Tom Sefton
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Yes, getting one with an XDR display. Workflow issues with iMac Pro are screaming out for one .
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The only time we pay more than an additional £3-400 per day for an operator to bring a drone for a few shots, is when the drone needs to carry a red or an Arri mini. That gets very, very expensive.
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Transcription within FCPX – like Simon Says?
You could easily do this and provide a separate .srt file to a producer along with a proxy for review
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We did. Nothing really happened after that, as we were under a tight deadline and as it had failed I had to switch to using Google Drive to deliver the files.
It was a 3840 x 1080 file with surround sound where the L, R, C and Lfe were in one language, and then 2 other languages were hard mixed to the rear L and rear R that was 1h20 long. It encoded from R3D 6K and went out to h264 frame.io as an overnight export. Next morning, it had failed during the upload process. Team couldn’t figure out why and even though we showed it happening again I’ve not had any feedback. Was faster to run out a ProRes master, then use compressor to spin out a h264 and HEVC file with same audio routing and upload to another service.
Frame.io is still a big part of our production pipeline, but really only for standard corporate work with HD or 4K frame size.
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Hi Tony,
We’ve found a few inconsistencies in frame.io with uploads too. Non standard frame sizes can crash the upload process from inside FCPX, and delivering 5.1 sound has been glitchy.
The best way around this was for us to use a watch folder with the desktop app instead of using the app inside FCPX. This way we can export a ProRes master (if needed), a H264 and a HEVC file with different audio routing.
We’ve had pretty good success with this, but the app inside FCPX bit us so badly with a couple of pressurised uploads that we’ve largely stopped using it.
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Yes, its working this morning, but I couldn’t get it to recognise at all yesterday.
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Bought myself with a blackmagic camera I owned.
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Not sure how you can class something as a scam when clients receive a working product. The major scam was surely jinnimag buying cheaper parts, asking for help on forums on how to modify firmware and then selling them to an established client base at a similarly inflated price that didn’t have to account for the r&d of the original product. Jinni are literally the equivalent of the guy who rings your customers up and offers to do your work for less money while bad mouthing your professional abilities – just appalling.
Perhaps evaluate how expensive a codex drive is that uses no different technology?
However I’m not solely defending red – the PR from that debacle was terrible and it has eroded trust from many potential buyers; the Komodo launch and the next 6 months are a key time for them to thrive or just survive.
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unfortunately personal opinion about whether a patent is ridiculous doesn’t really make the grade for whether it can be ignored…
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Shot a small project on one and loved it. Seemed to be the place arri went to with the amira. Really loved it – surprised it never took off.
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