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Astro7x posted:I saw that Avid released Avid Studio for iPad today. I grabbed it today, but I don't have any media on my iPad right now, so I'll check it out when I get home. We are moving to Avid in the fall, so we are playing with MC6 now, and are pretty happy with it.
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mayodreams posted:We are moving to Avid in the fall, so we are playing with MC6 now, and are pretty happy with it.
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Would anybody have an interest in buying a $100 Pond5.com Gift Certificate from me at less than face value? I won it in a raffle and have no use for it. It also expires on Feb. 29th 2012. I'd sell it for $50 or best offer. They have stock footage, sound effects, illustrations... like iStockPhoto kind of.
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| # ? Feb 17, 2012 01:56 |
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I have a project in Premiere Pro 5.5 that I'm trying to import via XML into Final Cut Pro X. It seems as though the XML output from PPro isn't compatable with FCPX. Is there a 3rd party tool or any tricks to get this to work?
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 23:18 |
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Why would you want to import anything into FCPX...? But seriously... I've found that sometimes lower versions of XML work better than newer versions with other software (XML v1 vs. XML v5 for example). So give that a try if you have the option of chosing your XML version. Also, maybe Automatic Duck has some sort of exporter tool.
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Toothy posted:I have a project in Premiere Pro 5.5 that I'm trying to import via XML into Final Cut Pro X. It seems as though the XML output from PPro isn't compatable with FCPX. It's probably creating FCP7 XML. If that's the case, 7toX ($10 in the app store) can convert it.
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Family Values posted:It's probably creating FCP7 XML. If that's the case, 7toX ($10 in the app store) can convert it. resolve can also read and export both forms of xml
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I've been having the weirdest thing happen with Compressor for awhile now, and I thought I'd ask here. I have a compression setting that we use that is optimized for iPhones, where we know it works with models as far back as the original iPhone. Well sometimes when I use the compression setting, it turns the video pink, but I want to say 90% of the time it's because I have broadcast safe filters on the original video and removing them and recompressing fixes it. But sometimes it doesn't fix it. The setting is quote:File Extension: m4v And here is an example of what it is doing to it as a before and after. I would ditch the preset, except that when it works, the files work with the iPhone 1 and we have had clients complain about it not playing on their iPhones with other settings. What could be causing this? 
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So I'll just throw this out here... Anyone doing post prod work on Windows? We are moving away from Mac/FCP and onto Windows/Premiere, and although this isn't my call (or even my project), I'm trying to help by finding hardware vendors who build post prod-type Windows workstations. The offerings by Dell, HP, etc. apparently aren't looking so great. Boxx Computers (http://boxxtech.com) was mentioned to me, and I think we're looking more towards an outfit like that. Anyone know of similar vendors?
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Fourteen posted:So I'll just throw this out here... Anyone doing post prod work on Windows? I've worked with some BoxxTech machines while consulting a 3D graphics firm and they are well built, but are really just off the shelf parts with a warranty and custom case. The Dell and HP workstations are more suited for the task than the consumer crap or business lines. Here is a link to the current qualified machines and configurations for Avid's line up, which should give you a better starting point than poking around the OEM's websites http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/supportf...IN_v6_10_17.pdf
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Echoing this, I've had good experiences with Avid workstations from HP.
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The last time I worked with Premiere on a PC was when CS4 came out. It ran pretty horribly until we upgraded to Windows Vista 64 Bit, then it was alright and only crashed once a day. The Vista 64 bit machines were built to specs by one of our editors, so I assume they knew what they were doing, but who knows. Premiere on my Mac runs pretty fine.
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Just used Premiere CS3 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine (that's 5 years old). Worked just fine. Not a single crash.
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Thanks for the suggestions. I know most of the boutique shops just use off-the-shelf parts, but I've been told that most of the Dell's and HP's don't have motherboards with the right amount and/or type of PCI express slots for what we need. As for Premiere running on Windows, I am sure things are much better since the CS3/CS4 days. I've been told we're waiting on CS6 anyway, which is due out around NAB in April.
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If you need that many more PCIe slots than a Dell or HP workstation class computer can provide, then you should look at something like this: http://www.cubix.com/content/gpu-xpander-0
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Fourteen posted:So I'll just throw this out here... Anyone doing post prod work on Windows? So, I know it's not necessarily Post work, but we run a newsroom on GrassValley Aurora/Edius systems. It takes a while to get things running smooth but a full SAN based workflow ends up being cheaper than an Avid system as long as you can get people to change their loving brains to not work the Final Cut way and conform to the quirks of the system. You can run all of your edit systems on your own hardware, you just have to buy the SAN/conform/management type machines from them and it's all win2k3 or 2k (and our ingest is on xp embedded whee) things. We're personally running on Dell OptiPlex 990 workstations. Way better than multi-thousand dollar turnkey systems if price is an option and you have sysadmins/helpdesk that can maintain and set up the rooms.
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I edit exclusively on Windows machines running Avid. When I've worked in an office, it's been on HP machines, which I've been very happy with, and my home machine is a self-built "DIY8 Hotrod" from Videoguys.com with a GeForce 570 instead of a Quadro for $400+ more dollars. It took a little more tweaking to work, but it's actually even faster than a certified machine once it's all configured, and it plays Skyrim like a mofo.
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3:2 pulldown question! I'm in a bit of a bind. I've never handled any "adding pulldown to 23.976 footage" before. But we've let a bunch of people go at our company and voila...thrown into the fire. We shot some commercials in 23.976 because they were for the web. Now they want to air them locally and I have to add pulldown to them. As far as I know I'm just pulling them into AE and changing the render settings to have 3:2 pulldown. Is there any specific reason for upper field over lower field and are any phases preferable over another? I've tried calling Comcast Spotlight (where the media buy is happening), but they've yet to return my call. help!
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BonoMan posted:Is there any specific reason for upper field over lower field and are any phases preferable over another? EDIT: If you just add pulldown to the complete spot, the phase probably doesn't matter. If you would have to edit your output into other footage, you'd have to match the phase to that. FLX fucked around with this message at Mar 1, 2012 around 17:21 |
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Interlaced HD is always upper field. I've had good luck adding the correct pulldown cadence in compressor. This thread has the info you neeed: http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1070377 After effects works well too, but I often just run batches through compressor.
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CurlyFries posted:Interlaced HD is always upper field. I just googled this and apparently it's not always the case, but I'm struggling to find a HD format that is lower field first. Any ideas?
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I have a really basic question about using Adobe Premiere. I want to cut out a specific person from a video. For example- I have a video showing 4 people dancing, but I just want to cut out one specific dancer and move them into their own separate .avi file. How would I go about doing this in Premiere?
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melon cat posted:I have a really basic question about using Adobe Premiere. I want to cut out a specific pers n from a video. For example- I have a video showing 4 people dancing, but I just want to cut out one specific dancer and move them into their own separate .avi file. How would I go about doing this in Premiere? There is an effect called four-point garbage matte (also 8 and 16 point I think). You can create a mask with it, that will hide everything around it and show black instead, or whatever layer is underneath the track. It won't be beautiful but it's easy and quick.
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Just installed my EVGA GTX 680 thinking I was going to run Da Vinci Resolve Lite for video color correction. As it turns out you need 2 cards to run Da Vinci fully. Not in SLI. One card is the dedicated display card and the other a dedicated CUDA processor. It'll run with one card but will not perform to full capacity. drat it. Will have to run some test renders to see how much better it performs than my old 5870.
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Yuns posted:Just installed my EVGA GTX 680 thinking I was going to run Da Vinci Resolve Lite for video color correction. As it turns out you need 2 cards to run Da Vinci fully. Not in SLI. One card is the dedicated display card and the other a dedicated CUDA processor. It'll run with one card but will not perform to full capacity. drat it. Will have to run some test renders to see how much better it performs than my old 5870. On a side note, a friend of mine just got a full on Resolve system with that nice Wave Panel and  ...that thing is fun to play around with.
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Yuns posted:Just installed my EVGA GTX 680 thinking I was going to run Da Vinci Resolve Lite for video color correction. As it turns out you need 2 cards to run Da Vinci fully. Not in SLI. One card is the dedicated display card and the other a dedicated CUDA processor. It'll run with one card but will not perform to full capacity. drat it. Will have to run some test renders to see how much better it performs than my old 5870. Honestly, if you're not doing R3D, 2K+ or using the noise reduction, you don't really need a CUDA card for Resolve. FAKE EDIT: Lite only supports 1 GPU, 1080 resolution, and no noise reduction: http://www.blackmagic-design.com/pr...esolve/compare/
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Is there any good way to add 3:2 pulldown with software? We have two computers with two Kona cards, and usually just convert it bay to bay through the hardware and looks great. But sometimes one of the edit bays is in use. After Effects is completely possible, but is there anything out there that does it better? I've read that Shake can do it too pretty well.
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This may be exceedingly obvious, but is there any particular reason Autodesk's Smoke re-releases have been Mac-exclusive? I assume it's something to do with IFF/S coming from Linux, but can anyone elaborate? (Posted in the general stupid/small questions megathread, got pointed here)
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| # ? Apr 20, 2012 02:46 |
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I'm in the market for a consumer video/audio editor to use with my Canon VIXIA HF R20. It's native output format is AVCHD. Needs to be compatible with Windows 7 x64. Not wanting anything terribly complicated, but something that I can edit home videos, etc. with. I'd like it to be able to encode to a fairly wide variety of formats, including H264. Any suggestions you guys have would be very helpful. Thanks!
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Prefect Six posted:I'm in the market for a consumer video/audio editor to use with my Canon VIXIA HF R20. It's native output format is AVCHD. Needs to be compatible with Windows 7 x64. Pay options would be: Avid Studio http://www.avid.com/US/products/Avid-Studio Premiere Elements http://www.adobe.com/products/premi...l?promoid=DINTR Free: Lightworks http://www.lightworksbeta.com/
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Cross post from the other thread. Have you guys had issues with Media Composer 5 and Active Directory accounts on a Mac? I am running MC5.5 on a couple of Mac Pros on SL, and when I try to launch it with an AD account, it can't find the shared users directory, so it crashes out. The best I can tell, it is because the file path is hard coded to be a relative path (one level up from user home), and my AD plugin makes it /Users/local/ADS/$userhome. Local users (both standard and admin) work fine.
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How good is Lightworks, really? Pros/Cons to stuff like FCP, other than being free?
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thehustler posted:How good is Lightworks, really? I honestly don't know, but I know that it has been in pretty heavy development, and it is based on a formerly commercial product. I'd imagine it is between the consumer versions of Premiere and Avid/Pinnacle and their pro line. I am not an editor, so I am the wrong person to ask about the ins and outs (  ) of all the different platforms.
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Prefect Six posted:I'm in the market for a consumer video/audio editor to use with my Canon VIXIA HF R20. It's native output format is AVCHD. Needs to be compatible with Windows 7 x64. I use Sony Vegas Pro as my primary NLE. Although I have a full Adobe CS5.5 license and use AE, I don't use Premiere Pro much.
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Yuns posted:Another alternative is Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 and Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11 Production Suite ($99 and $129). I read somewhere that it doesn't play well with x64 architecture, has that been your experience or do you know?
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Vegas Pro works great with x64 architecture but I haven't tried the Movie Studio HD versions. A quick google shows that some people are having issues on x64 systems that require some work arounds. Try out the trial version and see how it works for you. http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials Yuns fucked around with this message at Apr 26, 2012 around 01:45 |
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Compressor is annoying me pretty bad and I can't find a solution. Hopefully someone here can help me with this: I'm exporting 1920 x 1080 footage out of Final Cut Pro, not self-contained, to then put into Compressor and make an m2v using the Best Quality 90-Minute setting. After I do this, I get a thin green border around my m2v video. You can see it faintly here, and here's a close up. I looked into this a bit on Google, and apparently this happens when the dimensions aren't divisible by 16. But all my dimensions are divisible by 16. So I'm not sure what is causing this. And, I've done this many times before and never ran into this problem. This might be completely unrelated, but about a week ago, FCP7 crashed on me, and I had to Force Quit out. When I went back in, my Timeline and Browser and all that weren't sized how I like them. It was like when you open FCP7 for the very first time. But all my footage was fine and everything. Is it possible FCP7 reverted to some weird default setting that is causing the thin green border in the m2v? Because that's really the only thing that possibly could've changed my settings.
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codyclarke posted:Compressor is annoying me pretty bad and I can't find a solution. Hopefully someone here can help me with this: Your output framesize might be 1920x1080, but is your footage in your sequence at 100% and also 1920x1080. I've had stuff that's like a pixel off that causes that problem. Maybe you have image and wireframe turned on, and you accidentally hit the arrow key and shifts your 1080 image over a pixel. Or the video is not exactly 100% so not filling up the full frame. My solution was to either fix it in the motion tab, or put a slug or black behind it on V1. I'd try it on a small section first to see if that does it.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2012 02:52 |
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Astro7x posted:Your output framesize might be 1920x1080, but is your footage in your sequence at 100% and also 1920x1080. I've had stuff that's like a pixel off that causes that problem. Maybe you have image and wireframe turned on, and you accidentally hit the arrow key and shifts your 1080 image over a pixel. Or the video is not exactly 100% so not filling up the full frame. My solution was to either fix it in the motion tab, or put a slug or black behind it on V1. Image and Wireframe was on, so that could be possible. I tried adding a slug to V1, moving the footage to V2, and in Motion changing the scale of both to 102, but the problem is still occurring. Is there something else I should be altering? Also, looking closer, I can see that the green line only appears on the Top, Left, and Bottom sides of the frame. The right side is fine. Hope that helps.
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Instead of adding a slug try adding a color solid (like pink or something) and see if that shows through on playback.
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