Member Since: September 19th 2005 | | | | |  | Cleaning Audioby Steve Adams 1 week agoI created some tutorial videos with Camtasia a while ago and used Audacity to remove some background noise from the audio track. I broke out the audio to a separate file and gave it to Audacity. First | Re: Cleaning Audio
by greg janza 7 days ago
You also can purchase a plugin that will do it very well with little effort in Premiere: https: accusonus.com Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceGTX970 Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Mo
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| | | |  | Premiere Pro 2019by Christopher Paul 4 weeks agoPremiere has locked up 3 times since upgrading to 2019 yesterday. As usual, better to finish existing projects and perhaps wait for a bug fix version before upgrading. Happens when I export a frame. W | Re: Premiere Pro 2019
by greg janza 1 week ago
Have you attempted to roll your Nvidia graphics driver back to version 416.16 I also had crashing issues with Premiere 2019 and then I took a suggestion of rolling back the graphics driver and now it
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| | | |  | New Blackmagic eGPUby Steve Connor 2 weeks agoI don't want to distract people from the endless discussion about what the forum should be called but this looks interesting. BMD have released another eGPU. https: www.blackmagicdesign.com products b | Re: New Blackmagic eGPU
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
Bob, thanks as always for writing the most concise and clear minded posts on this site. Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM NvidiaGeForceGTX970 Blackmagic Decklink 4k Mini Monitor Adobe CC 2019 13
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| | | |  | Just A Quick Questionby David Mathis 2 weeks agoOnce the forum name is officially changed how can we get more participation This is a sincere question. I love this forum and want to see it thrive. | Re: Just A Quick Question
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
Andrew Kimery "Out of curiosity which FB groups are you a part of " In addition to the two I listed earlier in this thread there's also "Ask an Editor." Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM Nvidia
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| | | |  | Proxy workflow with merged clipsby Mimi Wilcox 5 months agoHi there, I m about to launch into a feature doc edit in Premiere and want to make sure I m thinking about my proxy workflow in the correct way. My primary question is about how merged clips function +1 | Re: Proxy workflow with merged clips
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
You should never be using the merged clip function. Adobe should remove it as a feature. Instead all syncing should be done with Multicam. Merged clips is a destructive action and Multicam is not and
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| | | |  | Premiere Extension Ideaby Joseph Eli Portell 2 weeks agoHi there, I've learned to create personal extensions for Premiere to help in my workflow, and have decided to touch them up and try and sell them either on my own site or the Adobe exchange. I was cur | Re: Premiere Extension Idea
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
There may be a need for this feature by some editors out there but my work flow is such that clip names are irrelevant to me and so I have no need for it. Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU 64 gigs RAM Nvidi
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| | | | | Premiere Media Start timecode issue MXFby John Pilgrim 3 weeks agoWe are having big trouble with some Sony Venice MXF footage. Premiere is misinterpreting the Media Start timecode across several days worth of shoots. The problem reproduces in both Premiere 2018 and | Re: Premiere Media Start timecode issue MXF
by greg janza 3 weeks ago
I suggest you join the "Adobe Premiere Pro Editors on Facebook" group on facebook and search out Wes Howell. He's an Adobe systems employee who might be able to connect you with the Premiere engineers
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| | | |  | Off The Tracks reviewby Oliver Peters 1 month agoAn interesting critique: https: www.redsharknews.com post item 5846-off-the-tracks-fcp-x,-for-all-its-brilliance,-has-always-been-divisive-it-still-is,-according-to-roland-denning - Oliver Oliver Pete | Re: Off The Tracks review
by greg janza 1 month ago
Bill Davis "OFF THE TRACKS was made by ONE guy who was sitting in Utah and had an idea for a story that interested him. Period. It started as a purely personal labor of love and grew organically from
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| | | | | Revamped Forumsby greg janza 1 month 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 1 month 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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| | | | | iMac Pro vs PC performanceby Oliver Peters 2 months agohttps: www.youtube.com watch v=B8mUp_CUDfw - Oliver Oliver Peters - oliverpeters.com | Re: iMac Pro vs PC performance
by greg janza 2 months ago
Joe Marler "I'd be interested if someone with PP 12.1.2 and a contemporary Windows machine could try JKL timeline responsiveness at 1 4 res for a 4k H264 timeline with "Enable hardware accelerated de
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| | | |  | Blackmagic RAWby Craig Seeman 2 months agoBlackmagic RAW. Perhaps it's their "answer" to ProRes RAW. Of course we can debate FCPX implementation. https: www.youtube.com watch v=Fc8q_3ot3lQ | Re: Blackmagic RAW
by greg janza 2 months ago
Michael Gissing "Cross platform and open codecs are essential." Despite all of the nonsense marketing from Apple, this is the real future of our industry. Adobe and Blackmagic are well aware of this
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| | | | | Baby's first RAID array?by Kasey Gay 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 6 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 6 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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| | | | | Are RED files always problematic?by greg janza 7 months agoI work with RED files semi-regularly and each and every time that I'm given a RED shot project I run into problems with the files. Usually I encounter at least one or two corrupted r3d files in the mi | Re: Are RED files always problematic?
by greg janza 6 months ago
Tom, thanks for all of the info. Perhaps next time around I'll be able to give some input to the DP prior to it being shot so that post is smoother. Windows 10 Pro i7-5820k CPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
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| | | | | GH4/5 4K playback delay on 5K iMacby Anthony Rizzuto 8 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 8 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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| | | | | Editors Job - Relinking Mediaby Vishal Handa 10 months agoHey there, My first post here. This may seem like a very simple question, but whose job is it to relink all the full resolution media when the timeline will be going to a colourist to colour grade. Is | Re: Editors Job - Relinking Media
by greg janza 10 months ago
Most colorists that I work with ask for a collected project managed project which only contains the media from the timeline so the re-link process isn't very time consuming. And unfortunately I can't
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| | | | | Optimizing CC for Macby Kasey Gay 10 months 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 10 months 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 11 months 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 10 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 12 months 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 12 months 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 12 months 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 12 months 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 12 months 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 12 months 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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| | | |  | cold callingby grinner hester 1 year agoI posted this in business and marketing but, these days, there are a lot of freelancers out there sitting idle due to everyone and their dog having proper tools at home. So here is my latest article f | Re: cold calling
by greg janza 1 year ago
grinner hester "these days, there are a lot of freelancers out there sitting idle due to everyone and their dog having proper tools at home. " There's a lot of people out there who possess editing ha
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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 | | | | |
| | | |  | Where do I find editing analysis videos?by Reid Kimball 1 year agoI am looking for videos of editors who analyze the editing techniques and thought processes used in editing the major TV shows and movies. For example, the video would go through most of the scenes of | | | | |
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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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| | | | | Another 4k Red footage workflow question.by Johnny Smith 2 years agoHey fam, Just directed a low budget music video shot in 4K on a Red Epic ( dragon ). What I got today: 285gb of R3D files. I'm working with an older 3,1 MacPro tower ( not book ) that's been recently | | | | |
| | | | | Server/Storage for Editor..??by Jake Cauty 1 year 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 1 year 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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