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| | | | | | CatDV vs Nesbitby Rich Rubasch 6 days agoFor you CatDV users out there, how would you compare the product line of CatDV with the Nesbit systems line Is one stronger than the other Advantages Cost Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production | Re: CatDV vs Nesbit
by bryson jones 6 days ago
I've not seen Nesbit for things other than tape management. We have done some transfers where we took a Nesbit Tape library and converted the metadata into CatDV and linked it to files as the tapes we
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| | | |  | Discuss. :-)by Charlie Austin 3 weeks agoFound this kind of interesting. Re-posted from fcp.co... http: www.fcptalent.com an-editor-asks-should-i-be-learning-fcpx ------------------------------------------------------------- "It is a poor cr | Re: Discuss. :-)
by Rich Rubasch 3 weeks ago
To add to Greg's comments, not to forget that AVID is a fully mature and complete (and robust) editing platform with some also great features shown at NAB. Price is not as low as FCP X but it is truly
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| | | |  | Creative and Stylish Pic in Picby Luis Artigas 2 months agoGreetings and salutations I am Producing, shooting and editing a project for a client that works in the health sector and at several points in the video I am planning on using pic in pic to create col | | | | |
| | | |  | Editing "rules"by Christopher Travis 1 month agoHello all, What do people think about cutting straight from one talking head to another in an interview-led narrative i.e. no cutaways in between just comment A - cut- comment B. I just got told by my | Re: Editing "rules"
by Rich Rubasch 4 weeks ago
Watch any ESPN sports talk show and they cut from one guy to the next as a rule! One thing to soften the blow from this kind of edit is to split edit the thing. If the first guy holds a look for a bea
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| | | |  | Blog: My Not-So-Secret Diary: NAB 2013by Kylee Wall 1 month agoI'm not sure how many times you have to go to NAB before the old(er) people stop pinching your cheeks, but it turns out two isn't the number of times. Not that it bothers me in the least because I'll | Re: My Not-So-Secret Diary: NAB 2013
by Rich Rubasch 1 month ago
Totally agree on the Zelin comments....dude will strike you down in an instant on a post, but meet the guy and you melt in his aura of charm. Odd, that. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production,
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| | | | | Big Thank You to Marianna Montagueby Bill Dawson 1 month agoAt this years NAB (2013), I went looking for, and found, Marianna Montague. I wanted to thank her for all of the help she has given me. I support 25 Composers and 5 Symphonies and getting the Avid lic+1 | Re: Big Thank You to Marianna Montague
by Rich Rubasch 1 month ago
I don't even own an AVID (well, 6.5 on a PC that gets little use) and I think she is spectacular. And she rides a Harley...bonus! Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stag
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| | | | | Blog: Deep Thoughts from Vegas: Day Fourby Kylee Wall 1 month agoDay Four, but really day six. Day six of four. Whatever. Last day of NAB. Day negative one seems like a week and a half ago at least. DEEP THOUGHT: SMS. When I read NAB suggestions and tips and wrap-u | Deep Thoughts from Vegas...communicating
by Rich Rubasch 1 month ago
Funny, I approach NAB a lot like downhill skiing. I don't like skiing in groups. I know how fast I want to go, and if I don't want to take a break at that middle of the hill gathering place then I wil
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| | | |  | Great time at NAB 2013by Ralph Hajik 1 month agoNAB Expo Readers, I had another great time at NAB, walking around and seeing what's hot this year. There was just to much to take in when you have only two days. It seems that 3D wasn't being pushed a | Re: Great time at NAB 2013
by Rich Rubasch 1 month ago
I agree...it was another great show. I have a day by day review at my blog at Tilt Media's site....check it out and post any comments or things you saw at the show! http: www.tiltmedia.com blog.html R
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| | | |  | Project Management and Tracking Softwareby Peter Brewer 2 months agoI'd love to find some software that I can enter a job and job number and it also had a time tracker on it. One that could be used over a network would be great and once a job is finished and invoiced, | | | | |
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| | | | | Rhythm and Huesby Bob Zelin 3 months agoI am sickened by all the news about Rhythm and Hues, made even worse by the announcement of them opening up in Taiwan, and screwing everyone in LA. I have seen no mention of this on Creative Cow - sur | Re: Rhythm and Hues
by Rich Rubasch 3 months ago
Knock it off...you're scaring me! Depreciation of gear is astoundingly short. It really is not an investment anymore because it changes so fast. but I have gotten 5-6 years of good work out of a small
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| | | | | the south lower hallby Bob Zelin 3 months agoI am AMAZED at all the cool companies that are positioned in the south lower hall. In past years, to walk ALL THE WAY to the back, never happened, but there are so many cool software companies (Axle, | Re: the south lower hall
by Rich Rubasch 3 months ago
ON the other hand the South Upper hall, other than Sony is a bit thin on interest for me. Gonna look at some digital signage and maybe some of the trades how booth display technology....but not too mu
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| | | | | Motion Graphics Senior Designerby Rich Rubasch 3 months agoTilt Media Inc. is looking for a staff Senior Designer. We are looking for 2D type and motion graphics artist...great design is the key for this position. You take a passionate and skilled approach at | | | | |
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| | | |  | Editor Peer Groups / Organizationsby John Grote, Jr. 3 months agoHello all, I was pondering the lack of Editor Peer Groups or Organizations, it seems that other than ACE or AICE but nothing that would rival the CAS in the audio world. I was wondering if there are o | Re: Editor Peer Groups / Organizations
by Rich Rubasch 3 months ago
LOOK up a Media Communications Association in your area. Our website is mcaimadison.org and the national site is mca-i.org Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage Found
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| | | |  | Imagesby Jeff Kelley 4 months agoI hope I'm posting this is the right area. I work for a educational toy company and many f the people who carry our product want images of the product for their website but each one has different size | Re: Images
by Rich Rubasch 4 months ago
But Bill typically uses non-standard software to complete the task at hand. See his posts on the Final Cut X Debate forum... ; ) Couldn't resist. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, S
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| | | | | H2.64 Compression from ProResHQby Annie Rooney 5 months agoI work at a post production facility as an assistant editor. We make commercials and when we get the final picture from the finishing house, it's usually in the form of a DPX Sequence. For one of our | Re: H2.64 Compression from ProResHQ
by Rich Rubasch 4 months ago
What are some of your settings Are you converting from 23.98 to 29.97 Are fields involved in the ProRes What bitrate are you encoding to Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sou
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| | | |  | PPro vs FCPX "professional features"by Steve Connor 4 months agoSo as of their latest versions what "professional features" does PPro have that FCPX lacks and vice-versa Steve Connor 'It's just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure" | Re: PPro vs FCPX "professional features"
by Rich Rubasch 4 months ago
Again, for a production company (ie PRO) these "solutions" are a nightmare for a 6-edit bay facility. Editor 1 downloads one of these free plug ins but doesn't let anyone know. Editor 2 opens the 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 | | | | |
| | | |  | Copyright on using a quote from a bookby chris zacchia 6 months agoI'm working on an indie Documentary at the moment and am looking at clearing the rights for everything in the film. At the begining of the film we use a quote from a book on the same subject as the fi | Re: Copyright on using a quote from a book
by Rich Rubasch 6 months ago
Probably nothing. Contact the publisher or Google the author directly. Most of the time (every time I have asked) you will receive permission. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Stud
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| | | |  | Break-even point for studio spaceby Christopher New 6 months agoQuestion for anyone who rents out studio space, edit bays, recording studios, etc.: what is your rule-of-thumb for "minimum occupancy" Obviously, with the caveat that 100% utilization would be preferr | Re: Break-even point for studio space
by Rich Rubasch 6 months ago
Interesting Todd....same here. Gangbusters Sept and Oct then a but quieter in November....election woes People sort of realizing we're in for pretty much the same thing No movement politically nationa
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| | | | | New MacPro closer to reality?by Rich Rubasch 6 months agohttp: appleinsider.com articles 12 11 27 os-x-1083-beta-supports-amd-radeon-7000-drivers-hinting-at-apples-new-mac-pro Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage Founder P | Re: New MacPro closer to reality?
by Craig Seeman 6 months ago
Herb Sevush "Every Apple store I've been too is open and relatively well lit, the Mac pro is displayed just like all the other computers." Maybe you don't have experience in retail. It's buried at th
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| | | | | Best File Formats to Import?by Doug Zimmerman 7 months agoI'm switching from FCP to Premiere CS6. I know that Adobe claims that Premiere works comfortably with all formats, but I've imported mp4 and H.264 mov. footage and I'm getting very slow performance, l | Re: Best File Formats to Import?
by Rich Rubasch 6 months ago
Anyone out there who IS converting to a standard codec (like ProRes) and having success editing with that codec If we go Premier I want to have a tried and true workflow in place with our older MacPro
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| | | | | Media Managementby Rich Rubasch 6 months agoWe are an all FCP shop. The capture folder has all the media in a folder for each project. The Render folder gets deleted at the end of a project. How does media management change in Premier I also ne | Re: Media Management
by Walter Soyka 6 months ago
Rich Rubasch "We are an all FCP shop. The capture folder has all the media in a folder for each project. The Render folder gets deleted at the end of a project. How does media management change in Pr
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| | | |  | Avid crossgrade comparisonby Oliver Peters 6 months agoAvid has dropped the price of their FCP "legacy" crossgrade to Media Composer offer. For a limited time, it's $999 until 12 14 12 (a $500 drop). For those of you sitting on the fence wondering about w | Re: Avid crossgrade comparison
by Rich Rubasch 6 months ago
Scary thing for us is we are all still Snow Leopard and cautious to move headlong into Lion (then Mountain Lion ). What is the future of the MacOS and how it relates to these high end editing packages
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| | | |  | Limiting Bitrate on H264 convertionby Leonardo Rossi Lazzari 7 months agoHi guys! I have a .mov captured with BlackMagic - a uncompressed file 1920x1080. It's about 250 gb. I need to convert to a h264 for exibition on a WD player. So, I went to the Mpeg Stream Clip softwar | Re: Limiting Bitrate on H264 convertion
by Rich Rubasch 6 months ago
40mbps is pretty high....I'll bet if you encode one at 10mbps you won't tell the difference between the two...but the 10mbps will actually play. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, St
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| | | | | View Captionsby Rich Rubasch 7 months agoIs there a program that allows you to view captions in an encoded MPEG2 file that has captions (was exported out of Mac Caption). I am on a Mac. The usual subjects don't allow me to turn on captions t | Re: View Captions
by James Brooks 2 weeks ago
We have a program called DrasticPreview that will read and display most standard captioning including MPEG-2 user embedded, MXF, MOV, h264 and MCC SCC sidebar. Its free to try for OS-X or Windows http
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| | | | | The interface is still annoyingby Oliver Peters 7 months agoI've been banging on this beast since the beginning and in the last 1 2 year done most of my client-involved sessions with it. But the more I work with it, the more I find that the way things have to +3 | Re: The interface is still annoying
by Rich Rubasch 7 months ago
According to Apple, there is a little "Pro" in all of us. So the fact that it says "Pro" just means it's for everyone. Except me. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stag
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| | | | | Lionby Rich Rubasch 7 months agoHi all; We are still all Snow Leopard here and are considering upgrading to Lion to enable Kona AJA drivers for Adobe CS6 and Avid Symphony which require it. BUT....I can't find a Lion installer for p | Re: Lion
by Andrew Richards 7 months ago
You can no longer buy Lion, but it can still be downloaded by Apple IDs that bought it when it was available. If you know anyone who bought it, they can log in to the Mac App Store and re-download the
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| | | |  | 23.98 to 29.97by Steven Austin 7 months agoHi. Hope this isn't too dumb of a question.... I'm working on an infotainment show in which the host studio sequences are shot on 7D at 29.97, and my FCP7 timeline is set up for that. (Pro Res). Most | Re: 23.98 to 29.97
by Rich Rubasch 7 months ago
If we shoot 23.98 we do so only if all the footage will be shot at 23.98. If we mix any other footage that is already 29.97 we shoot 30p and mix away. To convert 23.98 to 29.97 we use a built in Episo
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| | | | | Canon XF300 and Canon XF100by david hare 7 months agoOK im using a canon xf300 at the moment and a 7D as my second camera. Im having trouble matching up the footage from these two cameras, the xf 300 looks amazing where as the 7D looks a mess when filmi | Re: Canon XF300 and Canon XF100
by Rich Rubasch 7 months ago
We shoot with a 5D and a CF100 and we have gotten them to look very close...the CF300 with quite a bit more detail and the 5D perhaps a bit softer but pretty darn nice. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Vi
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| | | | | Crop Circlesby Rich Rubasch 7 months agoHi guys; Anyone have experience creating and shooting a crop circle in a corn field We are concerned on the coarseness of the corn itself and if it can make smooth lines on circular shapes unless you  | Re: Crop Circles
by Mark Suszko 7 months ago
I imagine you'll have to hand-weave some of the stalks to reduce the aliasing, on a scale like what you are using. I've had good luck imitating this in photoshop and other paint programs. Its less wor
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| | | |  | all-purpose file converterby Bob Cole 8 months agoI would like to buy a file conversion utility that does it all, cheerfully and without hassle. I'm done with trying to figure out terminal utilities - I just want to be able to give a piece of softwar | Re: all-purpose file converter
by Rich Rubasch 8 months ago
Episode by Telestream is the one. Paired with Compressor and or MPEG Streamclip you won't need anything else...well, Handbrake once in a while for a fussy file. Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Prod
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| | | |  | Cool Tool from some Swedesby Tom Daigon 9 months agohttp: www.goodmotion.se page_id=702 Tom Daigon PrP After Effects Editor www.hdshotsandcuts.com http: www.youtube.com watch v=XRIg6h-LIm0 (Best viewed at 1080P and full screen) HP Z820 Dual 2687 64GB r | Re: Cool Tool from some Swedes
by Rich Rubasch 9 months ago
What are we looking at Transitions Overlay effects Speed ramping What is the site for the company Rich Rubasch Tilt Media Inc. Video Production, Post, Studio Sound Stage Founder President Editor Desig
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