[Tim Kolb]

Thanks Mikkell.

I’ve bookmarked it for anyone’s future problems…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Did you try to import the QuickTimes that PPro exported (prior to Combustion)?

If the QuickTimes that PPro is exporting load and function properly, but the exports from Combustion don’t…then it’s a Combustion issue.

If the QuickTimes that Ppro is exporting have the audio issue, then at least that removes Combustion from the troubleshooting process.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

Vegas is ever-improving and frankly, the stuff Vegas does well, it does spooky well.

Vegas is much more system-fault tolerant than PPro is… The disks hiccup and don’t serve up a frame as fast as the software wants, high bitrate formats that are a little bit beyond the system’s capabilities, etc. In many of these cases, Vegas might keep running where PPro might crash.

Vegas has a bundle that would include Sony’s DVD Architect and I believe they have a bundle that would also give you audio post capabilities. PPro comes with Encore for DVD/BluRay authoring, and OnLocation for DV, HDV, DVCProHD P2 video acquisition.

I haven’t looked closely at Vegas 9, but I’d say PPro’s title tool is a definite advantage for PPro. PPro’s Media Encoder runs in the background, but you can open another instance of Vegas on the same machine… CS4’s integration between PPro, Photoshop, After Effects, Soundbooth/Audition and Encore is simply head and shoulders above anything else in the marketplace. The selling point there is the speed gained by skipping all those render down times. If you needed to use Vegas to edit, you’d be moving to Photoshop to manipulate images, or AE to create an effect, then you’d have to create some sort of compatible output file (which would include a render in AE)…and then open Vegas an import it.

Sorry this is late, I was traveling yesterday.

Good Luck

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

I find it comical that somehow Apple has nothing to do with the fact that the OS upgrade they issued caused the incompatibility and it’s Sony’s fault…

As a long-time beta-tester, a software company management employee, and someone who works with multiple companies on development, this just isn’t that unusual…

The development process is an ongoing process and development that changes the software is more likely to take place on the last day than the first… Often beta software can contain features that ultimately get cut at the last minute because they simply can’t be perfected in time, and they could also find a defect somewhere that they correct at the last minute, that creates a problem somewhere else…

I’ve worked on software in development that has suddenly had QuickTime compatibility issues 72 hours before release because Apple released a new version and something changed.

While the development process of Snow Leopard may not have been a secret, I know that its release timing was a surprise to more than one company (I have no information about Sony specifically in this regard BTW).

So…I’d be hesitant to characterize Sony as suddenly “abandoning” anyone, as much as I’d say the same about Apple when they discontinued the slots compatible with P2 media…or the slots for Express 34 cards on some models.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

When you run out bars, is the pluge where it’s supposed to be, or does it center at 0 as well?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

[Daniel Levy] “However they admitted that all their previous testing of approved workstations and video cards was done with CS3. They don’t have my Dell workstation in house to retest with CS4.”

Yes…the issue is that Adobe, Video Display card manufacturers and of course AJA all release product at different times and you can seize an instant in time, test available workstations with available peripherals and available software and publish a list, but once any of these entities releases a patch or an update, suddenly you have a new variable. It would take an army in a 24 hour/365 day lab to keep compatibility data up-to-the-minute unfortunately.

Have you tested the 4400?

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

[Shane Ross] “Up-Convert…Up-Rezzing (upping the RESOLUTION) means the same thing. Converting something with lower resolution to higher resolution. Will this suddenly make the lower res SD stuff suddenly great quality HD? HELL NO!”

One of the biggest obstacles to “up-rezzing” most SD to HD is that interlaced fields just upscale clumsily. Progressive footage actually upscales better, relatively…

Keep in mind that any “color under” SD format like SVHS or 3/4 Umatic will suffer some color smear as well…

Old nasty SD footage is best used when you’re trying to convey that “these archive shots are from old, nasty SD footage…”

…works perfectly well for that.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

You’re using an LS card?

I didn’t even realize that the new drivers covered that card.

Can you play half way through the clip and go back to the beginning? A quarter?

This is curious…

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

PPro has lots of columns that don’t show in the default configuration…

You can make a column if you want something that isn’t there. Don’t have PPro in front of me, but if you use the fly-out menu in the upper right of the project panel and select Metadata display…once you’re in there, you can also create a custom property if you’d like.

I think at the moment that Adobe has the crown for sheer amount of metadata recognized…it’s much more than most people even want to deal with.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

[Tim Kolb]

I’ve gone to a straight hourly fee (standard editing rate in fact) for prepping deliverables…

Whether it’s getting it out to a deck or transcoding it and uploading it, it takes time to do, and there are hard costs as well.

Soon, clients won’t want to pay for upload time and we’ll have to give them 10GB sticks with their spot on it so they can upload it themselves on their cable modem.

Even in our little market, pre-compressed HD spot master files get sent directly to the station.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,