William Mccauley
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I’m have the same problem… Premiere Pro 5.5.1 doesn’t show any quicktime presets. I tried the remove QT 10 and install from the SL dvd (Optional Installs). Rebooted… QT 7 was in a applications/utilities folder… launched PP no joy on QT sequence presets.
Moved QT7 to the application folder… Reboot and launched PP again no joy.. No QT sequence presets.
Went Back to the SL Install dvd, to see if I could be specific about “where to install” But it will basically only let you select a drive, and not a location on a drive.I have a bunch of screen scrapes of software captured in a Mov format (Uncompressed) I thought I could use as a live transition project moving away from FCS3…
Any Ideas to move forward.Near term…
With Premiere Pro:
1) Hope there is a Quicktime answer somewhere (really looked hard on “The Google”)
2) Select a reasonably matching HDV, Digital SLR or DV-NTSC preset, size to output… stir frequently!!!With FCP7:
1) Go back with my tail between my legs… And learn nothing new….I understand Apple and Adobe are not friends… but this seems… like a really big hole to me…
William McCauley
Peachtree Video Productions LLC
MacPro 4,1
2.93 HHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
10.6.8
24 gigs ram
Small Raid 0
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Beginning the transition away from FCP . I have MacPro4,1 with 20 Gig ram and a Nvidia 4000 GPU. At the most basic level I can’t get Premiere pro 5.5 in the project settings for rendering to be anything but Mercury Playback Engine software only. Ran the CUDA update ver 4.0.50
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Thanks for the suggestions… I will modify my work flow to ensure a bad transfer is avoided. I’ve gone to the Pro Sony site and they show XDCAM EX Clip Browser Version 2.00.01 for MAC OSX. Is this the latest and or best to run on OSX 10.6.6?
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That’s seems similar to what happened to me except I would have seen a 063_3579_01 (1) on the second file. Did not contact anyone because I don’t know how to replicate the issue and it has not happened in the last 10 projects or so…
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I have had something similar happen on an EX-3 with SXS Pro Cards… On two occasions and several different projects apart. Mine was 3 or 4 duplicate file numbers on different shots. But what saved me was the addition of a (1) after each duplicate shot “number” so I could piece together what was going on. Wasn’t sure I could root cause it… and it was intermittent between projects, so I put it in the pilot error bucket… (but reasonably sure it’s not) since its happen on 2 of 40 different projects.
Now it hasn’t happened again in a couple of months… Probably will on my next project after I hit Post Direct here… 🙂
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Glad to see this thread… I was looking to rework my backup process and was thinking about the Apple Raid card. Sorry to see its not reliable. In my MacPro I have 4 drives 1st is sys/apps that is backed up to an external Time Machine. Drives 2 & 3 are configured in a Raid 1? for performance. The 4th drive is where I shuffle snapshots of ongoing projects and finished Media Manage projects for storage. Been doing this about a year. I just worry about my forgetfulness to back up at key times which often is just an FCP file since I pretty much have all my assets before I start, and the 1st backup covers assets. A perfect no-brainer solution for me would be to have the FCP AutoSave folder automatically copied to my 4th drive. Now I’m looking to add on the back end a firewire 800 dock-toaster interface to plug in bare drives for redundant backup of that 4th drive…then store copies both on and off site.
Project size is typically 10 to 15 gig. Then Media managed down to 6 to 10 gig.
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“onboard monitor with waveform and vector, you can find decent ones fairly cheap”
Well I had been checking online and I seem to consistently see an entry price around 3K for the capability… which seems a bit out of proportion to the EX-3. I guess I need to qualify my interest with an inexpensive solution.
BTW I have the MBP in the field anyway ingesting from several cameras and I wouldn’t been watching it all the time just when we have a scene/shot ready to record. To have a reasonably analytic means of checking exposure mostly… saturation and color if i wanted to muck with profiles and matrix… just a touch more meaningful control.
Currently a workflow would require me to record greyscale charts and color bars (Chip Chart) and ingest from each camera but that would take a fair amount of time and would just be guessing at any subsequent adjustments.
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Just display video in FC7, QT and Flash. Generally I ingest XDCAM and edit and out put to SD. I trying to plan for a solid display card to support in HD editing in the future…
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Question? In what way is the image better? Can you tell me the specifics of what you shot to see a difference? I’m having a hard time coming up with a quantifiable test to see differences in lenses.
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I was able to use the Cannon KT19 x6.7 KAS lens with the EX-3 this past weekend in a operational not test situation. Know and agreed to by the client. First, it appears that adjusting the flange focal length is really just like the Fujicon, so much so in a couple of lens swaps I’m not sure i needed to run the adjustment. (Ah but trust me I always will…) Just seemed right on the money after simply changing the lens. In the field we had a lot of follow-the-action and Where’s-Waldo-spontaneous actions that would make an editor shiver… Doing the best one can in that situation, i noticed after many reframings of a shot that the servo zoom was WAY better than the Fujicon. Now, my reason for testing has been a type of image softness that I would like to improve on. I have laid down to bytes the same shot both with the Fujicon and the Cannon lenses. I also from this past shoot will have a segment shot only from slightly different angles of the same action with a PDW335/ Fuji 17 lens and the EX-3 /Cannon. The initial results with switching lenses is hopeful. The later test with the PDW 335 is not available for analysis quite yet.