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HD High-End
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HDCAM, XDCAM & DVCPRO HD: Some Questions Answered
Responding to questions in the Creative Cow "HD High End" forum, Cow leader and contributing editor Tim Kolb lays out key differences between Sony's XDCAM and HDCAM, as well as cameras using Panasonic’s DVCPRO HD. This look at some of the industry's hottest forums will help anyone looking to explore the world of HD production.
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Author: Tim Kolb |
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SANetworks
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Build your own affordable SAN -- that works!
Want to let everyone in your shop use the same media at the same time? The Cows Bob Zelin shares the secrets for affordable shared storage that you can build yourself, and that WORKS. Start with big, fast storage from your favorite pro vendor, then follow along. Bob even shows you a few hazards to avoid along the way.
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Author: Bob Zelin |
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| | | | for Indie Film
by Don Greening on Aug 27, 2008 at 5:06:05 pm
in the Sony CineAlta - XDCAM Forum
" No. You cannot regain colour information that's not there to begin with, but you can transcode your clips to an "I-frame" 4:2:2 codec like Apple's Pro Res or Panasonic's DVCPRO HD etc. so the colour information you do have ... | | | | |
| | | | Audio Drift
by Paul Turlick on Oct 10, 2008 at 11:01:25 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Pro Forum
Hello all- Here's the scenario. I'm digitizing DVCPro HD footage on set with a Mac Book Pro to a 1TB GRaid. All went fine on set. (Digitizing via FW I might add from a 1400 deck). Brought the footage back ... | | | | |
| | | | Archive HDV to DVCPro HD (MXF)
by Randy McWilson on Aug 13, 2008 at 4:57:02 pm
in the HDV Format Forum
threads recommended outputting to a high quality H.264, but even at high bitrates, there is still a noticeable gamma or saturation shift. Here is what I am now doing: Open a DVCPro HD project in premiere and then import the ... | | | | |
| | | | MXF implementation
by Ben Scott on Oct 10, 2008 at 3:07:42 pm
in the Apple Final Cut Server Forum
machines in a facility need MXF4QT to be able to read the MXF native files or would moving the assets through FCP server automation to proper QT files in native codecs like DVCPRO hd work better (would it recompress rather ... | | | | |
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Apple Final Cut Pro
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DVCPRO Frame Rate Converter
In this Final Cut Pro video tutorial, Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross discusses taking 60p footage shot with DVCPRO HD and slowing it down to 23.98 so that it's slow motion. Please note that this only works if you are working in a 23.98 or 29.97 timeline.
Tutorial, Video Tutorial
Author: Shane Ross |
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| | | | Direct-From-Camera Recording Quality Questions
by Osiri Sioux on Oct 9, 2008 at 9:59:46 pm
in the AJA io Forum
chroma subsampling. My first question is about using the Panasonic HVX200 with the IO HD. If I took the component signal out *while filming live* (as opposed to playing back DVCPRO HD-compressed video from the P2 card files), would the ... | | | | |
| | | | FS: Panasonic AJ-HD1400 DVCPRO HD New
by martin mehalko on Aug 25, 2008 at 6:24:08 pm
in the Classifieds, For Sale Forum
FS: Panasonic AJ-HD1400 DVCPRO HD New FOR MORE INFO AND PRICING PLEASE CALL 908-879-9590 OR EMAIL MARTIN AT WEBSITE@MCCOMINC.COM FOR A FULL INVENTORY LIST COMPLETE WITH PICTURES PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.MCCOMINC.COM | | | | |
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Apple Color
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The Forbidden Kingdom: Jackie Chan. Jet Li. FCP.
A Creative Cow Exclusive! DigitalFilm Trees Zed Saeed has helped create pioneering digital workflows built around FCP, custom-designed for large-scale productions. Their biggest challenge so far has come on The Forbidden Kingdom, an epic film partnering Jackie Chan and Jet Li for the first time -- with production and post in China, Korea, Australia, and multiple locations in the US. Heres a look at how they put it all together with FCP, Xserve, XML, Color, file-based workflows...and hard, hard work.
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Author: Zed Saeed |
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AJA Kona
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High Definition for the Road
Thanks to formats like DVCPro HD and HDV, High Definition can now be edited pretty much anywhere on just about any computer. Yeah, this is cool and you can really make your friends jealous just cutting away with your super slick laptop. But you know what's really slick? Editing Uncompressed High Definition anywhere. How about an Uncompressed editing workstation in a 25'' square box? No way? Way! Read on to find out about Wally's Traveling Box of Mystery and Intrigue...
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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Adobe Premiere basics
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LaCie Bigggest Disk F800
Creative COW leader Walter Biscardi reviews the LaCie Biggest F800 and concludes that ''.... LaCie has targeted the F800 squarely at the DV marketplace by bringing these users a large capacity unit with a very small footprint. If your workflow is primarily DV, HDV or DVCPro HD and you're looking for a lot of storage with considerable real-time functionality, this is definitely a unit to consider.''
Review
Author: Walter Biscardi |
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Adobe After Effects
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The Sonnet D800 RAID: Speed and Safety
Jeremy Garchow's business is growing. So was his storage, and the potential for disaster. SATA array are less expensive, but were they safe, even with redundancy? With the Sonnet D800 he's got a terabyte of uncompressed HD, with full protection, for a great price. Read on to see the details of his set-up, and see if SATA and the Sonnet D800 will work as well for you as it has for Jeremy.
Review, Feature
Author: Jeremy Garchow |
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Broadcast Video
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Non-fiction TV Production
We often know each other in the Cow from the problems and solutions we share with each other, and very rarely the WORK that we actually do. Allow us to introduce then, a handful of Cows involved in various aspects of non-fiction television production. This covers everything from food and fishing to creating tasteful head wounds. With over 550,000 people passing through the Cow, this is only a brief introduction, but we have to start somewhere, don't we?
Feature
Author: Tim Wilson |
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Apple Final Cut Pro
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The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ, part 1
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 1 he covers lossless QuickTimes, digitizing across timecode breaks, some of his favorite freeware add-ons, and more.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Shane Ross |
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Apple Final Cut Pro
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The Ultimate Real-world FCP FAQ, part 2
Creative Cow Leader Shane Ross is one of a very small handful of the world's most respected FCP experts. Over the course of years answering questions, he's compiled a real-world list of the questions that are truly the most frequently asked. He calls them Shane's Stock Answers. We call them the information you really need for working with FCP. In part 2 he covers HDV monitoring, editing web codecs, working with Photoshop files in FCP, and much more.
Tutorial, Feature
Author: Shane Ross |
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