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| | | |  | NVIDIA Titan X vs Radeon RX 580 8GBby Richard DeFinis 3 months agoRunning a 2010 12 - Core MacPro with High Sierra OS and seem to be running into some software upgrade issues. Some of the software I need to install requires Mojave or Catalina. Apparently the only wa | Re: NVIDIA Titan X vs Radeon RX 580 8GB
by greg janza 3 months ago
I abandoned the Mac platform five years ago and I have no regrets. There's a ton of online resources available to help you select the components for a custom PC build. Carey Holzman's YouTube builds,
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| | | |  | How is everyone doing?by Jeremy Garchow 3 months agoI just came off my first production since February. It was grueling. Long, hot (really hot) 90+ degree, 100+ degree heat index, days in the sun, a little rain everyday, mud, sweat, and tears (from sun | Re: How is everyone doing?
by greg janza 3 months ago
Tony West "We are going to do our best to try and bring a little bit of normalcy to the lives of some folks while we commit to safety and beating this thing so we can all get back and most importantl
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| | | |  | Is anyone using Motion?by Oliver Peters 5 years agoI'm curious. I see a lot of wonderful work being done in Motion from time to time, as well as to create FCPX templates. But is anyone seriously using it for motion graphics In the entire existence of | Re: Is anyone using Motion?
by greg janza 3 months ago
Robin S. Kurz "So how often to you pull out AE of all things to do "basic" or "truly simple comps" Ever You wouldn't just do them in PPro " Literally, all the time. I know there's some people who lik
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| | | | | eGPU future?by Oliver Peters 5 months agoIs there still a future for eGPUs The BMD eGPU Pro has officially been discontinued. The regular BMD eGPU is current out of stock. Since these were both Apple designs built by BMD for sale through the | Re: eGPU future?
by greg janza 4 months ago
Dom Silverio "TB4 needs to be introduced" or not. NVMe's are the future of storage and the speeds blow away any other option. Apple is currently offering a variety of NVMe options at double the price
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| | | |  | Open HEVC file?by John Riker 7 months agoI took my blu-ray and extracted an hevc file out of it to reduce for storage on my media server. So this is just the video file, no container or anything. Latest version of Premiere Pro as of this wri | Re: Open HEVC file?
by greg janza 4 months ago
Bob Jordan "transcoding HEVC files becomes a highly recommended method, especially if your files are in 4K HEVC and you don't have a high-end computer." It doesn't matter what kind of computer you ha
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| | | |  | Crashing in 4kby Harry Bromley-Davenport 4 months agoHail, Happy Editors, I have a Mac Pro 4,1 upgraded to 5,1. running High Sierra 10.13.6. Prem Pro 2019 2 x 3.45 GHz 6 core Intel Xeon 48GB RAM. Graphics NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti 6144 MB It will run ONE 4k sho | Re: Crashing in 4k
by greg janza 4 months ago
.mov is a wrapper. Open the file in VLC or Quicktime and get info to see what the codec is. https: www.linkedin.com in tmprods http: tallmanproductions.net
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| | | | | Mac hardware bumpsby Oliver Peters 5 months agoNew GPU option today for the 16" MBP: Optional Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB of HBM2 memory Customer-installable SSD kit for the Mac Pro: Includes two SSD modules with capacities from 1 to 8TB. - Oliver O | Re: Mac hardware bumps
by greg janza 4 months ago
And just in case there's a Mac user who's concerned about cost, all of the SSD upgrade offerings directly from Apple have an added 'Apple' markup of nearly 100%. Current Newegg prices: Samsung 970 NVM
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| | | |  | Is filmmaking still an option?by Isaac David Quesada 7 months agoI have spent my professional life following a long term plan to build my career as a filmmaker while, at the same time, being able to pay the bills. But now I find myself in a situation where film is | Re: Is filmmaking still an option?
by greg janza 6 months ago
Tim, I do believe this is the single most entertaining post I've ever read on the Cow. Partly why it's so damn entertaining is because I believe you've captured into words some of the essence of why a
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| | | |  | Cookies warning = annoyingby David Roth Weiss 2 years 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 years 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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| | | | | Revamped Forumsby greg janza 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 4 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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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| | | | | Is the passion for the Apple brand waning?by greg janza 3 years 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 3 years 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 3 years 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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| | | | | Need some guidance finding videos.by Joe Clark 3 years agoHello, I am actually writing an article on corporate brands . So for my new article I am in need of corporate brand video so that it would make my article more understandable to all . I went through m | Re: Need some guidance finding videos.
by greg janza 3 years ago
youtube is your resource for every conceivable corporate video known to mankind. I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orson Welles
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| | | | | A-Roll Tutorialsby David Busse 3 years agoSo far I've mostly done montage edits in FCP X which I've enjoyed doing, but now I'm trying out an A-Roll B-Roll story edit and am having a hard time adjusting to the new environment. Specifically wit | Re: A-Roll Tutorials
by greg janza 3 years ago
I agree with Oliver that the workflow for creating pieces is exactly the same in FCPX as PP or any other NLE. It's just a matter of getting used to the FCPX layout and unique feature set. I Hate Telev
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| | | |  | How do you label your drone shots?by Michael Tyas 3 years agoI'm self-trained in drone videography. While I feel confident that my shots are professional, I'm lacking the language to label keyword them in my editor for easy retrieval, or to communicate with a t | Re: How do you label your drone shots?
by greg janza 3 years ago
I've worked with a variety of drone footage and I have no need for any clip labeling. With drone footage the easiest way to manage it is to simply throw all of the drone clips into a timeline and then
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| | | | | Taking FCPX out for a new test driveby greg janza 3 years agoI work almost exclusively in Premiere so I don't stay current with what's happening with FCPX and I rarely take it for a spin. However, I recently was asked to do a project on FCPX and so I had a new | | | | |
| | | | | Coping with planned obsolescence 2by Walter Miale 3 years agoIn general, does it make sense to maintain obsolete but unequaled applications like Eudora and PageMaker and maybe even Photoshop CS2 on a Mac system today, using either multiple Macs or multiple boot | Re: Coping with planned obsolescence 2
by greg janza 3 years ago
John Rofrano "Take the time to learn the new program and move forward. It is a safer approach and you might even find new features that make life a lot easier." This is great advice. Computers are a
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| | | |  | Lower third bar length expressionby alex judson 7 years agoHi all, I'm new to scripting and am having quite a bit of trouble trying to figure this one out. Any help would be appreciated. I am trying to create a lower third bar that will cover a change of text | | | | |
| | | | | How does Avid handle still images?by Scott Davis 10 years agoIt has been a while since I have had to heavily work in Avid. I am working on a job now with a ton of still images. Some are huge, high quality TIFF, some are low quality JPEG files. When importing a | | | | |
| | | | | mc5 hangupby romain clark 10 years agoAnybody saw this happen: when editing a sequence longer than 20 min, either thru AMA or digitized, everything seems to slow down on the app, EG: waiting 20 sec. to perform a cut or do a trim. No diffe | Re: mc5 hangup
by greg janza 10 years ago
there's definitely a memory leak bug. I'm working on MC 5.0.3.5 on osx 10.6.4 I have a large project that when first opened takes 30% of memory and within 30 mins. gets to 100%. this happens consisten
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| | | | | Timecode mismatch on FCP export to quicktimeby greg janza 11 years agoI've been exporting quicktime movies of sections of a timeline in FCP 6.0.6. The timeline is 24P(23.98) (dvcproHD 720P60). I'm doing straight QT exports with the added option of making a self containe | | | | |
| | | | | can avid and boris co-exist peacefully?by greg janza 12 years agoI've recently delved into learning Boris Red while working within an avid mediacomposer on a mac. a few questions for those who are veterans: 1.the many pre-built text moves that reside inside red see | | | | |
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