| | | | Re: I know lock yer edits before you correct, but... by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 9:48:45 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Joseph Owens] "Why not just render that shot from your original COLOR proj but with a 5 second handle? "
Ah, nice of me to repeat what you already suggested! :-)
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| | | | Re: I know lock yer edits before you correct, but... by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 9:47:59 pm in the Apple Color Forum [scott tupper] "well the client wants a few changes now. I removed the cut-away shot but now I need to extend my original clip another 5 seconds. Is there anyway to avoid having to send a whole new sequence to Color just to correct one clip? "
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| | | | Re: Issues and thoughts by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 7:49:49 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum [Steven Gladstone] "1. Renders shouldn't be lost if you mute a track, so you have to hit undo to get them back, it's silly.
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That's the way it has been until FCP 7.
[Steven Gladstone] "2. Clips being linked ought to be clip based not timel | | | | |
| | | | Re: New Legal Question by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 6:54:00 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum [Mike Cohen] "And I thought all I learned was how to film shots of raw steaks for the weekly IGA donuts. "
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, steak donuts, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm with pink frosting........
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| | | | Re: New Legal Question by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 6:20:37 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum Wow, those are all great. Need to hire you as a copy writer sometime!
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| | | | Re: Video/Edit Server Solutions by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 6:04:03 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Do require a Fibre Channel solution or will an ethernet based SAN like Maxx Digital's Final Share work? We're running 6 workstations all cutting Apple ProRes HD (720 and 1080i) on 16TB of storage that can be expanded to over 100TB at any time.
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| | | | Re: Preproduction by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:43:51 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum We have some budget proposal for 13 and 15 episode series. They run about 15 pages or so. Tons and tons of line items for everything from catering to insurance to travel to insurance to props. Yep, insurance and more insurance....
The main ke | | | | |
| | | | Re: New Legal Question by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:39:07 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum Good stuff Mike!
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| | | | Re: New Legal Question by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:29:01 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum No logo, no team name, I would think you're ok. Team colors are fine since they're just red white and blue.
Just absolutely positively stay away from the official shirts / logos and don't say the full name Patriots. I would think Go Pats is pr | | | | |
| | | | Re: Fcp 7 by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:09:34 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Phillip Wright] "Has anyone had any problems opening projects from FCP 6 and editing in FCP7.
I know there were problems from 5 to 6, but how about 6 to 7"
Nope. Don't know of any problems from 5 to 6 either.
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| | | | Re: New Quad Mac pro vs. 8 core by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 4:05:34 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Stuart Ferreyra] "Unfortunately, I can't wait until next year. We need a new system now. And since I can't wait, I am going for 2008's 3.2 for the time being. "
I'll just add that we have both machines here. The 2008 3.2 and the newest 2.93. T | | | | |
| | | | Re: 2 monitors and preview? by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 1:53:12 pm in the Apple Color Forum [emre Sahin] "Yeah we have other seems where we can switch to with one GFX card, it just seems like a silly thing for Color not to run like this but, say FCP to be able to. Anyway, thanks for the help! "
To my knowledge FCP does not support 2 grap | | | | |
| | | | Re: 6k camera - - Panasonic or Sony? by walter biscardi on Sep 24, 2009 at 12:45:10 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I have one word for the EX1 and EX3 cameras. Ugh. Can't stand them or the workflow. Inferior imagery to what we get from the panny cameras. I shot a pilot using the EX1 and EX3 because the D.P. was really psyched for those cameras. Ugh. I | | | | |
| | | | Re: Export Stops by david bogie on Sep 23, 2009 at 3:37:19 pm in the Apple Motion Forum Hope you can help him Zak. We've been patiently trying to get Mark to tell us what the real issue for several days over on apple.com. We cannot get enough information to assist but we do get attitude that may be a translation or cultural issue. but o | | | | |
| | | | Re: Slo Mo issues when vignetting in Preview by walter biscardi on Sep 23, 2009 at 3:35:57 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Bob Sliga] "Is your speed change a ramp or a constant slow down? "
Constant.
[Bob Sliga] "What media format is causing this issue? "
720p/60 ProRes
[Bob Sliga] "Is this a multi-format project? "
Nope.
[Bob Sliga] "Is the is | | | | |
| | | | Re: 2 monitors and preview? by walter biscardi on Sep 23, 2009 at 3:03:52 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Alan Okey] "Honestly I don't see it impacting very many people. The only reason to use two graphics cards is if you need more than 2 computer monitors, since most good graphics cards already have dual monitor outputs."
Yep, or a rendering boost i | | | | |
| | | | Re: Old Style Video Levels Boost on FCP by walter biscardi on Sep 23, 2009 at 11:02:26 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Will Granzier] " I use 3 way color corrector for most of the correction ? "
Yep. Blacks, Mids and Highlights, you adjust accordingly.
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| | | | Slo Mo issues when vignetting in Preview by walter biscardi on Sep 23, 2009 at 10:26:58 am in the Apple Color Forum Just noticed an issue with Slo Mo shots and the Preview Tab in a Secondary Room with Color 1.5.
When you're parked on a slo-mo shot and you switch to the Preview Tab, the shot will change in the Preview and Output. It just changes to another p | | | | |
| | | | Re: Animation and camera in Motion by zak peric on Sep 22, 2009 at 1:45:00 pm in the Apple Motion Forum All is very possible. Some of the animation have not been done by moving the camera but by cleverly animating and moving groups of layers. If you want to learn more about apple motion visit my website http://embryo.me.uk/ | | | | |
| | | | Re: Creating custom time code for output by walter biscardi on Sep 22, 2009 at 12:33:32 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Petteri Evilampi] "FCP 3 was capable to output tc from timeline to firewire, but after that it did not."
To my knowledge FCP is still capable of outputting TC via Firewire. FCP 6 did this for DVCPro HD. Have not tested it in FCP 7 as I don't ne | | | | |
| | | | Re: Budget monitoring for Color by walter biscardi on Sep 22, 2009 at 12:01:37 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Franco Bogino] "My issue isn't getting Color to work, it's monitoring my grades correctly. Does anyone know if it is possible to monitor accurately through the DVI connection and Color's inbuilt image monitor? "
No. We have stated this many many | | | | |
| | | | Re: Budget monitoring for Color by walter biscardi on Sep 22, 2009 at 1:27:50 am in the Apple Color Forum [Alan Okey] "Ok then, can you explain to me just what's so appealing about going through that much work to get a 3D animation-focused monitor to properly display video? "
No clue. I trust the FSI's. Turn 'em on and go.
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| | | | Re: Budget monitoring for Color by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 9:41:42 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Alan Okey] "Seriously, can you explain to me just what's so appealing about going through that much work to get what is obviously a prepress-focused monitor to properly display video?"
Actually I believe it's designed for 3D animation work primar | | | | |
| | | | Re: Final Cut Pro 7 and Boris' RED version 4.3.4 by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 7:11:17 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Bert Delgado] "FCP people suggested to create a QuickTime movie prior to burning the DVD. The QuickTime movie is to be imported into a new Timeline and then proceed to burn the DVD.
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That's how they should be done in the first place, especiall | | | | |
| | | | Re: audio hardware setup by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 12:56:38 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Jason Brown] "I'm monitoring right now directly from my mac pro, but video monitor is HD-SDI from a Matrox MXO2. This creates a slight sync issue. "
That's what Playback Offset is for.
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| | | | Re: Budget monitoring for Color by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 12:24:41 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Franco Bogino] "but the HP Dreamcolor just turned up at a bargain, so I'm interested to know how good it really is for video. "
Just search Dreamcolor on this forum. LONG thread with pretty much everything you ever wanted to know about that moni | | | | |
| | | | Re: That Panasonic tv? by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 12:22:31 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Sean Donnelly] "The SDI board for the Panasonic plasmas is about $1500 as I recall."
More like $1700 the last time I checked. Never did understand that one, it's more than the screen itself. But you can get HDMI quite cheap now so you can run a | | | | |
| | | | Re: That Panasonic tv? by walter biscardi on Sep 21, 2009 at 2:18:51 am in the Apple Color Forum [sam White] "i'm in a split mindset between a larger panni screen or the 17" FSI. I want to accurate but my budget doesn't help. thats why the blackmagic hd appealed, it seems to rival the kona 3 on spec and beat it on price?
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| | | | Re: That Panasonic tv? by walter biscardi on Sep 20, 2009 at 11:15:46 pm in the Apple Color Forum [sam White] "There is a panasonic lcd tv that everyone seems to love and is "almost" worthy of a broadcast quality grade"
It's the Panny Pro Plasma series, not the LCD. It's TH-something11UK at this point now I believe. We have the 7, 9 and 10UK | | | | |
| | | | Re: Tangent Wave and Red plug-in by walter biscardi on Sep 20, 2009 at 3:37:44 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Jeremy Newmark] "Dear Tangent Devices, just in case you're listening, you are most certainly going to be loosing some sales with new competition coming to market like Euphonix. If you can stay ahead and offer functionality like the Red Plug-in param | | | | |
| | | | Re: Isn't there a minimum wage law? by walter biscardi on Sep 20, 2009 at 1:57:51 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum [David Roth Weiss] "I think internships are great, but real internships are setup in conjunction with schools to give college course credits. If ShowBixExpo created honest internships for college credit I wouldn't have an issue. "
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| | | | Re: LCD Sync issues by walter biscardi on Sep 20, 2009 at 1:49:10 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [ajay bhadresa] " I would use the built in audio disembedder on the monitor but the quality is really bad"
Are you feeding the audio outputs from the monitor to your speakers or just trying to use the on-board speaker? The on-board speaker is no | | | | |
| | | | Re: LCD Sync issues by walter biscardi on Sep 20, 2009 at 2:47:57 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum You will require an offset of 1 to 3 for the FSI monitors. For 720p we run 1 or 2 I think, and for 1080i I think we run 3.
This is due to the processing.
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| | | | Re: HD on IMAC by walter biscardi on Sep 19, 2009 at 3:18:56 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [peter crawford] "Can/should I use codecs like pro res, or does the imac not support these codecs?
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We're editing a feature documentary right now on both a Mac Pro and a 20" iMac. The iMac handles ProRes beautifully through our Ethernet based | | | | |
| | | | Re: I cant figure out something by zak peric on Sep 18, 2009 at 9:30:40 pm in the Apple Motion Forum Look to explain what you need to do will take a little bit more time than I have currently. never the less I love to help you. please see one of my video tutorials for animating lines in apple motion. I hope this will resolve your problem. http://emb | | | | |
| | | | Re: Please welcome Chris Poisson to the FCP forum team by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 7:53:06 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Congratulations Chris! Always great to see long time contributors get added to the herd!
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| | | | Re: Capturing HDV in FCP?? by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 2:49:04 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [christopher Griffin] "I am not sure what it was shot on. I received the tapes from a client to edit. As I stated before, the camera is playing the footage, but FC is not capturing it."
Then the camera is probably feeding a DV signal rather than t | | | | |
| | | | Re: Monitoring for Interlacing over 720p LCD HDTV by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 2:29:04 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Kai Cheong] "Hi Walter, thanks for your tips. Just to find out a little bit more about your last paragraph... Does it mean the Panny pro monitors (am looking at the 37") would make a fairly decent preview HDTV for interlacing checking? "
For HD a | | | | |
| | | | Re: Monitoring for Interlacing over 720p LCD HDTV by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 12:11:52 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum It's hard to really spot interlacing issues on a consumer level LCD HD monitor in my experience. Sometimes it's just the monitor itself can't reproduce interlaced footage very well and all you see is a mess of jaggies regardless of if your fields ar | | | | |
| | | | Re: How to get clients - Revealed by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 3:07:46 am in the Business & Marketing Forum It's pretty easy to get clients.
1 - Do really good work.
2 - Charge a fair price
3 - Build a relationship with your clients instead of milking them for every last dime on each job.
Word of mouth has built my entire business using this ex | | | | |
| | | | Re: What are your thoughts on being a Preditor? by walter biscardi on Sep 18, 2009 at 3:03:59 am in the Business & Marketing Forum [Rebecca Gillaspie] "People used to tell me that I have an "edge" over other producers because I can cut. I don't see how it's benefiting me, though.
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I teach many Producers how to edit because it's good for them to:
1 - Understand how the e | | | | |
| | | | Creating a 3D Text Fly In by COW Articles on Sep 17, 2009 at 11:49:03 pm in the Apple Motion Forum In this video tutorial series, Creative Cow leader Zak Peric demonstrates creating a 3D text fly in using Apple Motion. | | | | |
| | | | Apple Motion | Painting with Apple Motion
Painting in Final Cut can be a lot of fun without the mess. This tutorial by Contributing Editor Stephen Smith showcases the new paint feature of Apple Motion. Learn how it can be used to create a brush stroke across your video. So enjoy the great tips in this video tutorial, Painting with Motion. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith |
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In this Apple Motion tutorial Ben Scott shows you how to create a TV screen effect inside Apple Motion. This is part four of a series that can be found in the Creative COW Final Cut Studio Tutorials Podcast. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Ben Scott |
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| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro | Final Cut Studio 3 is here, and all is good!
Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, likes to live for danger. He installed a major software upgrade mid-project, with virtually no preparation, just to see what would break. Lo and behold, it all worked! And the more Jiggy works with it, the better he's liking it. Join him in this Creative COW, Real-world, Real-time Report on Final Cut Studio 3. Review Author: Jiggy Gaton |
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| | | | Apple Motion | Creating Customized Motion Templates
If you thought the pre-built templates that came with Motion were cool, how about building your own? This Apple Motion video tutorial by CreativeCow.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith will show you what you need to know to create your own custom Motion templates. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith |
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| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro | Get Your FCP Timelines in Motion with Final Cut Studio
Having both FCP and Motion in Final Cut Studio means more options for effects creation with your video projects -- and FCS integration makes it easy to work with them together. Having Motion projects sitting on your FCP timeline even helps keep your projects organized! Our man in Nepal, Jiggy Gaton, shows just how easy it can be to take advantage of it all. Tutorial Author: Jiggy Gaton |
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| | | | Apple Motion | Creating a Hologram
Looking to create your own holographic effect? Let CreativeCOW.net Contributing Editor Stephen Smith show you how. This Apple Motion video tutorial will teach you what you need to know to create a hologram effect. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith |
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| | | | Apple Motion | Motion Templates 101
Motion templates are a great feature that can get you great results in no time. This video tutorial from CreativeCOW leader, Stephen Smith will go over the fundamentals so working with templates is easy. Tutorial, Video Tutorial Author: Stephen Smith |
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| | | | Apple Motion | Making 3D Text
When Motion3 was released and after the initial excitement had died down, it became obvious that there were a few features that hadn't made the release. One of the first to be highlighted by the many forum posts was the lack of 3D text. In this short tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Peter Wiggins gives you some help in building 3D text in Motion. Tutorial Author: Peter Wiggins |
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| | | | Apple Final Cut Pro | Fast Flowing Montages for FCP & Motion
Alongside such compositing projects as "The Lord of the Rings" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Roger Bolton designs "CoreMelt Visual Effects" for Final Cut Pro and Motion. They take advantage of Apple's core video technology for amazing high-quality, real-time performance. This tutorial shows you how to harness that power to solve an age-old problem: how to quickly and creatively create image montages. Best of all, you'll find links to free effects filters, exclusively available to Cow readers! Tutorial, Feature Author: Roger Bolton |
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| | | | Broadcast Video | South Park: TV's Longest Week
An animated show that completes an entire episode, from writing to air, in only six days? Delivered to the network with only minutes to spare? Meet the producers and editors of South Park, winner of 3 Emmys, a Peabody Award for Excellence and many more, as they take you inside the tools and technologies enabling one of the most pressure-packed workflows imaginable. People / Interview Author: Tim Wilson |
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| | | | Telestream Episode | Telestream Episode Pro
Recently, Creative COW leader and business owner Walter Biscardi needed a very flexible and fast compression tool that also provided extremely high quality end products for his clients. Oh, and it needed to be easy to use. Enter Telestream's Episode and Episode Pro. In this review, he's using Episode Pro 5.1.1 and he'll explain the differences between the two at the end of this article. Review Author: Walter Biscardi |
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| | | | final cut help tutorials podcast Compressor - Deinterlacing This Final Cut Studio tutorial covers deinterlacing at best quality for effects work. Ben Scott shows how to use Compressor to improve the deinterlacing process and further effects work like tracking in Apple Motion. | | | | |
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