Tim Kolb
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What do you find “slow?”
The GPU takes care of certain functions, but keep in mind it’s only as fast as the parts of the pipeline upstream…data is drawn off the harddrive and decoded by the CPU and if those two steps are keeping the GPU waiting, a faster GPU won’t gain anything.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Al Jensen] “It’s a .MOV file. I’ve been using this install of CS6 for a little over a year, but this is the first time I’ve tried to use his footage since he switched cameras.”
It’s not his camera…it’s that he let FCP get a hold of the footage first and it re-wrapped it into one of Apple’s proprietary codecs.
If he had the original footage, you could handle that without a problem.
The Calibrated plugin that Kevin mentions is a pretty solid approach.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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If it was an FCP Log and Capture re-wrap, it would be a .mov.
If it’s an MP4 file and still shows “HDV” it’s probably a 25 Mbit/s MPEG2 file from an XDcamHDEX camera, which wrapped its MPEG2 files as MP4s (yes, I know other XDcamHD is wrapped as MXF…no, I have no idea why they did it that way.)
Is this a Premiere Pro installation you’ve been using for some time, or a new installation?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Chris Borjis] “I could be wrong but I thought colored captions only worked
with HD content.”You could be right…maybe I just haven’t seen it.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Tero Ahlfors] “I googled around and people say that the Miraizon Prores does not work in Resolve at all.”
I’m not a Resolve user, but I did see the post elsewhere that resolve doesn’t “see” the codec at all… BlackMagic has mentioned its license relationship with Apple in the past when it comes to answer questions about why one item is supported and another not supported…
The Miraizon codec is based on a clean up of the FFMPEG implementation (per the company guy I spoke with), so I assume anything working with that doesn’t work either?
Does the Cinemartin version load in Resolve? Does anybody have experience with that workflow?
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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closed captions aren’t titles with style attributes per say…
The text is displayed by the text generator in the viewing device or service (a given TV, QuickTime player, or YouTube for instance).
Most CC I’ve seen with multiple voices (often heard off-camera) take the speaker and have that in parenthesis or brackets prior to the designated text. I don’t think I’ve seen closed captions use color in any mainstream program…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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[Tero Ahlfors] “Note that these options aren’t “proper” Prores so FCP or similar might say it’s not optimized.”
The Miraizon owner told me that the ProRes files they encode will default to the standard QT ProRes decoder if it’s installed.
I haven’t had time to start testing it, but the guy was introduced to me by a long time Adobe staff member…so for 50 bucks, it’s not a huge risk…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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An option for ProRes encoding on Windows…available now, and costs 50.00 USD…
https://www.miraizon.com/products/codecsoverview.html
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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It’s actually a very convoluted process…
Open the titler and create the title (or double click on one you want to save)…
click on the “Templates” button up top…
Inside the template interface, on the right side, there is a small, unlabeled button with a pointer that doesn’t stylistically look like any other button in any other window or panel in the entire software package…
Click on this button and pick the utterly counter-intuitive option to “Import” current title as a template (which sounds like it’s coming in from somewhere else, but actually it’s just a “save as a template” function for the title in the canvas at that moment.)
It’s an easy one to forget because it makes so little sense.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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I might take the backup copy of the footage (that hasn’t been touched by the Mac) and load that on the Windows machine and see if the TC shows up there.
Something is quirky with the metadata…what exactly it is or what did it is the question…
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor