| | | | Building RAID on Mac Pro by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 19, 2009 at 10:46:31 pm in the Apple OS X Forum I just bought this eSata external case (http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2696&RequestTimeOut=500).
I would like to put 4x 1.5 Tb 7200 rpm SATA drives and then configure hem with disk utility in this way. 1st I create 2x 2disk Str | | | | |
| | | | Re: Importing STL subtitles in Encore by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 18, 2009 at 12:05:03 pm in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum I am doing some other tests and the issue seems to be the italian characters
à è é ò ù
All the subtitle format converters just copy the character and don't (should they?) convert them to an ANSI equivalent.
So.. How can I force Encore to ado | | | | |
| | | | Importing STL subtitles in Encore by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:32:51 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum I need to convert STL files (the client gave me) to Adobe Encore format.
As far as I know Adobe Encore uses the following...
00;00;01;20 00;00;05;10 Hello this is a subtitle
1) What character Encore uses to have the title display on 2 diffe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Old HM700 upgraded to new HM700 by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 17, 2009 at 11:21:20 pm in the JVC cameras/decks Forum No.. it was done here in Italy.
I posted this just to tell all you out there.. that.. it is possible.
He phoned his "friend" in JVC and got some beta-never-to-be-published version and worked with it. He said that after installing it he had to recon | | | | |
| | | | Re: Text generator doesn't preserve formatting by Bob Mark on Nov 17, 2009 at 10:00:53 pm in the Sony Vegas Forum Thank you for your reply. I think you are right. Luckily, the accent marks came in as they should or I would have been in big trouble. The French symbols for trademark and registered di not. Lucky, the Spanish was the same as English. I have not been | | | | |
| | | | Re: the 700 and 24p by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:49:47 pm in the JVC cameras/decks Forum Can somebody tell me if there is a difference in motion with 1/3 cameras in progressive mode compared to bigger CCD cameras? I mean... does the size of the ccd count when speaking about jitter on progressive footage?
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| | | | Re: Editing MXF video files with Premiere Pro by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:46:30 pm in the Adobe Premiere Pro Forum Cineform would be a great company.. but should lower the costs quite considerably... You cnnot spend more than 50-80 $ for a codec! Consider that Pro-Res in free on Mac
Editing MXF in Premiere (MAC) causes some problems to me. Single files play ve | | | | |
| | | | Re: The TLM 102 is here! by Jordan Wolf on Nov 16, 2009 at 2:57:34 am in the Audio Professionals Forum It was great to hear the different positions between the guitar and the microphone. Directly on the soundhole seemed a bit boxy to me. If you can apply any dynamic EQ, I think it would sound fantastic - I think somewhere around 250Hz-300Hz would be | | | | |
| | | | Re: Two Waveform Scopes Set to different by Bob Sliga on Nov 12, 2009 at 6:17:32 pm in the Apple Color Forum What I'm saying is trust the internal scopes. Thats whats rendered.
SDI out and the internal scopes are close but not exact.
Thats all I'm saying.
Kona 3, I think is the best and closest I have seen. I have seen other cards not being as ac | | | | |
| | | | Re: MXF Files...UGH... by Marcello Mazzilli on Nov 10, 2009 at 10:04:37 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum To convert (just re-wrap) MOV files into MXF.. try File Converter 1.3 here
http://www.convergent-design.com/Updates_nanoFlash.htm
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| | | | Re: Change DPX header/frame rate by Todd Jaspers on Nov 8, 2009 at 12:14:18 am in the Apple Color Forum SHAKE with Macros or NUKE with GIZMOS or newest version.
and MONKEY EXTRACT.
If your not a compositor or not used to DI, go with MONKEY EXTRACT. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Why External Monitoring? by Shane Ross on Nov 7, 2009 at 1:53:09 am in the Broadcast Video Forum [Eric Harnden] "So really it's just if you're going to TV?"
HARDLY!
[Eric Harnden] "What about film?"
A computer monitor doesn't compare to projected film at all! The same thing applies for film...same monitors.
[Eric Harnden] "Is that | | | | |
| | | | Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme Card for sale by Frank Di Bugnara on Nov 6, 2009 at 8:25:56 pm in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme
HD and SD digital and analog I/O support
The ideal solution for connecting to any camera, deck or monitor, all with the same card. DeckLink HD Extreme is the first DeckLink card to feature both SDI and analog I/O co | | | | |
| | | | Re: RED Announcement - Screw you Scarlet Wanters by Uli Plank on Nov 6, 2009 at 1:29:18 pm in the RED Camera Forum The complex situation is that optical printing would never preserve this, so DI became the norm.
But hardly any feature film is getting finished with a DI in 4K…
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| | | | Re: Light created Shadows on a Transparent Plane? by Luke di Rago on Nov 5, 2009 at 6:11:08 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I was looking for the same effect, and after thinking a while how to achieve that in AE, I've found a simple workaround:
If you make a white solid in 3D, and the shadows are projected with a light, you can use that as an occlusion pass; a white pl | | | | |
| | | | Re: HD question by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 31, 2009 at 11:05:17 pm in the Art of the Edit Forum Few considerationss...
I come from PAL world (H=576) and not from NTSC world (H=480) and I think there are differences in converting down from H=108 (pal is 1,875:1 ratio NTSC is 2,25:2)
In the article there are at least TWO things I think are | | | | |
| | | | Re: Still Store Fixed Apparently by Darin Wooldridge on Oct 31, 2009 at 5:56:39 pm in the Apple Color Forum I just checked it.
It's much better but not perfect. I still see a very slight shift looking at the scope going from live to still.
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| | | | Re: 4k - 2k transfer costs by David Battistella on Oct 30, 2009 at 9:34:53 pm in the RED Camera Forum [gary adcock] "which stock, is the DI complete for the stock at hand.
but start about $65K USD and go up very very quickly. "
Also, prep is different for a film out as there is a right (grading in log space) and and no as good way (convertin | | | | |
| | | | Re: 4k - 2k transfer costs by gary adcock on Oct 30, 2009 at 9:16:44 pm in the RED Camera Forum [David Battistella] "To vague. How long is the program, etc. "
which stock, is the DI complete for the stock at hand.
but start about $65K USD and go up very very quickly.
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| | | | Re: m2t files opening by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:21:09 pm in the Adobe After Effects basics Forum Instead of converting, try just re-wrapping. Is faster and you'll lose no quality. Try CLIPWRAP software.. It will rerap m2t footage to mov footage (keeping m2t format inside). It might be easier for AfterFX to work with it.
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| | | | Re: HD question by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:34:09 am in the Art of the Edit Forum Downconversion should work good on any software. If you have some problems here I should check my workflow. Usually going down from HD can increase detail.
Having said this I should always shoot and edit in HD when possible. Obviously if you are d | | | | |
| | | | Re: interlaced? progressive? AE workflow by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 7:17:16 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum If you send 50i (or 60i) footage to a flatscreen it has to do in-frame interpolation (between the 2 fields) but also in-time interpolation (it creates a new frame in between two normal ones). It works this way. Good (all new) LCD TV sets use a specia | | | | |
| | | | Re: Field Dominance Problem! by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 6:42:13 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum After FX "doesn't know" what you will need until you render.. so the best way of working is this...
1) Interpret correctly all your footage. You have to check that After FX "knows" what are the fields for each piece of footage. If it knows what fiel | | | | |
| | | | Re: interlaced? progressive? AE workflow by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 30, 2009 at 6:34:35 am in the Adobe Encore DVD Forum When it comes to output.. the question is not if it is flat screens or CRT, but if it is for PC or video. If it is to be played on a PC you can render progressive. If you want to make a normal video DVD (no matter what monitor) then you can choose in | | | | |
| | | | Re: Motivation Needed by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:43:59 pm in the Art of the Edit Forum When I have long repetitive jobs, where no actual creative effort is asked, I try to see it as a factory making a car. So I split up the jobs in even more repetitive steps until my job is more about optimizing, organizing, etc.. than actual editing. | | | | |
| | | | Re: Pricing for an event by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 2:33:45 pm in the Event Videographers Forum In these cases.. I always make a price for the event and the master plus a small price for every DVD (that includes box, printed cover, my time in recording it, etc).. So I would say something like... 1000 + 5 x dvd
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| | | | Re: quicktime conversion tool by Marcello Mazzilli on Oct 29, 2009 at 9:58:54 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum I always go out from FC in Pro-Res.. then I can use whatever I like to compress in whatever format.. .Like the free MPEG STREAMCLIP
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