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Friends:  Andy Edwards | | | | |  | CS 6 playback issuesby Chris Cea 4 days agoHi All, I just upgraded to CS 6 (from 5.5) and have been having nothing but problems. No matter what I throw on the time line (by using the New Sequence from clip command) I get frozen video when atte | Re: CS 6 playback issues
by Jim Wiseman 4 days ago
Does Blackmagic have the Adobe drivers ready That would account for no external playback. Does video playback on the computer monitor The AJA drivers are not out yet for Adobe CS6. Listed as "Coming S
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| | | | | 10.6.7 OK for PP CS6?by Jim Wiseman 5 days agoUpgrading my 5.0.x boot drive to CS6. Currently at 10.6.7 for one piece of legacy sfw. Would it be very advisable to go to to 10.6.8 before installing CS6. I am completely removing 5.0.x including cle | Re: 10.6.7 OK for PP CS6?
by Jim Wiseman 4 days ago
Decided to go to 10.6.8 anyway. I have three different OS's I can boot into on my Mac Pro 5.1. CS6 on 10.7.4 and 10.6.8 and CS 5.5, FCP and Media 100 Suite 2.1 on 10.6.7. Still 10.6.7 on my Macbook Pr
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| | | |  | MAC and Premiere Proby Frank Cervarich 7 days agoI switched from FCS3 to an Adobe Suite that included Premiere Pro late last year after dabbling with the thought of going back to Avid (I bought Media Composer 6 and still have it installed on my syst | Re: MAC and Premiere Pro
by Jim Wiseman 4 days ago
You ain't seen nothing yet. But thanks for your help.I've been down both roads, and I'm not turning off this one. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2
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| | | |  | CS6 Upgrade question???by John Grilli 6 days agoI will be upgrading to CS6, should I remove CS5.5 from my system first never or after CS6 is installed I just don't want both versions taking up space on my hard drive. Any suggestions would be helpfu | Re: CS6 Upgrade question???
by Jim Wiseman 5 days ago
I just use different boot drives in my MacPro, each with a different version. About to dump 5.0.x for 6 on my SSD boot. Got Nikon playback! Thats the beauty of the MacPro. I could have 5 internal boot
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| | | |  | 10.6.8 broke H.264 exportby Erik Naso 2 months agoSome one updated my work station with 10.6.8 and now I can't export or create H.264 from Compressor or Final Cut 7. I have searched for a possible fix but cant find one. Anyone else have this issue wi | Re: 10.6.8 broke H.264 export
by Jim Wiseman 5 days ago
10.6.8 also broke MJPEG B access to Media 100 Suite 2.1 for legacy material. I am staying away from it if I can. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2
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| | | | | Imac or PC for CS6by Edward Stevens 2 weeks agoI need to upgrade my system. I will be getting CS6 and need to know if the iMAC running window7 will be the best or should I get a Beefy PC. You can't get the recommended display cards with the iMAC.  | Re: Imac or PC for CS6
by Dustin Parsons 2 weeks ago
Chris Borjis If I was at a cross-roads between mac & pc I'd pick PC since apple will likely be abandoning production of macpro tower systems in the near future. Tom Daigon As a current Mac Pro owner,
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| | | |  | Media 100 and QuickTime weirdnesss...by Daryl Larson 4 months agoAnybody having this problem I have Media 100i 8.2.3 (running on an old G4 and purring like a kitten). I have FCP 7.0.3 (running on a MacBook Pro with a Matrox MX02 LE and purring like a kitten). I hav | Re: Media 100 and QuickTime weirdnesss...
by Jim Wiseman 4 months ago
What I thought. Thanks, Floh. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid
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| | | |  | 1080sf23.98 on KONA LHi in FCP7 & Avid MC6by Chuck Kahn 6 months agoOn our MacPro I can't seem to get HDMI video to display when the format is set to 1080sf23.98. Switching FCP7 to 1080p23.98 works, but Avid MC6 doesn't seem to have the ability to switch to 1080p23.98 | | | | |
| | | |  | Kona Lhi Output Question?by peter tours 7 months agoFCP guy here, moving to PP CS5. Got my Kona Lhi going today with PP but only HDMI. When using the Kona with it's control panel, I get analog component and HDMI, as I do in FCP, but when I switch from | Re: Kona Lhi Output Question?
by Jim Wiseman 6 months ago
First you must be an AJA timeline. Go to Sequence Sequence Settings Playback Settings. The AJA control panel within Premiere will pop up. There are settings for analog out. Set the Secondary Format to
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| | | | | macbook pro and Production Premium suiteby Ryan Vaugh 7 months agoHi, I m using macbook pro 2011 , 15inch, 2.2 ghz, 8g ram, using premiere pro 5.5.1 with nikon d3100 h264 clips and I can t get one clip to play back at even 1 4 res without choppy playback. Does anyon | | | | |
| | | |  | AJA Kona 3 and Avid MC6by Greg Jones 6 months agoI downloaded the Avid Media Composer 6 Trial. Seems to work pretty good. I did notice that AJA hasn't updated their driver page to include the Kona 3 driver. I was thinking they were going to release | Re: AJA Kona 3 and Avid MC6
by Jim Wiseman 6 months ago
It is an interesting time! I'm now using Premiere 5.0.4 for Nikon D7000 support, 5.5.2 for XDCam and others, Final Cut for some of it's features and hardware support (IoHD) and am putting it all toget
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| | | |  | A Chicago Giant fallsby Mark Suszko 6 months agoRoscor laid off over a hundred people this week and has shut its doors pending some kind of reorganization. First Swiderski, now Roscor. Eek, all the Big Dogs are gone, who's left | Re: A Chicago Giant falls
by Jim Wiseman 6 months ago
I remember when Paul Rosten loaned us a VO-1800 and a CVS Time Base Corrector in 1974 to record the first helical scan show ever produced on broadcast in Chicago, "TV Song". It was a video art program
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| | | |  | Preferred editing codecby Jason Brown 6 months agoSo in fcp, I use prores, in avid it's dnxhd. What is premiers editing codec If its dvcprohd, is there a version of that codec that uses square pixels I'm very new to premier pro. | Re: Preferred editing codec
by Jim Wiseman 6 months ago
Motion 5 is 49.95, BTW. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.1, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, Avid MC, He
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| | | | | 23.98 HD Footage won't mix on 29.97 Timelineby Jim Wiseman 7 months agoMy 23.98 HD Footage won't drop into a 29.97 1080i timeline that also contains 29.97 footage. I have narrowed this down to the audio not being accepted by the 29.97 1080i timeline, for when I strip the | Re: 23.98 HD Footage won't mix on 29.97 Timeline
by Jim Wiseman 7 months ago
Thanks, Floh. Good Information. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Nikon D7000, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 2.0.2, Premiere Pro 5.0 and 5.5, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi, A
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| | | | | No output via HDMI from LHiby David Michael 8 months agoHello, I'm trying to get a monitor set up with the Kona card in FCP. But the monitor isn't recognizing any signal via hdmi input. I've gone down the list of "Video Playback" options, and it seems like | Re: No output via HDMI from LHi
by Jim Wiseman 8 months ago
Saw the framerate and sizes you are sending to your monitor. Could you be sending PsF HDMI doesn't support 23.98 PsF or any PsF that I am aware of. That had me stuck for quite a while on my LaCie 324.
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| | | | | What Driver and CUDA for GTX 285?by Jim Wiseman 9 months agoI have a GTX 285 EVGA that I want to install in a new 5.1 2010 Mac Pro hexacore. I need to stay at 10.6.7 for several software compatibility reasons. What specific NVidia Display driver, CUDA driver a | Re: What Driver and CUDA for GTX 285?
by Jim Wiseman 9 months ago
Got it working. Thanks, Mark. at Blackmagic support. Here are the full names for GTX 285: Retail_256.01.00f03v7.dmg cudadriver_3.2.17_macos.dmg For 10.6.7 and below (below not tested by me) Snow Leopa
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| | | | | Anyone using GTX 285 video card?by Jim Wiseman 9 months agoStarting new thread: I have a GTX 285 NVidia EVGA for Mac that I want to put in my Mac Pro 5.1 Mid 2010 (latest version),Hexacore 3.33 Ghz, 24 GB RAM, currently Radeon 5870 display card, Kona LHi. I a | Re: Anyone using GTX 285 video card?
by Jim Wiseman 9 months ago
Sorry, but the only information I have gotten on this subject was from a participant from this forum, not the main one. Info on Premiere now is at a premium. I've been trying to find answers to these
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| | | | | 10.6.8 Problem on new MBP?by Jim Wiseman 11 months agoI just ordered a new MBP 17" to get in before Lion in case it has problems. It shipped from China yesterday. Hopefully it has 10.6.7 or more likely 10.6.8 on it and not Lion. Any idea if this 10.6.8 M | | | | |
| | | |  | Article: FCPX: What Pros Find Missing in Final Cut Pro Xby walter biscardi 11 months ago Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X FCPX: What Pros Find Missing in Final Cut Pro X June 21st, 2011, was met with the news that Final Cut Pro X was finally available and what a thrill ride it has been! Prof+31 | @walter biscardi
by Jim Wiseman 11 months ago
Media 100 will open FCP projects via XML.Do it all the time. Also bounce to Premiere CS5 as need arises via XML. But I really like Media 100 for finish. Full Red support now too. AJA all the way. Free
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| | | | | So who is the best candidate?by Adam Claude Jones 11 months agoOk, the writing is on the wall and its pretty clear apple wants to sell iphones and not pro apps. Yeah, its coming in the future yadda, yadda, yadda. But I need it now. So who is the best candidate to | Re: So who is the best candidate?
by Jim Wiseman 11 months ago
You really should check out the new Media 100 Suite. All Mac. XML in and out of Color, Resolve, FCP 7. Seamless to and from AE. Red raw support to 4k. And solid as a rock. Supports AJA boards. Easy le
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| | | | | HD EX-1 and H264 with DV SD edit for SD DVDby Jim Wiseman 11 months agoI am producing an SD DVD using primarily EX-1 23.98 1080P XDCam, Nikon D7000 23.98 1080P H.264, and some archival DV 720x486 29.97i SD footage. What would be the best workflow using Premiere Pro CSS5 | | | | |
| | | |  | Echo Express release date ?by Bob Zelin 1 year agoHi - what is the release date for the Echo Express expansion chassis. I don't think 99% of the readers of Creative Cow are aware of this product, or how important it will be. Bob Zelin | Re: Echo Express release date ?
by Jim Wiseman 1 year ago
Any word on pricing as well Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.7.1, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, Macbook Pr
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| | | |  | Still having import probs...by Paul Crowe 1 year agoHi again, so I managed to find a good link to download the latest Sony transfer s w (thanks Murray). And again, the Transfer s w goes through the motions. Then when M100 does it's bit the blue progres | Re: Still having import probs...
by Jim Wiseman 1 year ago
Which driver was missing Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.6.1, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Hexacore MacPro 3.33 Ghz, Macbook Pro C
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| | | | | Feature request-again.by Gregg Michaels 1 year agoI know that this has been talked about in the past, so in the spirit of innovation, how about native XD-Cam support Calibrated Software has the XD-Decode product, maybe that can be implemented here. T | Re: Feature request-again.
by Jim Wiseman 1 year ago
Would love to be able to bring in my EX-1 files for rough edits w o transcoding. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.6.1, AJA ioHD, AJA K
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| | | |  | Down Convert Distortionby Matt Dufilho 1 year agoHere's my situation: Seeing a slight widening distortion on video as seen in my CRT monitor fed by KonaLHi RGB outs. This is seen in the "Crop" and "Letterbox" downconvert settings in the LHi Control | Re: Down Convert Distortion
by Jim Wiseman 1 year ago
You can get a pdf of the BTH1390Y at this URL: http: dev.technostation.com user-guide-owners-manual Panasonic PANASONIC+BTH1390Y I have two of them, and they are great for standard and 16x9 NTSC and P
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| | | |  | Kona 3 HD to SD....by Dan Nethery 2 years agoDoes anyone know if it's possible to down covert a video via software using the Kona 3 hardware I have a couple of videos that I need to deliver to DVD. FCP and Compressor don't seem to be the greates | Re: Kona 3 HD to SD....
by Jim Wiseman 2 years ago
John or others, When you downconvert from the one AJA system to another, HD to SD via SDI, what is the aspect ratio you use for the SD out of the first system 16x9 Letterbox, anamorphic, crop Does the
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| | | | | IO HD: XDcam EX to Pro Res workflowby Tom Case 2 years agoCan someone please advise on best workflow from XDcam EX express 34 card to pro res 422 ie do I import into FCP using XDcam transfer making QT's first and then put those QT's into compressor to make p | Re: IO HD: XDcam EX to Pro Res workflow
by Jim Wiseman 2 years ago
It is possible to come in SDI from the EX to ioHD SDI in, to ProRes live. So I have been told. Then you stay all digital. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and
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| | | | | New Mac Pros releasedby Jim Wiseman 2 years agoApple has released the new Mac Pros. Orders being taken. Jim Wiseman Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.5.1, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Macbook | | | | |
| | | |  | QT Gamma shift on PCby Bob Pierce 2 years agoHi Everybody, I have a client who has requested Quicktime H.264 files as their deliverable. The files look good viewed here on my macs but are washed out looking on their pcs. I'm working on a system | Re: QT Gamma shift on PC
by Bob Pierce 2 years ago
I found this solution on a website called Video Copilot: SOLUTION: After rendering into a QuickTime h.264 file, open it up in QuickTime and select Show Movie Properties. Highlight the video track then
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| | | | | Re: XDCAM EX Quality seems lowby Jim Wiseman 2 years agoMy next question is what is what is the highest quality way to bring in the EX1 XDcam files. The XDCam mov's and the ProResHQ playback in FCP do seem to be less noisy than the XDCam or even the DNxHD | Re: XDCAM EX Quality seems low
by Jim Wiseman 2 years ago
By general, I mean more noise on the Avid through all low to mid-range luminance chrominance video. Same monitor, same calibration. Naturally, noise is not visibly different in the high luma ranges. T
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| | | | | XDCAM EX Quality seems lowby Jim Wiseman 2 years agoWhat is the best way to bring in EX1 files to MC5 I am trying out the trial software, and the video seems to be much noisier and of lower quality than when viewed in Sony Clip Browser, or within a FCP | Re: XDCAM EX Quality seems low
by Jim Wiseman 2 years ago
Thanks! That was the setting I was looking for. It has been a while since I've used a Media Composer. But i have another question for another thread now regarding the DNxHD compression quality. Jim Wi
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