Member Since: September 19th 2005 | | | | |  | Timeline playback slow and jumpy.by Michael O'Connor 3 days agoMy editing career started way back in 2000 when I started with Avid. All started out well, I had an old Panasonic SVHS Camcorder that I had purchased on eBay which took really good pictures and I woul | Re: Timeline playback slow and jumpy.
by greg janza 2 days ago
Your first step should be to transcode the P2 media into an edit friendly codec - pro res, dnxhd or cineform. If your problem remains with the transcoded footage then most likely you have compatibilit
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| | | |  | Moving project to Resolveby Robert Withers 1 week agoHello, I'm planning to cut loose from the rental lease system of Premiere when my subscription expires in April, and work with the free DaVinci Resolve, which I've tested a bit. Is there a way to move | Re: Moving project to Resolve
by greg janza 1 week ago
Robert, John's advice is correct. It's called a FCP xml but in reality it's just an xml file that can easily be read by any other NLE and it's the easiest way to move from one NLE to another mid-proje
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| | | | | The king of all tutorialsby greg janza 1 week agoFor advanced Premiere users who want to maximize efficiency, this is quite a video: https: youtu.be O6ERELse_QY Tallmanproductions.net Main Edit: Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceG | | | | |
| | | |  | Laptop specs for premiere?by Dominic Reagan 2 weeks agoIm planning on getting a dell xps 15 with the 6 core 8th gen i7, 16gb of ram, and a Gtx 1050 ti. Is this going to be fine in premiere Also I've heard that it's not worth getting a 4k screen because yo | Re: Laptop specs for premiere?
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
go for it. Tallmanproductions.net Main Edit: Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceGTX970 Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor Adobe CC 2019 13.0.2 Renders cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2
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| | | | | Premiere Pro 4k Scrubbing Issue H.264by Thomas Marshall 2 weeks agoSo recently I decided to build a more robust computer (previous was a 6 core i7, gtx 750ti, mainly ssds), with the hope of finally being able to edit 4k footage without messing with transcoding or pro | Re: Premiere Pro 4k Scrubbing Issue H.264
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
You've created a great custom built machine that will be a power horse for awhile. Now transcode your H264 media into a codec that Premiere can easily work with and you'll be living on easy street. Wi
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| | | | | The continuing power of the talking headby greg janza 1 month agoThere's a fair amount of criticism about using talking heads in videos these days. There seems to be a feeling that the standard talking head is a stale stylistic choice or that it's inherently boring | | | | |
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| | | |  | Cookies warning = annoyingby David Roth Weiss 3 months agoWhy is it that your cookies warning comes up every time I open a post on the Cow Shouldn t that go away forever once I acknowledge the cookie warning by clicking on the X ***FYI, the issue is on my iP | Re: Cookies warning = annoying
by greg janza 2 months ago
It actually doesn't work on the major web browsers. i continue to get the cookies box each and every time I load the cow into Opera and Chrome. And it's definitely not an Apple thingie since I'm on a
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| | | |  | New Apple holiday commercialsby Oliver Peters 3 months agoFeaturing music (Logic), editing (Premiere), graphics (Photoshop) - but, key are the creative thoughts and the hardware and less the software. https: www.youtube.com channel UCE_M8A5yxnLfW0KghEeajjw - | Re: New Apple holiday commercials
by greg janza 3 months ago
Neil Goodman "ve worked on many Trailers and promotional content for Apple and Apple music and am familiar with the marketing and legal teams at each entity respectfully. None of which was cut on X,
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| | | | | Editing and music compositionby Oliver Peters 3 months agoSimon Ubsdell's thoughts on the similarities between editing and music composition: https: digitalfilms.wordpress.com 2018 11 22 editing-and-music-composition - Oliver Oliver Peters - oliverpeters.com | Re: Editing and music composition
by greg janza 3 months ago
Like usual, an excellent piece from Simon. Thanks for sharing. Tallmanproductions.net Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceGTX970 Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor Adobe CC 2019 13.0
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| | | | | Revamped Forumsby greg janza 4 months agoIgnore if this is already in the works but a major hindrance here on these forums is the inability to direct message individuals. Will that be a feature in the new design Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 6 | Re: Revamped Forums
by greg janza 4 months ago
Tim, thanks for the thoughtful and exhaustive response. Now with all of that perspective, the request seems unnecessary so I'll rescind it. Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceGTX970
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| | | |  | Baby's first RAID array?by Kasey Gay 8 months agoHey guys, Can I beg some advice from a novice perspective. I would like to waste an absolute bare minimum of your time. Shortest explanation: I invested in a high-end IMac last year, and was still cho | Re: Baby's first RAID array?
by greg janza 7 months ago
Kasey Gay "s there any sane reason why someone would go with that, rather than the Thunder Bay 4 " no. If you buy your own drives you can get OWC Thunderbay for around $700. Go to any major online co
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| | | |  | RAID01 or RAID10by Neil Sadwelkar 8 months agoFor RAID enclosures with 4 or more (even number of) drives, RAID10 is one of the recommended RAID schemes, for speed and safety. RAID5 and RAID6 being the more popular RAID levels, particularly for 6 | Re: RAID01 or RAID10
by greg janza 8 months ago
fwiw- there's a lot of articles on the web explaining why you should avoid Raid 5 at all cost. It's also been talked about extensively in the Adobe Hardware forum and the consensus is to never use Rai
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| | | | | Ingestion errorsby Robert Withers 10 months agoHi folks, I've been indoctrinated to copy backup the entire film structure of a camera card onto my hard drives. So here's what I do: Insert camera card in my Macbook Pro slot and open. I see a "Priva | Re: Ingestion errors
by greg janza 9 months ago
http: mudflatsoftware.com Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor Adobe CC 2018 Renders cache: Samsung SSD 950 Pro x2 in Raid 0 Media: Samsung SSD 960 PR
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| | | | | GH4/5 4K playback delay on 5K iMacby Anthony Rizzuto 11 months agoI run Premiere 12.0.1 on a 27" 5K maxed iMac. Have been cutting a bit more 4K stuff from GH4 & GH5 lately and I m finding a bit of a lag delay in playing from timeline and loading current frame at pla | Re: GH4/5 4K playback delay on 5K iMac
by greg janza 11 months ago
Your GH4 and GH5 records in long GOP which is CPU intensive. Transcode all of that material into an edit friendly format (pro-res or DNxHD HR) and you will eliminate lag. Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU N
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| | | | | Optimizing CC for Macby Kasey Gay 1 year agoHey team, I'm wondering if you guys can help clue me in. I'm sure this is a novice issue, but everything related to CC account is borderline unusable on my Mac. I work in Lightroom and Bridge for work | Re: Optimizing CC for Mac
by greg janza 1 year ago
You've probably already searched out these solutions but your problems sound like they may be either GPU or hard drive related since you obviously have a fast computer. Where are you accessing your me
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| | | | | Best Practicesby Nick Mars 1 year agoHello! I am updating my editing computer from an old MacBook Pro to an iMac. (Please spare me any argument on the exact computer, I need MacOS programs for other work that I do, and recently lost a mo | Re: Best Practices
by greg janza 1 year ago
Nick, Bob is giving you quite a special gift - free consultation advice from a veteran expert in the field. Please keep in mind that the veterans on this forum and most other professional video forums
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| | | | | CalDigit VR2 Not Booting Upby JJ Foote 1 year agoHELP! My drive went down... Said powering up at first (Only one blue light turned on... then off and the other turned on... and then said "Halted. Bad disk count". This is a MAJOR PROBLEM SINCE I HAVE | Re: CalDigit VR2 Not Booting Up
by greg janza 1 year ago
Sounds like you need to contact Caldigit for some troubleshooting help. Do you have any backup in place I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orson Welles
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| | | |  | the "sad" state of our industryby Bob Zelin 2 years agoI guess this is for old timers. Today, with free editing software, quality cameras built into our CEL phones and iPads, free streaming software, free color grading software, free data transmission sof | Re: the "sad" state of our industry
by greg janza 1 year ago
This is a fantastic thread. thanks Bob for being the genesis of it. Many valid points have been raised and on some levels it's quite troubling that the democratization of the business has the potentia
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| | | |  | How Long To Edit a Reality Show?by Emily Geraghty 1 year agoHi! I'm working on a project that's taking me longer than I'd like it to, and probably longer than my company would like it to. So I thought I'd ask ya'll what your opinion is. I'm a producer, shooter | Re: How Long To Edit a Reality Show?
by greg janza 1 year ago
If you're doing it all by yourself there's no reason to feel as though you're taking forever to make it. A 30 min show is a ton of work for a single editor. I'm just wrapping up a 24:30 non-fiction tv
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| | | |  | NAS Hard-Drivesby Eric Santiago 1 year agoSo many drives to choose from, getting dizzy here Need to create a simple RAID 0 using a Pegasus2 R4 so I'm shopping for drives. It seems some drives are labeled NAS. For my needs is this okay to use | Re: NAS Hard-Drives
by greg janza 1 year ago
Eric Santiago "What are people using to move from PC to Mac with RAID sets " I use Resilio to mirror my media from a PC raid to a Mac raid. Resilio is a simple program that syncs everything and moves
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| | | | | Windows RAID Issuesby Eric Santiago 1 year agoI rarely use RAID on the Windows side of things. On set, the DMT was asked to swap RAID sets using an OWC (Thunderbolt chassis) and internal (HP Z840). Of course, I get to be the sucker to inherit thi | Re: Windows RAID Issues
by greg janza 1 year ago
by raid sets are you referring solely to the drives I have an OWC Thunderbay with four Toshiba drives and it works flawlessly in Windows...now. On the windows side of things there were a pile of varia
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| | | |  | FCP7 Projects as Archives - what now?by Bob Cole 1 year agoI get it: FCP7 is going away at last. But very often I have to open up an old FCP7 project simply as a means of tapping my archive of old graphics and clips. When a client asks about an old show and w | Re: FCP7 Projects as Archives - what now?
by greg janza 1 year ago
Bob Cole "3. Keeping an old machine running is problematic." sure seems like keeping an old MBP around just for these random and infrequent needs would be the perfect solution. Unless you can create
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| | | | | I own a Fiber Channel SAN systemby Bob Zelin 1 year agobut now that I have finally realized, that between macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and Windows 10, that my investment is completely worthless, and that I can't even sell it on ebay, that I must go to work fo | Re: I own a Fiber Channel SAN system
by greg janza 1 year ago
Through reading about people's set ups on this forum it becomes clear that most folks are terrified to make dramatic changes with their systems. The fact that there's still a FCP7 subset here is kind
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| | | | | Is the passion for the Apple brand waning?by greg janza 1 year agoI stumbled onto this recent survey and it appears that there's been a shift in public attitudes towards the top technology companies. Full Article: http: bit.ly 2lp1dVN I Hate Television. I Hate It As | | | | |
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| | | | | Bars, Tone, and Countdownby Norm Kaiser 1 year agoHello all: I'm working with a station that requires bars, tone, and a countdown leader. The part I'm confused about...So I'm going to add bars and tone at 58:30:00...and then slate and countdown, etc. | Re: Bars, Tone, and Countdown
by greg janza 1 year ago
there's multiple ways to deliver to a broadcast facility but when I was delivering tv shows our timecode started at 59:00:00, bars and tone were put at 59:00:00-59:30:00, slate 59:40:00-59:50:00, coun
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| | | | | Server/Storage for Editor..??by Jake Cauty 2 years agoHi guys I'm a freelance Editor and do a lot of my work from home. I've been buying 2TB passport drives to store my work on, but it's getting to the point where there's just too many floating around th | Re: Server/Storage for Editor..??
by greg janza 2 years ago
sounds like you're best option is a raid like a Pegasus or OWC Thunderbay but definitely ask bob z. I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orson Welles
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