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| | | | |  | No Convergence of iOS & OS Xby Andrew Richards 3 weeks agoReading MacRumors reporting on today's Apple financial results conference call, this jumped out at me: Q: Can you talk about how you think about the markets for tablets and PC devices going forward Yo | Re: No Convergence of iOS & OS X
by Mitch Ives 3 weeks ago
Thanks for correcting my typo... yes 50,000... which really is a small amount. I can see them canceling it... too bad, that's the size I always buy... Mitch Ives Insight Productions Corp. "Criticism m
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| | | |  | One year later...by Mark Raudonis 4 weeks 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 3 weeks 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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| | | |  | FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in actionby Eric Parker Andersen 4 weeks agoI haven't checked in on this forum in awhile, not sure if it just for bashing FCPX Apple, or if there are many positive posts as well. Here goes. Although I'm sure the haters will say 'too little too | Re: FCPX Broadcast Monitoring in action
by Mitch Ives 4 weeks ago
Chris Kenny "You're stating opinions as facts." Hmmm. seems like a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black I don't hate FCPX. What I hate are the fanboys who refuse to admit there are were any
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| | | | | The Fog Thickensby Andrew Richards 4 weeks agoSo all the cats are out of their bags. Smoke's new UI and new price, CS6 in all its glory with OpenCL buds appearing next to the CUDA flowers, Avid doubling down on discounts with the Symphony crossgr+2 | Re: The Fog Thickens
by Mitch Ives 4 weeks ago
Lance Bachelder "Sad that when the Adobe guy showed that now when you drop a clip on a new sequence it shows a dialog box almost exactly like FCP7 asking if you want to conform the seq to the media e
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| | | |  | Huge FCPX update in the pipelineby Mark Dobson 4 weeks agoLarry Jordan met with Apple and brings us news of a huge update later this year. http: www.larryjordan.biz app_bin wordpress archives 1800 New features will include - wait for it - Dual Monitors, Mult | Re: Huge FCPX update in the pipeline
by Mitch Ives 4 weeks ago
Bill Davis "(BTW, It looks like there's a different guy blogging under Bill Davis in the response stream to Larry's Blog - the curse of a common name - no relation.)" If I'm not mistaken, he was on t
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| | | |  | The Undo bug is BACK!by Steve Connor 2 months agoJust lost a couple of hours work because of the undo bug which I thought had gone in 10.03. The bug also affected the backup file. You have been warned...... Steve Connor "FCPX Agitator" Adrenalin Tel | Re: The Undo bug is BACK!
by Mitch Ives 2 months ago
Mark Morache "Does this happen in Lion as well as Snow Leopard I've never run into it. I'm running 10.6.8." Good point, I;m on Lion. Steve Mitch Ives Insight Productions Corp. "Criticism may not be a
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| | | |  | FCP X/DSLR Slow Motion Questionby Nick Paonessa 4 months agoI'm having a huge problem trying to capture "true slow motion" in FCPX. When I slow the footage down, even with Optical Flow, I don't get professional looking slow motion. It's pretty good at 50% but | Re: FCP X/DSLR Slow Motion Question
by Mitch Ives 4 months ago
Nick Paonessa "I'm having a huge problem trying to capture "true slow motion" in FCPX. When I slow the footage down, even with Optical Flow, I don't get professional looking slow motion. It's pretty
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| | | |  | Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?by Craig Seeman 4 months agoDigital Heaven LegalText replacement http: www.digital-heaven.co.uk dh_legaltext Seems this isn't a high priority port for FCPX. I do local political spots and I live by this plugin for disclaimers. I | Re: Digital Heaven LegalText replacement?
by Mitch Ives 4 months ago
Michael Sanders "If you do a lot of caption work and haven't tried the FCP X Motion 5 combo yet, may I humbly suggest you give it a go. Certainly in this respect FCP X isn't just there it way past FC
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| | | |  | Delete rejected parts in a clipby Ray Wang 5 months agoAfter marking "rejected" in a clip, how do you actually delete the rejected parts only I have one 30 minute clip in the event which I only need 30 seconds of footage. I would like to delete the reject | Re: Delete rejected parts in a clip
by Mitch Ives 5 months ago
Bill Davis "Well, It's a nice feature in an environment where one person works on one computer doing one project. Okay, I'm confused. This is the group you keep saying is the whole focus of FCPX. You
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| | | |  | Blog: Back into the fire.by gary adcock 8 months agoHey, Yeah, me again. There is alot happening in the industry right now, here is an interview with MacVideo's Rick Young that I did at IBC. My thanks to Dean Cleary on Bcam and AJA for allowing us to s+1 | Re: Blog: Back into the fire.
by Mitch Ives 8 months ago
Greg Andonian "The way I see it, the only way this fiasco could have been avoided is if Apple had decided to man up and do a re-write of FCP using the tried-and-true track based paradigm that everyon
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| | | | | I've figured out who these people are!!!by Richard Johnson 8 months agoSo I've been trying to decide whether to purchase FCPX or move to Adobe or Avid. I've been following these forums fairly closely and had almost gotten convinced not to. There are a lot of posts in pra+3  | Re: I've figured out who these people are!!!
by Glen Hurd 8 months ago
Avid (and others) may sit tight until FCPXML supports more features than the current iteration. Currently, you can't even export and import an FCPX project and preserve your audio levels. Let alone su
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| | | | | Blog: The realization sets inby gary adcock 10 months agoSo, When I posted the first comments on FCPX 4 weeks ago, I thought I was going to be strung up and burned at the stake by some of the commentary. Now everyone seems resolute to the fact that FCPX is | Re: Blog: The realization sets in
by Mitch Ives 10 months ago
gary adcock "I am waiting for Lion at this point, since the people I am talking to are waiting for the release also. There is no guarantee that when Lion ships any of the tools will work there anymor
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| | | | | Blog: FCP X updates High Level July 6th Meeting in Londonby gary adcock 10 months agoEven as I get ready to publish the next of my articles on FCPX, the enviroment is changing so fast it is hard to keep up. From the News wires today about a highlevel meeting with EU broadcasters held | Re: @Mitch Ives
by Mitch Ives 10 months ago
Apparently the show just dropped on ever getting video out of FCPX. Damn. Philip Hodgetts just confirmed the following: "Matrox made there announcement this morning and categorically stated that there
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| | | |  | Blog: Thanks Apple...Sincerelyby David Battistella 11 months agoLook, I have not done a full evaluation of the software but I have to say one thing. EDITING WITH FCP X is VERY VERY FAST! I have prided myself on being able to break down footage quickly but FCP X ta+1 | Re: Blog: Thanks Apple...Sincerely
by Mitch Ives 11 months ago
David Battistella "Fair enough. I'll take it back. I appreciate your input. " No need to. My point was, I had a an initial reaction to your post, but I kept reading on to put it in context, as I've r
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| | | |  | one more kick in the groin.by Aindreas Gallagher 11 months agoyou can't turn the magnetic timeline off. https: discussions.apple.com message 15454581 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. that is so funny. the whole timeline sliding around like jello. edits cut to music+1 | Re: one more kick in the groin.
by Peter Blumenstock 11 months ago
Given Apple's past track record I don't really care what may or, more likely, may not come in a future update. What matters to me is the status quo. And with Apple pulling FCP7 it can be described in
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| | | | | Enter the Ninjaby John Frey 1 year agoEnter the Ninja http: www.atomos.com John D. Frey 25 Year owner operator of two California-based production studios. Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinor | Re: Enter the Ninja
by Mitch Ives 1 year ago
Shane Ross "Too bad many DSLR's don't send out a clean signal via HDMI." My thoughts exactly. This would rock if my 5DmkII could use it. This could also stop a lot of people rushing from FCP to Premi
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| | | | | shutter speed multiple of 24by Dan LaCloche 2 years agoI read many places that a shutter speed of 1 50 is the best for 24fps video because it's the closest you can get to the 1 48 used in motion pictures. I also read that if you start messing with the shu | Re: shutter speed multiple of 24
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
As usual, Noah gives good advice. I'm editing some stuff shot in the mid-west by somebody else that has a lot of this. Most of it is unusable because when shooting outdoors they let the camera compens
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| | | |  | Connection Accessories to DSLRby Ala Mctoom 2 years agoHi there. I'm new to videography so please be patient with me. I just bought a 7d camera and I'm planning to buy its gear and extra stuff like field monitor. I'm not sure how to connect those stuff to | Re: Connection Accessories to DSLR
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Bill (as usual) makes a series of good suggestions. What you're going through is typical and there is no one right answer. For my part, I'll add the following: 1) I went the cage route, and then aband
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| | | | | iPhone coming to Verizon in Januaryby walter biscardi 2 years agohttp: www.ajc.com business verizon-will-start-selling-560313.html http: www.msnbc.msn.com id 38002805 ns technology_and_science-wireless Walter Biscardi, Jr. Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consul | Re: Upon further review....
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
LOL... oh Tim, I forgot how much I miss your sense of humor... and of course your carefully thought out analyses... Mitch Ives Insight Productions Corp. mitch@insightproductions.com www.insightproduct
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| | | |  | 5D and FCPby Edward Neary 2 years agoJust bought the Canon 5D MarkII. Shot a wedding at 30P and I have a Matrox Mini connected to my computer. Here's the workflow using FCP 7 on a MAC: upload cards with a USB Card Reader with Apple Pro R | Re: 5D and FCP
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Bouke Vahl "May i remind you that currently Compact flash is the same price per minute as digibeta HDcam tapes (and take a bit less shelf...) " True, but not as cheap as DV, DVcam, DVCpro, HDV, etc.w
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| | | | | indisystem products anyone?by tony gomez 2 years agoanyone used these products I'd love to order an entire package from them.. but no response to my emails.. The prices are amazing....but I wanted advice to make a correct choice for my needs.. This is | Re: indisystem products anyone?
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Lance Bachelder "Maybe you need to change your production name to Incite since you insist on fighting every time you post. After seeing your website I think you may better serve yourself and your cli
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| | | | | 64 gig card showing up as 16Gigby Tommy Haake 2 years agoHi all, I just picked up an hvx200p that came with a 64 gig p2 card. In 1080 24 mode it only gives me 16 minutes of recording time, which I think means it's recognizing the card as a 16 gig. I first t | | | | |
| | | | | NOOB: Capturing Footage Shot With XL2by Brett Berry 2 years agoTwo weeks ago, I shot an awards banquet. Realized that morning that my XL1s was broken, so I rented a XL2. A couple of days after returning the XL2, my FCP software arrived, and I installed. Now that | Re: NOOB: Capturing Footage Shot With XL2
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
While playback in a solid deck like your DSR-20 is pretty reliable, I find it less so in cameras, particularly smaller ones. Tapes recorded in Panasonic DV camcorders often have playback problems in S
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| | | |  | LiveType looks awful IN FCPby scott snyder 2 years agoHi everyone. When I create a Title in Livetype - it looks great in LT, it looks great when saved to desktop and played w Quicktime. BUT when I drag it into FCP it looks terrible (all fuzzy and aliased | Re: LiveType looks awful IN FCP
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Ours was all P2 720p. Matched LT w FCP and still no joy... Might try some work-a-rounds based on your approach... Mitch Ives Insight Productions Corp. mitch@insightproductions.com www.insightproductio
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| | | | | P2 w/ FCS 3 & 10.6?by Mitch Ives 2 years agoI'm sorry if this has been asked, but I couldn't seem to locate any discussion on this. Is anyone using P2 successfully with both FCS 3 and 10.6 Are you able to use the camera through firewire and USB | | | | |
| | | |  | Topics for 2010 AZFCPUG Meetingsby Phil Hoppes 2 years agoDavid and I have been discussing a range of topics for our meetings in 2010 and we would be interested in any inputs from other users. Here is a short list we've put together so far: 1) Plug-Ins - Hav | Re: Topics for 2010 AZFCPUG Meetings
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Let's see... FCS 3 was released last June... Snow leopard was released last August. At the risk of stating the obvious, you could consider discussing those at a meeting... Mitch Ives Insight Productio
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| | | |  | Trouble Shooting Mac Proby Dustinn Craig 2 years agoHello, I just had 4 additional Gigs of ram installed in my Mac Pro Tower at MacMedia adding to my factory 2 gigs. I had the store install because earlier this summer I purchased 12 gigs and started wi | Re: Trouble Shooting Mac Pro
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
Dustin, Don't rule out the ram issue. Your current config is almost guaranteed to generate problems. As the poster boy for discovering the eccentricities of the 8-core Mac pros I can attest to this. A
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| | | | | FCP 7 noticed issuesby Raymond Tuquero 2 years agoWe recently upgraded our edit suites to FCP 7 and have found some issues or bugs that have bothered us ... TO NOTE: We have found the solutions (well temporary) to these issues. I just wanted to ask a | Re: FCP 7 noticed issues
by Mitch Ives 2 years ago
We ran into a variation on your first one immediately after installing FCS3 (still on 10.5.8). In our case there wasn't a problem saving, but whenever we would try to render a section of the timeline
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| | | |  | broadcast monitor playbackby ayman abdel-basset 3 years agoHi, In my company we have many edit suites of FCP with kona LH. we usually face problem. my self didn't face with the blackmagic.. when we import any QT file (for example) H.264. then insert it in seq | Re: broadcast monitor playback
by Mitch Ives 3 years ago
Jeremy Garchow "Avid usually transcodes files upon import, a process very different to FCP. At that point, you aren't playing back h264 files, but rather Avid codec files. " good point... Mitch Ives
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| | | |  | OT: End of Prosumer Camcorders???by Brian Pitt 3 years agoI work as a videographer editor for a mid-sized corporation. I produce multiple training marketing videos primarily shot with Sony HDV V1U camcorders. The photographers in my department recently let m | Re: OT: End of Prosumer Camcorders???
by Mitch Ives 3 years ago
John Davidson "You could also point out that Final Cut should could support editing via H.264. Apple sure pushed that codec down our throats hard enough a few years ago. That doesn't make me a sucker
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