Toby Angwin
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I have never had a problem with the different gamma levels, besides if you view your work on two different brands of broadcast monitor they will look different. Can’t you just make sure your clips match each other. As in if you are grading in AE, just have a reference image either loaded into Color Finesse or side by side. You should always be grading relative to other shots anyway. This method is unbeatable.
Also most of this is an After Effects problem, not BM or FCP. After Effects has never had a great internal YUV to RGB conversion. Years ago my colleagues and I decided that you just couldn’t drop an after effects rendered shot in between other shots. Or if you must, render it our to trillions of colours and let fcp render it to video, that might help.
Cheers,
Toby
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I bought Samsung ram as I didn’t want to frieght Crucial ram from the states to OZ and it is fine.
My best advice would be buy what you want or can afford, the run the apple hardware tester overnight and see if all is well.
Cheers,
Toby
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Sorry to be old school about this, but couldn’t you just keyframe it? It’s worked for years.
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3d IS still better on a PC but if you are a one man band, maya will be fine on the mac.
What kind of footage are you working with? A 2,4 or 8 drive SATA raid will do anything up to HD cheaply. A single FW800 drive can do DV and DVCProHD. My mates swear by the medea G-Raid which is a 2 drive FW800 raid which is pretty good for SD work, and matches the G5. I use 2 Seritec external sata housings (2 drives each) which for day to day work is as fast as Fibre, especially if you are only doing short form stuff.
I’d go the NVidia card as it is as close to the pro PC cards as you can get on a mac, unless you need 3 slots.
I guess you are only working with DV going back over your post so I’d get yourself a G-Raid.
And 4 gig of ram. Until the programs are 64bit there’s not much point having more. And all you guys who use 8 gig to have 25 programs open at once are just messy, or greedy, or both.
Cheers,
Toby
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If you can, make the person reformat their USB drive as HFS+ instead of crappy FAT. I had no end of problems with mine until I made it mac only. And who really cares if PC’s can’t read it anyway.
Cheers,
Toby
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
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Frame offset is only for calibrating your output device, this is a system wide problem. But thanks for the thought.
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
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Raids: Experienced it with 2 and 4 drive SATA Software Raid0 Stripes (Driverless) both apple and softraid. Infortrend SATA-FC Hardware Raid, again fairly driverless. Also if it were a raid or driver issue, the problem would be system wide and happen in the Quicktime player, it doesn’t.
Video Output makes no difference, on or off.
Spotlight would cause a random, unrepeatable pattern of events, this is constant. Every time you hit play it pauses for a second.
As I said this is happening when you drag a clip into a new sequence which by definition meant that there were no filters on it, it should also mean that RT has nothing to do with it as it should be a straight pass through. I also imported the clip as an animation codec clip and re-rendered it within FCP with the same playback results.
The windows are set to the standard view, and the toolbench is off (had that problem before). Overlays make no difference.
And finally, the footage is all Apple Uncompressed. Only 12 bit and very old footage would be anything else these days (unless people are bashing away with old cinewaves). The Excellent Blackmagic card defaults to the apple codec anyway but good point.
I had originaly assumed that it was my system because I had just added a Seritek External Raid (which I can’t reccomend highly enough) and thought it was that. I mentioned it in passing at work to find it was happening on every system there, all of them tricked out with Ultra 6800s and 4 or 5 Gigs of ram and Fibre Raids. I have no latency in shake for loading images or caching, all going off the same drives, or with the shake disk flipbook.
There is a similar thread on the Apple discussion boards but without the technical know how of here.
Cheers,
Toby
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
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Hi Jeremy,
Best is what we think is no longer up to scratch, and the lag problem happens when you put a single clip in a sequence and hit play, but nice troubleshooting.
Bret,
There are two answers to that,
1 No, anyway overlays only ever affected the responsiveness of things like colour corrections going out to the monitor.
2 No, I know what I’m talking about.
What do people think about having some sort of identifier in their Names or Profiles that kind of says:
Experienced user who doesn’t need the basics spelled out to them, if something has gone wrong they know what they are talking about.That’s not directed at you Bret but I do think that so many discussions get needlessly bogged down in going over the basics instead of actually being constructive. I don’t want to sound ungrateful about the boards because they are the best tech support there is, but could we start an advanced user sub-forum like 2-pop has.
Cheers,
Toby
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
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Hi Andy
I did only notice it when I worked in 10bit uncompressed, my first job on the new box had been dv and it didn’t seem to happen. But the work guys noticed immediately with 8 and 10 bit SD. They have also noticed that the new scaling options (what ever that option about preserving or ditching your old render files is) that you kind of have to chose when upgrading a project don’t look as good as 4.5, and in fact don’t meet our standards for broadcast work.
And Avids poorly set up? Never! LOL
Cheers,
TOby
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
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Yep, all running tiger, and 4.5 was all fine on my dual 1gig too. They’ve busted them back to 4.5 where they can but due to how the new components paly with each other you can’t do that for everything.
All system updates, permisions repaired, FSCK’ed, the works. All the systems have the Nvidia 6800 mega card. It’s definitely FCP, which is a pity. I think this adds to my feelings that they should split off a final cut for the the wedding/corperate video, low end broadcast crowd that are the majority of the market, and have a final cut for serious cutting and online, call it Final Cut Pro Pro. What do you think.
Toby Angwin
Director/ Editor
Soup Kitchen Films
Australia