| | | | Digital Cine Lenses by Brad Froman on Aug 17, 2009 at 6:20:10 pm in the Panasonic HVX - HPX (P2) Forum Has anyone out there used the Canon HDEC 2/3" prime lenses? I will be shooting a feature in a hot, dusty climate -- most likely on a Panasonic HPX 3000 -- and would rather avoid using the ProAdaptor 35. Or if not Canons, any other ideas? What rent | | | | |
| | | | Digital Cine Lenses by Brad Froman on Aug 17, 2009 at 6:18:32 pm in the Cinematography Forum Has anyone out there used the Canon HDEC 2/3" prime lenses? I will be shooting a feature in a hot, dusty climate on a Panasonic HPX 3000 and would rather avoid using the ProAdaptor 35. Or if not Canons, any other ideas? What rental houses are offe | | | | |
| | | | Re: Article: Apple BluRay Support by eric pautsch on Aug 17, 2009 at 5:04:19 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Something to add here. Unless you plan to replicate Blu Ray for mass distribution, BD authoring seem irrelevant to me these days.
If its a looping trade show or a one time shot I'm suggesting more and more to clients to playback from this medi | | | | |
| | | | digital cinema desktop not playing by Matt Cohn on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:37:42 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Hi All,
The Digital Cinema Desktop Preview function in FCP was working fine, but now all I'm getting is audio with a black screen. Does anybody know what the problem might be and what I have to do to correct this?
Thanks,
Matt | | | | |
| | | | Re: virtual VTR by Joe Huggins on Aug 17, 2009 at 1:36:50 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Bouke,
That is fantastic! I can't wait for our editorial staff to put that to work. If this works like the demo shows, this solves one of the biggest problems that has plauged FCP for people who relink digital media in a tapeless environment. Appl | | | | |
| | | | Chroma key scale lock by Neil Weaver on Aug 17, 2009 at 12:22:32 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Hi all,
We are doing a fashion shoot next week on green screen where we are digitally mocking up a catwalk for the models to walk down.
I think it would be nice to have a slight pull out on camera as the models approach the camera, but this wi | | | | |
| | | | Re: Article: Apple BluRay Support by walter biscardi on Aug 17, 2009 at 11:03:50 am in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Jeff Handy] "The licensing is ridiculously expensive - untouchable for small businesses for a distribution format."
Not through NetBlender's DoStudio. We're a small shop (3 employees, 3 edit suites) and have been doing BluRay authoring / distrib | | | | |
| | | | Re: Skin by walter biscardi on Aug 17, 2009 at 10:57:24 am in the Apple Color Forum [Rafael Metz] " When sitting in telecine or tape2tape I saw often the colorist using a denoiser in the da Vinci system or on the optical way putting some SoftFX or Blackpromist in the optical line of the film scanner"
You can download the Nattress | | | | |
| | | | Re: Panasonic AJHD1200A sound capture by walter biscardi on Aug 16, 2009 at 6:52:56 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Carly DeLora] "I herd through the grape vine that there is a way to use the devise to add the sound without having to re-capture. Is this true? If so, How?"
I have never heard of this. I owned that deck for 2 years and then traded it in for the | | | | |
| | | | Re: Resolution for HD in PAL format by walter biscardi on Aug 16, 2009 at 12:21:21 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Those specs depend wholly on what your deliverable will be. Generally PAL is 50i or 25p for HD. Either 720 or 1080.
What does the network / client request?
SD Widescreen is generally not acceptable as HD because it's not HD.
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| | | | Re: Progressive render for DVD? by Mike Kujbida on Aug 16, 2009 at 12:13:06 am in the Sony Vegas Forum Interlace flicker is usually caused by the images being far too large.
If your stills came from a digital camera and are something like 4000 x 3000 pixels in size, use Photoshop or a free app like IrfanView to reduce them a lot.
The rule of thumb i | | | | |
| | | | Re: AJA iO HD > FCP > FW400 Drive? by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:32:50 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [T. John Wise] "Approximately how much storage space is needed for 100 minutes of HD Prores content? "
what size? What frame rate? What resolution of ProRes? All that factors into the equation.
Digital heaven has a free widget for doing thes | | | | |
| | | | Re: Beach Ball... Hierarchy? or ProResHQ? by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:31:31 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Charles Breiner] "I suspect one of two things either, the ProRes HQ is too high a resolution for FCP to handle, or I have all the media stored in a single folder and that the system needs more of a hierarchy with the media broken up better in order | | | | |
| | | | Bad quality after reducing noise by Jurgen Willocx on Aug 15, 2009 at 7:49:19 pm in the Adobe Audition, Soundbooth Forum Hello,
I have problem when reducing the noise in Soundbooth CS4 of an interview I made with my new ZOOM H2. The voice is turned into very digital and I hear a dubbed voice in the background.
Even on the lowest reduce and reductions -0- setting | | | | |
| | | | Re: looking for Gary Adcock's paper on Pro Res by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 6:55:21 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum [Phil Yunker] "I'm trying to figure out if exporting to pro res HQ is worth it. I'm working with footage that was shot in HDV(JVC) and captured to DVCPRO720p final output will be to 1080i HDCAM SR for Broadcast. "
Short answer is no. ProRes HQ is | | | | |
| | | | Re: Rolling Shutter? by Wayne Orr on Aug 15, 2009 at 6:54:49 pm in the Sony DV Forum It won't be much consolation to you, Lisa, but it's a problem with pro cameras also. It's gotten to the place where most scripted shows using digital won't allow strobes flashes for effects.
Wayne Orr, SOC | | | | |
| | | | Re: Tracking problems im going to cry :( by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 5:16:24 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum I couldn't watch the quicktimes because I'm in iPhone with slow connection.
First, I'd try Mocha AE for tracking - gives better results and is bundled with CS4.
If that's not an option: try smoothing keyframes using either an expression or the | | | | |
| | | | Re: incompatable compostion, open gl, final render by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 3:09:10 pm in the Adobe After Effects Forum Without knowing the details about your comps, it's hard to tell how your comps could be optimized. But optimizing and rendering proxies etc. also takes time so for this time you might be best off just hitting the render button.
It does sound like | | | | |
| | | | Storyboard app for iPhone by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 1:12:59 pm in the Apple iPhone Forum It looks like this might be a great tool for on-the-road storyboarding.
http://vimeo.com/channels/hitchcock
Barend
Raamw3rk - digital storytelling and visual effects | | | | |
| | | | Storyboard app for iPhone by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 1:12:59 pm in the Cool New Tools Forum It looks like this might be a great tool for on-the-road storyboarding.
http://vimeo.com/channels/hitchcock
Barend
Raamw3rk - digital storytelling and visual effects | | | | |
| | | | Re: Question: Laws with using motion presets by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 12:19:00 pm in the Apple Motion Forum You mean you want to change part of a preset for a television show? Absolutely you can do that, you can use it straight up as is if you want. Those are there for you to use as you see fit.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, | | | | |
| | | | Re: Render Cancelled RED footage by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 12:18:17 pm in the Apple Color Forum First thought would be to split your project into two projects. Keep the first half that rendered just fine, but save off a second project with only the second half of the project that doesn't render and see if Color will render that.
The new col | | | | |
| | | | Unexpected windfall! by walter biscardi on Aug 15, 2009 at 11:53:57 am in the Business & Marketing Forum Here's a new one I got this morning. I'm not even sure how to read this.
peter has sent you a message on peter
Attention;
This is to officially inform you that your fund has been duly approved and gazette for you via ATM Visa Card after d | | | | |
| | | | Re: importing video files by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:11:35 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum Is your AE 4 on the same machine? It sounds like a missing codec. QuickTime is a wrapper (.mov) that can use a wide variety of codecs, not all of them standard, or even crossplatform. Sounds like your camera records to some codec that needs to be ins | | | | |
| | | | Re: 3D Match move dilemma by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 8:00:29 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum You can basically convert your foreground layer to a 3D layer, and parent it to AE's 3D camera. You'll have to manually position and orient the layer relative to the camera, since your cam will not be in default position anymore.
Raamw3rk - d | | | | |
| | | | Re: AE claims it is missing files but it is not. by Barend Onneweer on Aug 15, 2009 at 7:52:21 am in the Adobe After Effects Forum My first thought would be faulty RAM or a codec error, probably the last.
If you check the frames where it usually hangs and delete one layer at a time to see if it will render then - you might find the problem layer. You might be able to convert | | | | |
| | | | Re: vegas cannot render by Stephen Mann on Aug 15, 2009 at 5:32:04 am in the Sony Vegas Forum "Low Memory Errors" almost always mean that your dynamic RAM is too small. It is also likely being managed by Windows (the default). This is an anachronism from the days that a big hard-disk was 1Gb and 512Mb of RAM was huge. I recommend that you | | | | |
| | | | Re: You Too?!? by walter biscardi on Aug 14, 2009 at 11:58:47 pm in the Business & Marketing Forum [Mark Suszko] ""Fragile'" Sounds Italian. You should plug it in, and put it in the front window. It is, after all, a "major award"."
Oh you should see what it looks like from out here!
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, | | | | |
| | | | Is There Full Screen Preview in FC7? by John Willis on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:17:00 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum Hi Guys,
I use to be able to do full screen preview by checking Digital Cinema Desktop Preview under view and then just hit the 'Y' key for full screen display...but this does not work with the new FC7.
Any suggestions?
John | | | | |
| | | | Advice on Mixing SD and HDV formats by Laura Kingwell on Aug 14, 2009 at 3:59:51 pm in the Apple Final Cut Pro basics Forum Hi
I am editing a project which was shot 1080i50 on a Sony Z1 camera and am editing natively in HDV using the appropriate HDV easy set up.
I now also need to capture some archive footage which will be on a variety of formats DV, DVCAM and Dig | | | | |
| | | | Re: Indie DI with Color, questions.. by Shawn Larkin on Aug 14, 2009 at 3:35:33 pm in the Apple Color Forum I agree completely.
Digital projection has surpassed film projection in the last few years. The good 1080p, 2k, and 4k projectors can faithfully reproduce what you would see on a high end monitor--only much bigger. Since the better projectors ca | | | | |
| | | | Re: Indie DI with Color, questions.. by Patrick Inhofer on Aug 14, 2009 at 3:23:43 pm in the Apple Color Forum [Shawn Larkin] "So I think it is better to achieve a perfect grade in rec709 space, which will be perfectly replicated on tape masters and DCI projection masters. This way any decent digital projection or display will look spot on."
Veering slight | | | | |
| | | | Re: A little OT: Locking files on our Final Share system by walter biscardi on Aug 14, 2009 at 2:49:54 pm in the Maxx Digital Forum instead of locking it, can't you make the folder Read Only.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author.
Credits include multiple Emmy, Telly, Aurora and Peabody Awards.
Owner, Biscardi Creative Media featuring HD | | | | |
| | | | Re: Indie DI with Color, questions.. by Shawn Larkin on Aug 14, 2009 at 1:44:08 pm in the Apple Color Forum Today, any decent lab should be able to work with lin dpx and do an inverse LUT.
The Efilm guys use Technicolor, which has this stuff down. I use FotoKem and they are excellent. As Nick points out, there are some gamma shifts because film cannot | | | | |
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In this article, CreativeCOW leader George Loch reviews Photoshop for Digital Video: Creative Solutions for Professional Results by Mike Gondek, Archie Cocke, and published by Focal Press, 272 pages, September 2004, ISBN: 0240806336, and begins with "Wherever you are in videography food chain, chances are that you are dealing with graphics, text and pictures to some degree. If you have had any experience with these items in production you are most likely aware of the potential traps and snares they can create. Photoshop for digital video is a great resource for instruction in dealing with these issues. Read on to find out why." Review Author: George Loch |
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CreativeCOW leader Timothy Allen takes an in depth look at Jay Rose's Audio Postproduction for Digital Video and determines that every serious non-linear editor should have this book. Read why Timothy, who is a multiple Emmy award winner as well as an accomplished musician, gives this new book in the CMP Books DV Experts Series such high marks. Review Author: Timothy Allen |
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