from FCP via Kona LHi

I’ll contact them to find out. As a base for knowledge about this station, their equipment is about 15 years old at the least. My producer has worked with them for a long time now and has reassured me of this, so if that helps at all for further responses, just thought I’d mention it.

I appreciate the tip John. I’ll ask about the composite router and double check the AJA setup to make sure it’s betacam and not SMPTE.

Any more help/leads like this would be great!

Scott

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Scott Douglas
September 16, 2009 at 6:38 pm in reply to: Enhanced 16×9 Encoding Software

Thanks for the help and the info Michael.

Reading through all the posts when I search the forum and online in general, I’ve been learning a lot about the depths that one can get into when delving into the DVD encoding/authoring process. It definitely is an art once you reach that higher end level. I really appreciate your help in this regard.

All the best,

Scott

Scott

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