Deeply involved in post production of "reality TV" shows. | | | | Member Since: August 4th 2003 Location: los Angeles CA USA | | | | |
Friends:  Michael Gossen | | | | |  | Apologiesby Tim Wilson 1 month agoHey kids, You know I'm very, very cautious about interfering with the flow of traffic. I'm okay having things get a little bit out of hand now and again and try to rein it in, rather than step on a di+1 | Re: Apologies
by Mark Raudonis 4 weeks ago
Hi Tim, Did I ever tell you I DON'T want your job! It's gotta be tough walking that fine line between benevolent dictator and a tyrant! I can honestly say that most good people appreciate your efforts
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| | | |  | The Future of Editingby Greg Andonian 1 month agoI was thinking, If Apple really is skating to where the puck will be and FCPX really is the future of editing, you would expect the users of other NLEs to want their preffered NLE to follow in its foo | Re: The Future of Editing
by Mark Raudonis 1 month ago
Herb Sevush "You could rethink the car as well " It's already been done. Car "2.0" is called a "TESLA Model S"! Test drive it and you'll know you've seen the future of automobile transportation. Mark
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| | | |  | Spatial awareness and memory recallby Aindreas Gallagher 2 months agoI blurbed about this in a post a mile into the"interesting series" piece, but the back and forth stuck in my head so I thought I'd try it again as a question on edit prep in X Basically whether there +8 | | | | |
| | | |  | LTO6 Budget Solutionsby Scott Goddard 2 months agoAs LTO6 is now shipping I am looking to round up a few solutions to fit different (mostly low) budgets. These would be mainly single desktop drive with a SAS controller (PCI) Mac based setup. My quest | Re: LTO6 Budget Solutions
by Mark Raudonis 2 months ago
I'll add another positive vote for "Storage DNA". http: storagedna.com We've had our system in place for over a year now and it's been a savior in many ways. Only issue we've had is when some of our f
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| | | |  | Avid ISIS and Appleby Wyatt Keel 3 months agoOk, about a year ago my office made the switch from Avid to Final Cut Pro. I am a little angry at Apple because they helped us plan out a large Final Cut Server workflow, but somehow forgot to mention | Re: Avid ISIS and Apple
by Mark Raudonis 3 months ago
Wyatt, We were in your situation over a year ago... all Final Cut X-SAN, and switched to AVID ISIS. We did NOT get rid of the X-SAN and still use it for archiving, storage, and the occasional FCP proj
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| | | |  | We're a little late this year, but...by Todd Terry 5 months ago. ...the tacky (yet vintage) aluminum Christmas tree finally made its annual appearance in our lobby today.... Happy Holidays to all! May we all survive the season..... T2 ____________________________+3 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Test editing during job interviewby Kinga Brooks 6 months agoHello, What is your opinion about test editing during job interview (for example: "Please note that you will be editing a test clip as part of the interview process") -Is it legal so ask someone to do | Re: Test editing during job interview
by Mark Raudonis 6 months ago
Consider it an "audition". If you were trying out for the symphony orchestra, they'd ask you to stand up and play. If you were up for a role in a film, they'd ask you to read a scene. If you're trying
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| | | | | ATEM support for 23.98P???by Mark Raudonis 6 months agoAnybody have a guess as to wether we will ever see 1080 23.98P support for the ATEM product line It's a great product but most of what we shoot is on 23.98... so currently it's a no go. Love to hear s | Re: ATEM support for 23.98P???
by Shaun Roemich 6 months ago
23.98 psf works fine as it is a broadcast compliant format. Big Dog - Technical Director - Switcher Road Dog Media - Vancouver, BC Canada roaddogmedia@gmail.com
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| | | |  | Isis 5000 and 7000by Mike Jeffs 7 months agoCan someone give me a high level idea of the differences between a isis 5000 and 7000. I understand 7000 is total enterprise class and offers more storage capacity. But are there other compelling diff | Re: Isis 5000 and 7000
by Mark Raudonis 6 months ago
ISIS 5000: Limit of 90 connected clients. 7000= limited only by the bandwidth of your switches. We have 3 ISIS 5000's. You're probably wondering why we didn't go with the 7000. Real estate and geograp
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| | | |  | 2 editors working on same projectby rand courtney 8 months agoI haven't ever tried this before but I have a big project coming up where 2 editors i am hiring are required to edit 125, 3 minute videos. I want one editor to handle videos 1-75 and the other to edit | Re: 2 editors working on same project
by Mark Raudonis 8 months ago
rand courtney "Clueless..." Signing off as "clueless" is like dangling a frozen chicken over a swamp full of alligators... Yes, I'll bite! Did you even bother to try searching this forum That topic c
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| | | |  | Problems outputting hour long showby alan loshbaugh 8 months agoHey all; Alan Loshbaugh with KOMU-TV, Columbia MO here. First post, I did look at faq first. We work on Final Cut Studio Pro 7.03. Our media is on a facilis raid server. OS 10.5.8. Aja kona LHe video | Re: Problems outputting hour long show
by Mark Raudonis 8 months ago
Alan, In your first post you mentioned you were using PRo res HQ. THat's a huge file. Try changing your sequence setting to plain old prores (NOT hq). That will yield a much more manageble file. Try t
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| | | | | 29.97 Dropframe Issue !!! Need ADVICE ASAPby James Kim 9 months agoHi There, I have a sequence in FCP that was edited in 29.97 NON Drop Frame and we need to prep it for broadcast delivery. I moved my sequence into a DROP frame sequence and got a very different timeco | | | | |
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| | | |  | Mini Network For FCPby Craig Fitzsimmons 9 months agoHello, A colleague and I have just started both using FCP (he was using PremPro) and want to share the external hard drive that has all the media we use on it. The problem is we can only connect one c | Re: Mini Network For FCP
by Mark Raudonis 9 months ago
Craig Fitzsimmons "Dose anyone know a device which will able us both to use the same drive at the same time." Yes. It's called "X-SAN". That's Apple's solution. It's probably more expensive than you'
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| | | |  | The Power of a Wishby Steve Martin 1 year agoHello my bovine friends, This may not be the perfect place to post, but it's an important video for me to share and I'd like to get a wonderful non-profit as much exposure as I possibly can. It was an | | | | |
| | | | | One year later...by Mark Raudonis 1 year agoJust got back from NAB 2012, and lots of people asked me, " If you hadn't changed yet, would you still make the same decision today to switch to Avid " My answer "Unequivocally, YES I would." There we+3  | Re: One year later...
by Mitch Ives 1 year ago
Paul Nordin "Words that make me cringe and look for a different thread that isn't an endless circular boring conversation with no new information." You seriously couldn't figure out the new informati
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| | | |  | Voice Isolationby Chip Hess 1 year agoSo I have a client giving me video with music married to the voice track. Raw footage is allegedly unavailable. We need to recut, but that of course will cause horrible jumps in the music. Is there so | Re: Voice Isolation
by Mark Raudonis 1 year ago
Short of a NSA level super secret black ops tech device, this is NOT possible. At least not in a way that would make your client happy. Sure, you can play with EQ, you can do "reverse noise eliminatio
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| | | | | Final Cut P2 Codex Problemby jimmy joe roche 1 year agoHey guys So recently I've noticed something strange in Final Cut at the Lab where I work. We own a HVX and HPX and just recently I've noticed that when it Imports footage shot in 720p24PN ( which is h | Re: Final Cut P2 Codex Problem
by Mark Raudonis 1 year ago
... and it's a "CODEC" not a CODEX! Comes from "Compression Decompression". A codex is basically a book. http: en.wikipedia.org wiki Codex Maybe that was the problem Mark
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| | | | | Clip names and multiple editors.by Nim Jethwa 1 year agoHello forum, I am working for the first time on a project with multiple editors. There are 4 remote editors each with hard drives with the exact same name, files, and file structure for the Scratch Di | Re: Clip names and multiple editors.
by Mark Raudonis 1 year ago
Yes, we mean NEVER change the clip name within the FCP browser! Bad idea. FCP even has a feature which allows you to change the filename at the finder level from within FCP. This is both a cursing and
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| | | |  | os x lion server question # 2by Bob Zelin 1 year agoHi - different server, different client. Create TWO groups. One with 5 users, one with 9 users. Week later, go to check on installation. I see that when you look at groups, in addition to the users ea | | | | |
| | | | | logo on clothing permissionsby tyler smith 1 year agoI shot a video a few months ago, told the artist not to wear anything with logos on it, but his co artist pretty much rocked logo'd clothing for the entire shoot. they want to submit the vid for broad | Re: logo on clothing permissions
by Mark Raudonis 1 year ago
Regarding the logo blurs:::: 99% of all the blurs we do have NOTHING to do with permissions, and EVERYTHING to do with marketing. Example: Pepsi could care less if you display their logo, but Coke wil
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| | | | | our crazy businessby Bob Zelin 2 years agoAVID certainly deserves it's day in the sun today with the release of Media Composer 6, and its support of every FCP capture card out there. 2011 has been a crazy year for technology - everything from+1 | Re: our crazy business
by Mark Raudonis 2 years ago
Mr. Zelin As always, you hit the nail on the head. 2011 has to go down in history as THE most tumultuous year in post EVER! Plenty of change. Plenty of opportunity. Plenty of uncertainty. I abandoned
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| | | |  | Recording incognito and on the phone.by lily hart 2 years agoWe're using hidden equipment to record job fairs incognito, of course faces and identifiable information will be blocked. Our second step is recording the Welfare to Work activities which includes Job | | | | |
| | | |  | Blog: Thoughts on learning FCPXby Jeff Greenberg 2 years agoDay 45 of FCPX. Been teaching it and using it. Warning, I'm not trying to have an opinion on if I think the software is good or bad - I'm trying to understand what's going on. Really thinking through +1 | Re: Blog: Thoughts on learning FCPX
by Mark Raudonis 2 years ago
Jeff Greenberg "How much are they shooting 150:1 (or more.) " We blew past 150-1 years ago. Now it can be upwards of 300-800 to 1 (or even higher). In all fairness, much of that material is multicam
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| | | | | Payment terms for editing network tv showby Max Kaiser 2 years agoHi there, We're being asked to edit a network tv show (for a small network, mind you, not a biggie) and the payment terms are sort of tough on us. They are 25% down, and then the remainder when the sh | | | | |
| | | |  | Anything new or storage at NAB?by Neil Sadwelkar 2 years agoDidn't make it eventually. Anyone see anything dramatically new for storage, at NAB Maybe a 'Thunderbolt SAN' Or even standalone Thunderbolt storage apart from the Promise box Matrix made an announcem | | | | |
| | | | | Storage Options100+ TBby Drew Mortensen 2 years agoHello All, The educational non-profit that I work for recently decided to make the jump into a modest amount of video production work. By that I mean that we have purchased a pair of Sony XDcams, a Ne | Re: Storage Options100+ TB
by Mark Raudonis 2 years ago
Drew, OK. Here you go. We use Apple's X-SAN tied to Active Storage X-RAIDs. With over five years of uptime, it's been a workhorse for us. Will this be the right choice for you I have no idea. It depen
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| | | | | NAB 2011 Party/Gatheringby Bob Zelin 2 years agoHi - I am pleased to announce that Maxx Digital, Hitachi, and ATTO Technology will sponsor the annual "drink for free" party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on Monday 4 11 2011 after 8pm. Trade yo | | | | |
| | | | | Fcp and Isisby Christopher Lowden 2 years agoHello I investigating solutions to attach 25 fcp suites to a central server using prores hd. For the moment the machines are on Xsan and I do not have intention of upgrading. This leaves me the Isis, | Re: Fcp and Isis
by Mark Raudonis 2 years ago
Christopher Lowden "I tried running 25 workstations using Active Directory on an xserve with xsan. It was a disaster. " Christopher, I've been following your posts for years, so I know you're not a t
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| | | |  | Linear Tape File Systemby Jim Curtis 2 years agoDoes anybody use it Or the HP LTFS The Wiki article says they've been developed for OSX 10.5: http: en.wikipedia.org wiki Linear_Tape_File_System#Supported_operating_systems I wouldn't mind giving BRU | | | | |
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