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Friends:  David Lawrence  David Roth Weiss  Franz Bieberkopf  Scott Sheriff | | | | |  | Bold Statement Warning!by craig slattery 2 days agoIam cutting a 1 2hour doco for television. 12 day edit, 18 contributors, actuality, over 700 clips EVERYTHING shot 3 cameras, even the PTCs shot 3 cameras. C300, Canon 5D MKIII, DV25 (stylistic choice | Re: Bold Statement Warning!
by Herb Sevush 1 day ago
Bill Davis "plus We all know that editors don't need databases to organize stuff. Folders and bins are ideal. Functioning databases are WAY overkill." Not overkill, but not any better than folders an
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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 | Re: Creative Cloud Q&A [Adobe guy]
by Herb Sevush 1 week ago
First of all Dennis I appreciate you coming on this forum and inviting the hail of bullets coming your way. I don't think there is that much dis-information on the CC situation now that a few days hav
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| | | |  | Why cant adobe have the best of bothby Richard Cardonna 2 weeks agoAutodesk,Maxon,&intuit both have subcription and perpetual lic in all products. Adobe says it has 500k paying subscribers whence they claimed to have had 2million perpetualseats. Why writeoff 1.5 mill | Re: Why cant adobe have the best of both
by Herb Sevush 2 weeks ago
Walter Soyka " I don't think what Apple did and what Adobe did are the same." Neither do I. But one aspect of it was the same - the sudden reveal of a total departure right after NAB, without allowin
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| | | |  | Blog: Where Are All My Ladies at NAB?by Kylee Wall 4 weeks agoWhen I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago for the NAB Show, I went to the Hofbr uhaus, the traditionally crazy German restaurant based on the brewery of the same name in Munich which is loaded up with a +1 | Re: Blog: Where Are All My Ladies at NAB?
by Herb Sevush 3 weeks ago
Kylee Wall "Yes, that's what I was asking." It seemed like you were talking more about booth attendees and teams being sent out by larger facilities. In any event, without seeming too sexist, I would
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| | | | | Buying a new PC for Premiere CS6by Anhtu Vu 1 month agoI need to buy a new PC for Premiere and AE CS6. I will eventually use it for color grading too. Anyways, any suggestions as to custom built or go with the Z420 Z620 or Z820 I've used a Z800 for two ye | Re: Buying a new PC for Premiere CS6
by Herb Sevush 1 month ago
Tom Daigon "another company I have heard lots of rave reviews about (at the Adobe PrP site) is ADK." That's why I listed them. Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attach
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| | | | | Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)by Richard Cardonna 1 month agoWil cloud users have special unique features that will not be available to CS7 production premium app owners I ask because of this: Note: With the exception of Retina display support, the new features | Re: Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)
by Herb Sevush 1 month ago
Ryan Holmes "Also, keep in mind that a new copy of Avid Media Composer will run you $2,500" Try $999.00 Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attached to nothin' "Deciding
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| | | | | Video for art's sakeby Ken Tannenbaum 2 months agoI use FCP 6 for editing relatively simple videos I shoot. Now I'm working on an art project for which I want to combine clips into a designed pattern of let's say (12) separate clips in three rows and | Re: Video for art's sake
by Herb Sevush 2 months ago
Ken - To do this simply in FCP you'll need to assign each clip to a separate track, in your case you'll need 12 tracks. You will then need to reduce each clip to the appropriate size and re-position u
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| | | |  | Real talk: How long does FCP7 have left?by Dan Nastro 2 months agoI work for a company that uses exclusively FCP7 for all post work, personally I use CS6 for personal projects. In my opinion, while still imperfect, Adobe Premiere is going to carry the torch for FCP7 | | | | |
| | | | | Fair Use Questionby Aaron Cadieux 3 months agoHey Everyone, So I am working on an indie doc that features a lot of newspaper articles being shown the screen as b-roll. There are quite a few articles in the documentary. I have contacted the newspa | Re: Fair Use Question
by Herb Sevush 3 months ago
Tim - What song did the sample come from Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attached to nothin' "Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. Bieberkopf
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| | | |  | Nvidia Quadro 400 and FCP issuesby Marcos Horacio 3 months agoHi everyone, So after unsuccessfully trying to work with two graphics card on my machine, I finally got rid of my ATI Radeon one and have solely a NVIDIA Quadro 4000 installed on my Mac Pro 3.33 Ghz, | Re: Nvidia Quadro 400 and FCP issues
by Herb Sevush 3 months ago
Try removing the BM decklink card if you never use it. If you occasionally use it make sure you have the latest drivers. My guess is that this is the problem. Herb Sevush Zebra Productions -----------
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| | | |  | Best archiving solutionsby Tim Boknecht 4 months agoI have a year's worth of projects on my editor that I need to archive so I can remove them for space. How are you smart people out there archiving Blu-rays are expensive and don't hold much. I'm think | Re: Best archiving solutions
by Herb Sevush 4 months ago
Cache-A is a complete appliance with it's own hard drive. It is highly recommended by everyone who uses it but it is a lot more than just an LTO drive. That's like saying your looking for a hard drive
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| | | |  | Article: The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinemaby Debra Kaufman 5 months ago Cinematography The Hobbit & The Dawn of High Frame Rate Cinema The technology wizards of the film TV industry have been talking about High Frame Rate cinema for a long time; indeed, Douglas Trumbull' | Re: @Bryant Joseph
by Herb Sevush 4 months ago
Rob Brandreth-Gibbs "If a fad regularly comes and goes for a 150 years, there may be something to it." Yes, the desire for a truly 3 dimensional visual representation seems to be universal. Stereosco
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| | | |  | Synch multiple clips by timecodeby Alessandro Cofanelli 4 months agoHi, i'm in the process of evaluating the switch from tcp to adobe premiere cs6. I do a lot af multicamera works with cameras synched by timecode. In fcp i was able to select all the clips of a camera | Re: Synch multiple clips by timecode
by Herb Sevush 4 months ago
Alex - Is there a speed performance penalty for double nesting Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attached to nothin' "Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. B
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| | | | | Your Favorites in 2012?by Kylee Wall 5 months agoI lurk in this forum a lot, so I figured I should actually contribute. Why not start the silly end of the year roundup I enjoy eavesdropping on your reactions and debate and hearing about titles I mig | Re: Your Favorites in 2012?
by Herb Sevush 4 months ago
Just saw Silver Linings Playbook and loved it. With one more movie still to see (Zero Dark thirty) I will now revise my 2012 listings this way: Movies I liked without reservations: 1. Beasts of the So
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| | | | | Is the 2140W good enough?by Herb Sevush 6 months agoI edit and deliver finished shows for broadcast, but i am not a grading suite. I color correct where necessary, but most of my material is studio shot and engineered. Most of our material is Prores 72 | Re: Is the 2140W good enough?
by Herb Sevush 6 months ago
'light-duty color correction' describes me just fine. Thanks for the info. Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attached to nothin' "Deciding the spine is the process of
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| | | |  | Oh Good! The Amateurs are leaving!by Ned Miller 7 months agoAbout time: http: www.reuters.com article 2012 10 04 us-youtube-culture-idUSBRE8931K420121004 Hopefully the public's idea of what is viewable will rise a bit Ned Miller Chicago Videographer www.nedmil | Re: Oh Good! The Amateurs are leaving!
by Herb Sevush 7 months ago
Herb Sevush "But that's 20 years since I saw it coming down the pipe." It's also 20 years since I saw it coming down the pike, but hey, spell checkers can't fix everything. Herb Sevush Zebra Producti
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| | | |  | Increasing multi-clip performance, newer Mac Pro, or newer drives in RAID, or both?by Chris Simpson 7 months agoSo question, limited budget at the moment, which is more likely to improve multiclip performance, I have Mac Pro 1,1 Dual Core 3Ghz, 12 GB ram, perhaps getting a bit long in the tooth, with an Areca A | | | | |
| | | | | Pro Res Format?by Steven Prebble 8 months agoHi! One of my music videos I edited is going to be shown on UK TV on some of the music channels. I have been asked by the label to export it to HD PRO RES. Now I can only think they mean apple pro res | Re: Pro Res Format?
by Lenny Greaster 8 months ago
Let's see if this is formatted correctly... Here's a quick "how to" for FFMPEG (assuming an intermediate file "source.avi") 1. Install FFMPEG (download from http: ffmpeg.zeranoe.com builds I'll use th
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| | | | | What goes around comes aroundby Todd Terry 9 months agoJust an anecdote here... When we go on location shoots, we really try to be good visitors. I try not to make a mess, cause confusion, or generally be disruptive to our surroundings... and I try to enc | Re: What goes around comes around
by Herb Sevush 9 months ago
AS someone who lives in the NYC area, which at times seems like one large studio backlot, you can also console yourself with the knowledge that the film production has come to your town to dump a whol
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| | | | | How does your crew charge?by Daniel Stone 9 months agoQuestion for producers out there. When hiring crew, I'm finding more and more that they're nickle-and-diming me to death on the final invoices. Is this happening to you guys For example, my DIT charge | Re: How does your crew charge?
by Herb Sevush 9 months ago
Mark Suszko "So, you get no sympathy from me about the travel issues of your grips or DP." Portal to portal is one thing, travel time from your chosen abode is another. For individual crew in New Yor
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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 Herb Sevush 10 months ago
Tim Jones " Both Premiere and FCP X fly." Discussing FCPX with some of us crotchety old editors is a quagmire we shouldn't get into. Tim Jones "a thought on the move from OS X to Windows - will you n
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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: Blog: Return of the Pizza Box?
by Herb Sevush 11 months ago
Andrew Kimery "Whatever Apple does w the Mac Pro I think it'll be big and I think it will be 'good enough' for most pro users. " A current Imac is "good enough" for most pro users, as is a MBP. A Mac
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| | | | | Can I add an LTO5 drive to my ATTO R680by Herb Sevush 1 year agoI bought a 16 TB Expando Raid last year that uses the ATTO R680 controller. I'm interested in adding an LTO 5 drive for archiving and I was wondering if I can use the empty port on the ATTO card to in | Re: Can I add an LTO5 drive to my ATTO R680
by Herb Sevush 12 months ago
Tom Daigon "Ive decided to go with Puget Systems. They are a class operation. I was able to configure a Sandy Bridge EP dual Xeon system with the fastest CPUs, 64 GB of ram and the Nvidia Maximus gra
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| | | |  | A question of common approach.by Aindreas Gallagher 12 months agorants and all aside - say our perception, individually, of editing, is completely personal, because, well, it super, super is. But - we tend to arrive at commonly held processes to solution. We tend t | Re: A question of common approach.
by Glen Hurd 12 months ago
A common approach You mean there are standards What standards You mean people have been doing this before Were they smart Does it matter This is art, after all. I should be able to put up a black scre
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| | | |  | http://www.lwks.com/by Erik Lundberg 12 months agoI was beginning to think it would never show. But now that it's here, how does this change your view (if at all) on the NLE-scape of 2012 Where does it fit in, and how does it compete with the rest Fo | Re: http://www.lwks.com/
by Herb Sevush 12 months ago
Oliver Peters "But more to the point about Lightworks. It exists not because a bunch of programming-savvy users jumped in to save and develop it. Instead it survives today, because various profit-ori
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| | | | | Blog: "Smoke is Changing" is NOT a Marketing Sloganby walter biscardi 1 year agoJust got a sneak peek at the new Autodesk Smoke. WOW is all I'm allowed to say so let me say it again. WOW! Avid and Adobe might have gotten the party started but the discussion about Post Production | Re: @Neil Hurwitz
by Herb Sevush 1 year ago
Mark Suszko "After getting burned by their orphaning of Edit* and Combustion, why should I trust Autodesk again, no matter how awesome the product " Amen. Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------
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| | | |  | Free Prores encoding on windowsby Frank Gothmann 1 year agoSince the lack of Prores encoding on windows has come up as an issue several times I thought I play around with ffmpeg a bit. I know, it's not as good as the ability to output directly from within you+2 | | | | |
| | | | | New upgrade to Premiere Pro when?by Frank Cervarich 1 year agoSome months back someone who seemed to know what he was talking about mentioned that Adobe was coming out with an upgrade to Premiere Pro in the not too distant future. Any rumbles about when that mig | Re: New upgrade to Premiere Pro when?
by Herb Sevush 1 year ago
Todd Kopriva "We have publicly announced that there will be a new version of Creative Suite software in the first half of 2012." Now there's a bold statement. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to kn
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| | | |  | Tutorial: FCPX INs and OUTs - Multicam Part ONEby Andy Neil 1 year ago Apple FCPX Techniques FCPX INs and OUTs - Multicam Part ONE Finally it's here! FCP X has included a multi-camera workflow in its 10.0.3 update. Andy Neil will take you through the INs and OUTs of thi+2 | @Andy Neil
by Herb Sevush 1 year ago
Just watched Part 2, thanks again. Herb Sevush Zebra Productions --------------------------- nothin' attached to nothin' "Deciding the spine is the process of editing" F. Bieberkopf
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| | | | | HyperDeck Studio File Namesby Herb Sevush 1 year agoDoes anyone know if HyperDeck studio allows you to control the names of the files it creates, like a Ki-Pro, or is it like a P2 card where it gives it some non-repeating pain-in-the-ass multi-characte | Re: HyperDeck Studio File Names
by Aleksander Steffensen 1 year ago
HyperDeck Studio currently does not offer any control over file names. Files are simply named "Capture0001.mov" and so on. If you think this functionality should be included, be sure to send BMD an e-
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