Scott Thomas
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Has anyone heard if FCPX 10.1 will support a CMX I-Squared interface?
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[Jim Hines] “I was bored. No easier group to get riled up than Apple guys – right? I could have posted something about windows somewhere and waited three years for somebody to care about it. “
Yeah, I used to be an Avid user and an investor in Avid. Note the past-tense. I can understand why you’re bored now.
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I knew of a local production company that took their JVC KY-2000 and painted it grey so it would look more like a Ikegami HL79.
Nothing would shock me. 🙂
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I guess I’m kind of backwards.
My most recent project was done almost completely in Cinema4D and After Effects. I used FCPX to do some audio edits, and where it was most helpful was in cranking out client reviews and the client’s finals.
I still need Legacy FCP for getting Tape assets, but I’m slowly getting into FCPX and I hope it continues its development apace.
This is one part of my project. The audio mix was done elsewhere, and I added effects to complement the edit.
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I was working with the QNAP on the two separate MacPros we have connected to it.
Interesting behavior: Both computers see the folders created on each others screens, but cannot see the sizes of the directories. Calculate File Sizes is turned on. Even and its variants don’t help.
Directory and files will report “Zero Bytes” or other odd sizes. Only the machine that created the folder can see the actual size.
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I remember a few stories from that era.
In 1997, I had a former boss working in Seattle and he talked with Avid folks there. Avid wasn’t happy with the direction Apple was taking with OS development. Avid basically told Apple they wouldn’t develop for Copeland or whatever the name of the project was called. A little later, Apple’s fortunes changed with the purchase of NeXT, but Avid goes ahead with their Windows port of Media Composer. My takeaway from NAB 99?: Most people were huddled around the lone Mac based Media Composer in the Avid booth, and the other (PC) stations were fairly quiet.
Still an NLE skeptic in late 1995, I was running a BetaSP room with Component Digital gear, and a GVG Kaleidoscope. We decided to buy an NLE for news promotion, and I got to choose. We weren’t interested in Media100. We were between only Avid and Immix. I had an entire day with the Immix TurboCube and was comfortable with it. Later I had a short demo with the Avid MC and thought it was great. For someone who had come from CMX Edge, Sony BVE900 and Grass VPE-251’s, it made perfect sense.
The Media100 at the time made a pretty picture, but the software was strange and until the Vincent card was 640×480. There were no broadcast vendors selling the Media100, just small shops. Later our commercial production department bought the Media100, and the support wasn’t there. Hard drive array failed: I’m on the phone with them, and I’m told to drop the drive onto the table from varying heights in an attempt to get the drive to spin-up. Then I’m told to ship it back to JEMS. I bet JEMS didn’t know what we were asked to do. Perhaps I was talking to a young Bob Zelin? (Just kidding) 🙂
Fast forward a few years and Avid buys Pinnacle and shortly thereafter kills their MediaStream server line. Guess who had just bought one… yep, us. An Avid product will probably never see its way into our shop again. It’s not just us. I know an engineer that worked for a large station group that bought into Avid just before the ABVC came out. That station group wasn’t happy to see Avid release new hardware immediately after their buy, after repeatedly asking if they had new hardware on the horizon. They were captive. They were fans. They would have waited a little. Avid appeared to only want to clear out old stock. Relationship be damned.
I loved my Media Composer. My favorite take-away from training promo producers?
Producer: How do I preview my edit?
Me: There’s no need to preview.
Producer: But I need to see the edit before I commit to it!
Me: Well, just try the edit anyway.
*Producer hits the button*
Me: Now hit “undo”
Producer: Oh!Seemed to open up new worlds. 🙂
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I ran Black Magic’s disk speed test on the QNAP. I don’t have the results in front of me, but the top read speed was around 900MB/s.
If you play back an animation codec Quicktime from the QNAP, you get some strange results. The movie will apear to play normally, and then speed-up and then slow-down. Up and Down, Up and Down.
I only learned about this recently. There is a special config file for the Small Tree 10Gig-E card that has been installed in the /ETC directory.
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Not a bad idea, and not unlike the days where you would have a separate drive, just for a Photoshop scratch disk. Thanks.
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I’ve used Timewarp. It can produce nice results, but it seemed to take a lot of tweeking to tune out artifacts.
RE:VisionFX Twixtor is my usual go-to, optical flow tool.
I think Timewarp is available inside of Premiere as well as AE.
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I was trying to write that it was an 18 bay device with only 6 drives populating it.
I did a test today, I can use AFP instead of SMB, but NFS isn’t available. I’ll have to ask if it’s available.
Yes, the 2.15GB limit is there, and I’ve read on one of Adobe’s blogs that the fix will be IN THE NEXT VERSION. So I’ll have to convince the company to pony up more money after just buying CS6 Master Collection in February.
Yeah, they are aware that they’ll need a switch if they want more users. Right now, this is just for the art room where we have only the two main workstations.