BS in Information Technology emphasis on MIS.
Video Producer/Editor - over 20 years experience.
Experience editing on: Adobe CS5.5 Master Suite - Final Cut Pro - Avid Media Composer - Newtek VideoToaster - Media100
Networking & PC Repair/Build - WinServer2003, Win7/XP | | | | Member Since: January 27th 2003 | | | | |
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| | | |  | Mixed aspect displays is Win7by Daniel Edelman 2 weeks agoI have a 16x9 lcd as my primary display and I'm looking to add a second. I have an old 4x3 lcd display and I'd like to use that if possible. So my question is, can you mix the two aspect ratios I do t | Re: Mixed aspect displays is Win7
by Todd Perchert 2 weeks ago
Curtis talking about XP and Win7 reminded me... One thing Win7 can't do that XP was able to is span across monitors and have them act as 1 large monitor. You can span, but when you maximize a program,
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| | | |  | System Qsby Edan Cohen 1 month agoHey Folks: I'm about to throw down for my first "real" editing system ever, a workstation from HP. Specifically, a Z420. I use the creative suite, mostly Premiere & some After Effects. I want a graphi | Re: System Qs
by Todd Perchert 3 weeks ago
Between the 1603 and 1620 you are talking nearly a Ghz of processing power. Or almost 1 3 of the 1603 in processing power. So it all depends on what sort of budget you have. I would say that it is a b
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| | | |  | Should i buy an HP H8?by Matthew Dockter 1 month agoHey guys I am buying a PC for video editing mostly with Adobe products, especially After Effects. I've toyed with the thought of buying a custom made "gaming" computer on Ebay since there are tons bui | Re: Should i buy an HP H8?
by Todd Perchert 3 weeks ago
Myself, I'd be okay going with an HP machine - even the H8 with an i7 cpu. Things to look for, and you may just want to upgrade when you get the machine are: 1. Power Supply - looks like 300w is the b
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| | | |  | connection of a graphic cardby alexandre Alonso 3 weeks agoi have a quadro 2000 i m a newbie with this informatic issues i have an stupid question i guess referring to the connections screen-cpu, how does it work when i plug my dvi cable from the cpu to the s | Re: connection of a graphic card
by Todd Perchert 3 weeks ago
No. With a single monitor, you should only need the single HDMI or DVI, not both. If it's not working, tell us what monitor it is and what connection you are using to connect it. TC
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| | | | | Onboard SATA RAID Questionsby Daniel Edelman 4 weeks agoI'm building a PC for video editing: HD, mostly DSLR based in Avid MC6. I have a stripped-down Dell T5400 that I'm building on and I'm curious about RIADs. My original plan was to install 2x 7200 RPM | Re: Onboard SATA RAID Questions
by Todd Perchert 4 weeks ago
Most Mobo RAID controllers are pretty weak. You will get decent speed with just a RAID-0, anything else will probably be quite slow. As far as the software RAId or using the hardware controller, you m
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| | | |  | CPU Cooling Systemby Aaron Cadieux 2 months agoHello, I am about to build a monster with the following components: 3.06GHz Intel Xeon Quad-Core (Bloomfield) EVGA SuperClocked 015-P3-1582-AR GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express | Re: CPU Cooling System
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
eSATA is pretty limited. A miniSAS card and external will be more, but you will get more throughput. I really like the specs on the Areca 1223x, but the ATTO R680 is highly touted by ppl here on the C
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| | | |  | Multimedia slideshowby David Larsen 2 months agoI'm looking for a program that can automatically grab images and video files from a folder, and show them in a slideshow. It's for an e-sports gaming event,where I will be running a slideshow on a pro | Re: Multimedia slideshow
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
I would look into ProPresenter. I don't think it will automatically look into a folder for files (I've never needed to look into that - we always add a new group of files every time), but it is quite
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| | | | | Decklink Quad storage questionby Todd Perchert 2 months agoLooking at a Decklink Quad to record 4 HD streams. Not sure what we'll be capturing yet - ProRes, DVCPRO HD, or some other codec. But I am wondering what is recommended as far as storage. Looking at a | Re: Decklink Quad storage question
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
Thanks Bob! So storage not so much an issue as the computer. I'm guessing the units I'm looking into will do fine then. They should handle up to 500mbps write with no problems - hopefully they can sus
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| | | | | Editing Hardware Purchase Adviceby Mark Vernon 2 months agoHi Guys Hoping for some expert advice on a possible purchase. I am after some editing hardware to speed things up a little, to go into our edit suite. The suite will be used by us for commercials, eve | Re: Editing Hardware Purchase Advice
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
Let me first say, I've used Matrox, but they don't and have never paid me. :) Matrox states that their hardware enhances CUDA. You'd still want a nice video card. http: www.matrox.com video media pdf
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| | | |  | New systems for college useby Jay Els 2 months agoHi there, I was hoping that I could get some feedback on the systems I am about to buy for our college (note this is a not a film editing course, and therefore the technical competence of our students | Re: New systems for college use
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
That should work great for you and your students! Record to SD cards, and the iMacs have a nice SD card reader slot on the side. Plug in the card, copy the media to the HDD and start editing! That is
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| | | |  | Asus ml239h for editing ?by Mat Chevitz 2 months agoHey there, I'm an editor infographist looking for 2 news screens for my setup. I'm not a professional colorist (as all the broadcast project I'm working on are colored on other stations). BUT I'm stil | Re: Asus ml239h for editing ?
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
I'm not a fan of ASUS monitors. They are cheap for a reason. There was a recent thread on monitors you should check out. There are some relatively inexpensive - better options available. http: forums.
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| | | | | Fastest apple mac ?by Gagan Ailawadi 3 months agohey guys, please help me out in getting fastest mac for my compositing work, mainly on after effects & photoshop, renderings etc. budget is having no issue, what matters is performance FASTEST Perform | Re: Fastest apple mac ?
by Todd Perchert 2 months ago
Yes. Your i7 is a 4 core processor, and we are comparing it to 12 cores total - that 12 core machine will be faster, especially if you are able to max out the RAM and set up the hard drives the way I
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| | | | | Promise Pegasus slow data transferby Jason Shamai 3 months agoHi there, I just bought the R6 and am using a RAID5 configuration with a 2011 MacBook Pro. I'm consistently getting about 150 or 200MB s when transferring files (usually video) to and from the Pegasus | Re: Promise Pegasus slow data transfer
by Todd Perchert 3 months ago
Probably didn't read the instructions... ;) They do come setup as RAID-5, but they have a 'synchronization' that it does in the background. You may not have noticed the lights flashing on the unit - s
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| | | |  | mov to mkv conversion for macby Aubrey Fields 3 months agoHi, I wonder if anyone can recommend what software I could buy to convert a movie I made on fcp that is an MOV file into an MKV file I have tried 7 free trial downloads that say they can do this, but | Re: mov to mkv conversion for mac
by Todd Perchert 3 months ago
Have you tried using vlc to play the files I don't think I would trust QuickTime to play them easily. MacPorts to make 'em. http: matroska.org node 62 http: www.macports.org
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| | | | | Playback monitor ideas?by Jesuit Lewis 3 months agoBuilding my edit system on a budget, so I'm looking for a decent playback monitor for editing in the form of a 1080p LCD LED type of television set somewhere between 20" and 26" -- I realize theres ce | Re: Playback monitor ideas?
by Todd Perchert 3 months ago
I usually prefer plasma to those other choices, simply for the better color representation. So I wouldn't rule that out. You can get a decent plasma for well under $3000 (That is the only prereq you s
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| | | | | Monitorsby ryan loetscher 3 months agoDidn't really see another forum to post this question to, so hopefully this works. I have ancient, giant, heavy computer monitors and I'm looking for newer ones. I got a free one that was a castaway f | Re: Monitors
by Todd Perchert 3 months ago
Not sure what the Videoguys will tell you, but if you are doing video color grading, you don't want a cheap TN LCD panel that can't represent colors correctly. Try looking for some of the IPS panels.
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| | | | | Export Effects Rack Presets - CS5.5by Todd Perchert 3 months agoIs there any way to export an Audition Effects Rack Preset to be able to send to another computer Is this possible I searched for the names of previously saved presets on my Mac, and came up with noth | | | | |
| | | | | "re-link" dynamic linked compositionsby David Tannenbaum 4 months agoUsing Adobe Dynamic Link, I have imported some After Effects compositions. As I have moved organized files (either in the finder or within the After Effects file itself) , the "links" get broken and I | Re: "re-link" dynamic linked compositions
by Todd Perchert 4 months ago
In your bin, right-click the AE comp you want to re-link, then select Link Media from the drop down. To replace a clip on your timeline with a newer version, import the newer version, then Option-Drag
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| | | |  | To those with H.264 playback woes...by Darin Griffith 5 months agoAfter much struggling I think I have found a nifty little workaround for the playback timeline stuttering that many of us have been getting with H.264 .mts footage in Premiere. I noticed that the plac | | | | |
| | | |  | "Reveal In Finder"by Wayne Marx 5 months agoI tried to RTFM, but can't seem to find this simple one... Is there a way to highlight a clip and Reveal In Finder, ie, so you can automatically navigate to locate the clip inside the Finder Tx, W | | | | |
| | | |  | System Upgrade for Premierby Mark Welch 5 months agoI'm upgrading to a new iMac which has the processing power to handle Premier. My present 5 year old iMac barely enables playback. The new computer has Thunderbolt. I checked out Thunderbolt external d | Re: System Upgrade for Premier
by Todd Perchert 5 months ago
As Chris pointed out Thunderbolt can handle the throughput. The Promise site states the R4 gets speeds up to 500MB s, which I'm guessing is in RAID-0. Although, I saw one site that put it through RAID
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| | | | | Scaling a photo results in a jagged photoby Pattie Olson 6 months agoI am using a photo in a video that is a JPEG, 2488 x 3343, 300 dpi. I need the photo to be a large file because I have it enlarged in the video timeline to show a logo on a pocket, then the photo scal | | | | |
| | | | | Trouble streaming mp4 on Droidby David DiNenna 5 months agoI have the following video streaming with out issue on iOS devices and standard desktop but the audio is out of synch on the Droid and it keeps stopping to load itself. The video is a mp4 H.264, AAC a | | | | |
| | | |  | Not Respondingby Mike Cohen 5 months agoWhile my system is stable for the most part, the one problem I run into periodically is the "Not Responding" variety. I can be doing something as simple as editing a title or simply switching between | Re: Not Responding
by Todd Perchert 5 months ago
Mike - One thing I have noticed, on both PC and Mac, is that when doing something when Autosave pops up can hang up PPro. Happens quite frequently to me. Especially if I am typing in numbers in the Ef
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| | | | | Confused about Levels effectby Arthur Psa 5 months agoI'm working on a DVD project. I have a sequence (Sequence A) with a combination of clips and graphics. I have it nested inside Sequence B, where I'm trying to make Sequence A broadcast-safe. I've read | Re: Confused about Levels effect
by Todd Perchert 5 months ago
AE comps work in much the same way. It's nice in PPro to nest a large number of graphics and add one transition and still have them keying through to the other layers. It is easy enough to just add a
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| | | | | PC Boot drive Image or Back up?by Brad Leigh 6 months agoHello I know this question might seem too simple but I need to ask it. I own 3 computers 2 PC's and one MAC. I have a PC XP laptop that I use at home to do animation and prep sessions for my larger PC | Re: PC Boot drive Image or Back up?
by Todd Perchert 6 months ago
XP You could get XXClone (free) and clone the drive. I've successfully used XXClone on several XP systems. There is an option for making your cloned drive bootable as well. For XP I find this easiest.
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| | | | | What's the best software to do this?by Andre Meyer 6 months agoDear all, in the context of a scientific research project, we recorded participants while they were (a) filmed using Panasonic HDC-SD99EG consumer full HD cameras ( 500 piece) (b) audio-recorded using | | | | |
| | | | | Importing Stillsby Mark Welch 7 months agoNube to Premier - Just switched from FCP. I'm trying to import a number of jpeg stills into the browser. Some import just fine. On other imports I get an error message that reads, "The video bit depth | Re: Importing Stills
by Todd Perchert 7 months ago
Try this. In Photoshop, open your jpgs, go to Image file menu, select Mode - make sure they are 8 bits channel and RGB. TC
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| | | | | Renders Slowed downby Doug Tepe 7 months agoI have a two month old system and software the processed out mpeg files fairly quickly but lately it has been slowing down. Is there a hidden folder that stores information on renders that needs to be | Re: Renders Slowed down
by Todd Perchert 7 months ago
Not sure why you'd be slowing down... but under the Sequence File Menu you can select to delete renders - this will delete your timeline preview renders. Then under Preferences, you can select Media -
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