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Friends:  Ronald Lindeboom | | | | | | Working with funky multicam footageby Les Kaye 3 weeks agoFirst FCPx project. Five different cameras, ALL different formats, not only no TC, but no continuous TC - some cameras were stopping and starting at different point. Some didn't Can someone point me i | Re: Working with funky multicam footage
by Les Kaye 2 weeks ago
Thanks for all the replies. Since I don't have an iPad, does anyone know if there's a version of Ripple Training's Multicam course available for OSx or an iPhone Alternative choices are also appreciat
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| | | | | Service: Les Kayeby Les Kaye 8 months agoLos Angeles California, United States Post Production Les Kaye Editing NOTABLE LONG FORM EDITORIAL CREDITS BEVERLY HILLS NANNIES (Evolution, Donald Bull) ABC Family Channel Reality MANIPEDE (Crosswalk | Re: Les Kaye
by Frodo Lee 6 months ago
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| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | | | | |
| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz+1 | | | | |
| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | | | | |
| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | | | | |
| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | Re: Passing of Ramsey Marzouk
by dan luke 1 year ago
I thought DVision edit was a great program. And I used it right to the end. While I never knew Ramsey, I knew his work and it was stellar. He died too young.
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| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | Re: Passing of Ramsey Marzouk
by David Roth Weiss 1 year ago
I was very sad to hear Ramsey had passed away Les. As you know, I knew him, and I knew he was young, but I didn't know he was just 44. He leaves behind young children and a wife as well, so that makes
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| | | | | Passing of Ramsey Marzoukby Les Kaye 1 year agoSince I don't know the correct forum (or if there is a correct forum), I'll cross-post to where it would be appropriate. I simply wanted to inform a few of the post-productions groups that Ramsey Marz | Re: Passing of Ramsey Marzouk
by Thomas Roberts 1 year ago
Ramsey was a personal friend. We've been friends for about 12 years. We usually got together for family events for our kids. We also would hang out at the Sony Vegas Event and simply laugh a lot. Grea
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| | | |  | Bunim/Murray chooses Avidby John Kaley 1 year agohttp: www.thestreet.com story 11364598 1 reality-tv-leader-bunimmurray-productions-selects-avid8217s-professional-editing-and-storage-solutions.html | Re: Bunim/Murray chooses Avid
by Les Kaye 1 year ago
Chris Harlan "FCP made small inroads into Features, but it was is huge in reality, in promo, in trailer" I believe this is a little turned around. Yes FCP is huge in promos and trailers, and was (fin
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| | | | | Is FCPX really worth it?by David Roth Weiss 2 years agoSince the April 13th "sneak," FCP users have experienced upheaval and turmoil that I liken to a "civil war," with brothers fighting brothers and editors quarreling among themselves, because lives and +3 | Re: Is FCPX really worth it?
by Les Kaye 2 years ago
Tom Wolsky "Their interest in software for computers is pretty limited." Astute comment Tom. Still, there's a (very small) part of me that thinks perhaps Tim Cook won't be as rigid about these decisi
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| | | | | For the discreet edit vetsby Les Kaye 2 years agoI thought this was as good a place on the COW as any to catch the old-timers, so here ya go: http: techcrunch.com 2011 09 06 carol-bartz-fired www.leskaye.net | | | | |
| | | | | Bella Keyboard System prefs shortcutby Les Kaye 2 years agoHaving a little trouble trying to set up a hot key (m1) to access Sound in System Preferences. Advice or links would be appreciated. Otherwise the keyboard is working fine. MacPro 10.6.6 Quad Core 12G | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: The Future of Editingby walter biscardi 2 years agoTuesday was a whirlwind day. Started off early at a breakfast meeting with the top level executives of Avid and ended with the always entertaining Supermeet. Ok, maybe this year s Supermeet was a litt | | | | |
| | | |  | FCP-X timelineby Eric Jurgenson 2 years agoTrying to get my head around the new "trackless grouping" paradigm. Does anyone else think that what is designed to simplify is actually going to make things much more confusing I'm freaked out that o | Re: FCP-X timeline
by Les Kaye 2 years ago
FWIW, anything's possible - especially with Apple - but I highly doubt that they'd neglect OMF or other critical workflows necessary in a "Pro" environment - regardless of the disappearing track trick
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| | | |  | Welcome Final Cut Xby Devin Crane 2 years agoSo the next question is what's next for Motion, is it DOA | Re: Welcome Final Cut X
by Les Kaye 2 years ago
Chris Conlee "Yeah, I'd call BS on this. About 95% of all big budget features are cut on Avid." Since it appears that at least 5 of the Academy Award Best Picture nominees were cut on FCP (with the F
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| | | | | For those interested:by Les Kaye 2 years agohttp: www.appleinsider.com articles 11 02 23 report_says_dramatic_ambitious_final_cut_pro_update_coming_in_spring_2011.html | Re: For those interested:
by Victor Perez 2 years ago
Spring NAB The Apple area at NAB for the release of FCP 6 (in my opinion) was a great event for the pro community. Would be good to attend another. If Apple were to have a booth there that is. Victor
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| | | | | Sharing Source clips markers between projectsby Les Kaye 2 years agoIs there anyway to add clip markers to a low-rez NON-TC source, and then IMPORT these same source markers to a hi-rez version of the source (on a different system) that DOES have TC (I imagine I could | | | | |
| | | | | Newbie question about edgesby Les Kaye 3 years agoApologies about not searching prior to posting - but I'm not even sure what to even search for, and I've hit the ground running on a graphics job (I'm an experienced video producer editor without Illu | Re: Newbie question about edges
by Les Kaye 3 years ago
Thanks for the responses. I'll see if I can get the suggestions to work - the problems of modifying an already created template... LK www.leskaye.net
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| | | | | The future of FCPby Les Kaye 3 years agoIn light of last month's thread: http: www.appleinsider.com articles 10 05 18 apple_scaling_final_cut_studio_apps_to_fit_prosumers.html www.leskaye.net | Re: The future of FCP
by Les Kaye 3 years ago
Maybe I need to improve my reading skills, but I took the last few sentences as meaning "Don't panic", and that ProApps development would still continue. But then that's just me... www.leskaye.net
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| | | | | Creating wmvby Les Kaye 3 years agoI've got a 22min 1080p .mov file I want to convert to WMV. I've tried exporting from the source viewer and I've tried exporting as a sequence with the same results: a 4 min truncated file, although it | Re: Creating wmv
by Peter Wolsey 2 weeks ago
If it's any use to anyone struggling to make decent mp4 wmv files on a MAC, I found Streamclip gave consistently dissappointing results when used on the Mac, but then took the advice that Streamclip e
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| | | | | Duplicate Frame issuesby Les Kaye 3 years agoBoth my friend and myself can't get it to work properly on different systems, with different projects. My first question: does the feature not work with DVCPRO 720p 24 projects It seems to work in a N | Re: Duplicate Frame issues
by Les Kaye 3 years ago
Yes Kevin. Sorry for not being clearer. I guess the question should be: are there any formats it doesn't work with www.leskaye.net
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| | | | | Compressing for USB TV playbackby Les Kaye 3 years agoI've got some DVCPro 1080i & 720P videos that I'd like to encode for direct USB playback on a Samsung HDTV, which does NOT support quicktime, although it does support mp4 and H264. I want to keep the | Re: Compressing for USB TV playback
by Les Kaye 3 years ago
Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately I had issues with the Handbrake exports: Either the video plays back in slomo (if I keep the same source fps settings), or else it just stutters and freezes (i
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| | | | | Srolling credits issuesby Les Kaye 4 years agoI have an End Title crawl created in Photoshop, and brought into AE for a simple scroll for use in a 720p DVCPro HD project in Final Cut Pro. I've exported as an animation codec to insert back into FC | Re: Srolling credits issues
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Thanks Dave & Todd. I'm an editor, not a compositor - meaning I know just enough to cause problems... First, we decided to use white text again a black bg, with a few colored gfx sprinkled throughout.
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| | | | | Jittery scrolling titlesby Monica Nolan 4 years agoI posted this in the FCP forum, but have AE questions as well: I'm trying to get decent (non-jittery) scrolling titles working in a doc I'm finishing and I'm looking for advice on workflow and where t | Re: Jittery scrolling titles
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Thanks Kevin. I'm returning to AE after awhile on Combustion and Motion, and just tried your expression on a title scroll I'm having problems with. The scroll started fine, but then began speeding up
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| | | | | Title Scrollby Les Kaye 4 years agoApologies if this has been covered, but a search didn't help: I've received the a psd of the end credits for a 720p film (shot in DVCPRO 720p 23.98). The Pixel Dimensions are: Pixel Dimensions 2667 Wi | Re: Title Scroll
by Neal Barenblat 4 years ago
I'm not sure what dimensions DVCPro shoots in (either 960x720 or 1280x720). In Photoshop, readjust the size of the image to match the correct dimensions and resize everything. There is no reason for a
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| | | | | Striped 0 - Did I do this correctly?by Les Kaye 4 years agoI've done a RAID 0 of striped two 1 TB drives. Everything appears okay - the new RAID shows up on the desktop and the sidebar - but in looking in Disk Utility, I'm not sure if it is correct. The left | | | | |
| | | | | Match Move when losing trackerby Les Kaye 4 years agoI know this has been asked, but I don't know if it was ever answered: I have 2 shots: -a handheld shot where I'm replacing a sign. I'm able to do a successful match move UNTIL: the shot zooms in past | Re: Match Move when losing tracker
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Thanks Stephen. Much better luck, but still not a great acceptable result. The shot is a shaky camera with a fast zoom in, so it is difficult. Still, I'll give it another whirl as well as try on a dif
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| | | | | Discreet Edit Application Error Messageby Samantha Hammond 4 years agoWe have Discreet Edit version 6.0 and recently we've been having a number of issues and I'm wondering if you nice folk could help us figure out our problem. Problem 1) Our biggest issue is while we ar | Re: Discreet Edit Application Error Message
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Christopher Wright "edit 6.0, it was only released to work with the Targa 3K card" Thanks for the kind words Christopher. However you're thinking of edit 6.5. THAT was the version that was T3k card o
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| | | |  | Vista on OSX with Boot Campby Rob Hindley 4 years agoI have just invested in an iMac so my son can play his PC games. However I am limited to putting either XP (I presume no longer available for purchase ) or Vista on the machine. So my question... Give | Re: Vista on OSX with Boot Camp
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Sorry for not replying sooner. I set up Boot Camp with XP strictly for Avid use - which is becoming more and more infrequent. I use Boot Camp as a virtual machine under VMware. At this point, the only
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| | | | | Mac Mail Question (Leopard)by Les Kaye 4 years agoI received a mass email that was also sent to a few hundred others, and now ALL these additional new email addresses appear in the default list when I access the TO field. None of them show up in Addr | | | | |
| | | |  | Mac Mail Set-upby Chris Babbitt 4 years agoI recently had a new web site designed and part of the process was setting up two e-mail accounts for the URL address. They gave me a droplet which automatically set-up the accounts on my computer. Th | | | | |
| | | | | End Credit Scrollby Les Kaye 4 years agoHaving a bear of time trying to do this - do others have the same issues I've copied and pasted text into the canvas. However it would repeatedly get distorted after an undo. Even simply closing and o | Re: End Credit Scroll
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Hey Noah - yeah, I had pretty much had done that last night and it worked great, so many thanks. One question though - I've had a break from FCP 5 & Motion 2 for awhile and am not getting back into it
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| | | | | Display issues between computer & iPhone (iPod Touch)by Les Kaye 5 years agowww.leskaye.net The site was designed using iWeb and is on .mac with a Yahoo domain. The site could be a tad faster - but it is A LOT of videos so I'm okay with that. The issue: On a regular computer | Re: Display issues, etc. - resolved
by Les Kaye 4 years ago
Abraham's response pretty much nailed it, and it appears to be a bug( ) in iWeb. Although I didn't do anything differently in the design of my name on each page, apparently iWeb DID converted this sec
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| | | | | Simple Data Recovery (not OS X)by Les Kaye 5 years agoI've got some old Syguest cartridges (44mb & 88mb) and I'd like to have the data simply transferred to CD or DVD. There's no reason to believe the disks are damaged (although they have not been used i | | | | |
| | | | | RED FCP post workflowby zac rothman 5 years agoI've recently inherited a project shot with RED ONE. It was shot in RAW, about 100 minutes worth of footage, and I am currently grappling with the post production workflow. Can anyone direct me to a s | Re: RED FCP post workflow
by Les Kaye 5 years ago
Craig (and everyone else), I'm about to start my first Red project on a 2.33ghz 17" MPB (Intel) with 2GB ram with client provided drives (don't know what model they are). The footage has been ingested
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| | | | | Newbie Post Recording Questionsby Les Kaye 5 years agoHi everyone - first time poster here: I am NOT a professional audio person, but here is what I'll be doing: I plan to record a simple acoustic guitar with a Shure M57 mic and an M-Audio Fast Track USB | Re: Newbie Post Recording Questions
by Les Kaye 5 years ago
Thank you Ty. Unfortunately or not, this is the equipment I have - there won't be anything else. Thanks for your initial suggestions. I'll try the filters you suggest. -LK www.leskaye.net
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| | | | | Which Avid on an older MacBook Pro?by Les Kaye 5 years agoMPB 2.33 Ghz, Dual core Intel 2mb RAM ATI Radeon x1600 card OSx 10.5.3 No luck on the other Avid forum. Let's try here... It's been a few years since I've worked on an Avid - for the last few years it | Re: Which Avid on an older MacBook Pro?
by Les Kaye 5 years ago
Hi Brett, Thanks for the response. Apparently there is a way use an Avid MC with the ATI card in version 2.8. Several posts on the Avid forum describe how to go into legacy mode (holding down O & L) w
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| | | | | Which Avid on an older MacBook Pro?by Les Kaye 5 years agoMPB 2.33 Ghz, Dual core Intel 2mb RAM ATI Radeon x1600 card OSx 10.5.3 Sorry if this has been previously discussed (could not find a definitive answer) It's been a few years since I've worked on an Av | | | | |
| | | | | Would like to know before I buyby Jerry Downs 5 years agoI posted this on another forum - I think this is the right place now - so here goes a re-post -------- Before I spend money on Virtual software - I would like to know if what I would like to accomplis | Re: Would like to know before I buy
by Les Kaye 5 years ago
Can't answer your specific printer question, but here's my 2 cents (and this may be echoed elsewhere here): First, did you contact the manufacturer directly Secondly, as long as you have the original
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| | | | | Cannot add printer with Boot Camp OR Fusion by Les Kaye 5 years agoAfter some ugly problems last night, I did a reinstall of XP using the original method via Boot Camp. I want to share my Epson printer via Bonjour (which I did through Tiger previously). Anyway...Bonj | | | | |
| | | | | Verify after fact?by Les Kaye 5 years agoIs there a way to verify the integrity of a DVD disk AFTER it's been burned (Not simply the Toast preference immediately after). I'm using Mac OSc 10.4.2. and DVD Studio Pro. Thanks www.leskaye.net | | | | |
| | | | | Compressor: CBR Bitrate recommendationsby Les Kaye 5 years agoThe material shot was NTSC DV 16:9. Will I see a difference with settings that are both set to CBR, one with the default bitrate of 5.0, and the other at a CBR of 7.7 I ask because the first yields an | | | | |
| | | | | Formatting Failed - Help Appreciatedby Les Kaye 5 years agoThe mpeg 2 file is 5.29 GB and the aac audio is 135 MB. I used the same type of DL disk (Memorex) that I've used previously. Simulation worked fine. The video and audio tracks seem fine when played an | | | | |
| | | | | VERY Long Compressor Renderby Les Kaye 5 years agoLet me know if this is the correct forum. I will cross post to the FCP forum as well: I imported an NTSC DV 16:9 QT mov (exported from FCP 5 as self contained) into Compressor 2. It has chapters creat | | | | |
| | | | | DVDSP 4.1 Newbie questionby Les Kaye 5 years agoI want one piece of music to play over multiple chapters links (various still photos). How would I go about this Thanks. www.leskaye.net | | | | |
| | | | | Exporting menu imageby Les Kaye 5 years agoI'd like to send out jpegs of menu items created in DVDSP for proofing. I can't find any export function to do this. Suggestions Thanks, -Les www.leskaye.net | | | | |
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