Member Since: September 19th 2005 | | | | |  | Exporting a DCP file for Windowsby Mark Ireland 1 day agoI am fairly new to the experience of file delivery to theaters for a film I recently finished. Mostly it's been shown in smaller venues where I play a .mov file via HDMI through my laptop. I am now de | Re: Exporting a DCP file for Windows
by greg janza 24 hours ago
Macs can read and write to ntfs drives if you have this app: https: www.tuxera.com products tuxera-ntfs-for-mac I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orso
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| | | |  | Media manager errorby Shane Ross 4 months agoSo I'm trying to media manage a sequence to a new drive so that we give the online facility ONLY the assets used in the cut. A typical thing. Avid does this, FCP 7 and FCX do this. And NOW supposedly | Re: Media manager error
by greg janza 2 days ago
You've touched on one of the weakest aspects of Premiere. It's buggy and slow and it never gets better. Meanwhile, the marketing push is now in full swing bloviating on all of the new and sexy feature
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| | | | | Replicating DVD Chapter Marker Functionalityby Frank Hall 7 months agoHello all, I regularly use Premiere and DVD SP to produce DVDs that contain chapters and Stories. The great thing about this is that the user can either watch the whole video or jump to specific conte | | | | |
| | | |  | APFS considerationsby Oliver Peters 1 week agoIt's around the corner. Be careful! http: www.fcp.co fcp-forum 2-off-topic 27948-apfs#90574 https: support.apple.com en-us HT208018 https: developer.apple.com library content documentation FileManagem | Re: APFS - Don't Panic :-)
by greg janza 4 days ago
Charlie, thanks for the link to the documentation. And while it's nice to have the official information, what remains infuriating about Apple is that the company is on the verge of releasing an OS upd
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| | | |  | Naming Convention Adviceby Matt Dunne 5 days agoHey all. I'm in the middle of updating my companies post workflow document for freelance editors and have been doing some thinking into our naming convention for sequences and exports. I'm a huge stic | Re: Naming Convention Advice
by greg janza 5 days ago
I use a simple naming convention of adding 1.0 to the end of my timeline name for first round, 2.0 for second round, etc. And if by chance I have to make a fix mid-round I change the suffix to 1.1, 2.
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| | | |  | Sure hope this place stays relevant...by Bill Davis 6 days agoTrying to keep stopping by here, but IBC is Rocking in Amsterdam and I'm in threads with 100s of posts debating and talking about FCP X elsewhere - and it's comparative crickets here. That's kinda sad | Re: Sure hope this place stays relevant...
by greg janza 6 days ago
It sure seems like criticism comes fast and furious in the online world so why even try to mitigate it The responsibility for convincing the professional video world of the legitimacy of FCPX falls sq
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| | | | | Adobe - IBCby Oliver Peters 1 week agoFor those still pining at the loss of FCP7 Studio http: www.creativeplanetnetwork.com news edit adobe-previews-late-2017-creative-cloud-updates 619282 - Oliver Oliver Peters - oliverpeters.com | Re: Adobe - IBC
by greg janza 1 week ago
Scott Witthaus "Key word is "was". Why emulate that " The downfall of Avid is all related to the company not being forward thinking. They stubbornly stuck with the proprietary architecture for far to
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| | | | | Bars, Tone, and Countdownby Norm Kaiser 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 year 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 | | | | |
| | | | | Advice for a request for music changeby Dave Bowman 1 month agoHi everyone, I wonder if someone can offer me some advice on this. I've created a video of a large estate house for a customer and cut it to music - music I chose as it was suitable for the video . So | Re: Advice for a request for music change
by greg janza 4 weeks ago
Bill Davis "With modern editing software, making an alt cut to try out new music should be pretty trivial." On this point I can agree with Bill. Music selects for video pieces seems to always engende
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| | | |  | Server/Storage for Editor..??by Jake Cauty 1 month 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 month 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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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| | | |  | Syncing Satellite Officesby Stephen Brock 2 months agoI'm media managing a post-production house in Kansas City. We've got satellite offices with editors working in NYC, Chicago, and a new one starting in Seattle this Fall. Are there any case studies of | Re: Syncing Satellite Offices
by greg janza 2 months ago
a second vote for Resilio. Works extremely well. I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orson Welles
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| | | | | EMERGENCY Lost Raidby John Barata 3 months agoHello all, I am desperately posting here hoping to find a solution. I walked into my edit suite to find my Raid beeping. I went to see what was wrong and the status light was flashing red but nothing | Re: EMERGENCY Lost Raid
by greg janza 3 months ago
How did your raid problem turn out were you able to salvage it I Hate Television. I Hate It As Much As Peanuts. But I Can t Stop Eating Peanuts. - Orson Welles
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| | | |  | How do you label your drone shots?by Michael Tyas 3 months 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 months 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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| | | | | Diegoby Diego Burlando 6 months agoDoes anyone know the hard drives SSD OWC (Other World Computing) I'm looking for exchanging my RAID 5 HDD system to a solid state 4 Mini 4TB (4 x 1TB) Four-Bay Thunderbolt 2 Array. If anyone has refer | Re: Diego
by greg janza 3 months ago
1. yes. I believe Raid 5 would only require Storage Spaces. I had to use Disk Management in order to create Raid10. 2. Benchmark tests using crystaldiskmark5: write read 400MB s. My TB2 raids are conn
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| | | | | Taking FCPX out for a new test driveby greg janza 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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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| | | | | Picking new Raid Drivesby Bob Miller 5 months agoHello, So, I'm editing off a Macbook Pro 15 inch 2014 maxed out on Premiere Pro (I know, it's not a beast for editing) and recently got a gig where I was given a regular bus powered drive with 4K comp | Re: Picking new Raid Drives
by greg janza 4 months ago
Bob Miller "This is obviously not fast enough, but put here for the heck of it because it's cheaper:" For 4k editing with compressed files, that speed is more than enough. If you plan on editing unco
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| | | |  | Thunderbolt/SAS Raid for PCby Matthew Bowden 2 years agoI am having a custom PC built for my new job. The pc is being built on with an X99 motherboard. Specifically the Gigabyte G1 Gaming Wifi or the Asus Deluxe. Both of these boards have Thunderbolt heade | Re: Thunderbolt/SAS Raid for PC
by greg janza 5 months ago
matthew, the folks here are quite knowledgeable and we're all better off for having them as regular contributors on this forum. But at the same time, there are inexpensive options for a single system.
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| | | |  | Thunderbolt on a PC?by Jake Hawkes 1 year agoAnyone have any working Thunderbolt 2 or 3 add-on option out there PCI-Express card or other You've Had Our Potatoes! | Re: Thunderbolt on a PC?
by greg janza 5 months ago
if your pc is on the newer side TB3 is a (potentially) cheap and (relatively) easy add on. Find a TB3 motherboard that is compatible with your cpu. Both Asus and Gigabyte make a variety of motherboard
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| | | |  | Thunderbolt - Windows 10by Chris Tompkins 8 months agoI'm looking for help in getting thunderbolt raid to show up in WIN 10. Promise R6 Raid, used with WIN7 and no issues. Now on WIN 10 and having issues getting the raid to show up. Anyone been there Tha | Re: Thunderbolt - Windows 10
by greg janza 5 months ago
A follow up for others who may be interested in upgrading to TB3: I purchased a gigabyte x99p-sli motherboard because it's compatible with my cpu which is a i7 5820k. I'm using an OWC Thunderbay 4 rai
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| | | |  | Lower third bar length expressionby alex judson 4 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 6 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 7 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 7 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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| | | | | can avid and boris co-exist peacefully?by greg janza 9 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 | | | | |
| | | | | edit to tape problemsby greg janza 12 years agoI'd like to second zeeton's frustrations from an eariler post. I too come from a background of media100 and Avid editing and these printing to tape bugs just don't exist. I've been grappling with the | | | | |
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