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| | | | |  | Resolve 10 vs Colorfront for Dailies?by Andrew Rice 2 weeks agoWe are trying to set up a rock solid On-Set Dailies system. I am familiar with Resolve from a grading perspective, and with v10 I was wondering if anyone could give me an idea if Resolve is now on par | | | | |
| | | |  | 5D davinci workflow?by Carl Nenzen Loven 1 year agoSo I am a total newbie to this world. Not really, but in colour grading I still am. I study film still and i'm working on my Final Year Project footage from my 5D. Before I have done the simple Grinde | Re: 5D davinci workflow?
by Robert Ober 2 weeks ago
I am not having any luck getting Resolve 9.x lite to export or show 1080p footage as scope. Any good tutorials Thanks, Robert A. Ober
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| | | | | IO Exprees & Wirecast?by Robert Ober 1 month agoGood Monday, Or I hope is will be. Over in the Kona forum I was contemplating a LHi. I am thinking I can save some money and gain some flexability by getting an IO Express instead. With the Express I | | | | |
| | | | | LHI With Intensity Pro ?by Robert Ober 2 months agoHow y'all are Put in your order for that Facebook phone or addon ;) Anyway, Since my LH has never fit in my Mac Pro(2009); no matter how big the hammer, some years ago I put in an Intensity Pro PCIe v | Re: LHI With Intensity Pro ?
by Robert Ober 1 month ago
David Kuhnen ""SDI and HDMI at the same time" no. With the LHi (and I would think virtually any capture card) you have to select only one input connection format at any given time. You would have to
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| | | |  | Is my AJA Kona LHi Necessary?by Ben Callahan 2 months agoHello and thank you for your time! I'll make this quick... My Question: Do I even need the Kona LHi Is it helping with the speed of playback at all Or is playback on the third "desktop" monitor just a | Re: Is my AJA Kona LHi Necessary?
by Robert Ober 2 months ago
Did I miss it or did you not specify your graphics card For CS6 anything video, get a NVIDIA card from macvidcards and do the hacks to get AE, etc to recognize the card. I have a 570 with 2.5 GB on th
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| | | |  | Mac OSX requirements for MC 6.5by Daniel Schultz 3 months agoI on MC5 and want to upgrade to the latest MC v6.5. Can anyone confirm what the minimum Mac OS system requirements are Lion Mountain Lion Thanks, Dan Dan S. | Re: Mac OSX requirements for MC 6.5
by Robert Ober 3 months ago
upped to lion and upgraded the video card on. Cool, For most projects the 4,1 and later Mac Pro is still fine if you put 24GB RAM and a fast card from macvidcards. Most Mac folks have a SLOW video ca
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| | | | | Sym 6.5 Squeeze Version?by Robert Ober 4 months agoHey Folks, I hope y'all are well and good. I have the Symphony 6.5 upgrade from 6.0 coming. Yesterday I got an email from Sorenson with 40% off. I have Squeeze 8.0 from Sym 6. So, then the question is | Re: Sym 6.5 Squeeze Version?
by Robert Ober 4 months ago
I spoke to a nice man at Videoguys and he verified that Squeeze 8.x ships with Sym 6.5. So I bought the upgrade of Squeeze to 8.5 and it will not compress my ProRes out of Avid to h.264 and I have ope
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| | | | | Marry Audio and Videoby Tom Dempsey 9 months agoHey, We do a lot of approvals where audio is changed, but not video. I was wondering if Sorenson can take separate video and audio files and output them as one file. I know compressor can't. Does anyo | Re: Marry Audio and Video
by Robert Ober 4 months ago
Adam Paez " Is it possible to do this without compressing yet again but just have the video come over as same as source " You can do this in QuickTime 7. Search the web and if you don't find an artic
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| | | | | Squeeze 8.5.1.14 & Other Builds Broken?by Robert Ober 4 months agoHey Folks, I have started a ticket but I thought I would see what you folks say. Many folks having the failed connect to external compression error. My job is set to local. I have done the thorough un | | | | |
| | | | | Fade To Colorby Robert Ober 4 months agoHello Again, I am trying to fade in a short video. I applied the Quick Transition fade to color. I cannot seem to get it to fade in my video it goes black to color in seemingly one frame. Yes, I have | Re: Fade To Color
by Robert Ober 4 months ago
Job ter Burg "Avid folks are mostly tired of hearing that when the example given is just incorrect ;-)" As I said, the quick transition is easy but other stuff is harder than it should be, such as wh
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| | | |  | ALEXA Clip Import Issuesby Brittany DeLillo 1 year agoThis is probably the seven millionth post on the topic but I'm going for it anyway. I'm on a project that's shooting with the ARRI ALEXA. We're going with ProRes 4444 and Log-C. I wanted to get some t | Re: ALEXA Clip Import Issues
by Robert Ober 6 months ago
I have downloaded some of them twice and still cannot open any of them in anything. I am on a Mac and am IT knowlegeable. I am doing save as and waiting for the download to finish. Anybody try these l
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| | | | | XML issues (FCP to Premiere)by Rick Neely 8 months agoHey Guys, I know this is a recurring issue, but a little suggestion would be nice. Client gave me some MP4 720p files. I edited them in FCP 7 (sequence codec was h.264) and delivered quicktimes as req | Re: XML issues (FCP to Premiere)
by Robert Ober 8 months ago
Interesting. I would make a copy of the FCP (Studio right ) project and in the copy remove any transitions, titles, and or effects. Export that and see what happens. Also, CS5 unfortunately is old in
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| | | |  | H.264 editing in PremiereProby Brian Cooney 9 months agoAs an FCP editor switchign to PPRO.... I know that H.264 is a delivery format. Final Cut doesn't do well with it at all in a timeline. My question is, in a pinch, in a rush, on a rough edit, can H.264 | Re: H.264 editing in PremierePro
by Robert Ober 9 months ago
I'd have to convrert to HDV in a third party program and then to Prores in compressor for FCP use. Not having worked with XDCAM I have basically not much of a clue but this sounds wrong. Have you seen
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| | | |  | Article: Sorenson Media Squeeze 8.5 Update Reviewby Jerry Hofmann 12 months ago Sorenson Squeeze Sorenson Media Squeeze 8.5 Update Review Each time Sorenson releases a new version, the improvements over the previous version are always significant -- and this new version has that | Source Timecode Does Not Work
by Robert Ober 10 months ago
According to Sorenson support it still cannot read a QT timecode track and use that to burn timecode. Episonde 6.3 can read QT timecode and if you select CBR it will do a fast encode of h.264 for revi
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| | | | | Squeeze 8.5 Timecode Burn Read Sourceby Robert Ober 10 months agoHey Folks, Supposedly the issue of Squeeze not reading the source timecode is fixed in 8.5. Anybody try it Jerry Hoffman says there is a button for turning it off but I am thinking I saw that it does | Re: Squeeze 8.5 Timecode Burn Read Source
by Robert Ober 10 months ago
Unreal, Sorenson confirmed this in a reply to my post on their forums. Episode 6.3 does it well and if you use CBR it is VERY fast to do an h.264 for review on a Mac Pro with multiple cores. Sorenson
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| | | |  | Video stuttering and crashing in CS6by David Gaudio 11 months agoHello all, I've also posted this on the Blackmagic forum, so please forgive the duplication, but I'm not sure if it's a BMD driver issue or an Adobe software issue... I have a 27" iMac purchased in Ja | | | | |
| | | |  | Missing Fontby Dave Simpson 12 months agoI am part way through a project using a particular font. When I opened the project today AE is says the font is missing. When I open Font Book I can see it there, but AE doesn't want to load it for so | | | | |
| | | |  | SPACEMAN needs assistanceby SPACE MAN 12 months agoSPACEMAN has returned to play due to the release of CS6. SPACEMAN requires assistance regading codecs so the games may begin. SPACEMAN needs information on IMX50 codec (smpte D10) SPACEMAN must use MX | Re: SPACEMAN needs assistance
by Robert Ober 12 months ago
You might check today's updates. There is at least 1 mxf update included. Also CS6 via subscription was missing some condecs. Say hello to Major Tom. Robert:-)
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| | | | | white pixel/border around gifs.....by Josh Kroening 3 years agoIf I create something with Adobe photoshop with a transparent background....then open it with Dreamweaver and add a background image...I am having a problem where the original images from photoshop ha | | | | |
| | | | | PPro & AE Workflow Prod Premium 5.5by Robert Ober 2 years agoHey Folks, After watching a few of the vids on the included Synthetic Aperture Color Finesse I want to use that for matching clips from the second cam to the main video. Currently I am using Dynamic L | Re: PPro & AE Workflow Prod Premium 5.5
by Robert Ober 2 years ago
Sorry, I thought I replied with what I did. I did end up using Dynamic Link and that works except for the issue in this thread which I may have fixed: http: forums.creativecow.net thread 3 914241 I wi
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| | | | | Dynamic Link Not Workingby Robert Ober 2 years agoHey Folks, I spent more money I don't have and upgraded my PPro to Production Premium. Want to send clips to After Effects but get the following error. The install routine found PPro on my machine and | Re: Dynamic Link Not Working
by Robert Ober 2 years ago
Robert Ober "I spent more money I don't have and upgraded my PPro to Production Premium. Want to send clips to After Effects but get the following error. requires Production Premium The install routi
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| | | | | Vid Clip Syncingby Robert Ober 2 years agoHello Folks, I see that for some folks the synching is working. It appears that all that have it working have used a separate audio track to facilitate the sync. In my case I have a approx 1:11 vid wi | Re: Vid Clip Syncing
by Robert Ober 2 years ago
Mark Morache "If the audio from the handheld camera isn't as clean, it may be difficult for the software to sync them up." Audio from the handheled is better than the one on the tripod. Mark Morache
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| | | |  | Blog: FCP X updates High Level July 6th Meeting in Londonby gary adcock 2 years 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: @Ray Wang
by Robert Ober 2 years ago
"Larry Jordan's opinions are not mine and should stay on his blog." What does this refer to Was there a post removed Also, Since this is not Twitter, how 'bout we avoid the @ . Some might find it anno
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| | | | | Anybody Find Pro Tools Workaround?by Robert Ober 2 years agoHey Folks, We can extract audio in X and separately I can export audio. Are folks saying that if I bring corrected audio (same timing) back in that I cannot reconnect it to the storyline How about syn | Re: Anybody Find Pro Tools Workaround?
by Robert Ober 2 years ago
Thanks Men, Except for a couple of surround projects, I always do the cut then export to Pro Tools by exporting an aif then bring the corrected aif back in. So I can use my notalentwannabee workflow a
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| | | | | Also Debuting Upgradingby Robert Ober 3 years agoHey Folks, Anybody know of a pixel peeping review of V6 And or a test showing speed of it's H.264 encoding vs V5 or vs Compressor Not including clusters, just on a single Mac. I have plain ol Episode | Re: Also Debuting Upgrading
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Craig Seeman "This might have some worthwhile information. It's three pages and really small type but worth the read. It includes speed comparisons as well. http: digitalcontentproducer.com videoenco
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| | | | | Not so good in the real worldby walter biscardi 3 years agoSo I brought the ipad on a trip instead of the laptop since all I need to do is Internet and email. The biggest issue I've had is the ipad ignoring emails tha have attachments. No clue why. I've looks | | | | |
| | | | | Video: RAISE THE DEAD - Colin Devlinby sebastian lopez 3 years agoRAISE THE DEAD - Colin Devlin Raise The Dead is a music video that i directed for Colin Devlin's new song, taken from his debut solo album ''Democracy of One'' It's all shot on Green Screen and compos+22 | Flash?
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Is it in Flash Does not even start to download on my iPad. Robert
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| | | | | Shooting Easterby Robert Ober 3 years agoHey Shooters, I was going to shoot Christians but I am told that is still illegal and immoral so I am going to shoot video of one of their Easter services. LOL My brother is a pastor of a small church | Re: Shooting Easter
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Michael Sacci "Make sure settings match and you white balance both cameras to the same source. They should be close." That's what I was hoping. Thanks for your help, Robert
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| | | | | Shotgun To HPX300by Robert Ober 3 years agoHello Folks, As some may recall, I am a notalentwannabee so please bear with my lack of understanding. I am trying to mount my shotgun mic to my HPX300. I have posted a picture of what does not work. | Re: Shotgun To HPX300
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Steve Eisen "Read pg's 16, 17, 54 and 55 to get your audio down." None of which give me options for mounting my Audix shotgun to the HPX300. I need a mount or grommett that fits the stock mount. I ca
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| | | | | Using HPX 300 as a webcam.by carlos castro 3 years agoI've been trying to get my Macbook Pro to recognize my HPX 300 via the 300's firewire for a while now and I can't seem to get past this hurdle. Is there a hardware switch or setting on the mac you nee | Re: Using HPX 300 as a webcam.
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Hey, Once you get the laptop to recognize the cam, you should be able to switch between the laptop cam and the hpx300 in Ustream. I believe I ended up with 480i 16:9 when I tried it on my MacPro using
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| | | | | HPX300 In Snowby Robert Ober 3 years agoHello Folks, We are likely to have a rare event for Houston tomorrow, Snow. So, should I overnight a rain cover form my HPX300 if I want to shoot while it is falling The panny one The big protective c | Re: HPX300 In Snow
by Robert Ober 3 years ago
Thanks Dale and the others who replied. I am not that good at keeping from accidentally banging stuff together. The Portabrace did it's thing on Friday. The raincover keep the cam dry. An added benefi
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