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Friends:  Adam McCune  Andrew Richards  Craig Seeman  Geoff Dills  John Davidson  Marcus Samuel-Gaskin | | | | | | Thoughts from an Apple Fanboiby John Davidson 2 weeks agoThere are so many competing philosophies going on regarding the cloud issue popping up. As a relative early adopter of FCPX, Apple fanboi, etc., maybe some of you will consider these thoughts interest+2 | Re: Thoughts from an Apple Fanboi
by Chris Kenny 2 weeks ago
Cameron Clendaniel "For an incredibly expansive suite of software that has a great track record, for people that are presumably making a living off of it I don't understand the angst over $50 month."
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| | | |  | Apple hardware Q4 and 2014by Oliver Peters 4 weeks agohttp: www.businessinsider.com apple-says-it-has-no-new-products-coming-until-the-fall-2013-4 Sounds like no new Mac Pro this year. Wonder if they are waiting for 20Gb s Tbolt in 2014 from Intel - Oliv | Re: Apple hardware Q4 and 2014
by Chris Kenny 4 weeks ago
Greg Andonian "If you ask me, everyone who thinks Apple is waiting on some sort of new technology before they upgrade the Mac Pro is only kidding themselves. 20 Gigabit Thunderbolt sounds amazing, bu
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| | | |  | OT: Fox embraces the new centuryby Greg Andonian 1 month agoAfter realizing that the 20th century ended a long time ago, Fox has decided to re-name its studio and TV operations. :) ______________________________________________ "Up until here, we still have en | Re: OT: Fox embraces the new century
by Chris Kenny 1 month ago
Brent Cook "I wonder what they're going to do with the logo. I'm not sure changing the 0 to a 1 would look right. It would lose much of its epicness." They should just use this, from Futurama. -- Dig
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| | | | | NLEs and NAB - Oliver Petersby Craig Seeman 1 month agohttp: digitalfilms.wordpress.com 2013 04 13 nab-2013-distilled I very good observation on NLE at NAB. I do think there's more to say on this though: The trouble is Apple gets in its own way due to cor | Re: NLEs and NAB - Oliver Peters
by Chris Kenny 1 month ago
Oliver Peters "In Anywhere, that's where the Mercury Streaming Engine comes in. All compositing of multiple streams is done at the server. " Right, I get that this is how Adobe's model works. I'm jus
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| | | |  | An Interesting observationby craig slattery 1 month agoThis past week I have been inundated with calls from a number of directors that Ive worked with in the past, now working on other productions, asking technical questions about editing in FCPX. It appe+1 | Re: An Interesting observation
by Chris Kenny 1 month ago
Michael Gissing "As younger film makers who are tech savy become the norm and the price of edit software continues to come down, this use that you see with X may be no more than price and access rath
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| | | |  | NAB and PCIby Jordan Mena 1 month agoAnyone know if there has been a change in configuring a PCI expansion chassy to work with Graphics GPU. I know this is a major reason people have been hoping for a new Mac Pro. If they solve this prob | Re: NAB and PCI
by Chris Kenny 1 month ago
Eric Hansen "an expansion chassis for GPUs over current Thunderbolt tech wouldn't work too well because Thunderbolt is a 4x PCIe connection. Each GPU is 16x. Even the PCIe expansion chassis's are a c
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| | | |  | work natively at 2.40:1 at HDby Jason Brown 2 months agoWe shot 5K at a 2.40:1 aperture. FCPX has a project for those dimensions (5120x2160) but I can't work downscaled in HD at clean pixel dimensions - 1920x810. I HAVE to put it into a letterboxed comp. A | Re: work natively at 2.40:1 at HD
by Chris Kenny 2 months ago
gary adcock "Most Video editing app's only natively support the SMPTE output specs and frame rasters." Arguably FCP should also add 2048x858 and 1998x1080, the DCI specifications for scope and 1.85,
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| | | |  | 10.0.8 Update is Outby T. Payton 2 months agoCheck your App Store. Stick to the FCP X update code. Zip up your old 10.0.7 App and don't update mid project. Looks like mostly maintenance. Which frankly is a great thing. The flashing green render | Re: 10.0.8 Update is Out
by Chris Kenny 2 months ago
Nate Weaver "I have a gift certificate for anybody who can figure out a way to enable this for Sony S-Log2 footage." Someone really just needs to make a plug-in that allows arbitrary LUTs in common f
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| | | |  | VFX shots. Grade before or after?by MichaelMaier 2 months agoI'm wondering what's the best procedure with VFX shots. If you should grade the plates and then send to VFX or grade after the VFX shots are finished I would think grading the finished VFX shot would | Re: VFX shots. Grade before or after?
by Chris Kenny 2 months ago
MichaelMaier "In that case, just send it back to the VFX guy to correct it :)" Sure, time and budget permitting. -- Digital Workflow Colorist, Nice Dissolve. You should follow me on Twitter here. Or
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| | | | | Do you conform inside Resolve?by MichaelMaier 3 months agoI was not sure if I should post this in the basics forum or here. Something tells me this is not really a basic question. Once you are done with your grade, what do you do You export the files out to +1 | Re: Do you conform inside Resolve?
by Chris Kenny 2 months ago
MichaelMaier "From talking to several other people who also experience the same problem, it seems to be a Prores problem. On top of that, Prores on windows can have gamma shift problems etc. I think
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| | | |  | Few newbie question..by Frank Manno 3 months agoJust a few newbie questions.. I'm playing a clip in my event library, getting ready to press I for IN, now if I scroll the event browser thumbnails up or down, playback stops. If I touch anything, pla | Re: Few newbie question..
by Chris Kenny 3 months ago
Frank Manno "Selecting a range on an event then getting back to the OUT point of that range later seems a bit clumsy to me. Either that or it's me who is clumsy.. :( " Mark Go To Range End, or shift-
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| | | |  | Update: Resolve on new 2012/13 iMacsby Peter Chamberlain 4 months agoHello all, I'm pleased to report that we have tested the late 2012 21" and 27" iMac 13,2 systems and both are suitable for Resolve 9.0.4. The specific configs we tested are 21.3" iMac 13,2 with 3.1 GH+1 | Re: Update: Resolve on new 2012/13 iMacs
by Chris Kenny 4 months ago
I don't know. With the 3 nodes I get on my rMBP I wouldn't consider using the machine for client supervised sessions (though since we got an UltraStudio mini and some external storage fast enough to h
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| | | |  | Blog: The realization sets inby gary adcock 2 years agoSo, When I posted the first comments on FCPX 4 weeks ago, I thought I was going to be strung up and burned at the stake by some of the commentary. Now everyone seems resolute to the fact that FCPX is | Re: Blog: The realization sets in
by Chris Kenny 2 years ago
Michael Aranyshev " Chris Kenny "You may want to tag a clip before you necessarily determine what exactly frames you'll later use in the edit. " I told you. I actually watch the footage I edit." This
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| | | |  | Blend Modes - Lumaby Patrice Freymond 2 years agoHi, just tried this: Three clips: 1) Shot of Guy 2) B&W transition 3) Shot of Boat If layered in this order in FCP 7, with travel luma composite mode applied to topmost clip, the Guy shows where the w | Re: Blend Modes - Luma
by Chris Kenny 2 years ago
Nick Toth "Background video on primary story line Fill video on a connected clip above the primary story line Key source on a connected clip above the fill video. This clips blend mode is set to 'ste
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| | | |  | Effects and the Modern Ageby Ethan Young 2 years agoLet's say I import long interview for a documentary. FCPX wants me to use the new keywords system in the Event Viewer to go through and break this clip down into folders for each topic the interview c | Re: Effects and the Modern Age
by Chris Kenny 2 years ago
Brendan Gibbons "Oh and while we are there, being able to reset individual parameters in the color board would make a huge difference. " You can reset an individual parameter by hitting the delete ke
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| | | |  | Layers and transitionsby Chip Whiting 2 years agoSo, today I had some time and thought I'll give FCPX a go. So my background needed to be white for this commercial, so I made one with the custom generator and put it in my storyline. Then I needed to+1 | Re: Layers and transitions
by Chris Kenny 2 years ago
Tom Wolsky "No composite modes in secondary storylines. No transitions on connected clips. It's like each connected clip is entirely separate from the clip adjacent. Not very magnetic if you ask me."
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| | | | | Monitor upgrade situationby Cade Muhlig 2 years agoI have a old and dying 30" Apple cinema (getting some dark areas, but still usable) and a small 12" Sony broadcast monitor hooked up through a AJA Lhe I'm looking to upgrade. But I don't know which on | Re: Monitor upgrade situation
by Chris Kenny 2 years ago
Cade Muhlig "So is it possible that FCP X will change things regarding this subject I don't absolutely have to upgrade now, waiting an extra 2 months is not a big deal. Everyone is debating, but I ju
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