[Scott Miller]

Thanks for the response, Tim.

Yes, I haven’t a clue what the cameras were, let alone what the codecs may be. AVCHD “something”??? This one was a favor and next time I’ll certainly find out what I’m working with but not even sure the editor who gave it to me knows.

Thanks for the CUDA info. I understand.

CPU is what confuses me. This drive has 1/2TB waiting open. One thing brought to my attention is that I’m playing only on this one drive. I don’t have a second internal drive. I’m bringing my files in from the USB3 HD to a file on desktop to increase speed and keep all data allocated in one easy to find place. Problem is that I’m writing back to that same file folder on the desktop, I.e.; through the C: drive.

Right now, as the piece is finally done and looks good, I’ve cleaned the drive, defragged it and I’m going to bring the whole file back in and attempt an export back to the USB3 HD. This so that the CPU is not reading from and writing to the same place. I’ll change to only a VBR 1-pass without using the Previews option. Then we’ll get to see what happens here.

One thing I found really weird is that when I went to pull file off desktop and take it to the external HD all files were already copied to this drive. All in a folder exactly like the one on the desktop, subfolders and all. I never created this on the external drive, it just appeared. It seems that PP was writing to both the C: and E: drives, yet the final export only went to it’s allocated destination. I went through PP and double checked paths, to no avail. Perhaps there is a “switch” somewhere in Windows creating this? If PP was looking to both drives while it encoded? … No… I don’t know. Really weird.

Does this make sense and am I on the right path?

Thanks,
~RS

[Scott Miller]

After spending many years as a Local 80 Grip and now just a humble Videographer-on-a-budget, I have to give you a big thumbs up on your gripology there! Kudos!!!

This has been an interesting stream and I’m glad I’ve read through it. My first thoughts on the light in question were, like others, the dimmable Lowel iLight with a hard bulb. That light will accept automobile headlights, which would explain why we don’t see a gel melting in front of it.

Still photography is my passion and therefore I keep it to myself and don’t preform it as a profession. However, whether we shoot still or moving, there can be much learned from this guy. Primarily in his direction as well as his utilization of time, color, and space.

Good read.