Sean Oneil
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[Zak Mussig] “On the last round, several of the sequences decided they would no longer be constrained to anamorphic 720 x480. The sequences returned to their original size, and I just saw the center portion of the nested sequence. What’s more, deleting and re-adding the sequence produced the same results.
I wonder if anyone can shed light on why FCPs behavior changed with respect to scaling the nested sequence vs centering it, and leaving me to do the scaling (which I don’t want to do manually for fear of inprecision). Not all of my sequences did this, just 3 of 11.”
I don’t know what could have caused this. It’s supposed to do what you want it to. Try trashing your preferences.
If you’re worried about inpreceision, just examine what the Motion settings are for the clips that did automatically scale. You can copy and paste those attributes. I think 1080 to 480 is “Distort -12.5%” and “Scale 50%”. Don’t take my word for it though, I’m just going on memory.
Sean
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For an online library there’s also Audiosparx.com. I don’t really care for their library, but if you’re on a tight budget you can sign up for just 1 month and download and use whatever they have.
Sean
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Thanks Tony!
Sean
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Thanks for the info. Yes, the intention was always to do a color correction on a Da vinci, and from initial tests at the online facility, I guess everything looks great from what I hear.
As far as not releasing non-color-corrected footage to the clients, that would be nice if CC was fast and free :). Unfortunately if a client wants to make changes to the edits, you’ve wasted money color-correcting something that wasn’t given approval. Anyway, my studio paid for the production so we’re actually the client in this case.
Sean
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[Wayne K.] ”
One more question: If I convert that DV PAL AVI to a DV PAL .Mov, can I expect a loss of quality? And if so, is it significant?”Yes, you will lose quality unless you use the right tool to do the conversion. Doing it in FCP, Quicktime Pro, or basically almost any program in existense will re-encode the video stream, causing quality loss.
To do it right, this is what you need:
https://www.firestore.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=8This will do exactly what you want. It will convert an AVI-wrapped DV file into an MOV-wrapped DV file, without any re-compression.
Sean
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Yes, it could be nice to see for the future. As of right now, stripping a bunch of 7200rpm drives togehter works for most people. But with 10 gigabit ethernet and PCIe, the speed of a single disk drive is increasingly becoming a problematic bottleneck. You can only stripe so many disks together.
Evenually I’d like it if our studio could allow many editors to work with multi-stream, uncompressed HD or even 2k off the same SAN without any hiccups.
Sean
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[JackNastowski] “I opened a test clip and did the reverse telecine with the following settings:”
Where did this test clip come from? Was it NTSC 29.97 video with 24fps footage?
Sean
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Sounds like a hardware issue that nobody here can help you with. Contact their support.
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Here’s the link you requested:
https://attotech.com/press/presssassata.htmlIt doesn’t say Mac support in the article, but being from Atto it most certainly will. Anyways, I don’t care about SAS either unless it gets a lot cheaper. I agree with you, SATA is the way to go. I was just pointing out the existence of SAS to highlight the fact that legacy SCSI is truly dead.
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There are enclosures that have no fans. They’re just large heatsinks. Completely silent.