Producer/Director/Editor (multiskilling through neccessity!) 19 years and counting | | | | Member Since: April 3rd 2003 | | | | |
| | | | | | Message to Appleby Steve Connor 12 hours agoI know you're out there, tell us what's coming in the next release, you've done it before, you could do it again. Adobe have fumbled the ball at the 10 yard line (is that a correct US Football analogy | Re: Message to Apple
by David Mathis 9 hours ago
Greg Andonian "So, Adobe still has the ball, for now. But First down is a mile away and they may have to settle for a long field goal. With the wind blowing toward them." That has to be the best anal
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| | | |  | Bold Statement Warning!by craig slattery 1 day agoIam cutting a 1 2hour doco for television. 12 day edit, 18 contributors, actuality, over 700 clips EVERYTHING shot 3 cameras, even the PTCs shot 3 cameras. C300, Canon 5D MKIII, DV25 (stylistic choice | | | | |
| | | |  | Adobe Creative Cloud Terms of Useby David Lawrence 1 week agoLloyd Chambers is pro photographer, Mac developer, and expert in high-end Macintosh performance optimization. I've been reading his blog for years and have learned much from his online guides. I was c+3 | Re: The Creative Cloud Divide
by Steve Connor 5 days ago
Jeremy Garchow "Thank you. Is there vignetting at all from the B4 adaptor " A surprisingly small amount! Jeremy Garchow "What do you mean by work in progress " Lot's of features missing, some of the
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| | | | | Slice X with added Mocha released!by Steve Connor 5 days agoIn other, non-Adobe CC news. http: www.coremelt.com products slicex-powered-by-mocha.html This is going to be very useful! Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum+3 | | | | |
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| | | | | New Adobe Creative Cloud Debate Forumby Steve Connor 1 week agoThe COW have wisely created another forum to discuss the second biggest NLE marketing disaster in recent times. Might be nice to move further discussions over there http: forums.creativecow.net creati | Re: New Adobe Creative Cloud Debate Forum
by Steve Connor 1 week ago
Jeremy Garchow "What seems to be lost os that there is actual improved software on the other side of the CC release. It just doesn't seem to matter." Perhaps that's why the release is still a while a
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| | | |  | Chopped Liverby Tim Vaughan 2 weeks agoSo let me get this straight: I'm currently paying $350 375 per year to upgrade my computer. I have both a Mac and PC, so I take the hit and upgrade both. So my cost per year is $750 to upgrade both ma | Re: Chopped Liver
by Steve Connor 2 weeks ago
Tim Vaughan "Yes, you can install it on two machines (Mac and PC). However, they cannot be run simultaneously" They mentioned on the webcast that they CAN be run at the same time Steve Connor There's
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| | | |  | Aodbe Max live feedby Tom Daigon 2 weeks agoJoin us today at our #AdobeMAX keynote, live at 9:30 a.m. PT with CEO Shantanu Narayen and SVP @DWadhwani: http: adobe.ly AdobeNext Tom Daigon PrP After Effects Editor HP Z820 Dual 2687 64GB ram Dulce | | | | |
| | | |  | 1st BMPCC footage from John Brawleyby Peter J. DeCrescenzo 4 weeks agoJohn Brawley has posted the first Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 1080p sample footage on his blog. Read his blog post for details: http: johnbrawley.wordpress.com 2013 04 24 footage-in-your-pocket - | Re: 1st BMPCC footage from John Brawley
by Steve Connor 4 weeks ago
No the DSLR fraternity will continue with their "shallow DOF in every shot" filming. It's interesting that there's already been a couple of comments about the footage looking more video than film, the
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| | | | | Creative Cloud sign-in problemsby Steve Connor 1 month agoI'm running the CC on a Mac Pro and I have to sign in to the Cloud every time I boot up, shouldn't this be automatic Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum | Re: Creative Cloud sign-in problems
by Steve Connor 1 month ago
Walter Soyka "It sure should. The first thing I'd try doing is deactivating, rebooting, then reactivating. I've also seen some advice to remove the file "opm.db" located in Library Application Suppor
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| | | |  | GTX680 Mac Edition Updateby Greg Jones 1 month agoJust installed the Nvidia GTX680 Mac Edition on my aging Mac Pro 3,1 and it screams like a new computer in Premiere Pro. Greg Jones http: www.d7-inc.com | Re: GTX680 Mac Edition Update
by Steve Connor 1 month ago
Greg Jones "I found this website. Not sure how good they are, but they are in the uk. http: www.overclockers.co.uk showproduct.php prodid=GX-214-EA " Thanks for that Greg, I checked that site a coupl
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| | | |  | FCPX Trial keeps crashingby Ned Miller 1 month agoHi guys, Need some help. I downloaded the 30 day free trial, all was working well until lately. I had a tutor come over for a couple of hours, thought I got the hang of it. Trying to make a decision b | Re: FCPX Trial keeps crashing
by Steve Connor 1 month ago
Ned Miller "My research shows that it often crashes and is hard to figure out why as seen in a post like this, look at their solution: " Like EVERY piece of NLE software FCPX can be problematic when
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| | | | | Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)by Richard Cardonna 1 month agoWil cloud users have special unique features that will not be available to CS7 production premium app owners I ask because of this: Note: With the exception of Retina display support, the new features | Re: Cloud question (adobe screwing us?)
by Steve Connor 1 month ago
Considering every time PPro is discussed over at the FCPX forum a few jolly Adobe reps pop up and chime in, there isn't much participation from Adobe on this thread. Is it because they haven't officia
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| | | |  | Blackmagic Does It Again!by Bill Bruner 1 month agoThey were the talk of NAB last year with their first-ever camera, the $2995 Blackmagic Cinema Camera - which is now shipping and producing great results. This year, they're announcing two new cameras: | Re: Blackmagic Does It Again!
by Steve Connor 1 month ago
Bill Bruner "Early reports say ProRes and CinemaDNG RAW: http: www.engadget.com 2013 04 08 blackmagic-pocket-cinema-camera " Looks like it's correct, have amended my post. Looking forward to the actu
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| | | |  | DaVinci Resolve 9.1.3 now onlineby Peter Chamberlain 2 months agoI'm pleased to report we have just posted DaVinci Resolve 9.1.3 on our support web site. It includes general performance and stability improvements and for Mac OS X users support for the new FCPX 10.0 | Re: DaVinci Resolve 9.1.3 now online
by Steve Connor 2 months ago
I've noticed on my system that if you import FCPX xml it still can't automatically find the files, you need to point it at the "original Media" folder in your FCPX event, then it works. Steve Connor T
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| | | |  | 10.0.8 Update is Outby T. Payton 2 months agoCheck your App Store. Stick to the FCP X update code. Zip up your old 10.0.7 App and don't update mid project. Looks like mostly maintenance. Which frankly is a great thing. The flashing green render | Re: 10.0.8 Update is Out
by Steve Connor 2 months ago
Nate Weaver "Gonna see how well that 4K XAVC plays...!" You need an updated Sony plugin for it to work, which should be uploaded shortly according to Sony. Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue
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| | | | | digital zoom leeway, 1080p 7D footage...by Jacob Brown 2 months agoAm curious in everyone here's experience, to what degree can I get away with blowing up digitally zooming in on footage. It's shot on a 7D at 1080. Will be used for projections at an event. I've told | | | | |
| | | |  | Imac and FCPX slooooooowby Carlo Ferraro 2 months agoI tried to make a 30 secs simple ad with preset build in moving characters and some moving background plugins and this has been a nightmare, slow to desperation, stopping at times, something that can | | | | |
| | | |  | Performance issues - video card related?by Eddie Adams 2 months agoSo I'm running my new Hackintosh build with ML 10.8 and FCP X. Build features i5 3.7 quad core, 32GB RAM, a 120 SanDisk Extreme SSD, and a 1TB WD Black HDD. Motherboard uses the Intel HD 4000 GPU, 64M | | | | |
| | | |  | Performance issues with 50+ eventsby James Bayliss-Smith 2 months agoWill FCPX run better with 1 mega event or 50 smaller events. I'm on a MacBook Pro with 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 8GB Ram. I'm struggling at the moment a little under the strain of my news archive. Is | | | | |
| | | | | Why is FCPX so fragile?by Julian Bowman 2 months agoI do basically feel like I am editing with a stack of playing cards in a typhoon. So today I had started on en edit and had a filter affecting the look on my clips. I then updated FX FActory to 10.3 ( | | | | |
| | | | | Compositing in CCPXby Lawrence Diggs 2 months agoCan someone give simple instructions or better yet, point me to a video on compositing video (as opposed to text) in FCPX | Re: Compositing in CCPX
by Steve Connor 2 months ago
It may not be the problem but a lot of people seem to keep this off by default Steve Connor There's nothing we can't argue about on the FCPX COW Forum
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| | | | | Is this going to become a very busy forum?by Steve Connor 4 months agoOur Cinema Camera arrived today (we pre-ordered from our dealer within 2 mins of the announcement!) and I'm looking forward to shooting with it tomorrow. It's clearly a fantastic camera, but as BMD st | | | | |
| | | | | Sony XAVC Codec in PPro (Mac)by Steve Connor 3 months agoIs there a timeframe for adding 4K XAVC support to PPRo, as I understand it there is a plug in for the PC version but it isn't available on Macs. Our Sony F55 is arriving shortly! Steve Connor 'It's j | | | | |
| | | | | Blackmagic log and final cut xby Michael Boylan 3 months agoHi. I recently got my bmcc. I am using prores because I can not handle raw right now. I am shooting in the film (log) format. When I color correct in final cut it is so desaturated that I have to pump | | | | |
| | | |  | Content Browser 2.0by Ian Cook 3 months agoJFYI, we recently posted Content Browser 2.0 with support for the new XAVC codecs. Note that 2.0 has a different activation requirement-- you will need a serial # supplied with the camera or else purc | Re: Content Browser 2.0
by Steve Connor 3 months ago
Exciting news, hopefully this means we'll soon have our new F55! Steve Connor 'It's just my opinion, with an occasional fact thrown in for good measure"
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| | | |  | Article: FCPX On Air. Coming Soonby John Davidson 4 months ago Apple FCPX or Not: The Debate FCPX On Air. Coming Soon Former skeptic John Davidson was right there with everyone else when FCPX was released who deemed it a complete disappointment for broadcast pro | Re: FCPX On Air. Coming Soon
by Steve Connor 3 months ago
Just stumbled across this comment thread (many not about the article itself), it wouldn't look out of place on the FCPX forum itself. Once again I have to say nice article John, I'm looking forward to
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| | | | | Library sales are they worth the effort?by Steve Connor 4 months agoI did an experiment last year and uploaded a couple of dozen clips to Shutterstock and Pond-5, they didn't sell very well but managed to earn us a couple of hundred pounds over the year. This year I'm | | | | |
| | | | | Blog: #2 Importing - FCPX On Airby John Davidson 4 months agoIn this chapter I'm going to walk you through some tips and tricks we've learned to get the most of our media BEFORE we even import it. There are much smarter people than me who can walk you through t | | | | |
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