Walter Biscardi
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[Dave Jenkins] “The color forum is under Final Cut Studio – Refine list – Color”
Yep, a crappy way of doing it, but nonetheless no surprise from Apple.
But it did just happen towards the end of this week according to some folks on Twitter as the Color forum was around last weekend and earlier in the week.
So it looks like Apple is cleaning up the Pro Communities to get ready for Brand X software communities brought to you by the Powerpuff Girls. Or in other words, we could see the app this week…..
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That’s the support page. I’m talking about the Community page.
https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
apparently now everything has been rolled into one huge FCP/Motion/Color/SoundTrack Pro/Compressor/QMaster/DVDSP community. Makes total Apple sense.
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MP4 is not an editing codec for Final Cut Pro. ProRes at the very least. You will get all sorts of weirdness, dropped frames and crashes editing in MP4.
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Historically AJA and Apple have worked very very closely together on any advance of Final Cut Pro and the Mac OS. There’s been speculation in the past that the AJA Io HD was actually an Apple idea but they didn’t want to build the hardware so they brought the idea to AJA to execute. The fact that AJA introduced it at an Apple FCP launch a few NABs ago lends credibility to that idea.
AJA always have their drivers ready to go the day the new FCP is launched, but they usually hold them for a day to a week just to ensure that the final release is the same as the last build they tested.
Plug-in developers from what I’m told rarely see the software until it’s released, particularly when it’s a brand new version like what’s happening now. Maybe a few of the bigger ones like Boris and Red Giant might get an advance copy, but for the most part, they don’t see the working software until you and I do.
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[Richard Herd] “The service agreement reads total running time = 5 minutes.
Now, the client wants 8 minutes.I said, that’s a 60% increase, therefore, it’ll take more time and money, for an edited spot. But I can loop the footage by cut and paste at no additional charge.
There’s more details, but this is the gist. The real question is, how do I successfully upsale the project?”
Original Contract with the Client goes something like this:
“Based on the current specifications and information provided, we estimate this project will take X hours.
If the project changes during production, client will be billed at $X for each additional hour / day.”
Something along those lines in a contract / agreement simplify everything. The client changed the parameters or was late in getting you information or just simply caused the edit to run longer than the original agreement. They will now be billed according to the original contract.
All of my contracts have a stipulation like that near the end so there are no surprises for either side.
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Creative Cow has honestly gotten me more work that Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn combined. It really built my business by showing me as someone who is knowledgeable in the field. And I can honestly say it’s directly or indirectly led to the growth of our company to where it is today.
But with Twitter, I maintain two accounts, one personal, one for the company. I do enjoy that I can communicate directly with tons of industry folks on a daily basis and very often we help each other out so that’s cool. But as far as directly related to getting any work? No.
Facebook, again I have two accounts. One is just my personal account which I restrict to friends only. Then we have a Company account which is off to a bit of a slow start, but I do have not really been updating it enough. That will change shortly with many more behind the scenes videos and tutorials ready to start hitting that.
Same with our YouTube and Vimeo channels, we’ll start to hit that more with a larger video presence.
Will those bring us more work? Not sure, but we’re just going to have fun with those sites. If they drive work, great, if not, we’re going to have fun anyway.
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[Bill Davis] “Virtually NO serious operating stations require tape anymore.”
Really? That’s why we have to ship out HDCAM Masters to meet network and station specs these days? I don’t know. I always thought folks like PBS, Food Network and others we have shipped to are pretty serious operating stations, but then I could be wrong.
[Bill Davis] “So be VERY cautious before you waste money going from digital to tape – only to force the broadcaster immediately transcode it from tape to digital in order to air it.”
I don’t thing there are any networks left that broadcast from tape. They ingest the tape and then file the tape away in a library. But they are still requesting HDCAM tape from us.
I would much prefer to simply send them a digital file, but so far, we’re not getting that as an option. There are a few out there that are starting to give us digital specs like NBC, but for the most part, it’s still a tape world when it comes to delivery.
You MUST go by the technical specifications for each station, you cannot make a blanket statement like what you said above.
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[Al Bergstein] “? I bring them a hard drive and they convert it to HDV? Or what else might broadcast be using these days?”
I’ve never heard of any broadcaster accepting HDV other than maybe local news. Most broadcasters accept HDCAM for a tape delivery. There should be a slew of post houses in LA that will lay your project to tape.
Here we lay our shows to DVCPro HD and then send those tapes off to CaptionMax who create the HDCAM master as part of their closed captioning service.
If we don’t need closed captioning, we send our masters down to CineFilm locally here in Atlanta for conversion to HDCAM.
Typical 30 minute HDCAM clone is around $250 including the tape stock.
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[Ben Holmes] “so why not wait until you actually have a product to compare before speaking to AVID?”
That’s what I just said. Once I have my answers to all my questions, then we will be able to make a decision. FCP X will be installed onto my personal iMac at home to see what it does and does not have.
As for a “perfectly good FCP 7” system. Yes, you mean the inefficient FCP 7 that we spend days converting over H.264 footage over so we can start editing? For my most recent documentary it took 3 days for a 12 core machine to convert all the GoPro footage over before I could start to edit. For an earlier documentary, over 2 weeks of time wasted during the course of the edit.
So yes, FCP is perfectly stable, but it’s incredibly inefficient for working with many of today’s digital formats.
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[Geoff McDonald] “Just bought a new Mac Pro 8 Core and installed four 2 terabyte, 5400rpm drives and 64GB of RAM. I copied over all my old files and applications from my previous Macintosh G5 tower that I’ve had since 2005. So now I’m running Final Cut 6.0.6 on OS 10.6.7.”
Flat out cannot do that as David says. You MUST do a clean install of all of your applications to the new tower.
Now that you’ve messed everything up, your best bet is to erase that hard drive and start all over again with a clean install of the Mac OS (from the discs that came with the computer), then install Final Cut Pro and all your other applications from their original discs.
Just cleaning off FCP and your applications wouldn’t really solve your problems I’m afraid.
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