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| | | | | | Unspecified Pathby Eric Hansen 1 year agoi read some other suggestions in other posts, but none of the solutions worked. i have some large projects - about 50MB each, that are full of timelines and bins that Assistant Editors have prepped fo | Re: Unspecified Path
by Eric Hansen 2 weeks ago
I don't have Thunderbolt, so I haven't been able to experiment with a set up like this. but you're saying your edit stations have 2 Lacie 2Big drives (each) and are using Apple Disk Utility to create
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| | | |  | Audio Levels Mysterious Dropby Andy Bernstein 2 weeks agoWhen I record a -20db tone on a wav file and play the file in a stand-alone audio program (like Audacity or Sound Designs Wave Agent), it shows up (as it should) as -20db on the audio meters. But when | Re: Audio Levels Mysterious Drop
by Eric Hansen 2 weeks ago
hmm, shot in the dark here. is it Dual Mono and FCP is playing it back in Stereo e Eric Hansen Production Workflow Designer Consultant Colorist DIT http: www.erichansen.tv
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| | | |  | Do we need Jumbo Frames?by Morten Ranmar 3 weeks agoNews from NAB points towards a future without a MacPro. As far as I know iMac does not support Jumbo Frames. So what is the future for ethernet SAN solutions - No Parking Production - 2 x Finalcut Stu | Re: Do we need Jumbo Frames?
by Eric Hansen 2 weeks ago
Hey Morten I think you might be looking too far ahead. At this point I wouldn't worry about a lack of a new Mac Pro for server use. These are extremely robust machines. I'm still running the original
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| | | | | Very Basic Shared Storage for FCPby Ted Cox 3 months agoHey everyone, A couple of years ago, I put together a shared storage system for our editors here. It offers a minimum of functionality, and requires quite a bit of technical knowledge to setup. We're | | | | |
| | | | | Speed hit on ATTO RAID card in 4x slotby Eric Hansen 4 months agohey guys this isn't a SAN question, but a RAID card question. i'm looking at building a Mac Pro for DaVinci Resolve, which runs best with 2 GFX cards in slots 1 and 2. if i put the ATTO RAID card in a | Re: Speed hit on ATTO RAID card in 4x slot
by Eric Hansen 3 months ago
hey Bob i just took a look at the Resolve Config guide, and even with the expansion chassis, BMD still recommends putting the HBA in slot 4 and not the expansion chassis. so it would still be stuck at
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| | | |  | LTO Questions and setup advicesby Bill Nelson 1 year agoHey everyone, we just got our new postproduction server installed and now it's time to think about backup strategies. We set up a new Mac Pro Server that is connected via FibreChannel to an Infortrend | Re: LTO Questions and setup advices
by Eric Hansen 4 months ago
hey Daniel it is possible, but as i stated, i stopped doing it because i didn't want to deal with BRU's glitches on our main SAN server. BRU has added network support, so now i can use a regular Mac P
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| | | | | Two x8 cards in 12-core mac proby Joshua Walker 4 months agoHaven't bought anything yet. Idea is to pull graphics card, insert one x8 dulce systems host adapter and one x8 small tree 10Gbe card. Then manage server and RAID remotely. Any body run a a mac pro se | Re: Two x8 cards in 12-core mac pro
by Eric Hansen 4 months ago
in my server, i have 2 ATTO R380 cards in slots 1 and 2, and 2 4port Small Tree ethernet cards in slots 3 and 4. i use a Newertech USB to DVI adapter to connect to a 24" Dell monitor. no real issues.
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| | | |  | 2 Atto R380 cards in one Mac Pro.by marcus lyall 4 months agoAnyone tried this We've tried putting 2 ATTO cards in a Quad Core Mac Pro. Both in the 16 x slots. Each card has a dumb R8ML Proavio chassis connected to it. Graphics card in slot 3 10 gb network card | Re: 2 Atto R380 cards in one Mac Pro.
by Eric Hansen 4 months ago
i've been running this config on a server for well over a year. no issues. the only suggestions that ATTO gave me were to make sure that the cards both had the same flash. we copy files back at forth
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| | | |  | Codec choice for long term SAN storage?by Mark Suszko 7 months agoWhat's typical practice as far as codec choice for a SAN We're thinking of getting one and wondered, do you keep files in their native formats, whatever they are, or standardize everything to a more c | Re: Codec choice for long term SAN storage?
by Eric Hansen 7 months ago
hey Mark it sounds like you're asking 2 different questions and Bob and Andrew addressed the archive question. i agree with them 100%. you should transfer your camera raw, whatever that is, to somethi
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| | | |  | xsan and Lion - Has anyone migrated?by Max Kaiser 7 months agoHi all, Looking to see if anyone has made the movie to Lion with built-in XSAN. If so, how did you do it I'm guessing it work like this... 1) Download Lion Server on MDCs 2) The MDCs would automatical | Re: xsan and Lion - Has anyone migrated?
by Eric Hansen 7 months ago
yeah Max, I think you're right. Xsanity is pretty much the place for Xsan. as far as your workflow, yes that should be the way to do it. But i agree with Jordan that you would want to do a fresh insta
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| | | |  | Blog: FCPX Sharing? Sure you can...by Steve Modica 10 months agoRecently, we ve heard a lot of folks saying that it s not possible to share projects or media files between multiple workstations using Final Cut Pro X. We asked Mark Ferris of Blue Ox Pictures to put | Re: Blog: FCPX Sharing? Sure you can...
by Eric Hansen 10 months ago
wow, that's way worse than I was hoping for. right now i'm working on a movie, TV show, multiple teasers, web videos and DVD Extras, all pulling from the same 30TB of media. it looks like FCP X will n
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| | | |  | Looking for LTO optionsby Eric Weiner 1 year agoHey everyone, I hope this is the best place to post this, it made the most sense to put it here. Ok, so I've read http: magazine.creativecow.net article inexpensive-archiving-for-tapeless-media and do | Re: Looking for LTO options
by Eric Hansen 10 months ago
Bob Zelin "But I cannot stress enough to you that a direct attached LTO is PROCESSOR INTENSIVE, and if you are doing an LTO backup with the ProMax, or HP Ultrium, or Quantum LTO, while you are doing
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| | | |  | SSD and Mechanical driveby Michael Forsberg 11 months agoI presently use Premiere Elements 8.1 on Window's 7' 64 bit machine. I have two internal Sata drives. One C: for program and the second D:, for scratch disk and video files for projects. I would like | Re: SSD and Mechanical drive
by Eric Hansen 10 months ago
this is how i have my MacBook Pro set up. SSDs will change your life. my 4 year old MBP is faster than the 1 year old Mac Pros in our shop. e Eric Hansen - http: www.erichansen.tv
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| | | |  | Formatted iMac now FCP is running slow....by Jake White 11 months agoI had to format my Mac a few days ago and wiped everything clean smoothly. Well I loaded FCP back onto my newly formatted Mac along with the Adobe Creative Suite CS5 and now for some reason my Final C | | | | |
| | | | | RED CF cards tossedby Eric Hansen 1 year agohey guys i just finished a RED shoot with an outside production company. they purchased 20 RED CF cards for the shoot, and then threw them away. they claim they never reuse cards and QC is their numbe | | | | |
| | | |  | How often do you service your decks?by Brian DeViteri 1 year agoCurious if anyone has a consistent schedule for deck servicing that they stick to, such as every 3000 operation or drum hours (More Less ) Or if it is being handled on an "as needed" basis. Thoughts w | | | | |
| | | | | SRW-1 vs. Cinedeck Extremeby Eric Hansen 1 year agohey all we're thinking about replacing our SRW-1 HDCAM SR field recorder with a Cinedeck Extreme. we use the SRW-1 to record our Cineflex v14 camera. we chose this deck originally because it could ove | | | | |
| | | | | Phantom Cameraby Vinnie Urgo 1 year agoI did not see a forum for the Phantom Camera so I thought this may be a good spot to ask this question. You can move me if you need to. I am VERY interested in getting certified to be a Phantom Techni | Re: Phantom Camera
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
hey Vinnie we have a Phantom HD that we bought from Abel Cine. they provide classes on the camera and few of our staff have taken that class and then trained the rest of us in the office on how to use
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| | | | | Conversion to HDCam Formatby Eric Martin 1 year agoI have footage that was shot on the RED, graded and output via Apple Color, and now has the following specs: resolution: 2048x1152 pixel aspect ratio: square frame rate: 23.98 field dominance: none an | Re: Conversion to HDCam Format
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
since they're asking for a 59.94i HDCAM master, you're going to have to add a pulldown to your 23.98 footage. i would find out if the dub house is going to do this for you (an AJA Kona card for exampl
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| | | | | Digitizing Umatic Tapesby Brian Grant 2 years agoI have a collection of Old Umatic Tapes, each has a music video on average 4 minutes in length. I want to digitize these Umatics before they disintegrate. I want to end up with Individual Quicktime fi | Re: Digitizing Umatic Tapes
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
i've adopted ProResHQ as my standard codec because of generational issues. i've worked on a few projects where we've reexported the same Quicktimes multiple times. ie, taking the final Quicktime of a
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| | | | | FCP Speed Effect to Twixtorby Eric Hansen 1 year agothe editors i work with like to use FCP's Speed effect for speed manipulation and ramps because they can get their ideas down fast and move on. the editors have tried to use Twixtor in FCP, but it can | Re: FCP Speed Effect to Twixtor
by Peter Litwinowicz 1 year ago
Ah, here's another thing I didn't see in your original post: You said Automatic DUck or Boris XML Tool can work by " keyframing every single frame" if that's the case, then you are in luck. I presume
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| | | | | Recording Slowmotionby Joshy Sebastian 1 year agoA new entrant to armature videography. Looks like equipment for recording more than 30fps (native) to create a true slow motion is expensive. Is there any way to convert interlaced video@60i to native | Re: Recording Slowmotion
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
hey Joshy i have a tutorial on 60i to 60p to 24p using After Effects on my blog: http: avplumber.wordpress.com 2009 09 04 60i-to-60p-to-24p-slow-motion-conversion-and-the-resolution-myth AE does a pre
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| | | | | Zeiss Compact Primes - swapping mountsby Eric Hansen 1 year agohey all we have a set of Zeiss CP.2 compact primes with PL mounts. these mounts can be swapped out to Nikon F and Canon EF. Zeiss also includes shims for the mounts in case they need to be offset. a f | Re: Zeiss Compact Primes - swapping mounts
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
thanks john so, taking this one step further. we already have a set of 5 Zeiss primes. we also have a few from other manufacturers. considering that investment, and what we've already invested in our
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| | | | | buying "used" 35mm and 16mm filmby Eric Hansen 1 year agohey all we recently did a shoot down in Chile and got a screaming deal on 35mm film because it was left over from another shoot. it was still new, sealed and refrigerated. is there a place in the US w | Re: buying "used" 35mm and 16mm film
by Eric Hansen 1 year ago
thanks for the insights guys. have you had any issues with film you've bought this way i spoke with our cines here and they didn't like this idea due to possible bad stock. we did it in Chile because
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| | | | | 35mm converter vs. Tele converter lensby Eric Hansen 5 years agoHappy 4th of July P2 COW! i've been looking at these 35mm lens converters for the HVX200 and i'm intrigued. the footage on some of the web sites looks really good. but i'm a bit confused. couldnt you | Re: 35mm converter vs. Tele converter lens
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
hey Gerardo you're jumping into a thread over 3 years old. you're also asking about a certain aspect of cinematography that has jumped by leaps and bounds over the last 3 years. i could get into this,
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| | | | | Grading Phantom footage - best wayby Eric Hansen 2 years agohey all i know this isnt a Phantom forum, but it's probably the closest one on the Cow. I have Apple Color and Glue Tools Phantom Toolkit on my Mac Pro color system, and VR Cineviewer running on an XP | Re: Grading Phantom footage - best way
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
Fred wrote: "Eric, why don t you drop a substitute set of small hard drives and program installs on your system and test this one for yourself " um, i don't really know what you mean here. i tried to
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| | | | | Intensity Pro and Spyder 3by Michael Liebergot 3 years agocurrently own an Apple MacPro (2.66 Quad) and run FCP and Sony Vegas 8 (via Bootcamp) and am running an Intensity Pro card out to an external monitor for SD color work. I recently purchased a VIZIO 22 | Re: Intensity Pro and Spyder 3
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
i wouldn't do any color critical work with a consumer-grade monitor. people ask me all the time what brand or model monitor to buy, and i don't know. there's too much variance. the problem with consum
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| | | |  | Generating Faster Proxies with x264by Allan White 2 years agoI've been using Live Capture and CatDV to generate H.264 proxies of all our archival tapes, and CatDV to generate previews of file-based video we get from a variety of sources. Encoding those previews | Re: Generating Faster Proxies with x264
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
have you tried the Elgato Turbo.264 HD using it to make 640x360 H.264 at 1500kbps from Final Cut at ProResHQ runs at about 100fps. i don't use CatDV, but i think it should work. it installs as a Quick
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| | | | | Upscale in FCP or Colorby Franco Bogino 2 years agoHi all We have a film with a mixture of HD and SD, which will be output as HD for the festival circuit as well as TV. It has been cut in FCP at full res and is being graded in Color, then back to FCP | Re: Upscale in FCP or Color
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
hey walter great suggestion on using one Kona to playback SD and another to capture and upconvert. never thought of that. i've done the record to Beta and recapture technique with great results. i've
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| | | |  | Advice for Theater playbackby Michael Sacci 2 years agoI have never had anything projected in a movie theater and I'm finishing a movie that will be projected from a HDCAM tape (1080i59.94). With regards to general contrast and tone does the projected ima | Re: Advice for Theater playback
by Eric Hansen 2 years ago
it's been awhile since i've projected HDCAM not at 23.98 (but even then it's psf and not p), but when i was doing HDCAM 60i, it was with a Christie Roadster and it did interlace correctly like a regul
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| | | | | Best method for CCing Phantom .cine filesby Eric Hansen 2 years agohey all i posted this question in the Glue Tools forum last week and didn't get a response: I have Apple Color and Glue Tools Phantom Toolkit on my Mac Pro color system, and VR Cineviewer running on a | | | | |
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