Stuart Ferreyra
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… the COW rules
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
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Santa Monica, CA 90025
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How great is that!
It took more time to say -read the manual- than Martin’s 2 sentences to address the issue.
Awesome….Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
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There are many things to set up. Starting by using the right Easy Set up in FCP and selecting
the appropriate setting is the first step.For a DV project going to Digibeta you should select the “Kona 8 bit to DV” setting. That will
set up the right output options for you; but remember that it won’t go to tape as 23.98.
Digibetas only work at 29.97.You can use the SDI out of the Kona and plug it to the SDI embedded input on the deck.
But you must select the deck’s input panel for digital audio.To do a PAL version, well…. you must sent your tape to a professional NTSC to PAL
conversion house with a GOOD formats conversion. We don’t even try to do it ourservels.
Here in L.A., these dubs do not come cheap if you want great quality.It cost us about $230 dollars for 1/2 hour of NTSC to PAL, but the place we use has an
$80,000 conversion box and the results are MAGNIFICENT!Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
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The key form FinalTouch (now Color) is “ok”.
It works really well with very defined colors in the frame, but if the color you are trying to
pick melts with others, you are pretty much out of luck.The spline custom shape sometimes works really good if you target does not move.
You can motion track the shape, but FT’s tracker is almost unusable and needs keyframing.You will be better using two grades and compositing in Shake (for now). Unless of course,
Apple and the FinalTocuh team fixed the tracking and up-resed the color picker.Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
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We have been running FinalTouch on a G5 PCI-X with an ATI X800XT.
I believe it will still run the new “Color” with it….Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
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Disable the preview on desktop in FCP.
I bet that maybe it !!!Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com -
Quickbooks for the Mac is a good tool.
We own it, but it is so not well designed.
I really hate it.It should be able to do much more way way way simpler.
I really think Windows engineers just slapped it together for the Mac.
Intuit needs to get real Mac designers for it!!!Unfortunately, it is probably the best choice to date…
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com -
Make sure the deck you are using has HD reference /sync.
If you do not have an external HD reference /sync unit, set up the HD deck (in the deck
menu) for internal reference.Check if the deck loopthough is good goint to your HD monitor. If the loopthrough is
good and you only get the issues on tape, most likely is a reference / sync issue.Good Luck!
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com -
As far as quality you don’t lose a thing.
The most important thing you may lose is your own time when rendering or doing any after effects / compositing work.Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com -
It’s gonna be an interesting weekend….
Stuart Ferreyra
Timecode Multimedia
President
Santa Monica, CA 90025
https://www.timecodemultimedia.com