Walter Biscardi
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[Chris Kenny] “You don’t display fields, you de-interlace in software first.”
Yes, you DO display fields. 1080i is an interlaced format. Standard definition is an interlaced format.
Yes you DO want to see fields so when these formats are displayed on interlaced monitors / projectors, there are no surprises. You absolutely positively do NOT want your software or hardware converting your interlaced to progressive unless you need it to.
That’s why we recommend Flanders Scientific monitors. They properly display interlaced images.
So when Discovery Channel requires 1080i for delivery your answer will be “You don’t need to display interlaced, just display progressive instead.”
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[Michael Harrington] “Still no comments about my workflow, is working in HDV or XDCAM EX crazy talk?”
I don’t understand the thinking about keeping HDV and XDCAM EX files on separate drives. No clue why someone would recommend that.
I always recommend folks get out of HDV immediately and convert to ProRes for a smoother workflow through post and color correction. Personally I hate XDCAM and always convert that over to ProRes before editing as well.
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Pick up one of the new UltraSharp Dells to replace your Apple Cinema Display.
Pick up a Flanders Scientific 1760W or 2461W for your broadcast monitor. These come with a 30 day money back guarantee so you can essentially demo the unit in your facility for a month with no pressure to keep it.
Those are the two best recommendations I can make.
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[Jeremy Garchow] ” I’ll be frank. Cut and run.
Get yourself some redundancy and more modern hardware.”
Could not agree more. With all the changes in hardware, it’s much more than just repopulating an old box with new drives.
In my case, I have a three year old 16TB RAID and about an 18 month old 16TB RAID. I’m about to sell off both and replace the entire system because there have been such great leaps in the underlying hardware to make entire systems run faster.
The spindle speed of the spinning drives is maxed out, they are not going to go any faster. Solid State drives will change that, but until those drop in price to make it economical to go that route, look at Small Tree, Maxx Digital, Dulce, Sonnett and others you see advertised on these forums for new solutions.
The prices are just so incredibly low per TB that it really makes no sense to “hope that this thing works without failing during my upcoming big project.”
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[Craig Seeman] ”
If you’re basing your business success on how much you “invested” in gear then you’ll tank because you’re not managing your ROI and look at future purchases based on industry trends.”Well at $299 and the cost of a MacBook Pro, there’s really not going to be much of an investment necessary. Everyone can now truly be a professional editor.
It’s going to make it a LOT easier for me to hire freelancers at a much lower rate now because instead of maybe 200 editors in Atlanta to choose from, I’ll have a couple of thousand. My ROI will go up ten fold.
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It amuses me when Apple stated something like “although FCP X may have an appearance like iMovie, all similarities end there.”
Except for the “new” features rolled out in FCP X that are already available in iMovie 11 as pointed out so well by Bret above.
But the similarities REALLY end there. We mean it this time… 🙂
Gonna be a fun June.
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[Rob Grauert] ” Were you able to see if it was a single-window interface (like Motion)? I’d hate that.”
Yes, that’s what they showed, though then a report came out after the presentation that you could set the interface up with a Viewer / Canvas and perform 3 point editing if you choose. I don’t know, they didn’t show that.
[Rob Grauert] “And did they mention anything about the Browser window (if thats still what it’s called)? I don’t know if I’m liking that film-strip view. I prefer the list view. I hope you can still do list view.”
There is still essentially a browser. Open up iMovie on your machine to see what it looks like. It’s essentially the same. In fact, as pointed out in another thread, play with iMovie 11 to preview the new FCP since it already has some of the features that were presented to us last Tuesday.
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[Andy Mees] “Oh snore. I think you are missing the point Walter … the FCP X forum can just be called the “Utterly pointless FCP speculation forum” if you like.”
Well honestly, if you go back in time through the years on the forum, your point applies to every single release of FCP. For weeks leading up to and after NAB or whenever there are rumblings of a new FCP, the forum turns into pure speculation for a few weeks and then it dies back down again.
Come June this forum will fill up again with folks who have it and all the various things they love / hate about it.
It’s a regular cycle. I don’t really see a need to move off the FCP X threads this time just because it’s a new interface.
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In other words, Final Cut Pro Express…. 🙂
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[rene hazekamp] “Actually it would have been quite strange if the Supermeet had opened with the news that final cut X can export cmx 3400 edls AND has a multiformat magnetic time lime. And then another marketing guy pledging they would always support Grass Valley edl’s as well.
wouldn’t make much sense, wouldn’t it ?”It would make total sense to mention it at some point during the presentation or in some sort of a press release after the presentation. Final Cut Pro X still supports XML / OMF / EDL Export Import for example.
As for the multiformat timeline, they told us it supports it but never actually showed that one which was surprising for me. They pretty much showed everything else they mentioned, but did not put together a multi-format timeline.
As I mentioned in a previous blog on my website, in the Avid booth I watched a demo where the artist started a 1080 / 59.94 timeline.
Into that timeline he placed:
1080i / 59.94
720p / 50
720p / 60
1080p / 23.96
and a few others.The codecs were
DVCPro HD
HDV
XDCAMThen he hit Play and the timeline just played. Not only that, he had complete control of the interlace interpolation of the all the clips, meaning he could adjust the look of the 720/50 and 1080p / 23.96 footage to play more smoothly in that timeline. All in realtime. And not only a single track, but a multi-track timeline. This was all playing through an AJA Io Express.
That’s the type of multi-format capabilities I’m looking for and now with the Baselight plug-in, I would not have to worry about if a completely mixed up timeline like that would be supported by Color or Resolve, I can stay right in FCP. I’m waiting to see if the multi-format capabilities for FCP X are really real this time as this would be a HUGE timesaver for our documentaries.
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