| | | | Re: Looks 3 keeps crashing Final Cut Pro 7
by Kenny Powerass on Sep 3, 2012 at 11:21:28 pm
in the Magic Bullet Suite Forum
I just want to add to the chorus of frustration. Having the same problem.
Sometimes I get a warning sign in that Looks will open, but the preview window is black and I can't get the pop-up sidebars to appear.
It doesn't matter if I'm using a new, b | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Timothy Gassen on Sep 3, 2012 at 5:59:11 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
Many thanks for your thoughts, Gerry!
I've had to use Avid and now FCP for specific productions, but Media 100 (on the PC side) is by far the most productive NLE I've ever used. I really hope I can avoid having to build a FCP system - there is not | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Gerry Condez on Sep 3, 2012 at 5:15:43 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
Hi Tim,
As a long time Media100 user, I still prefer to use it because it easy, fast and hardly encountered problems unless you screw up yourself. But now we see more people using cool easy film FX and would like to use plugins which are common l | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Floh Peters on Sep 3, 2012 at 8:56:43 am
in the Media 100 Forum
[Timothy Gassen] "And since third-party apps like AE and Magic Bullet can't run inside Media 100, I'm interested to hear how users here are round-tripping files for FX work out and back in to the latest Media 100. "
Media 100 does include an expor | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Timothy Gassen on Sep 2, 2012 at 8:24:14 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
Thank you, all, for sharing your thoughts with me.
Gary, when you wrote, "You'll be able to use Boris with some cool fx but requires a lot of rendering, learn FCX instead." -- did you mean "learn After Effects instead" or that you prefer Final Cut | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Marcus Warren on Sep 1, 2012 at 1:30:02 am
in the Media 100 Forum
Greetings. I have used Media 100 for about three years now, so I am not as knowledgeable as others on this list, but I will try to help where I can.
Do I think that M100 will survive for the foreseeable future? My short answer is "yes" but the guy | | | | |
| | | | Re: old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Gerry Condez on Aug 31, 2012 at 6:31:42 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
Hi Timothy,
You'll probably be happy again with the HD Suite, but same feeling you'll have like the old one, just happy. They made it easy so not much changes except its in HD. haha! Well its fast after all your clips are in the bin but if you ne | | | | |
| | | | Re: Mac Pro performance issue
by Adam Blyth on Aug 30, 2012 at 11:51:25 am
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Yeah that is a fair point, my home windows machine was getting better results and its a gaming machine!
I have had this problem solved on the adobe forum however. It was a combination of the old (2010) Mac and magic bullet:
http://forums.adobe | | | | |
| | | | Re: FCP slow/drop frames warning
by Shane Ross on Aug 29, 2012 at 12:27:02 am
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Install the EOS Log and Transfer plugin from Canon and you can use Log and Transfer. If not, there's Magic Bullet Grinder that's pretty easy, drag and drop. MPEG STREAMCLIP takes a bit of tech know how. Or Drop them into Compressor and use the Pro | | | | |
| | | | old Media 100 user considering new Media 100
by Timothy Gassen on Aug 28, 2012 at 6:53:40 pm
in the Media 100 Forum
I've been very happy with my Media 100 on the PC side for more than a decade now (much preferred to AVID), and I'm considering building a new Media 100 system for my first foray into the world of Mac.
So I'd like to hear current users' suggestions | | | | |
| | | | Mac Pro performance issue
by Adam Blyth on Aug 28, 2012 at 12:35:34 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hi,
Specs are as follows:
2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB
OS disk: Mercury Accelsior Blade ssd (6Gbps)
SSD Scratch Disk
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
I have been looking at some benchmarking re | | | | |
| | | | Re: Terrablock 24d vs ISIS 5000
by Josh Nikon on Aug 27, 2012 at 8:20:01 pm
in the SAN - Storage Area Networks Forum
ok. good info guys.. just need some info on what ( besides crappy support from avid) makes TerraBlock better than ISIS5000..
when you work in agencies like mine.. all the high ups want to know is bullet points.. it does this.. that .. the other. | | | | |
| | | | Sony vegas Rendering - System low on memory
by Ofir Pardo on Aug 27, 2012 at 1:35:57 pm
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Hello, I am having a problem while rendering a 7 minutes video(with a lot of effect like magic bullet and stuff).
I am starting to render but it stops at about 50% with the next error:
Error occurred while creating media file. System low on memory. | | | | |
| | | | Premiere Pro CS6 Super Slow pre-render.
by John Connor on Aug 26, 2012 at 7:00:45 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
It takes forever to pre-render a 4 second clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU5AqTcvfqM&feature=youtu.be
COMPLETE TRASH.
Sony vegas does a 100X better job.
The video info is also in the video.
The only effect that is used is Mag | | | | |
| | | | Re: Soundforge for Mac.......
by Dave Haynie on Aug 26, 2012 at 3:04:03 am
in the Sony Vegas Forum
Yeah, you're still safe in may ways with ProTools. I'm sure some big studios smarted from the loss of AppleShare and the server stuff, but there are replacements. You never need as much horsepower for audio, and ProTools is Windows or Mac, so it's up | | | | |
| | | | Re: shortcuts
by Bill Davis on Aug 25, 2012 at 10:43:55 pm
in the Apple FCPX Techniques Forum
[James Ewart] "Thanks Jeremy...that's what I'd like to do. I'd like to leave P on all the time with one keystroke and let it remain so until such time as I need the magnetic timeline. For my first assembly I can do without it. When I start editing an | | | | |
| | | | Re: Magic Bullet Looks-instant crash Premiere cs5
by Joshua Van on Aug 22, 2012 at 10:10:26 pm
in the Red Giant plug-ins Forum
Yup, figured it out. It was hiding behind our program and source window. Even though it's showing you the spinning ball of death, you can still drag the program window and move it aside. You will see that magic bullet has opened up behind it. Aft | | | | |
| | | | Re: Magic Bullet Looks-instant crash Premiere cs5
by Marc Weakley on Aug 22, 2012 at 10:02:02 pm
in the Red Giant plug-ins Forum
Hi guys. Did anyone have any joy here?
I'm having the same problem and it's chewing out my editor's time trying to find a fix.
We have tried everything on our older Mac Pro 8 core and brand new i7 iMac (running CS6 on Lion 10.7.4) and every ti | | | | |
| | | | Re: Magic Bullet Looks Crashes
by Marc Weakley on Aug 22, 2012 at 9:16:21 pm
in the Magic Bullet Suite Forum
Hey John, we are having exactly the same problem so did you find a solution for this?
We have tried everything on our older Mac Pro 8 core and brand new i7 iMac (running CS6 on Lion 10.7.4) and every time - boom - crashes.
Cheers, Marc | | | | |
| | | | Plugins won't show up
by ry Bov on Aug 20, 2012 at 1:11:26 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I'm having this issue where my plugins/effects won't become available to me after I've moved the folders into the effects folder.
Not quite sure what to do or if I;m doing this properly.
effects trying to be installed are:
Action movie essen | | | | |
| | | | Re: Canon C300
by Phil Balsdon on Aug 18, 2012 at 10:42:51 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
A 32Gb card holds 80 mins of footage at 50mbps (1080p 25fps) (Cameras highest quality)
Use the Canon XF Utility to back up your cards to the computer. This completes the task in about 6 - 8 times faster than real time.
It also enables you to prev | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Plug-ins for AE / FCP
by Joseph W. Bourke on Aug 18, 2012 at 1:44:57 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
I would suggest the Red Giant plugins you mentioned. There's the Magic Bullet Suite, Trapcode Effects Suite, and Effects Suite, which will help you out with a number of your needs:
http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/products/all/magic-bullet-suite | | | | |
| | | | XH-A1 Starting to get tape-length dropouts.
by eric vinyard on Aug 18, 2012 at 4:03:57 am
in the Canon Cameras Forum
I'm ready to put a bullet in my head over this. I'm seriously considering selling the camera and getting something that isn't tape-based, but I bought the XH-A1 for its manual controls and low-light capabilities, and I don't have any idea what else i | | | | |
| | | | Re: Best Plug-ins for AE / FCP
by Tom Daigon on Aug 18, 2012 at 3:39:45 am
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
You wont get it all in one suite. Since you say you want plugins...
1. Magic Bullet Colorista . Or Color Finesse which is very nice and free in AE. Also Baselight from Film Light, though Ive never used it.
2. Nothing per see. Twitch to shake th | | | | |
| | | | Re: High Frame Rate Cinema
by Björn Engström on Aug 17, 2012 at 11:04:00 pm
in the COW - Tutorials Forum
I am stunned by this sudden interest in high frame rates.
Why are people like Peter Jackson surprised by negative reactions to the look of 48fps? Shooting at 48fps or even 120fps is just doing during production what people's home TV sets have been | | | | |
| | | | Best Plug-ins for AE / FCP
by Lili Chin on Aug 17, 2012 at 10:22:11 pm
in the Adobe After Effects Forum
Hi All,
I am looking to purchase a plug-in suite for AE and or FCP.
What I need is:
a) sophisticated color grading tool
b) generated efx. for example, I want to have a suite of plug-ins that aid in the simulation of natural disasters, suc | | | | |
| | | | Problem deinterlacing and exporting
by David Vincent on Aug 17, 2012 at 12:39:15 pm
in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum
Hi,
I'm using CS5.5 and am trying to export a 720x576 interlaced timeline into an avi file, using Magic Bullet Frames to deinterlace it. Only thing is, when I leave the export settings as they are (lower fields first) it comes out interlaced. What | | | | |
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