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Tom BrooksTom Brooks
COW member since June 7th 2004 from Kalamazoo
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System Details: Final Cut Studio2 6.0.5, QT 7.6,G5 Quad 2.5, Kona-LHe 5.1, 4.5GB RAM, Nvidia GeFore 7800-GT, G-RAID 1TB FW800 x2, OS 10.5.6. Reference monitors are a SD Sony PVM and a Panasonic TH37PH9UK plasma alternately fed by the component output of the Kona. 6TB RAID-5 built from an EnhanceBox E8-ML, Seagate 750GB Barracuda SATA drives, Highpoint 2322, and Highpoint Mini-SAS to Multilane cables.

Hobbies and Interests: Fishing, exploring, drawing, cycling, fixing things.




Favorite Forums:

•   Apple Final Cut Pro   •   Adobe After Effects   •   AJA Kona   •   Apple DVD Studio Pro   •   Apple Motion   •   Audio Professionals   •   Compression techniques

My Recent Posts:

Re: Keynote, FCP and bad Quality by Tom Brooks on Nov 6, 2009 at 1:37:14 pm
Re: Is 1280 1248...? by Tom Brooks on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:42:37 pm
Re: Interlaced PAL DV to progressive 1280x1024 workflow advice? by Tom Brooks on Nov 5, 2009 at 10:31:01 pm
Re: Prores prob by Tom Brooks on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:57:27 am
Re: FCP Export for DVD Authoring and Encoding House by Tom Brooks on Nov 3, 2009 at 3:49:15 am
Re: OT: End of Prosumer Camcorders??? by Tom Brooks on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:28:57 am
Re: Archiving footage for PC based clients by Tom Brooks on Oct 26, 2009 at 12:21:29 pm
Re: Why can't AE users just buy the FCP ProRes Codec?! by Tom Brooks on Oct 26, 2009 at 12:17:52 pm
Re: ProRes codecs on machine without FCP by Tom Brooks on Oct 25, 2009 at 3:13:48 am
Re: Getting a solid 10fps during playback using Animation codec by Tom Brooks on Oct 24, 2009 at 1:58:14 pm
Re: Good Chroma Key Possible Without Extra Plugins ? by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 7:49:48 pm
Re: MOV file size too big by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 3:18:45 pm
Re: MOV file size too big by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 2:08:50 pm
Re: MOV file size too big by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 12:33:32 pm
Re: FCP-QT to Flash-best practices by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 12:28:02 pm
Re: Incorporating FLASH animation in P2 workflow by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 12:08:24 pm
Re: Good Chroma Key Possible Without Extra Plugins ? by Tom Brooks on Oct 21, 2009 at 10:35:17 am
Re: Good Chroma Key Possible Without Extra Plugins ? by Tom Brooks on Oct 20, 2009 at 12:36:21 pm
Re: where can I convert P2 23.98 into 29.97 correctly? by Tom Brooks on Oct 14, 2009 at 5:44:27 pm
Re: where can I convert P2 23.98 into 29.97 correctly? by Tom Brooks on Oct 13, 2009 at 8:59:41 pm

My Tagged Posts

Re: MOV file size too big
by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 8:19:26 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Sorry I'm not giving you much to go on. Busy day. PNG, PhotoJPEG, Motion JPEG are all good codecs for near master quality. PhotoJPEG at 75% is a sweet spot. PNG can have an alpha channel. Then...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nigel Askew

Re: MOV file size too big
by Tom Brooks on Oct 22, 2009 at 6:55:10 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Nigel Askew] " The files need to be compatible on pretty much any computer, so we can send data discs to clients straight from the RAID. " DVCProHD is a special codec that will not be available on...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Nigel Askew

Re: Sequence Settings for Output to DVD and Steaming Web End Use
by Tom Brooks on Aug 24, 2009 at 8:06:07 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
You can worry about that on export. For DVD, just use the presets in Compressor for DVD, particularly DVD 90 Min Best. For web, you'll need to export to the appropriate square pixel dimension. For example, DV...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Simon Morgan

Re: Render times extended?
by Tom Brooks on Aug 6, 2009 at 9:29:37 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
[Pino Catalano] "Yes, and I said yes to allow FC to change the sequence to match the clip settings. " OK, so FCP changed the sequence into this non-edit format. That's generally a problem. The pre-conversion...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Pino Catalano

Re: Render times extended?
by Tom Brooks on Aug 6, 2009 at 9:29:18 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Yes, the MP4 explains a lot. That's a delivery format, not an editing format. It's best to convert those types of clips to a standard edit format before bringing into Final Cut. A great way to do...
first tagged as a 5 COW post by Pino Catalano

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