Member Since: September 19th 2005 | | | | |  | Michael Cioni + frame ioby Eric Santiago 1 week agohttp: www.fcp.co final-cut-pro articles 2216-michael-cioni-joins-frame-io-as-svp-of-global-innovation Met him at NAB 2011. Super nice and helpful. | Re: Michael Cioni + frame io
by greg janza 4 days ago
Tom Sefton "You could easily do this and provide a separate .srt file to a producer along with a proxy for review" Yes, like Simon Says but more powerful. It would be a completely streamlined scripti
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| | | |  | Export settings in Premiere Pro.by sandra ciampone 6 days agoHello everyone. I have a 120 minute time line to export in Premeire Pro. What are the best export settings to keep the final film size under a Gb but also keep the video in good quality If I use h264 | Re: Export settings in Premiere Pro.
by greg janza 4 days ago
The easiest way to share a video these days is to upload it to Vimeo, Youtube, etc and then give someone a link. It allows you to keep it high quality and the size of the file is irrelevant once it's
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| | | | | Horrifically Slow Premier CC 2019by Sean Davison 1 week agoTrying to Online a 50 minute 4k show using Premier but every key stroke or menu click involved a spinning beach ball for around 8 seconds. Running on a MacBook Pro 2018 with a G-speed 8tb Thunderbolt | Re: Horrifically Slow Premier CC 2019
by greg janza 5 days ago
Most likely you're working with H264 mxf files. Create Cineform HD proxies and your system performance should increase dramatically. https: www.linkedin.com in tmprods tallmanproductions.net
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| | | |  | Apply global LUT?by Ken Nicholson 2 weeks agoI just received a half-hour show to color and find out "oh by the way" it was all shot in C-Log. How do I apply the LUT globally across over about 400 clips The Input LUT field grays out when selectin | Re: Apply global LUT?
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
There's actually a much better way to globally apply LUTs. Create a LUT look on one clip and then export that LUT as an effect preset. Next, highlight all of the clips in a bin that you want this newl
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| | | |  | adobe premiere export multi formatby nick hartcher 2 weeks agohey team, I am currently have multiple projects and sequences in premiere that I need to export so that I can send to various people so that they can edit in thier own programs such as Final Cut Pro w | Re: adobe premiere export multi format
by greg janza 2 weeks ago
This is potentially asking for a lot of headache, Is it absolutely necessary for the projects to be worked on outside of Premiere https: www.linkedin.com in tmprods tallmanproductions.net
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| | | | | Transcriptive plug-in causes timeline bugs?by Matt Faw 3 weeks agoAfter installing Digital Anarchy's Transcriptive plug-in, a new consistent bug has emerged. Whenever I switch from one timeline to another, the timeline indicator jumps to the head of the timeline. Th | | | | |
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| | | |  | The power of brevityby Mark Suszko 1 month agoIronic post, coming from me, I know.... There's a couple of fun presentation techniques out there that concentrate on communicating the essence of your information in a compressed manner. I want to en | Re: The power of brevity
by greg janza 1 month ago
Fascinating. I used to cut 48 min television shows and now I work primarily with 120 secs or less pieces and I find the shorter format much more rewarding. Don't get me wrong though, making hour long
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| | | |  | Best Books/Videos for Theoryby Kevin Camin 7 months agoHello, I'm looking for recommendations for editing theory references. I'm looking to deepen my knowledge of the art craft. I'm versed in Walter Murch's book, as well as the ideas behind Russian montag | Re: Best Books/Videos for Theory
by greg janza 6 months ago
This video is the single best resource on explaining the art of editing that I've ever come across: https: vimeo.com tonyzhou editing tallmanproductions.net
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| | | | | The continuing power of the talking headby greg janza 9 months 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 12 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 10 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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| | | | | Revamped Forumsby greg janza 1 year 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 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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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| | | | | I own a Fiber Channel SAN systemby Bob Zelin 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 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 2 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 2 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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| | | | | 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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| | | | | Need some guidance finding videos.by Joe Clark 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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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