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Sean Sartori

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October 21st 2010
38 Posts
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new york, NEW YORK
corporate loan-out employee forced onto payroll?
by Sean Sartori 5 months ago
Hi, I have a dilemma and I'm wondering if any other colorists have run into this as we are pretty solidly self-employed service providers with multiple clients, providing our own gear and training. I
Re: corporate loan-out employee forced onto payroll?
by Kevin Cannon 5 months ago
Hi Sean, We've had this request before from larger companies that for whatever reason find it easier to add an employee to the payroll than to write checks to an outside vendor. In our cases, often th
Cant get realtime playback, something wrong with the system specs?
by Sean Sartori 6 months ago
Hi, I can't get realtime playback and renders are real slow. I'm just working in HD 1920 1080, at the most maybe 10 nodes. The GPU is in the red when I playback anything with a lot of nodes. Probably
Re: Cant get realtime playback, something wrong with the system specs?
by Sean Sartori 6 months ago
OK great thanks I think its the field processing, you're right. I'm working with a flat quicktime so there is no resizing, I will try it tomorrow with field processing off. It's possible they reversed
EDL problems with 5D and HDV
by Sean Sartori 6 months ago
Hi, I have a project where the B roll was shot in HDV at 29.97, and the program shot on the 5D at 23.976. I am having several problems. It was edited in CS5.5 and EDL's were generated. The EDL of the
Destructive glitch in Symphony relational color correction?
by Sean Sartori 7 months ago
Hi, I'm admittedly not an Avid expert (I do most of my grading in Davinci) but I encountered a glitch last week that I can't find an explanation for. I was grading along, and was about 34 minutes into
Symphony and vignettes/targeted color corrections
by Sean Sartori 7 months ago
Hi, Is there a way within Symphony to do a simple vignette power window I am surprised Symphony cannot do this. I have tried the Spot Color effect, but I can only affect the inside of the shape. Same
Re: Symphony and vignettes/targeted color corrections
by Sean Sartori 7 months ago
Thanks for the tutorial. I have seen that one and I think I missed the mention of the "erase" function. This helps, as you can make an outside vignette. Avid is just overlaying black on the image thou
Symphony and Artist Color
by Sean Sartori 7 months ago
Hi, I'm a Davinci colorist, and I have a client that is working in Symphony and so I am getting familiar with those tools. One problem I am having is that the soft keys do not load. None of the functi
Re: Symphony and Artist Color
by Lee Warner 7 months ago
In the Eucon settings, is the Color Surface loaded in the first tab and the workstation loaded in the second tab Have you downloaded firmware for the Color lately Lee SAMDOG Digital Post Calgary, Albe
Episodic clients are demanding Symphony, suggestions for Symphony training?
by Sean Sartori 8 months ago
Hi, I have an episodic TV client that built a lovely Resolve suite, but now the producers won't use it and are demanding to use Symphony. They cite problems with mixed frame rates, and the ability to
Re: Episodic clients are demanding Symphony, suggestions for Symphony training?
by Sean Sartori 8 months ago
Thanks for the replies. I will check out Baselight. I know Avid pretty well, though its been a while. I gather the grading tools arent that complicated, so maybe I will just sit down with it for a wee
EDL problems with scene cut
by Sean Sartori 1 year ago
Hi, I am probably missing something, but I'm having an issue with EDL's that are generated from scene cut detection. The spots are coming from Avid, so theyre exported to a ProRes file to grade. I spl
Re: EDL problems with scene cut
by Sean Sartori 1 year ago
nope. source file is the same.
external mattes
by Sean Sartori 1 year ago
Hi, I am having a problem getting an external matte to load. I have a simple composite, with a background plate, a foreground plate, and a matte rendered as pro res HQ. Its a simple shape that moves a
Re: external mattes
by Sean Sartori 1 year ago
that was it!! thanks. that was driving me crazy.
having trouble making SD Blu Ray
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
I have a documentary that I want to screen in Blu Ray (the only other options are standard DVD, so this will look better). I've encoded in Compressor to an MPEG2 elementary stream and Dolby Digital Pr
Re: having trouble making SD Blu Ray
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
I am aware that going to Blu Ray will not "make it look better" than the original. It will, however, be a better compression than a DVD compression, as Blu Ray holds more information than DVD's. Hence
Color crashing on tracking
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
for some reason I cant use tracking. every time I go to the tracking tab and click on anything, Color crashes. This is a 90 minute piece, all uniform codec and source material.
Re: Color crashing on tracking
by Dane Cannon 2 years ago
Man, I've seen this on reels as short as 20 minutes. i'd be interested as well if anyone ever found out what was causing this...
I'm back, same problem
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
Uh oh. This is what has been happening. Suddenly about 75percent through a job, the timeline stops playing. when i hit the spacebar, i just get a window that says "loading". this goes on forever, and
Re: I'm back, same problem
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
The problem is, every single shot in these shows has a speed effect. And there are over 600 shots per show. So baking them in is out of the question. I've done 10 episodes without incident, so i dont
serious round trip problem
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
I'm working on a half hour show, shot on 5D and working in pro res. I've done 10 episodes so far with no problem. This time, when I send the sequence back to FCP, it doesnt link to the render files. i
Re: serious round trip problem
by kim krause 2 years ago
when this happened to me i did an xml command from color (even though the render line was red)... then i opened the fcp project and imported the xml.......it worked perfectly...and is way quicker than
timeline wont play, says "loading"
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
Suddenly about 75percent through a job, the timeline stopped playing. when i hit the spacebar, i just get a window that says "loading". this goes on forever, and i have to force quit. everything else
Re: timeline wont play, says "loading"
by Sean Sartori 2 years ago
I've rebooted everything, shut down for the night, and now today that playback problem seems to be gone, and I've finished grading the show. Now, however I have another problem. After we render and se
Mastering to DigiBeta - audio levels question
by Michael Niemcewicz 3 years ago
I'm about to output something to DB. I got the WAV files from the studio, laid them down under the picture in FCP, 4 discreet channels going to to the deck via SDI. I mapped each channel appropriately
Re: Mastering to DigiBeta - audio levels question
by Sean Sartori 3 years ago
Well, sure but I was hoping that I could rely on the paid professional for paying attention to the specs and take the responsibility for the levels. Now, if I alter this mix and it comes back for what
black shifts between FCP and Color
by Sean Sartori 3 years ago
I'm grading a show shot on XDCAM, rendering out of Color Apple Pro Res HQ. Viewing HD (via SDI) on a Flanders Scientific, with a Kona 3 card. I've done 3 episodes with no problem, but now suddenly the
Re: black shifts between FCP and Color
by Sean Sartori 3 years ago
I found the problem. The external video was set to Kona RGBA.
processing question
by Sean Sartori 3 years ago
Hi, I am doing the color for a project that was shot on HD, and is delivering SD. The editor has set it up so that there is an HD-SD conversion happening in the sequence, ie the sequence is 720x480, a
Re: processing question
by Sean Sartori 3 years ago
I agree with you here, and it is a strange way to work. The thing is, the director is very concerned with color and look shifts when the project is converted to SD. Thus why he wants to do the color c


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