Walter Biscardi
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[Aryn Leigh] “Walter- how does 1080 look in a UHD timeline?? I’m assuming, even with a teranex upgrade, there is quality loss if viewing in UHD. And is it then still possible to do clean-looking punch-ins with the 4k footage? “
If it’s progressive, it up converts very nicely. If it’s interlaced, you really want something like the teranex to do the up convert.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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Thanks Alex. The big thing we’ve learned from our 2 years with Adobe Premiere Pro is not to be afraid of any new changes. PPro just seems to handle everything in stride.
Cutting 4k UHD is no different in Premiere than cutting HD. You just need to plan for larger graphics and larger storage capacity. But inside the app, just load and cut.
So incredibly nice to have Adobe allow us to just concentrate on the creative and get the technology out of the way.
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[Aryn Leigh] “1. She wants to edit in 4k, but I’m wondering if there is an advantage to this- considering there aren’t too many outlets to screen 4k.
“Yes absolutely. Once you’re finished in 4k you’re ready for Netflix/Amazon and other UHD outlets today. You’re also ready for 4k digital cinema projection. We’re cutting 4k UHD right now for a new digital OTT network I’m developing. While the majority of our audience will watch the programming in HD, for those who have UHD will get the full quality and we’re ready for the continued rollout of UHD sets.
Down converting from UHD to HD is easy and results in no quality loss.
[Aryn Leigh] “My second question is- has anyone had any experience editing full length features on Premiere? If so, would it benefit us to convert all of our footage to something like ProRes HD before we begin editing? “
We edit everything natively. If you have HD material to incorporate into the UHD timeline, up convert the footage in realtime in your timeline during the rough cut edit. Then when you’ve got a locked picture edit, up convert ONLY the used footage. No sense in converting everything if you won’t even use it. Just keep the footage to be converted later color coded so you can easily spot it in the timeline. Alternatively, keep it all on a specific video track. We have a Teranex converter in house now for this very purpose of conversions and we’d be happy to help you out.
[Aryn Leigh] “Third- should the timeline be set up as a native .R3D sequence? Or is Pro-Res a better option?
“R3D should set you up in a native UHD 4k timeline so you’re fine there. Just change your Video Previews over to ProRes and you’ll be fine. That’s pretty much what we do.
Just make sure you have PLENTY of storage on hand with PLENTY of overhead. If you need 3TB of storage for your raw footage, you should have at least 6TB of storage available to ensure space for graphics, renders, audio and to make sure you don’t fill up the array. Poor performance comes from overfilling your media arrays. I like to have at least 25% of my storage array empty at all times.
As for cutting long forms, we just completed a documentary project on PPro in 4k with no issues and have been cutting 30 minute episodic for a couple of years now. Great tool.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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If your name is already known as a brand, nothing wrong with incorporating it into the name.
I originally named my company “d’Arte media creations” because I’m Italian and wanted to create something that had an Italian flair. d’arte means “of art” in Italian.
Well everyone knew my name since I had been on the Cow for so long but didn’t place me with d’Arte. So three years later I changed it to Biscardi Creative Media and that has stuck ever since. I’m fortunate folks like my work and when they search for me personally, of course the company name also comes up.
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Whatever best represents you and your work. I knew I wanted Creative and Media in my title because we’re a full service production and post company. We’re not limited to just video or production. We’ve done print, animation, web, graphics, music, sound design and even consultation on production workflow and facility design.
We’re a very creative bunch and we create media. What that media is changes by the job and as technology changes.
Whatever you create, make sure it’s flexible so as your business grows and takes on more work, the name doesn’t feel like “it doesn’t fit anymore.”
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Video quality is generally better on Vimeo.
When the video finishes playing, you don’t have a grid full of other videos to go watch all over YouTube.
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[Brian Cooney] “Thanks Walter. I’m running a USB mixing board and video playback through iMac only. I will try using 1/2 rez. doesn’t seem right though huh?”
My question was what is your media playing off of? As in your RAID.
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Once you adapt to the workflow of CC, you won’t need to worry about multiple projects open at the same time. We used FCP for 11 years and multiple project workflow was a big part of our workflow for the final 3 years.
However 2 years into CC, we don’t miss that feature since we can browse through template projects and any other projects to simply move elements from one project to another.
There are other ways to work. What worked in FCP was nice, but trying to make CC completely like FCP completely misses the point that there’s more than one way to work. Yeah your workflow is going to change. Our 11 years of workflow changed drastically when we jumped to CS6. But with all the improvements Adobe has made in the past 2 years, having two projects open at the same time is no longer on our list of improvements we want from Adobe. The only people I really see who continue to ask for that feature are either just newly transitioned from FCP to Adobe or about to make that move.
It’s not a show stopper feature by any means.
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Check off the preference to “place media cache files near original files” or whatever that checkbox is called. That will keep all your conform files alongside your main media and you won’t have to re-write all those Peak files.
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Is the entire clip in that folder or is it spanned across a couple of folders? Using the Media Browser, select the clip, not the folder. Does that help?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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