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| | | |  | crazy conspiracy theory for CCby Mike Jeffs 5 days agoHere is my crazy conspiracy theory. I think that with Adobe you have their bread and butter software, Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrator these apps are quite mature and well developed, in that in re | Re: crazy conspiracy theory for CC
by Frank Gothmann 5 days ago
Really good software costs money. A lot of it. Especially when it comes to improving non-flashy, "non-inovative" features and tech that doesn't make headlines. Unfortunately, it's mostly the flashy th
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| | | |  | Creative Cloud Storage is optional right?by Chris Borjis 1 week agoforgive me if this is a stupid question. I have zero need for cloud storage....I've never been a fan of storing in a cloud. When I export files from Premiere CC or any other CC app, it's not going to | | | | |
| | | |  | The Illusion of Mathby Nathan Bezner 1 week agoI appreciate that Dennis has opened a thread for Creative Cloud Q&A, and I don't want to dilute the goodwill by posting what is essentially another angry customer on a semi-rant, but I do want to addr | Re: The Illusion of Math
by Frank Gothmann 1 week ago
Clint Wardlow "Then my other question is, what is the value for an individual being able to open two computers at once I can see how it would benefit a business, but how often in one user going to ne
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| | | |  | Creative Cloud Q&A [Adobe guy]by Dennis Radeke 1 week agoThe last few days has seen quite a few discussions about Adobe's new licensing model. Some have attacked it, others defended it, many presenting their concerns and many presenting questions in a reaso+1 | | | | |
| | | |  | New Adobe Creative Cloud Debate Forumby Steve Connor 2 weeks agoThe COW have wisely created another forum to discuss the second biggest NLE marketing disaster in recent times. Might be nice to move further discussions over there http: forums.creativecow.net creati | | | | |
| | | |  | Adobe Creative Cloud Terms of Useby David Lawrence 2 weeks agoLloyd Chambers is pro photographer, Mac developer, and expert in high-end Macintosh performance optimization. I've been reading his blog for years and have learned much from his online guides. I was c+3 | Re: Adobe Creative Cloud Terms of Use
by Frank Gothmann 2 weeks ago
The project files, yes. An avi or mov or tiff or png or whatever you create will open just fine in any other application. But yeah, your project files won't open because the apps that created them won
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| | | |  | weird blog post.by Aindreas Gallagher 2 weeks agoso whether this guy is just typing whatever he feels, or he is making up stuff like crazy - this goes more to photoshop audience but some of the stuff in here is reads crazy. http: scottkelby.com 2012 | Re: weird blog post.
by Frank Gothmann 2 weeks ago
Yep, and that's true. They'll continue selling CS6 indefinitely and even promised to update it to keep it running on future Mac and Win OS releases. ------ "You also agree that you will not use these
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| | | |  | Flame ON! - Somebody doesn't like Adobeby Craig Seeman 1 month agoFlame ON! - Somebody doesn't like Adobe What Is Adobe Afraid Of http: www.fcproxuniversity.com FCPro_X_University Extra_Credit Entries 2013 4 11_What_Is_Adobe_Afraid_Of.html Posting because I'm in the | | | | |
| | | |  | Software compatible with LTFS for restoresby Mae Robbins 2 months agoMy company is thinking about using LTFS to back up our data. We are a post production company and majority of our archives can be as large as 2 - 3 TB. We currently use BRU PE to back up our data with | | | | |
| | | |  | Your opinion on going from SD to HDby Tobias Heilmann 3 months agoHello everyone, We are in the process of preparing the remastering of a film originally shot on Digital Betacam in the PAL format. We want to recreate titles, Graphics, VFX, etc. in 1080i25 and also r | Re: Your opinion on going from SD to HD
by Frank Gothmann 3 months ago
The vc100 does a decent but not fantastic job converting fields based formats. With slow frame rates it's pretty bad. 24 to 25 and vice versa is pretty much unusable for higher end needs. As far as sc
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| | | |  | HP StoreOpen LTFSby Bob Cole 3 months agoFrom HP's website, describing HP StoreOpen with LTFS: "Linear Tape File System (LTFS) is an open format for storing data on tape that makes LTO-5 and 6 tapes self-describing and file-based." This soun | Re: HP StoreOpen LTFS
by Frank Gothmann 3 months ago
Yes, we're writing directly to LTO5 over the network. We have all our projects stored on Linux servers sharing out via 10GB Ethernet. The LTO PC simply hooks in via regular 1GB Ethernet. LTFS cannot s
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| | | | | Affordable raid setup?by Michael Garske 5 months agoI'm looking to build my first raid array for as little money as possible. The unit will be hooked up to a Windows 7 64-bit machine and will eventually house raw footage from the Black Magic Camera to | Re: Affordable raid setup?
by Frank Gothmann 5 months ago
The internal setup looks a bit like those found in Norco cases. They are equally priced, do the job just fine, but they are loud. They keep the drives very cool but they are really built to be rack mo
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| | | |  | What will Apple say....by Geoff Dills 11 months ago...to the LAFCPUG on the 27th http: www.lafcpug.org user_schedule.html Speculate away.... Best, Geoff | Re: What will Apple say....
by Patrick Murphy 11 months ago
Why don't they just send Franz another email Honestly, isn't this getting a little sad, or perhaps comical I can't decide which organization Apple resembles more, the Vatican, or the Kremlin. The amou
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| | | |  | Tutorial: ProMAX ONE: Looking at the Heroby walter biscardi 11 months ago What Computer Should I Buy ProMAX ONE: Looking at the Hero ProMAX has put together a beast of a creative workstation designed to serve a host of needs in production, particularly Post, and Walter Bis+5 | Re: ProMAX ONE: Looking at the Hero
by Frank Gothmann 11 months ago
Michael Kammes "Thanks for the review Walter! Slight note of contention...minor, but it's very important in many workflows: You can most certainly encode into ProRes on Windows with software. Telestr
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| | | |  | Blog: Return of the Pizza Box?by Andrew Kimery 11 months agoThe recent, um, 'upgrade' to the Mac Pro followed by the unconfirmed leak (which was later confirmed) about real upgrades possibly coming to the Mac Pro next year got me thinking again about what a to+1 | Re: Return of the Pizza Box?
by Frank Gothmann 11 months ago
Juan Salvo "Re: heat issues. Apple has in the past used liquid cooling on systems, it may not be out of the question. " Yep, they have. And they royaly f***ed it up. http: en.wikipedia.org wiki Power
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| | | |  | MacBook Pro 17" vs. Mac Proby Kevin Patrick 11 months agoMonday Apple announced a new MacBook Pro. At the same time, they killed off the old MacBook Pro 17" model. The 17" model is gone, you cannot buy a new one, only a refurbished one. The Mac Pro (which r | Re: MacBook Pro 17" vs. Mac Pro
by Jim Giberti 11 months ago
Craig Seeman "Apple's business. Cook jumped in quickly and clarified and the next major MacPro transformation. Now us business people can make a decision on that one way or another. You don't have to
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| | | |  | 5.1 Not Workingby Zack Hosseini 12 months agoHello, I'm somewhat new to Audition and I recently set up 5.1 surround sound in my basement. The surround sound system works with DVDs and playing videos with 5.1 SS audio from my Macbook Pro, so I kn | Re: 5.1 Not Working
by Frank Gothmann 12 months ago
This is not how mixing 5.1 works at all, in any application. A Toslink cable and a regular AV receiver won't do anything. It will pass a digital stereo signal to your receiver and that's it (or, in ca
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| | | |  | HDCam, DolbyE, and 23.98by Joseph Owens 1 year agoSeems like its not so straight forward. I understand all that Non-Audio Continuous segmented data stream, and even played around with External Sync alternatives.... but.... (having done a lot of succe | Re: HDCam, DolbyE, and 23.98
by Frank Gothmann 12 months ago
Interesting. Not sure what the issue is but I have successfully laid Dolby E to SR tape (SRW 5800) with a BMD Decklink 3D. Final tape passed QA at the broadcaster. ------ "You also agree that you will
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| | | | | Best Bang for buck 8 bay raidby John Barata 12 months agoHi, I'm looking to buy or build a 8 bay Raid to do HD video. I am running a Macpro 3.32Quad-Core Intel Xeon on osx 10.6.8 I run a single Edit suite and my company is really just getting off the ground | Re: Best Bang for buck 8 bay raid
by Frank Gothmann 12 months ago
Then you should update your website as it lists the EB800 as a 3GB box: "The EB800MS offers world-class performance, leading 3Gb s SAS SATA interface design and industry-proven system compatibility. "
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| | | |  | Editor's Dilemaby Glen Hurd 1 year agoFor those confused by the angst over FCP X, I offer the "Prisoners' Dilema." We have two players: Apple and the Hollywood Editor. Each player has two choices. For Apple, it is to support the Hollywood+3  | Re: Editor's Dilema
by Scott Sheriff 1 year ago
Lots of false assumptions have to be in play for this to work. The two most obvious: There are actually three players in the game, not two. Apple, the so called "Hollywood" aka Professional Editors, a
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| | | |  | FCPX or Not -- mini-meetup at NAB?by Walter Soyka 1 year agoAny NAB-goers from this forum interested in meeting up With all the evening events dominating people's schedules, perhaps a morning or afternoon get together might be easier (unless perhaps everyone i | Re: FCPX or Not -- mini-meetup at NAB?
by David Roth Weiss 1 year ago
My opinions are just mine, and no one else's. Nor do they constitute or represent the opinions and or beliefs of the company I work for, or those of Creative Cow. Furthermore, the vast number of peopl
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| | | |  | X as Video Playout Organizerby Bill Davis 1 year agoOn Sat, I was doing some project revision work and my son came into the studio, took a look at my screen and said "that's cool." It kinda shocked me - I'd been working so closely with X for so long, t+1  | Re: X as Video Playout Organizer
by Herb Sevush 1 year ago
Bill Davis "BTW, all of these projects live comfortably on a single 750 gig portable Segate Firewiire 800 drive the size of my wallet including clones of all the source footage." Which is one of the
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| | | |  | RAID 5 inside my macproby Michael Williams 1 year agoI have a 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon macpro currently running Snow Leopard, possibly upgrading to Lion soon. I want to use my internal SATA bays for creating a video storage RAID. I was thinking | Re: RAID 5 inside my macpro
by Frank Gothmann 1 year ago
First of all, you need a raid card to get Raid 5. Given the price of a proper one (Areca, Atto) using it with only three drives is a bit of a waste. It'll also give you 6G speed with 6G drives. You ca
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| | | | | cross platform archivingby Herb Sevush 1 year agoI'm about to buy an LTO-5 drive for backing up video media. Currently I'm using a Mac Pro and would probably use the BRU software to manage the backups. What would happen if I switched to the Windows | Re: cross platform archiving
by Frank Gothmann 1 year ago
Herb Sevush "This is excellent news. Now I'm not beholding to Apple and I can go ahead. Actually, if you are using BRU not with its proprietary format but just as a front end for LTFS you may not nee
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| | | | | Post work-rush thoughts about FCP-Xby Bill Davis 1 year agoI ve delivered 5 separate corporate projects out of FCP-X and or Motion 5 in the past three weeks. Short schedule, tough deadline stuff for large national or regional clients. Some thoughts. 1. X prod+3 | Re: Post work-rush thoughts about FCP-X
by Chris Harlan 1 year ago
Bill Davis " Chris Harlan "And few people are trashing the kid. Mostly people are trashing the parent's decision to murder the Trophy winner in his sleep." We are video editors, not tabloid editors.
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| | | | | External Arrayby Elaine Trotter 1 year agoHi, I'm planning on switching from FCP to Avid. Also from Mac to PC since it looks like Apple is going to drop the desktop towers. Plus I think Apple is running fast from the Pro market and not reliab | Re: External Array
by Frank Gothmann 1 year ago
It won't slow down, eSata just isn't really fast to begin with. A serious Raid box as described above can give you 700 MBs and more; way beyond what eSata can deliver. Again, it depends on what your r
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