Saturday, May 4, 2013

Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Good source for learning more about codecs and exporting.

 

Focal Press had a book or two if I recall.

On Saturday, May 4, 2013, James Culbertson wrote:

> Compression for Great Video and Audio: Master Tips and Common Sense (DV
> Expert) by Ben Waggoner. This is from 2009 so it's a bit dated, but there
> is a lot of info that will be of use. I would only use these kinds of
> guides as references rather than trying to read the whole thing.
>
> Even if you don't use more full featured software like Episode Pro,
> manuals will often explain the ins and outs of many of the settings within
> complex codecs like H.264.
>
> The compression-L is useful, though there is very little traffic on it
> currently. But folks will still answer your questions:
> http://www.media-motion.tv/Compression-list.html
>
> James
>
>
> On May 4, 2013, at 11:10 AM, jmcbrg wrote:
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> > What's a good source of info for learning more about codecs and
> settings? I seem to only find the two extremes, first books that say
> basically "choose the right settings and hit the go button" or else deep
> theory about the codecs that go way further into it than I need or care to
> go.
> >
> > Any good guides come to mind?
> >
> >
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[Avid-L2] Re: Odd Bin disappearing after closing after consolidation?

 

No shared storage. My macpro came with 10.8.2 but by the time I purchased the OS 10.8.X upgrade so I could upgrade my existing 10.6.8 startup drive the App store was selling 10.8.3. Is there a way to still get a full tilt bootable 10.82 version? As it is I had to go through the Lion Disk Maker site and ended up doing the manual proceedure they suggest to make a full tilt bootable USB drive of th 10.8.3 downloaded installer.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, electropura212 <electropura212@...> wrote:
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> Resource forks have been deprecated for a long time. Apple wants file
> extensions and discourages developers from using them. They are supposed
> to still work, though...so perhaps avid or OSX is corrupting them after
> consolidate.
>
> Are you on shared storage?
> 10.8.3 is not approved by Avid, however, the only problems with it I have
> heard of involve shared storage.
>
>
> On Friday, May 3, 2013, John Moore wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > I found a strange quirk tonight moving a folder of bins of music from my
> > old iMac system OS 10.6.8 mc 5.5.3 to a project on my macpro OS 10.8.3 SNDX
> > 6.5.2 system. All the bins showed up and linked to the music drive fine.
> > I then consolidated to my internal raid and closed the bin. At this point
> > the bin disappeared in avid. I found the bin in the project folder but it
> > no longer had an Avid bin icon. I added the .avb suffix and it reappeared
> > in the project. There were four bins and the first two exhibited the same
> > behavior upon closing after consolidating the music clips in them they
> > disappeared. I added the .avb suffix to the remaining two bins and did the
> > consolidate without issue. I assume this has something to do with a mix up
> > of the resource fork of the files. Perhaps it has to do with the differing
> > OS's and not Avid. Curious what others think. In the recent past I posted
> > about losing bins speculating the wacom tablet might have
> > something to do with it but I think this is something different.
> >
> > John Moore
> >
> > Barking Trout Productions
> >
> > Studio City, CA
> >
> > bigfish@...
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Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Good source for learning more about codecs and exporting.

Compression for Great Video and Audio: Master Tips and Common Sense (DV Expert) by Ben Waggoner. This is from 2009 so it's a bit dated, but there is a lot of info that will be of use. I would only use these kinds of guides as references rather than trying to read the whole thing.

Even if you don't use more full featured software like Episode Pro, manuals will often explain the ins and outs of many of the settings within complex codecs like H.264.

The compression-L is useful, though there is very little traffic on it currently. But folks will still answer your questions: http://www.media-motion.tv/Compression-list.html

James


On May 4, 2013, at 11:10 AM, jmcbrg wrote:

> What's a good source of info for learning more about codecs and settings? I seem to only find the two extremes, first books that say basically "choose the right settings and hit the go button" or else deep theory about the codecs that go way further into it than I need or care to go.
>
> Any good guides come to mind?
>
>



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[Avid-L2] Re: The state of the competition

 

Uh, that was meant in sort of a colloquial way. Though I guess you could say it was "good" when it came out... but now it's very "old".

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Tim McLaughlin <mcltim.156@...> wrote:
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> On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > I've played with it some and it's fairly powerful. But most of what I deal
> > with is what my clients have used in offline. And that is good old title
> > tool. _,___
> >
> (shocked silence)
>
> Terry - did you really just call the title tool... good?
>
> he he
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Re: [Avid-L2] Re: The state of the competition

 

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Terence Curren <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I've played with it some and it's fairly powerful. But most of what I deal
> with is what my clients have used in offline. And that is good old title
> tool. _,___
>
(shocked silence)

Terry - did you really just call the title tool... good?

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[Avid-L2] OT: Good source for learning more about codecs and exporting.

 

What's a good source of info for learning more about codecs and settings? I seem to only find the two extremes, first books that say basically "choose the right settings and hit the go button" or else deep theory about the codecs that go way further into it than I need or care to go.

Any good guides come to mind?

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[Avid-L2] Re: The state of the competition

 

Thanks.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...> wrote:
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> I've played with it some and it's fairly powerful. But most of what I deal with is what my clients have used in offline. And that is good old title tool.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "blafarm" <blafarm@> wrote:
> >
> > >"Terence Curren"
> > >I think Avid has thrown in the towel. Check out New Blue FX:
> >
> >
> > Have you, or do you use Titler Pro 2?
> >
> > Any comments you can share?
> >
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Re: [Avid-L2] Drive Recommendations

For a fast, cheap, reliable solution, get an empty SATA drive enclosure:

http://www.datoptic.com/four-hot-swap-sataiii-6gb-enclosure.html

Fill it with drives. I've been using Hitachi drives for years (now a
division of Western Digital, marketed as HGST) and I buy from B&H, but
YMMV. Dunno whether you have sufficient motherboard SATA ports (in
which case you'll just need a rear-panel connector bracket and some
internal SATA cables) or if you'll need a port multiplier, but either
way is cheap.

Props to electropura12 who posted about this last year on the list - thanks!



On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 10:15 AM, craigacm <CraigACM@aol.com> wrote:
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>
>
> This topic frequently gets discussed, but as tech rapidly changes, I was wondering if any of you would like to offer an up-to-date recommendation.
>
> We have about 12TB of footage - mostly ProResHQ - from a feature length doc ("The Anonymous People") we just finished. There are many additional shorter stories we plan edit for web and other uses that didn't make it into the feature.
>
> For the feature we offlined at DNx36 and then relinked back to the full rez material for finishing. This allowed us to use the internal drives bays of the MacPro for about everything. For final grading we consolidated and moved media via a FW drive over to a Symphony with its own CalDigit drives at another location.
>
> Now, we'd like to get a better drive solution that allows us to cut these other stories at full resolution without all the media management. We'd need at least 12TB of storage fast enough to edit with. Our main system is a MacPro with 3 empty slots running MC6.5. (but no thunderbolt port). It would be ideal to have a 12TB unit that was somewhat portable as we may be splitting up the work between editors in different locations. Also, the media is already backed-up onto numerous 3.5" drives at least twice, so we don't think this new system needs to be concerned with media redundancy.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
> Craig Mikhitarian
> ACM Productions, Ltd.
>
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[Avid-L2] Another file transfer service

 

Has anyone here tried these folks? Feedback?

<<https://digitalpigeon.com/>>

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