In video production since 1986.
I've worked in broadcast news, educational/institutional production, network sports, and have been "independent" (with up to 12 employees in the 90s, but on my own now) since 1990.
I've moved into HD post gradual... [ more] In video production since 1986.
I've worked in broadcast news, educational/institutional production, network sports, and have been "independent" (with up to 12 employees in the 90s, but on my own now) since 1990.
I've moved into HD post gradually over the last several years and have gradually eased out of shooting to directing and editing.
I've been involved in software development and HD workflow research over the last year or two...
My other jobs include: Advisor to institutional investors as a consultant with Coleman Research Group, I judge Tellys and Emmys as well as a couple of University competitions, author, trainer, ...and I suppose I should have listed husband and father much closer to the top of the list... | | | | Member Since: April 10th 2001 Location: Neenah, Wisconsin, USA | | | | |
Friends:  Carl Larsen  David Scandlyn  Jeff Greenberg  Jon Barrie  Matthew Causon  Robert Seeberger  Robert Thalheim | | | | |  | Cineform video files issue - need adviceby Robert Hoisan 3 months agoHey guys, i have a huge problem and i need a fix. So i have a client and he wants me to edit a bunch of videos using After Effects and Premiere but he said they were all encoded using Cineform. When i | Re: Cineform video files issue - need advice
by Tim Kolb 3 months ago
You can also download a version of both the encoder and decoder in GoPro CineForm Studio, downloadable for free... http: gopro.com 3d-cineform-studio-software-download TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb
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| | | |  | Explain what 1280/1440/1920 x 1080 meanby Leonard Frankford 4 months agoCan someone please explain what the difference is between all of these pixel parameters I understand all HD is 16x9, and some is 720 and some is 1080 with various frames rates in between. I don't unde | Re: Explain what 1280/1440/1920 x 1080 mean
by Tim Kolb 4 months ago
The only detail I'd add is that while HDcam (not HDcamSR) does record a 1440x1080 frame, because that codec is not used "natively" by editing systems, an HDcam frame is always captured via HDSDI at "b
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| | | | | XDCAM EX and Premiere Pro nightmareby Sagar sangani 4 months agoHello, I recently received footage on external harddisk from a camera man who used XDCAM EX to record the event. I have never worked on a 1920 x 1080 project or on a tapeless media before so I was pre | Re: XDCAM EX and Premiere Pro nightmare
by Tim Kolb 4 months ago
Yes...I wasn't questioning whether you had a legit version of PPro. I can't remember what may have been a little wonky in CS5's early release days, but I know the updates came fast and furious for a b
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| | | |  | My workhorse is sluggish!by Tim Parsons 4 months agoMy specs: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit Intel Core i7 950@3.07 (8) 12Gb RAM (2Gb used at idle) Nvidia Quadro FX 1800 Full 1080p HD 27" monitor (DVI cable. dumb, i know) 2 hard drives 1Tb and 2Tb 75% f | Re: My workhorse is sluggish!
by Tim Kolb 4 months ago
Tim Parsons "Look at the specs. It's a beast. But for some odd reason, we are having problems" Well...I'd be curious to know what the filesize is as even a PNG QT clip can be quite large and a non-RA
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| | | | | FCP user with video quality question.by Nick Ryan 4 months agoHello all, I'm sure you've been getting quite a few fcp-editors-new-to-premiere questions - so I apologize for this, but I can't figure it out. We cut mainly on FCP (old versions), but I've been hande | Re: FCP user with video quality question.
by Tim Kolb 4 months ago
If you are importing the ProRes into PPro, make sure in your sequence settings that you have "Max Bit depth" checked as ProRes is 10 bit. If you are bringing in the AVCHD material itself, and that loo
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| | | |  | Custom Playback Resolution in Premier 5.5by Troy Gordon 5 months agoHey Guys, Probably a really quick answer to this one but Premier 5.5 gives me 1 2, 1 4, 1 8, 1 16 playback resolution options. I'm working with native 4k files and they playback silky smooth at 1 4 re | Re: Custom Playback Resolution in Premier 5.5
by Tim Kolb 5 months ago
With a somewhat limited (16 GB of RAM is a good call) hardware config and no CUDA card, you won't be very flexible with RED 4K footage. There is a tremendous amount of scaling involved with decoding,
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| | | |  | Premiere Mono/Stereo Audio Issueby Travis Brown 5 months agoHey there, I film with a Sony HDR-FX1000 and record all my audio through an Azden shotgun mic in stereo and use Premiere CS5 to edit my videos. If I add sound clips or music that happen to be mono to | Re: Premiere Mono/Stereo Audio Issue
by Tim Kolb 5 months ago
Travis Brown "is there something special that I need to do to enable the audio to be "panned center" and would that enable the main dialogue (that is recorded in stereo) to play correctly on mono dev
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| | | |  | A Chicago Giant fallsby Mark Suszko 7 months agoRoscor laid off over a hundred people this week and has shut its doors pending some kind of reorganization. First Swiderski, now Roscor. Eek, all the Big Dogs are gone, who's left | Re: A Chicago Giant falls
by Tim Kolb 6 months ago
Times change and every business is under stress these days...production people are among those who have gone through some of the tightest times lately... Many people had good luck with Roscor...it's a
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| | | |  | FCP X and the "industry"by Glen Hurd 10 months agoThis is going to be a long post, but it was triggered by David Roth Weiss interview with Mr. Lawrence, when the latter spoke of the importance of language, and how language reflects philosophy, and is+2 | Re: FCP X and the "industry"
by Tim Kolb 10 months ago
Bill Davis "If someone CAN cut a news package on FCP-X - you can BET YOUR LIFE they will. And sooner rather than later. Because it's an alternative in a world where standards are not fixed ideas, but
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| | | |  | apple reinvents the pen and cave painting!by kim krause 10 months agoi wish people would stop bitching about apple abandoning us. we still have the tools we have always used. no one is forcing you to this new way of working. much like the ballpoint pen revolutionized t | Re: apple reinvents the pen and cave painting!
by Tim Kolb 10 months ago
Bill Davis "The POINT was that version 1 of ALL THREE were underpowered, feature poor, and laughable as to their regard by the working professionals of the time. " But this argument implies that Appl
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| | | |  | All the DRAMA!by Sean Thomas 10 months 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 Tim Kolb 10 months ago
Are you treating that letter like it's real Check out the blog..."scoopertino"...it's uh...the "Onion" of Apple information. TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb Productions, Adobe Certified Instructor
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| | | | | Sennheiser Items For Saleby Jimmy Doyle 11 months agoI am not a retail store but an individual but I bought out the stock of a bankrupt Sennheiser dealer. All of the equipment is brand new, in the box. 1 EM 3032-U1-B 500 - 536 MHz Receiver 1 EM 500 A G2 | | | | |
| | | | | AJA Kona LHI cardby simon elsbury 1 year agoWondering if anyone can help me. I have the knoa AJA LHi card, which takes in and out HDMI. I recently bought a HD freeview box in the hope to record from this box through the HDMI into FCP. Will this | Re: AJA Kona LHI card
by Tim Kolb 10 months ago
If they're your shows, why would you have to record them off-air TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb Productions, Adobe Certified Instructor
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| | | | | Article: A Final Cutter Tries Out Premiere Proby Helmut Kobler 11 months ago Apple FCPX - Final Cut Pro X A Final Cutter Tries Out Premiere Pro If you're a Final Cut editor contemplating making a change in the wake of Apple's FCPX roll-out, you're not alone. Here's one long-t+15 | Re: A Final Cutter Tries Out Premiere Pro
by Tim Kolb 10 months ago
Jiggy Gaton "It's things like this that make me leery of Adobe video apps, coupled with the facts that it took Adobe five (or more) incarnations of the video tools to make them stable. AME was a mess
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| | | |  | Not understanding professional resolutionsby Mike Garcia 1 year agoThe sony f 23, a professional movie camera, shoots in full 1080p. But how does that look good in theaters due to it not being 2k or 4k I didn't know that there are camera's like the sony f 23 and pana | | | | |
| | | |  | How do I say it politely (re: watermark)?by Richard Herd 1 year agoQuick back story: I bid for a decent contract (shoot and edit) in December 2010. Here we are now planning the shoot for April 2011. Long process, lots of calls, lots of hand-holding and explaining... | Re: How do I say it politely (re: watermark)?
by Tim Kolb 1 year ago
Excellent input across the board on this topic...I've had to become a bit more restrictive on releasing material to clients myself. I've been looking at re-tooling my client proofing to work with an o
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| | | | | welcome back Ultraby Tim Kolb 2 years agoFor those of you suffering from withdrawal... PPro CS5 has a new effect in the stable...and it's called Ultra. | Re: welcome back Ultra
by Tim Kolb 1 year ago
It's an effect inside Premiere Pro now...no longer a separate application. So...unfortunately, no. The preview you mention was only available from a FireWire input, so most of us with HDSDI or HDMI wo
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| | | | | See N Say in Tute Title...by Tim Kolb 1 year agoFor what it's worth, LOVE the See N' Say toy in the tutorial title animation. TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb Productions, | | | | |
| | | | | Studio Colourby Marcus Hayward 1 year agoSorry if this has been covered before but i have searched the forum and not found the answer im looking for: We are a Pro Audio Manufacturer, looking to make video tutorials in-house. We have lots of | Re: Studio Colour
by Tim Kolb 1 year ago
If you choose black curtains, be doubly sure your video camera has all its auto settings turned off...you'll not only need manual iris, but on some cameras you need to stop shutter speed and gain from
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| | | |  | chroma subsampling questionby Hector berrebi 2 years agoHi, i have a question on a rather general topic.. i think this forum makes most sense for it been digging around quite a bit before i posted it and getting somewhat confusing information. hope this cl | Re: chroma subsampling question
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
In super-deep compression geek terms, 4:2:0 is not structured the same way in every format as the sample can be obtained from any given pixel in the set, or it can be a created value based on some sor
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| | | | | Kona 3 Various Problemsby Oliver Gwyther 2 years agoHi all, I am hoping that someone could perhaps shed some light on a variety of problems we've been having with a Kona 3 card for the last 2 years. I've attempted to contact AJA support, but it seems t | Re: Kona 3 Various Problems
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
The BM system was accurate with it's starting point then Is the amount of delay always the same TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb Productions,
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| | | |  | Screen Recording for Training Videoby clyde villegas 2 years agoI'm going to do a training video for my client's proprietary software. Budget is low and I don't have any client that has the same requirements. So investing in an expensive high-end software will not | | | | |
| | | |  | Tiffen T1 IR filterby Bob Mark 2 years agoAnybody using this http: www.tiffen.com press_release_T1IR_filter.html | Re: Tiffen T1 IR filter
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
Don Greening "Because it cuts down the available light by 9% whereas a UV protector filter is only 3%" Ah...I see. yes, I'm not doing event work, so the slight loss I noticed (I'm surprised that it's
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| | | | | KONA LSe CS4 upsidedown previewby Dave Evans 2 years agoHi Folks I am jsut trying to set up an LSe board for SD use with CS4 on Windows Vista 64, driver version 4.2.1x64. the card seems to work fine with Machina software and even with vegas 9.0e. however w | Re: KONA LSe CS4 upsidedown preview
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
This was a known issue with CS4, but i thought they took care of it pretty quickly...are these the newest drivers available for that card TimK, Director, Consultant Kolb Productions,
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| | | | | YUV420-RAW Data file. NoHeaderFileby Tarquin Douglas 2 years agoHi, I have a 10 bit uncompressed AVI captured in on Premiere Black Magic at 23.98, 1920x1080 I need to trasncode this to a YUV420-RAW Data file. NoHeaderFile with a .yuv extension. I know Carbon Coder | Re: YUV420-RAW Data file. NoHeaderFile
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
I always thought that Y'IQ was a specific bit of voodoo where the 33 degree off-axis calculation along the Quadrature and Inphase axes (after inverting them) reduced bandwidth by formatting the color
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| | | | | Sharp RGBYby Peter Wollsey 2 years agoHi Bram.... Would love to know your take on this technology - no one I know explains this kind of stuff better..... PW | Re: Sharp RGBY
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
Hi Bram, I desperately wanted to get to your booth at NAB and simply didn't get there. On the addition of the yellow "valve" (I assume the yellow is in the LCD matrix and is transmissive with the LED
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| | | |  | EX-3 1080 24P is recording with 3:2 pulldown?by Jim Watt 2 years agoWhen the Ex-3 set at HQ 1080 24P is recording on S x S cards, is it recording with 3:2 pulldown or is it recording native 24P When I look at clip properties they say it is 23.98 fps. If I do a test in | | | | |
| | | |  | Working Scarlet a "no show" at NABby Mark Shepherd 2 years agoI had my hopes up and traveled to NAB to see and (hopefully) hold a fully realized and working version of the SCARLET but instead found some un working Scarlet "brains"secured under glass and unconfig | Re: Working Scarlet a "no show" at NAB
by Tim Kolb 2 years ago
Bob Z: "- but many feel that if there is no $5000 RED solution, then they will continue to work at McDonnalds until this camera is released." Well...that sounds like the two years leading up to the RE
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