Saturday, March 26, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2] Re: HD upgrade for MacBookPRO

 

I second this recommendation. I have a 128gb SSD for my OS and apps and a 7200rpm WD 750GB in the optical bay works great and makes a VERY fast machine for media work

On Mar 25, 2011, at 9:20 AM, paulshieldsuk wrote:

> You can also get an Optibay which lets you put a second internal drive in place of the optical Superdrive. I've got a small SSD disc with OSX on it and the old 5400 250Gb in place of the optical. For anything other than messing about though you'd want to run media on an external drive.
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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

 

another example here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfe-UXcsnm4
(made here, put on Youtube to test the automatic translation of captions, so
you can switch to your preferred language)

And something i really like (but had not anything to do with) here:
http://www.waanzee.nl/projects/rotterdam_port_experience_-_history/
(don't switch to fullscreen, aspect ratio gets messed up)

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To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

> Two broad groups of effects. The multiplane look is essentially placing
> flat sections of the image in z space, then panning a "camera" across
> the comp. Besides separating the layers into flat pieces - you can also
> depth map layers (in AE it's called "displacement"), which distorts the
> layer in Z space based on a user drawn matte. There's a few good
> tutorials on lynda.
>
> --
> Pete O
> POP Pictures
> Orlando
>
>
>
> On 3/26/2011 4:49 PM, Tom McDonnell wrote:
>>
>> >Separate the images into layers in Photoshop and composite in After
>> Effects.
>>
>> Thanks guys,
>> I figured as such but wasn't sure. Seems the artistic skill is concealing
>> where the previous layer ends and new one begins. I'll look for a
>> tutorial
>> so I can experiment. It reminds me a lot of the old multiplane cell
>> animation from Fantasia and other hand drawn/animated features.
>>
>> Tom McDonnell
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

 

Two broad groups of effects. The multiplane look is essentially placing
flat sections of the image in z space, then panning a "camera" across
the comp. Besides separating the layers into flat pieces - you can also
depth map layers (in AE it's called "displacement"), which distorts the
layer in Z space based on a user drawn matte. There's a few good
tutorials on lynda.

--
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Orlando

On 3/26/2011 4:49 PM, Tom McDonnell wrote:
>
> >Separate the images into layers in Photoshop and composite in After
> Effects.
>
> Thanks guys,
> I figured as such but wasn't sure. Seems the artistic skill is concealing
> where the previous layer ends and new one begins. I'll look for a tutorial
> so I can experiment. It reminds me a lot of the old multiplane cell
> animation from Fantasia and other hand drawn/animated features.
>
> Tom McDonnell
>
>
>

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[Avid-L2] What's wrong with this picture?

 

Today i went to the dump and trashed a Panny DVC-Pro deck, including SDI /
AES options, as well as an EBU phosphor Sony 19" monitor...
Both were about 9 years old, and i've paid more than a years income for it.

Now i'm finding myself re-foaming (repairing woofers) on my wife's Bose 301
mark I speakers...
(FYI, those are from 1977)

No comments on my wife's age, but else, what is wrong with this picture?

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RE: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

 

>Separate the images into layers in Photoshop and composite in After
Effects.

Thanks guys,
I figured as such but wasn't sure. Seems the artistic skill is concealing
where the previous layer ends and new one begins. I'll look for a tutorial
so I can experiment. It reminds me a lot of the old multiplane cell
animation from Fantasia and other hand drawn/animated features.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Sony z7u workflow with MC 5.5

 

Hey - I just asked this question here and didn't get a positive response! Are these files on a CF card or on the memory recording unit? I can Log and Transfer files on a CF card into FCP but no luck with AMA with MC 5.x. Does AMA work in 5.5?

On 25 Mar 2011, at 21:47, Jason Gillet wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a new one for me. Does anyone know the proper workflow for importing
> Sony z7u footage that was recorded as files from the camera into MC 5.5? The
> client also has the material on tape. Is this something that can use AMA? Format
> was 1080 23.98. I can't seem to find any info except for FCP which uses Log and
> Transfer.
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> Thanks,
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> Editor/Engineer
> Moving Pictures NYC
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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

 

Or Shake or Combustion or especially good in Nuke.

--
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On 3/26/2011 1:06 PM, oliverpetersvidy wrote:
>
> > Tom McDonnell wrote:
> > Does anybody know how these images are put together to give depth?
>
> Separate the images into layers in Photoshop and composite in After
> Effects.
>
> - Oliver
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[Avid-L2] Re: 3D like images...

 

> Tom McDonnell wrote:
> Does anybody know how these images are put together to give depth?

Separate the images into layers in Photoshop and composite in After Effects.

- Oliver

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Re: [Avid-L2] 3D like images...

From the current "New Yorker":

"Introducing GOING OUTSIDE, the astounding multipurpose activity
platform that will revolutionize the way you spend your time. GOING
OUTSIDE is not a game or a program, not a device or an app, not a
protocol or an operating system. Instead, it's a comprehensive
experiential mode that lets you perceive and do things firsthand.
GOING OUTSIDE: 1. Supports real-time experience through seamless
mind-body interface. By GOING OUTSIDE, you'll rediscover the joy and
satisfaction of actually doing something. 2. Is completely hands-free.
No keyboards, mice, controllers, touch pads, or joysticks. 3. Delivers
authentic 3-D, real-motion video, with no lag time or artifacts.
Available colors encompass the entire spectrum to which human eyesight
is sensitive. Blacks are pure. Shadows, textures and reflections are
beyond being exactly-like-what-they-are. They are what they are.
GOING OUTSIDE also supports viewing visuals in a full range of
orientations. For Landscape Mode, simply look straight ahead -- at a
real landscape, if you so choose. To see things to the left or the
right, shift your eyes in their sockets or turn your head from side to
side. For Portrait Mode, merely tilt your head ninety degrees in
either direction and use your eyes normally. Vision-correcting
eyeglasses not included but widely available."

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/03/28/110328sh_shouts_weiner


On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Tom McDonnell <ltr54@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> http://gov.ca.gov/
> If you wait for the page to load images will display in the top portion of
> the page. Does anybody know how these images are put together to give depth?


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[Avid-L2] 3D like images...

 

http://gov.ca.gov/

If you wait for the page to load images will display in the top portion of
the page. Does anybody know how these images are put together to give depth?

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Los Angeles, CA
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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Ricky Leacock (1921-2011)

 

I'd say this youtube clip is required viewing for all doc filmmakers, and a spur to courage in the face of mediocrity:

rickyleacock

Doug (proud to be a doc editor following in the steps of giants) Rossini

On Mar 25, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Jim Feeley wrote:

> There was a nice remembrance of Leacock a couple days ago on AJ
> Schnack's site. Lotso links, too:
>
> http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2011/03/richard-ricky-leacock-1921-2011.html
>
>
> And check out Leacock's fantastic website. He has a lot to say about
> his films, and film in general
>
> http://richardleacock.com/
>
>
> Sigh,
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:36 PM, wilsonchao wrote:
>
>> Ricky Leacock passed away:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/richard-leacock-innovative-documentary-maker-dies-at-89.html
>>
>> For those of us involved in documentaries in the Boston area, he was
>> a seminal figure, holding court at a booth at the (long gone) F & T
>> diner in Kendall Square. R.I.P.
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RE: [Avid-L2] Re: Client Approvals

John, i'm with you on wetransfer.com, what an awesome interface they
have? Super easy too. We still provide a lot of BITC DVDs for paper
edits and approval but most of our output is light entertainment,
minimum of 30 mins, normally an hour, so it's faster to bike a dvd in
most cases than encode and upload to our FTP (although that happens a
lot too). We use FORscene for client logging and if need be we can have
the editor do a mixdown which will upload their current sequence to
their FORscene account pretty much immediately and with no intervention
from us due to the watch folder capabilities of FORscene. We will be
using a Content Agent soon which will speed up our abilities to make
files and i would imagine this will do away with a lot of the DVD
screeners. Files tend to be H.264 512x288 1-2000 kbps square pixel with
BITC.


Andi

To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
From: johnhollands22@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:00:43 +1100
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Client Approvals






First, we never send tape. Of any kind. Anywhere. +++

One or two clients like a DVD, usually they are the less-savvy ones. One

asked me if I knew anywhere good enough to duplicate DVDs without

generation loss. You know, going down a generation by copying the

original DVD. He was amazed when I told him...

I've discovered that clients will find their own preferences.

Here's what we use from most common to least:

send mpeg1 or wmv or small mov using www.wetransfer.com

put mp4 onto a youtube unlisted link and send link to client.

put FLV on our "backpage", link sent to client.

put FLV onto our site but "backdate" so it doesn't pop up, send

link to client.

Use FTP - ours or theirs. Hardly ever for approval clips. Editors

send edits to us though.

Why do we send MPEG-1??? Because people can play it.

I don't care if it is as uncool as, um, as... you know, as uncool as

anything.

We once had a client asking for a QT MOV. I think DV Anamorphic 48k. Our

Editor "knew better" and insisted on sending H264 mp4. Client would

complain she can't see it, it won't play on her computer. We'd always

have to send again in QT.

Our Editor sniffed haughtily and said "she must have a weak computer

with all the wrong codecs" - "she should upgrade".

He didn't see why he should degrade HIS output.

He was partially right; she DID have a crappy computer, she DIDN'T have

the codecs. BUT!!! She worked in a Big Broadcaster and HER ridiculous IT

department refused to upgrade or give her a better computer or fix or do

anything to allow her to play ANY videos at all.

Seems IT had decided video-playing was for time wasters.

(Ironically, their suggestion was we send to their FTP, the IT Dept

would download and check the file was OK and she could email them to

arrange a time for them to show her the file. Wasting far more of her

time than just letting her watch it!)

Never mind they were idiots. She figured out what she COULD play - and

that's what she was asking us to provide.

Almost cost us the job. She couldn't figure out why we didn't give her

what she asked for.

I couldn't figure it out either.

So I routinely transcoded that Editor's output and sent her what she

asked for.

Radical idea, give the client what they ask for...

BTW we are careful not to give clients anything they could easily use

until the editing and billing process is complete. Sending *some*

clients a DVD is asking for trouble IMHO. Unless you heavily watermark

and I consider that insulting to the client. So, low quality or locked

away on our Server (they can download from youtube but not from our

backpage).

Sometimes it's not all about the client's convenience.

john

+++ never sending tape may change later this year.




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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Client Approvals

 

I always use vimeo. I export a qt-reference from Avid. Import to sqeeze. I basically use the mpg4 setting "hq". After it's done I go to my account on vimeo, upload the mp4, then I set the movie as passwordprotected( great feature) . When the upload/ transcode is done I get an e-mail, I forward the e-mail to my client, just adding info about the password. This works great!

Vänliga hälsningar/Best regards
Ulf Södergren

U-Film
Tegelgårdsgatan 24
211 33 Malmö
Sweden

phone: +46 707698549

www.ufilm.se

26 mar 2011 kl. 11:00 skrev John Hollands <johnhollands22@gmail.com>:

> First, we never send tape. Of any kind. Anywhere. +++
>
> One or two clients like a DVD, usually they are the less-savvy ones. One
> asked me if I knew anywhere good enough to duplicate DVDs without
> generation loss. You know, going down a generation by copying the
> original DVD. He was amazed when I told him...
>
> I've discovered that clients will find their own preferences.
>
> Here's what we use from most common to least:
>
> send mpeg1 or wmv or small mov using www.wetransfer.com
>
> put mp4 onto a youtube unlisted link and send link to client.
>
> put FLV on our "backpage", link sent to client.
>
> put FLV onto our site but "backdate" so it doesn't pop up, send
> link to client.
>
> Use FTP - ours or theirs. Hardly ever for approval clips. Editors
> send edits to us though.
>
> Why do we send MPEG-1??? Because people can play it.
>
> I don't care if it is as uncool as, um, as... you know, as uncool as
> anything.
>
> We once had a client asking for a QT MOV. I think DV Anamorphic 48k. Our
> Editor "knew better" and insisted on sending H264 mp4. Client would
> complain she can't see it, it won't play on her computer. We'd always
> have to send again in QT.
>
> Our Editor sniffed haughtily and said "she must have a weak computer
> with all the wrong codecs" - "she should upgrade".
>
> He didn't see why he should degrade HIS output.
>
> He was partially right; she DID have a crappy computer, she DIDN'T have
> the codecs. BUT!!! She worked in a Big Broadcaster and HER ridiculous IT
> department refused to upgrade or give her a better computer or fix or do
> anything to allow her to play ANY videos at all.
>
> Seems IT had decided video-playing was for time wasters.
>
> (Ironically, their suggestion was we send to their FTP, the IT Dept
> would download and check the file was OK and she could email them to
> arrange a time for them to show her the file. Wasting far more of her
> time than just letting her watch it!)
>
> Never mind they were idiots. She figured out what she COULD play - and
> that's what she was asking us to provide.
>
> Almost cost us the job. She couldn't figure out why we didn't give her
> what she asked for.
>
> I couldn't figure it out either.
>
> So I routinely transcoded that Editor's output and sent her what she
> asked for.
>
> Radical idea, give the client what they ask for...
>
> BTW we are careful not to give clients anything they could easily use
> until the editing and billing process is complete. Sending *some*
> clients a DVD is asking for trouble IMHO. Unless you heavily watermark
> and I consider that insulting to the client. So, low quality or locked
> away on our Server (they can download from youtube but not from our
> backpage).
>
> Sometimes it's not all about the client's convenience.
>
> john
> +++ never sending tape may change later this year.
>
>

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[Avid-L2] Re: Client Approvals

 

First, we never send tape. Of any kind. Anywhere. +++

One or two clients like a DVD, usually they are the less-savvy ones. One
asked me if I knew anywhere good enough to duplicate DVDs without
generation loss. You know, going down a generation by copying the
original DVD. He was amazed when I told him...

I've discovered that clients will find their own preferences.

Here's what we use from most common to least:

send mpeg1 or wmv or small mov using www.wetransfer.com

put mp4 onto a youtube unlisted link and send link to client.

put FLV on our "backpage", link sent to client.

put FLV onto our site but "backdate" so it doesn't pop up, send
link to client.

Use FTP - ours or theirs. Hardly ever for approval clips. Editors
send edits to us though.

Why do we send MPEG-1??? Because people can play it.

I don't care if it is as uncool as, um, as... you know, as uncool as
anything.

We once had a client asking for a QT MOV. I think DV Anamorphic 48k. Our
Editor "knew better" and insisted on sending H264 mp4. Client would
complain she can't see it, it won't play on her computer. We'd always
have to send again in QT.

Our Editor sniffed haughtily and said "she must have a weak computer
with all the wrong codecs" - "she should upgrade".

He didn't see why he should degrade HIS output.

He was partially right; she DID have a crappy computer, she DIDN'T have
the codecs. BUT!!! She worked in a Big Broadcaster and HER ridiculous IT
department refused to upgrade or give her a better computer or fix or do
anything to allow her to play ANY videos at all.

Seems IT had decided video-playing was for time wasters.

(Ironically, their suggestion was we send to their FTP, the IT Dept
would download and check the file was OK and she could email them to
arrange a time for them to show her the file. Wasting far more of her
time than just letting her watch it!)

Never mind they were idiots. She figured out what she COULD play - and
that's what she was asking us to provide.

Almost cost us the job. She couldn't figure out why we didn't give her
what she asked for.

I couldn't figure it out either.

So I routinely transcoded that Editor's output and sent her what she
asked for.

Radical idea, give the client what they ask for...

BTW we are careful not to give clients anything they could easily use
until the editing and billing process is complete. Sending *some*
clients a DVD is asking for trouble IMHO. Unless you heavily watermark
and I consider that insulting to the client. So, low quality or locked
away on our Server (they can download from youtube but not from our
backpage).

Sometimes it's not all about the client's convenience.

john
+++ never sending tape may change later this year.

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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: AJA or Matrox

 

The Matrox Rack would be great! It's what I was expecting before the AJA io
Express was announced.

Best regards,

Randy
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From: Andy <andymees@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:17:17 -0000
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: AJA or Matrox

It's pretty straightforward at this point David, if you want or need an I/O
option then the AJA IoExpress is the way to go ...

... then again, if you mostly work tapeless and just need monitoring, the
MXO2 Mini is still good value for money. You can use the bundled MXO2
"Vetura Capture" software to ingest direct to DNxHD, but bear in mind that
unlike the IoExpress the MXO2 Mini does not have SDI I/O or RS422 ports, on
the other hand the MXO2 Mini does allow for up/down and cross conversion on
input or output whereas the IoExpress only does downconversion (and only on
output I think).

By the end of the year we'll hopefully see Avid open up to support full I/O
from other vendors and models (and when that happens the MXO2 LE is probably
a better eggs to eggs comparison for the IoExpress rather than the MXO2
Mini) but for now AJA have the all important I/O exclusive.

Hope it helps
Andy

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> , David
Chmura <dchmura.lists@...> wrote:
>
> C'mon folks! Seems like this is (or should be) the topic of the nanosecond.
>
> Let's hear some informed and opinionated debate about the merits of these 2
new hardware options. Which one should I buy? Everybody seems to love Kona...
IO is obviously not Kona, but is it good enough to be the One to Get? Is it
worth twice as much as the Matrox?
>
> Inquiring minds want to know...
>

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