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It means you'll be working from finished masters with mixed tracks, and you'll have to deal with transitions and mixed tracks as best as you can. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor/Colorist David Weiss Productions David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro...

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[Herb Sevush] "I understand that time spent assigning roles can pay dividends in many ways and also that using the timeline index is not laborious, however to deny that tracks have any organizational advantages whatsoever seems a bit extreme. " The thing is, nobody's saying that tracks have NO advantages....

Try this for in a sentence. Editor needed for cut-downs from episodes from a previous series. Must have experience with FC 7. MB MacPro5,1 2.8 Quad-Core, 24 GB Ram, Resolve 11 CS6, Mountain Lion...

With the intro of the 688 the used market is becoming loaded with 664's at about $3500. The 688 is mechanically a 664 w/o some extra features. If you don't need the SL6 option then a used 664 is a great buy. "I push the RECORD button and hope for...

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This is post-production magic, right? https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1000916743271567&pnref=story How did they do these: the actor jumping out from the TV screen and onto the table, the "ice bucket challenge," and the box changing wrapper as it slides down the stairs. ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus...

Creative COW member John Peter Ross cut together every piece of all the various trailers for the new Avengers pic, and come up with a nifty 7 minute clip. This is surely the best peek you'll get at the movie for a while. Clearly took a lot of work to...

Try this: offset = 40; value + toCompVec([0,1,0])*offset Dan...

If you really like your current RAID array, why don't you buy a noise suppressed rack for it? The cost would be far less than a new T-bolt array. David Roth Weiss Director/Editor/Colorist David Weiss Productions David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple...

[Noah Kadner] "A smaller developer might be more directly responsive because their volume of customers will be much smaller and in many cases their product much less complex to support." Hi Noah, I would suspect that, in hard commercial terms, most small developers can't really afford the time they put...

plz, more details! noone can answer that question... i never had this issue and i am in since resolve 7, so most likely no davinci issue i would say, but if you expect an answer, please share more infos, check in various programs, tell us where you see it (sdi,...

Sorry the links look like they expired! Here they go again: lav: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=38402640006602832072 boom: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=90210742632664692415...

Also as someone whose lived on the other side of the curtain it's reasonable to break down the various types of support we're talking about. If your Mac itself dies and you are under warranty you have a worldwide army of stores and call in support that will correct things...

High Performance uses more power and, therefore, lower battery life. So it switches to "low power" mode which does not have all the GPU capabilities. This should only happen when unplugged but could cause slower speeds or some plugins to fail. I have helped many people getting the "Low GPU"...

I couldn't download either of the clips. From your description I think iZotope RX 4 Advanced (maybe even regular old RX4) would be able to remove the beeps. It's fairly straight-forward. But it's a manual selection for every beep, so a bit time consuming. John MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz, 16 GB...

Hi John - #1. Read Creative Cow, and look at the banner ads #2. Tell your IT Director to NEVER EVER walk into your office ever again. How your IT Director allowed for such catastrophic drive failure without backup shows me that he is completely incompetent, and uninvolved with your...

Helped me too John today, thanks, Neil...

I only respond to cause trouble. John said EASY TO MAINTAIN - Nate knows very well, that Quantum is NOT easy to maintain. Nate's company - ProMax is an excellent product that is easy to maintain, as is Studio Network Solutions, Facilis, Editshare, Maxx Digital, Small Tree, Accusys, Tiger Technology,...

Just to follow up and try to work around this problem, I imported the BPAV card into Premiere Pro CS6 and it has the same issue with spanned files. Did they fix this in CC? Specifically, at the end of the import process, it throws up a warning box listing...

[Kell Hymer] "Las Vegas is home for me." That's brilliant.. Vegas in Vegas... :-) So... I've emailed Eurocom to ask about one of their P5's with the new Samsung kit and how much fruit my money tree would need to bear in order to get my hands on one.... if...

Thanks, Dave. Kind of you. - Final out put will be DVD - Trying to get everything compatible with the following: - HDV 1080 p24 - Frame: 1440 x 1080 - Pixel aspect: HD Anamorphic 1080 But for some reason, a couple of the clips ended up on the timeline...

ok, great info guys, thank you. Robin: "Well, if there is no TC and the audio isn't useable for sync, then X isn't going change anything about the task at hand." it's not magic, i know, just wondering if there was a way to create a scene-encompassing multiclip from a...

Make a mask on your horizon layer. Put the sun layer below it in the timeline. Now when you move the sun, the horizon hides it. Dave LaRonde Promotion Producer KGAN (CBS) & KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids, IA...

[David Lawrence] "I think this debate is good and I'm truly interested in your and Charlie's point of view. Apologies if my remark came off wrong." No problem here. Jerk! ---- kidding! :-) I really think this all comes down to differences in opinion. You think using a secondary to...

The Digital Anarchy plug-in works super well. I just tried it and it removed all the flickering very quickly. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to make sure this problem doesn't occur when shooting?...

.... and http://www.eurocom.com/ec/release(288)ec Now that's my kinda portable workstation !!! Desktop inside a laptop. BTW... what part of the Planet are you on Kell...? Nick... BASE1268 3...2...1...C ya...

One Library. Multiple Events, if needed....

What is cut down editing? MB MacPro5,1 2.8 Quad-Core, 24 GB Ram, Resolve 11 CS6, Mountain Lion...

[Jeremy Garchow] "Right. Something us plebs can't even comprehend." It was a joke, Jeremy. No offense intended. ;) I think this debate is good and I'm truly interested in your and Charlie's point of view. Apologies if my remark came off wrong. _______________________ David Lawrence art~media~design~research propaganda.com publicmattersgroup.com http://lnkd.in/Cfz92F facebook.com/dlawrence...

You can use the auto trace feature in Illustrator to vectorize the layers, however that still takes some work. I would suggest alternative options - there is a great plugin that works with map data directly in AE and it's only 99 bucks: http://aescripts.com/geolayers/ Tudor "Ted" Jelescu Senior VFX Artist...

Well, since it's their job to know what I want before I want it I guess I'll just have to trust their judgement. Tim...

[David Lawrence] "I manage multiple time functions every time I work. It's called "editing". ;) " Right. Something us plebs can't even comprehend....

[Nick McMahon] "Samsung had to come up with this to remain king.... 2150mbps... that is super lightning fast... if they keep going I envisage that a tele-porter is on the cards... :-)" That looks awesome! Current System: Intel i7 4930K OC'd to 4.6 GHz| Asus P9X79 Deluxe | 32GB RAM...

I'm new to after effects and i'm trying to figure out a way to repeat a motion path across multiple layers with a delay. i'm trying to get moons to revolve around a planet, so i made an ellipses mask, copied the path to the position of the moons, but...

Thanks Dan!...

I use this indispensable utility script written by Jeff Almasol: http://www.redefinery.com/ae/view.php?item=rd_GimmePropPath Dan...

It's a little more complicated than you might expect. This is one way: fadeInTime = 1; fadeOutTime = 1; cb = effect("Square - Slice up - ON/OFF ")("Checkbox"); if (cb.numKeys > 0){ n = cb.nearestKey(time).index; if (cb.key(n).time > time) n--; if (n > 0){ t = time - cb.key(n).time; if...

[David Lawrence] "That's the whole point. If you want stuff to move with primary1, put it in primary1. You don't need to use primary2. Only use primary2 is for the stuff you don't want to move with primary1. I don't see the difficulty." The difficulty is "primary 1, primary 2"....

[Mark Suszko] "If you're really just doing this more or less out of the kindness of your heart to help the institution you're working in, it still is useful to put a realistic price tag on any volunteer work you generate for them." When you hit the job market after...

[Simon Ubsdell] "Greg at Intelligent Assistance - so quick to respond, so quick to fix any bug." +1 for Greg at Intelligent Assistance. He worked directly with me to add a new feature Xto7 that benefits all FCPX users. _______________________ David Lawrence art~media~design~research propaganda.com publicmattersgroup.com http://lnkd.in/Cfz92F facebook.com/dlawrence twitter.com/dhl vimeo.com/dlawrence/albums...

Hey Guys, So I'm having a strange error in Premiere Pro - I was working on a rather large project and after rendering the set matte started appearing on my various channels. I didn't click anything or set it to enable so I'm wondering if any of you have an...

Thanks Richard. The project is 99% completed. I already presented it in class. You wrote: "For student work, you can use any work as long as your work is for a grade in a class." This is what I was initially told by "Acum" the music rights administration in my...

[Tal Mor] "I will have to change the music." Is the student project completed? For student work, you can use any work as long as your work is for a grade in a class. The point here is if you've already spent substantial time on the project and now have...

You can do it in either AE or Photoshop. In AE use the paint tool and double click the layer then set your brush settings and you can paint on the image frame by frame. In photoshop you can use the timeline to step through the footage frame by frame...

[Oliver Peters] "As a consumer, I hate it, not because it's inherently bad, but rather because a lot of companies are going to it. After awhile this all starts to add up to serious money and like your cable bill, gets to a point where you want to start cutting...

Wanted: Creative Video Tutorial and Webinar Content. Boris FX & Imagineer Systems are looking to collaborate with freelance post-production professionals who have the ability to develop high quality and creative educational content. Freelance basis - per project. Requirements: Must be be a post-production professional with minimum 5+ years experience in...

"Format" is a very nebulous term. What does it mean: codec? Media container (e.g. avi, qt, mp4) Horizontal/vertical dimensions? Pixel aspect ratio? (e.g. wide vs skinny pixels) Screen aspect ratio (e.g. 16x9 vs. 4x3) Frame rate? What are your specs for final delivery? Let's work backwards from there. Dave LaRonde...

I don't understand how the scaling is animated in the first place. Are you using keyframes? If you are, it's a snap -- just find the loop point, prerender and reimport. If it's something else, you'll have to elaborate. Dave LaRonde Promotion Producer KGAN (CBS) & KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids,...

Sounds like you'll have to adjust the text layer point size and eyeball the bevels. Dave LaRonde Promotion Producer KGAN (CBS) & KFXA (Fox) Cedar Rapids, IA...

[Mads Nybo Jørgensen] "May I correct myself as per my earlier statement on this thread: The cost of Muse CC starts from £13.33. Which is a very long way down from the 600 bugs that you were talking about. " A single App here in Germany is 24€/mth (only for...

What do you mean by "export" it. AE only renders final files to 2D video. It doesn't create a 3D file that you can import into StudioMax or Cinema4D for further refinement. Johnny Cuevas, Editor Thinkck.com "I have not failed 700 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 700...

Am doing a a video for a friend's funeral TOMORROW! (Am a long-time user of FCP - but this has me stumped.) Am working with FCP 7.0.3 PROBLEM 1) Have dropped in my clips on timeline 2) Clips are not all same format 3) Is there a quick way to...

[Jeremy Garchow] "Eschew." bless you ------------------------------------------------------------- ~ My FCPX Babbling blog ~ ~"It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools."~ ~"The function you just attempted is not yet implemented"~...

well, it kind of does - having one folder to install into is a convenience, so is the fact that my plugin folder gets backed up to dropbox. Oh well. It's not a day ruiner, just an unneeded disruption caused by sony or slate....

Hi, I had the same exact problem, Googled it and found this thread. In my comp the affected layer was a graphic I had on top of an iphone graphic layer. They layers were in the same z-space. I disabled motion blur for both layers and my comp rendered fine....

looks like i will go with the sony XDCam reader for the time being as i need to keep the time codes intact the proMax platform server that we will be setting up says i can create proxies ,how ever i feel the proxies will lose my camera time-codes and...

you don't disrupt your plugins. you are simply moving the plugin to a new folder that vegas can't see, then telling reaper where it is. try it. it's easy. and you can undo. ed System; intel i72600k 3.4GHZ, 16GB RAM, Win 7 64 bit. Vegas Pro 11 latest build, Neat...

[Mads Nybo Jørgensen] "conclude that the cloud is indeed very successful... " OK, but not nearly as successful as the Competition, who has no need to jump on subscription. (as written: AVIDs stock development f. ex. was more than 10times better over the last year…) [Mads Nybo Jørgensen] "as you...

As soon as I can, I will go into specifics. There have been 2 cases. One for repeated crashes that I contacted support for via email and received phone support within an hour of my original email. That was resolved quickly. The next has been something else, but I can't...

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Hi there, just finished the trailer of my short film "Seine Spur". Would love to hear some feedback. http://www.vimeo.com/120887527 (if you click on CC-Button you're able to see english subtitles) About the short film: It's 27mins long. It's a student film and I did this short film for my master...

Hello, I cannot find your name and license in our records. What is the reference number of your purchase? Which exact effect shows the "Trial Expired" watermark? Regards, Eberhard...

Like you I wanted to avoid using any external files for the mask. Plus this is quick and easy to tweak to get the mask you need and change if needed. It does have an encode time hit, but I imagine there is a similar if not higher hit from...

Hey John, The good news is you have some good options, all of which are solid systems and perform well. I'm with ProMAX Systems, our solution is Platform which you can check out at http://www.promax.com/platform That said, in the past I've work with and implemented SNS, Facilis & Quantum -...

any body still using retospect? with LTO DLT type of hookup been some time for me too best Ross b IIL Media Ross Byron Boughton Editor / Webmaster / Sound Designer http://www.inch.com/~bellevue/...

thanks John for your prompt reply. I helped me alot. :)...

We currently have a Rorke Galaxy Aurora 48TB SAN/8GB Fibre attached to four workstations. Our files are a combination of Panasonic P2 (720P, 4-2-2, 10bit, AVC-100), AVI, MP4, H.264, PSD, AI..... Also, the current fibre cards, (ATTO), installed in the workstations have a conflict with the Panasonic AJ-PCD35 card reader....

XAVC is .mxf, see my earlier post...

[Edward Troxel] "Please note that the "M" in the video card name means it is a "Mobile" video card. It can drop to a lower powered less compatible GPU if you do not go into the video driver settings and specify that it stay in full powered mode when Vegas...

Germantown Wisconsin, United States Broadcasting Cinematography Production jay snow Television Production Director of Photography Full Service Video Production Summary I am a people person so, to me, people always come first. You can have all the talent and skills in the world, but bad people skills will derail even the...

I've had nothing but problems with anything I tried to use from Smith Micro. The installers don't. The support was all automated responses so far. I was a little upset at BMD when I had issues using their Media Express app with the Ultra 4K box. I felt like the...

[Simon Ubsdell] "There does seem to be a view among developers who use it that the App Store model tends to keep them at arm's length from their customer base to everyone's disadvantage." Not to Apple's! Not only are they moving a ton of hardware, they're making 30% off of...

Please read the sticky at the top of the forum and include details. Perhaps your lighting was high contrast and the encoder isn't handling the edges but I can't offer anything more than a wild guess without details. Perhaps the source files were a compressed codec that encoding is making...

Ian, I had the same problem yesterday..as I called your office....I have Catalyst Browse (latest version) on 2 laptops..one is a Mac Book Pro I-7 with 10.8 (2013) and the other is new Dell I-7, both with 8gb of ram.... and they are both doing the same thing...here is the...

Sounds like you need to put in a proper key frame rate. Include both natural and forced key frames with forced being no more than 5 seconds apart (150 frames)....

I figured it out, you have to create a new version on the clip you wish to edit outside a remote grade....

Ah ha!!! Thank you!...

Well, that didn't seem to work. It is still pixelating at the same location for the rest of the shot. Here is what I used: Episode Pro 5.3.2 H.264 MOV this time 1280x720 VBR using Peak Rate Average 5000 - Peak 10,000 I am wondering about another thing that is...

Thanks, Rob! Good to know. Dangerous to not know. Film Editor, London UK www.scottclementseditor.com...

"Save As" is your friend. If you are working in the Multitrack area of Audition, then the files themselves aren't being changed if you make cuts to them, or add effects, etc. Just the session file would need to be saved, as it references the files used in the session....

The wrench....look to the wrench....

Hi CC team, What I have is a 3D model of a giant monitor like you see at football stadiums. It's a plane with a video texture applied, then the polygons were disconnected and I dropped everything into a fracture object. Next I'm using effectors to make the polygons fly...

In latest version of PPCC (8.1), I can seem to find the multi-camera editing interface inside the Program Monitor. I know the menu icon moved to the left side of the window now, but multicam options aren't showing up. Here's a snap shot of my choices. I currently have nested...

Thank you! I will try that and let you know how it turns out....

As Jonathan notes, slow down you shutter speed until you find the perfect balance. I would start at 1/120the and experiment from there (double your frame rate). Ryan Holmes www.ryanholmes.me @CutColorPost...

And all ProApps PDF manuals here for downloading. Top row is current FCPX, Motion, Compressor manuals. https://support.apple.com/manuals/#professionalsoftware...

Please note that the "M" in the video card name means it is a "Mobile" video card. It can drop to a lower powered less compatible GPU if you do not go into the video driver settings and specify that it stay in full powered mode when Vegas is running....

You are right, ist a Hitachi Deskstar its a HDS723030ALA640. I would put another 2x Deskstar 4TB HDS724040ALE640 in the enclosure. It should work. cheers rainer factstory Rainer Wirth phone_0049-177-2156086 Mac pro 8core Adobe,FCP,Avid several raid systems...

I load all of my source material for the project I am working on at any given moment onto a PCI Express based SSD. I do not remember the random IOPS data, but my sustained read/writes are close to 1200Mbps. This is twice as fast as the best SATA based...

[Scott Witthaus] "You can adjust the volume in the Inspector's Audio tab...while playing if you want." Thank you, Scott. However, it seems I can only lower the whole clip volume from the inspector or single keyframes, not the part between two keyframes. Even if I highlight the bar, if I...

Shannon… a larger question… but if your employer was to consider the current version for Ppro…via the creative cloud... you'd have access to licenses at work and home…. and you'd have access to cloud storage as part of that deal (although you should look at the capacity)… which I'd guess...

What's not clear to the customer is what kind of support you're getting with the price. I'm not sure if it would make a difference but, for a professional, knowing in advance that you'll get good support may motivate one to pay for the higher priced app. I few years...

Hello! I'm trying to make a bunch of null layers wiggle regularly in the Y axis and hold their position for about 10 frames before they start wiggling again. I also would like the motion to be smooth, so I guess it would be a good idea to have an...

Well it was going swimmingly, then this happened with only the built-in display. So, at least we know it happens with or without an external display connected. I also tried disconnecting my TB RAID drive and USB backup drive to no avail....

Hello Gang! So, I have this enigma regarding coming up with an efficient workflow that makes sense for a hand-drawn animation similar to the video below at 0:10 and beyond, where there are these hand drawn outlines and things on certain features of the person's face, etc. 7 Things I...

I'm using AVID on a PC and would like to setup backup software to do automatic incremental backups. Any suggestions for software? I've been using Mac mostly before now, so I'm kind of out of the loop here. Thanks for any advice....

What does the Windows Event Viewer say? You'll see your crashes listed in there with the applicable date and time. Open one up by double-clicking and tell us what the error message says. Whatever it says will be the cause of your crashing. Dave...

the problem with this approach and the one below is that I can't even get Vegas to start up... so I can't get that far. :( thank you both, though....

Transform Example watch support...