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| | | |  | CS6 Multi-Cam bug workaround...by Chris Borjis 3 months agoJust ran into this last week, read stories and workarounds at various forums. Here's what I did to get around it. This might be helpful for anyone with the issue: Problem: media pending when you want | Re: CS6 Multi-Cam bug workaround...
by Robert Brown 3 months ago
I was having serious issues and have found the source of it. I had numerous sequences that were taking a huge amount of time to export audio or video. I had multicam sequences and I was getting "rende
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| | | | | Multicam strange behaviorby Robert Brown 4 months agoHi I have a couple of odd things happening in multicam in CS6.02 OSX 10.8. I have my synced timeline ready and drag it into the source monitor. I then enable multicam and I get several views like I wo | | | | |
| | | |  | System Config Adviceby Gautam Pandey 6 months agoHi everyone! A little tight on budget, so being a little conservative with the config. Will probably upgrade as I get along. Any opinions on this config I will be editing and outputting in HD with usu | Re: System Config Advice
by Robert Brown 6 months ago
Well you might get an angry reply from Grant on that post. But, I recently bought a BM Studio board for Davinci use and have to say on the Mac side it's pretty crappy. Serious lag in PPro meaning the
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| | | | | Export Dolby Digital 5.1by Giannakis Omirous 6 months agoWhat is the best way to export an HD video with Dolby Digital 5.1 encoding from Adobe Premier cs5 for a TV playback. I have tried the H.264 Blu Ray export 'Dolby Digital' but there was a problem since | Re: Export Dolby Digital 5.1
by Robert Brown 6 months ago
Dolby 5.1 can be tricky because you have to have a Dolby encoder obviously and then it will only playback with an AC3 player. If you are making a DVD or BluRay you can use apple compressor to turn you
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| | | |  | Cuda not working in Premiere CS6by Victor Sibiya 6 months agoI'm having a problem when I put a video effect on a clip in the timeline it shows a red bar an not a yellow one to play on real time. I have enabled the mercury playback engine gpu acceleration on vid | Re: Cuda not working in Premiere CS6
by Robert Brown 6 months ago
FWIW I was having issues in Windows 7 with Cuda like black screens while pausing and various little oddities with the video with a GTX 285. I went back to the last pre v3 drivers they had and it all w
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| | | |  | Working with AVCHDby Gully Moore 7 months agoHi there, I've just switched from FCP to Premiere (loving every bit of it so far), I've just shot a film on a Sony FS100 which uses the AVCHD codec. I've copied the SD cards 'private' directory to my | Re: Working with AVCHD
by Robert Brown 7 months ago
I'm working on a big project with tons of AVCHD and didn't know that from the beginning. It's too late to re-import at this point. But if I were to do it again I would name the root folders of all the
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| | | |  | The inevitable move away from FCP 7by Steven Austin 7 months agoHope I'm posting in the right place... I've been cutting on FCP since 5 6 7 and now so frustrated with the support abandonment issue, that I decided to change to another vendor within 6 months. (FCP X | Re: The inevitable move away from FCP 7
by Robert Brown 7 months ago
I agree if you can get Avid that cheap go for it. Avid is good to know. But one thing PPro excels at is dealing with camera codecs. It's better than anything I've tried at dealing with footage right o
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| | | |  | Thoughts from the departed?by Steve Connor 11 months agoI can't help noticing that quite a few people who posted regularly a few months ago are conspicuous by their absence. If you haven't posted for a while I'm sure we'd be interested to see how some of y | Re: Thoughts from the departed?
by Robert Brown 11 months ago
David Lawrence "On the project I'm just starting, I'll need to sync some dual-source audio. I'll let you know how that goes." If you haven't checked out Plural Eyes yet they have a free trial. It mak
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| | | | | So how is Smoke 2013 then?by Steve Connor 11 months agoHas anyone had a chance to try it yet and if so what do you think Steve Connor "The ripple command is just a workaround for not having a magnetic timelinel" Adrenalin Television | Re: So how is Smoke 2013 then?
by Robert Brown 11 months ago
Gustavo Bermudas " I played a bit with it, I like it, but we have blackmagic cards on our machines, so for now it's not use, unless they incorporate Lustre for color correction we're sticking with Da
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| | | |  | AJA Support for Adobe CS6!by AJA Sales Department 12 months agoNew AJA Windows and Mac Plug-Ins for Adobe now support the recently released Adobe CS6, providing tighter integration between Adobe software and AJA I O devices for easier operation and huge performan | Re: AJA Support for Adobe CS6!
by Robert Brown 11 months ago
AJA Sales Department "It's critical that both the System Preferences audio settings and the Premiere Audio Hardware preference not be set to "AJA". If either is set to AJA hardware, drop outs and dis
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| | | |  | Audio issues with CS6 Kona 3by Greg Jones 12 months agoI just installed the Aja drivers and I notice there is a lot of audio dropout. Anyone else experience this. I have a Mac Pro 2,1 with a Kona 3 Greg Jones D7,Inc. | Re: Audio issues with CS6 Kona 3
by Robert Brown 11 months ago
Jim Watt "They had no suggestions on what was causing the Kernal Panic I was getting while trying to change audio hardware preference and also while in the Mac audio preference going from line input
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| | | |  | Article: Smoke: A Journey and a Look Aheadby David Jahns 12 months ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate Smoke: A Journey and a Look Ahead An FCP user and enthusiast since version 1.0, David Jahns looks at Autodesk Smoke for Mac, and discusses color-grading, tracking, editi | Re: Smoke: A Journey and a Look Ahead
by Robert Brown 12 months ago
Nice post and I have to share the ambivalence. I've been a Smoke user for a number of years now and if this had happened a year or two ago then I'd be blown away. Now it's like yawn. There are just to
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| | | | | Glitch Importing MTSFiles into MC5.5by James Eckhouse 1 year agoRunning MC 5.5. Shot about 60 clips (all under 2 minutes) on my DP's Panasonic GH2. Moved the MTS files onto my hard drive. started imorting into Avid. some files would import fine - but several cause | Re: Glitch Importing MTSFiles into MC5.5
by Robert Brown 1 year ago
You'll probably need to grain it up a little. Sapphire has a nice film effect that simulates various stocks. I've found slightly blurring video and adding grain on top of that to give a nice film look
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| | | |  | The Fog Thickensby Andrew Richards 1 year 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 1 year 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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| | | | | AMA import Panasonic AvcHDby Robert Brown 1 year agoHello, I have a project with quite a bit of AVCHD with the big directory structure with the Stream folder and DCIM and all that. Is it possible to have Avid find the MTS file in it's folder without ha | Re: AMA import Panasonic AvcHD
by Robert Brown 1 year ago
That kind of blows when you have 100 of those files and many of them have the exact same name. The folder is intended to be the file name. I guess I'll have to transcode in FCP. Robert Brown Editor VF
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| | | | | Baselight for FCP?by Robert Brown 1 year agoWow! http: www.filmlight.ltd.uk products baselight plugins bl_fcp_plugin.php That's cool but I find it amazing people are still developing stuff for the soon to be deceased FCP legacy. I guess people +1  | Re: Baselight for FCP?
by Chris Harlan 1 year ago
Bill Davis " Andrew Richards "Aye, there's the rub. Who in the Post business isn't particularly price sensitive " Plenty of folks. for someone who's just signed a deal for 26 episodes of a TV show -
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| | | | | Thoughts so far on MC6 from a FCP7 userby Greg Jones 1 year agoSo I've been on the quest to find the replacement for Final Cut Pro 7. I've dabbled with Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, and now Media Composer 6. They all seem to have their advantages and disadvantag | | | | |
| | | | | Avid Driver Problemby Robert Brown 1 year agoHi, just downloaded the new drivers and overall it's good but I'm having a significant issue for my setup. In the audio setting I can't select any other audio hardware than the Kona 3. I use a firewir | Re: Avid Driver Problem
by Robert Brown 1 year ago
Yeah I followed Aja's instructions. Robert Brown Editor VFX Colorist - FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo, After Effects, 3DS MAX, Premiere Pro http: vimeo.com user3987510 videos
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| | | | | Keyable AMA?by Robert Brown 2 years agoI brought in a keyable lower 3rd via AMA - animation codec - and it came in fine but wouldn't key over anything. Brought in the same clip through import and it keyed fine. Can you bring in keyable gfx | | | | |
| | | |  | AVID MC install woes...by Matthew Reithmayr 2 years agoBeen a FCP guy for years, but I was hoping to try out Media Composer 5.5 to see if a switch was in order. Unfortunately, I've yet to get past the startup screen. Every time I launch I receive a "Faile | Re: AVID MC install woes...
by Robert Brown 2 years ago
Well if you're trying 5.5 make sure it's Avid 5.5.3 for OSX 10.6.8. But now MC 6 is out so why not try that. And uninstall old one first. Robert Brown Editor VFX Colorist - FCP, Smoke, Quantel Pablo,
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| | | | | Service: Robert Brownby Robert Brown 2 years agoLos Angeles California, United States Video VFX Robert Brown Pro Video Visual Effects 5 96 More... | Re: Robert Brown
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| | | | | Radeon 8750 eats Quadro 4000????by Christoph Glaser 2 years agoHi, I just tested the Quadro 4000 on SMAC. 12 core 2,9 gHZ 24 GB Ram I had a Sequenz with some camera movement, motion blur...etc.. end some rays. I took to render in HD something about 2 min 50 sec f | Re: Radeon 8750 eats Quadro 4000????
by Robert Brown 2 years ago
Smoke has been updated to work with Radeon. I don't know what the performance differences are though. I can't seem to find a lot of information. I noticed on my 12 core mac doing renders in Smoke bare
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| | | |  | All the DRAMA!by Sean Thomas 2 years agoIt's amazing to read all of the DRAMA about FCP X. There's a lot of irony when people complain for years about a FCP upgrade and then they get it ...... they complain. A lot of the commplaints or rumo+2 | Re: All the DRAMA!
by Julian Bowman 2 years ago
Wow, the foundations of Sean's stance argument are even less stable than Chris' This also amused: Sean post 1: It's amazing to read all of the DRAMA about FCP X. There's a lot of irony when people com
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| | | |  | Trimming +/-1 frameby Rafael Metz 2 years agoHi there, coming from Avid and FCP I m now trying to get familiar with PPro. I use trimming a lot and FCP offered a Trim Back Fwd function where you select the clip edit point (on a single or multiple | Re: Trimming +/-1 frame
by Robert Brown 2 years ago
I would. It was those little things that made FCP kick ass as far as editing was concerned. I sent in a big request last night, I think I'll send in another about this.
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| | | | | Can't preview to Cineformby Robert Brown 2 years agoI've been doing some testing as I've found the Codec you choose for Preview has a big impact on Preview render speed. DNX for example is SLOW! I downloaded the trial of Cineform and if you select it a | | | | |
| | | | | Player Record Toggleby Robert Brown 2 years agoMore rookie questions. I found shift 2 and shift 4 for player record select. Is there a toggle like FCP I couldn't find anything in the keyboard settings menu. On the net I found an old reference that | Re: Player Record Toggle
by Robert Brown 2 years ago
Yeah I went in there and couldn't find it. Does anyone know if that function is there in this version of Premiere Or what exactly is it called in the KB prefs Thanks
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| | | | | Footage Gets Fuzzy on Playbackby Robert Brown 2 years agoHi, I'm one of the guys giving PPro a serious look right now. One thing I notice though is that when I play HD 720 or Canon 5D 1080 material, the footage blurs slightly during playback. I know the tri | Re: Footage Gets Fuzzy on Playback
by Robert Brown 2 years ago
I'm very relieved it was operator error. I'm getting the hang of PPro pretty quick. It seems the most natural transition from from FCP since all the hardware and plugins work. Or at least the hardware
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| | | | | Smoke for Mac Multi processorsby Robert Brown 2 years agoI'm trying to figure out how well Smoke for Mac uses multi processors. I am running it on an 8 core 2.97 and when I do a render and run activity monitor, usually I see one processor running at full bl | | | | |
| | | | | Kona 3 not working with 12 Core Macby Robert Brown 2 years agoI'm evaluating Smoke 2011 SP5 on my new 12 core Mac and I get no video out of the Kona in Smoke even though FCP sees it ok. Smoke doesn't report any error and is trying to communicate with (the monito | | | | |
| | | |  | Feelings about my SMOKE OS X DEMOby Alexander Higgins 3 years agoFinally working through my demo for SMOKE OS X, I must say the interface and workflow is taking a lot of getting used to. Having stuff broken into primaries like Action, Keying, Paint etc. is a bit we | Re: Feelings about my SMOKE OS X DEMO
by Robert Brown 3 years ago
Yeah I didn't mean to imply I don't like it. Actually I do as it is a very powerful system capable of really good results. That being said it can be a frustrating system with many things where you won
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| | | | | open EXR Layers?by Robert Brown 3 years agoIs it possible to import Open EXR Layers or do they just get all comped together on import | Re: open EXR Layers?
by Robert Brown 3 years ago
Thanks, I had found the import image way but it brings all layers in together unless I missed something. I had not used the gateway before so had to figure that out. It was amazing how much Googling i
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