Walter Biscardi
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[Michael Harrington] “I’ve been hearing good things about Premier this past year, who would of ever thought the Pro’s would gravitate towards Premier.”
CS 5.5 is essentially what FCP 8 should have been. Not a whole lot that’s “groundbreaking” in X that’s not already in CS 5.5 or even Avid MC 5.5 for that matter.
But X works for some folks so that’s good. For me Premiere Pro is the way to go now, especially with what Adobe is planning moving forward with CS 6. Avid MC 6 is looking mighty solid too.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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You can’t use FCP to scale HD to SD. It doesn’t do a very good job.
Compressor does a better job, hardware does the best job. We use our AJA Kona boards to perform all our SD to HD and HD to SD conversions because it’s absolutely clean, broadcast quality conversions.
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[Scott Sheriff] “But do you have access to a codec like ProRes”
As has been noted on other forums, for $50 you can purchase Motion from the Apple App store. That gives you the ProRes codec for your machine.
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You can use Compressor for this. Compressor allows you to set In / Out points for each clip. This is what I have done in the past with Final Cut Pro 7.
But know that Compressor takes a while. I had 24 hours of GoPro materials for a recent documentary and it took my 12 core Mac Pro three days to convert it all to ProRes for editing.
That was one of the deciding factors in us making the jump over to Adobe Premiere Pro after the FCPX roll out. It edits the GoPro footage natively and pretty much anything else natively too, no conversion needed.
Also if you have the Adobe Media Encoder installed as part of the Adobe Production Bundle that does render much faster than Compressor and can do the same thing.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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The answer quite simply is “no.”
If you do this then you are the one who is going to take the fall should it come back to bite you. You did the download, you ripped it into the format required for editing, you put it into the video…
In other words you are going to do everything illegal. Your client is simply asking you to do it, but they get no blame for it.
You have the choice to say no.
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Online backup of media will be slow regardless of the speed of the connection. HUGE amounts of data to push. We use the WiebeTech solution and simply have a clone of each drive that lives off site. If you’re a home based editor, open up a Bank Safe Deposit box and put the clones there so you at least have something that’s offsite. Much faster using local systems than trying to do it over the internet.
Project files however could easily benefit from this and I’m exploring this as well.
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[Noam Osband] “I’m using Log and Transfer for watching dailies, wathcing my footage on it each night to evaluate color and quality.”
If you are only using the Log and Transfer window to evaluate your footage the accuracy of sound and color is wholly based on how you have your computer screen / computer speakers set up.
If you have a proper reference monitor connected to your system, then it will be very accurate.
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1 – Why not add the slate in Avid and make a self contained movie from Avid and send THAT to Compressor?
2 – Send to Compressor is always a wonky step, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t. Make a Self Contained movie in FCP and then send that to Compressor.
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You really don’t want to select letterbox. When you simply use the Compressor DVD Settings, what it’s creating is a file that will play full screen on a 16:9 HD tv or letterbox on a standard 4:3 TV.
If you’re losing part of the image in full screen mode on an HD TV, well this is normal. That’s why we have Broadcast Safe and Title Safe markers to work with because you’re going to lose up to 15% of the outside of your image depending on the TV, the DVD player and when it goes out over broadcast, the broadcaster / cable casting company.
TVs do not show 100% of your image, there’s always a crop.
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I would have to agree with most of what Mark has already elaborately posted.
If it was my Post House, I would stop all work immediately until the issue is resolved. And as Mark already pointed out, just because the footage was converted for editing doesn’t affect the original ownership of the actual footage.
I believe the courts would side with the shooter, particularly for 12 days of unpaid work, that he / she owns the copyright to the material and without written consent, the Producer is unable to use the footage for any purposes.
Thus there is no reason to continue the edit until a resolution is made between the shooter and Producer.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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