[Zman]

not to sure about the codec stuff, but as a former colorist I would not color correct a feature on fcp. the color correct system on FCP is so behind the times it sad, why dont you look into final touch, works so much better, fcp is so clucky and under tooled, I would use avids CC before FCP’s. and this is not just me talking smack, i have tried many times to really blow out the FCP CC tools and always walk away screaming.

[Zman]

I know there was one, but for some dumb reason i kept missing it. thanks again.

[Zman]

THANK YOU, here’s another you ever see the old iris openings on films from the 20’s-30’s do you know of a good plug-in “filter” that can do this.

[Zman]

(Avid has the high ground over FCP, in meshing with the Post workflow of Hollywood.) Do you mean Hollywood Florida? Cause i know your not talking in LA, if you want the rundown I’ll be happy to give it.
dreamworks has multiple FCP-HD’s, trailer park and aspect ratio I believe are all FCP, most of the spot houses have 1/2 fcp and are filipping all over to fcp at an alarming, I was at matchframe the other day in burbank, sweet place, anyway I was chatting with the sales guy mike and he said all they get now are people calling for FCP, so they just bought a few systems, not sure how many he just said a few. I was a colorist form 95 – 2000, and never did I once see a working flow between any avid and the post work arena, now not saying FCP is better, however today FCP does have a smother work flow than avid, the reason most dont see it is because most never took the time to learn the software, FCP is open code, that why so many plug-ins and third party devices, avid is sealed off like windows, and when it comes to the big boy toys Apple and FCP are way out infront with the intergration with shake , lightwave, flame and smoke, it’s amazing, I work on the flame a lot and the avid list never translates well, ok look at this, multi cam in FCP no extra equipment no extra price, Multi cam in avid starts at what a few grand extra for the software and the dongle on top of what you just paid for the editing software, wanna talk soundtrack pro vers anything that the avid has as part of the editing package, no i didnt thinks so, i can really go on about this, this kinda stuff drives me crazy, stop drinking the kool-aid.

[Zman]

mojo is such a scam, as is all avid products. I wish people would just fess up and admit avid is junk, it’s old clunky and very unstable. I love to hear the avid people tell me how great there stuff is, and then i get the phone call as I did on saturday, see I worked on a show for 1 day (thursday night), and then a new editor took over, and on saturday he called and said that the drives are all mounted but all the media is off line,my answer welcome to the world of Avid Adrenaline. Time to digitize, AGAIN!

[Zman]

in 5, sorry i keep forgetting, you cant type the TC in to makr in/out?

[Zman]

well I was a colorist for a number of years, and all of our monitors were C phosphors, and these are all sony or panasonic, mostly panasonic and very expensive

[Zman]

what is the P-22? need more info please

[Zman]

ok i see what your asking, here are the rules so to speak. mini DV does not have time code it’s clock time, dv cam has TC, so what most people do to get a mini dv tape clone of the master with a window burn in the lower corner to have a visual of the master TC for frame to frame acuracy. now the beta is a dub of the digi beta with exact TC from the digi beta. So not to worry about that. all you have to ask is for them to “REGEN THE TIME CODE” which is regenerating the original TC onto the new tape. here is a few terms to remeber, a “DUB” is an ANALOG copy of any format tape. a “CLONE” is a digital copy of a digital tape, in the digital world you get an exact of the original, in analog you get a generation lower.

[Zman]

just for shits and giggles we gave you 2 frames the once over, and to tell ya the ruth the FCP5 QT7 (we are assume) looks like crap overall. you didnt post the same frame for both, wish you would, but the 4.5 still is so much cleaner and has more color and detail over all, this was/is a locked off camera and locked set?