What version of iDVD do you have? I could try to duplicate your problem on my iMac at home, but honestly I haven't used iDVD in years. I found it quirky, slow

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I'm going to weigh in here and have to agree with those reluctant to compress the audio files. As some have said, it isn't about what is presently audible or

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
What is the difference between B Splines and Roto Bezier? A google search just reinforced how much my math skills have atrophied. I'm use to Bezier points

OT: iDVD question
OK, I teach a couple classes and my students use iDVD for presentations. They are shooting on HDV and when using 'Export to Quicktime" many times we will see

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I don't want to sound like I am arguing because I am not. I can hear the difference with 128k mp3 and 128k AAC also 256k each. Beyond that it gets much harder

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... That's my experience. A similar thing happens in video. I could create a compressed video file from an uncompressed Quicktime that would be practically

Re: Sending audio file via internet
If you?re talking music, which I am/was, then consider yourself *extremely* special, especially as far as the 256 are concerned (128 was guessed correctly

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Well, first off, I wasn?t suggesting the audio be compressed for *processing* but rather for *sending*, which we are talking about. I?d say any

From your first post, I assumed that was the case. I was suggesting that if you need a working card *today*, then you would be best served by purchasing the

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Again, this isn't a media drive but, I do have a quick turnaround in backing up the data and from that standpoint speed is important. Perhaps I misspoke when I

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
In all fairness After Effects doesn't have "B Splines" it has "Roto Bezier" and I personally think that the Roto Bezier tool is better than B Splines. Now I do

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
From what I've read on this list, you can't use the drobo as a media drive, it is unbelievably slow. Your backups will take forever. The Drobo is a home backup

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
(chuckling) Red 4K in 3D will fix that. ;-) And I can't even get effin FLASH to work on this iPhone. We'll all be long dead before this industry marches

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Use the EVO HD as your MEDIA storage...the array you use for editing. Use the DROBO as your ARCHIVAL solution. Where you back up your original P2 card dumps.

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
... You?re entitled to your opinion of course, but let me just point out that that tool has been the running joke on the beta-test list since it first was

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I agree with your disagreement. When I need to process sound files that will get lots of effects I always do it at 32bit 48k minimum. I would go higher but my

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
Another option to consider is Mocha Shape for Final Cut from Imagineer Systems. - Oliver

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
Sorry, but IMO the last place you want do be creating/editing garbage mattes or ANY matte for that matter is FCP! Seriously, that?s like trying to do visual

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... Modest disagreement from me on two fronts: 1) That there are no audible losses in a 256k compressed file; 2) That a compressed file is good enough for

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
I already have media storage that I am using. For now, I am only looking for an archival solution. Kerry ... Kerry Soloway http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com

Storage solution for P2 media
One of my shows is moving into the 21st century and now shooting on P2 cards. I need to copy the data onto hard drives as a backup before importing into my

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Also to note here that a 256 mp3 sounds like a 128 AAC. If you are going to compress use AAC @ 256 or higher. Even that will be too big to email. But I'm

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
A RAID5 solution gives you redundancy and throughput. That means it's fast enough for editing and gives you back-up protection. From what you are describing,

... You?re entitled to your opinion of course, but let me just point out that that tool has been the running joke on the beta-test list since it first was

Re: SATA Expresscard for MBP?
From your first post, I assumed that was the case. I was suggesting that if you need a working card *today*, then you would be best served by purchasing the

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I agree with your disagreement. When I need to process sound files that will get lots of effects I always do it at 32bit 48k minimum. I would go higher but my

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Use the EVO HD as your MEDIA storage...the array you use for editing. Use the DROBO as your ARCHIVAL solution. Where you back up your original P2 card dumps.

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
(chuckling) Red 4K in 3D will fix that. ;-) And I can't even get effin FLASH to work on this iPhone. We'll all be long dead before this industry marches

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Also to note here that a 256 mp3 sounds like a 128 AAC. If you are going to compress use AAC @ 256 or higher. Even that will be too big to email. But I'm

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Again, this isn't a media drive but, I do have a quick turnaround in backing up the data and from that standpoint speed is important. Perhaps I misspoke when I

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... Modest disagreement from me on two fronts: 1) That there are no audible losses in a 256k compressed file; 2) That a compressed file is good enough for

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
A RAID5 solution gives you redundancy and throughput. That means it's fast enough for editing and gives you back-up protection. From what you are describing,

Storage solution for P2 media
One of my shows is moving into the 21st century and now shooting on P2 cards. I need to copy the data onto hard drives as a backup before importing into my

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
Another option to consider is Mocha Shape for Final Cut from Imagineer Systems. - Oliver

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
Sorry, but IMO the last place you want do be creating/editing garbage mattes or ANY matte for that matter is FCP! Seriously, that?s like trying to do visual

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
I already have media storage that I am using. For now, I am only looking for an archival solution. Kerry ... Kerry Soloway http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
From what I've read on this list, you can't use the drobo as a media drive, it is unbelievably slow. Your backups will take forever. The Drobo is a home backup

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
In all fairness After Effects doesn't have "B Splines" it has "Roto Bezier" and I personally think that the Roto Bezier tool is better than B Splines. Now I do

Sorry, but IMO the last place you want do be creating/editing garbage mattes or ANY matte for that matter is FCP! Seriously, that?s like trying to do visual

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Again, this isn't a media drive but, I do have a quick turnaround in backing up the data and from that standpoint speed is important. Perhaps I misspoke when I

Re: SATA Expresscard for MBP?
From your first post, I assumed that was the case. I was suggesting that if you need a working card *today*, then you would be best served by purchasing the

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
Another option to consider is Mocha Shape for Final Cut from Imagineer Systems. - Oliver

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
From what I've read on this list, you can't use the drobo as a media drive, it is unbelievably slow. Your backups will take forever. The Drobo is a home backup

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Use the EVO HD as your MEDIA storage...the array you use for editing. Use the DROBO as your ARCHIVAL solution. Where you back up your original P2 card dumps.

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Also to note here that a 256 mp3 sounds like a 128 AAC. If you are going to compress use AAC @ 256 or higher. Even that will be too big to email. But I'm

Storage solution for P2 media
One of my shows is moving into the 21st century and now shooting on P2 cards. I need to copy the data onto hard drives as a backup before importing into my

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
... You?re entitled to your opinion of course, but let me just point out that that tool has been the running joke on the beta-test list since it first was

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... Modest disagreement from me on two fronts: 1) That there are no audible losses in a 256k compressed file; 2) That a compressed file is good enough for

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
(chuckling) Red 4K in 3D will fix that. ;-) And I can't even get effin FLASH to work on this iPhone. We'll all be long dead before this industry marches

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
In all fairness After Effects doesn't have "B Splines" it has "Roto Bezier" and I personally think that the Roto Bezier tool is better than B Splines. Now I do

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I agree with your disagreement. When I need to process sound files that will get lots of effects I always do it at 32bit 48k minimum. I would go higher but my

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
A RAID5 solution gives you redundancy and throughput. That means it's fast enough for editing and gives you back-up protection. From what you are describing,

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
I already have media storage that I am using. For now, I am only looking for an archival solution. Kerry ... Kerry Soloway http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com

... Um? since when can?t you compress MP3s with iTunes? Even VBR is possible. ... A loss which is in fact far beyond anything even the most golden of human

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... You could compress it to an audio format like MP3 or Apple's codec. MP3 requires other software, Apple could be done with iTunes. If you use a high-enough

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Instead of sending a wav or aif file, you can convert it to an mkw or shn file. In basic terms these remove the header info. This gives you a file that is

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Nope. Everything degrades over-the-air digital tv. I have three sets (two different brands of boxes and two different antennas), and it's nuts. Upstairs gets

Sending audio file via internet
I want to send the audio from my FCP project to a sound guy for sweetening. It is about 250MB, so would take over an hour to send with something like "SendIt".

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Using just regular DATA compression (e.g. Stuffit, Zip etc.) would/ could probably produce even smaller results and you obviously don?t get any degradation

Re: back compatibility questions
The only way to rid yourself of QT 7 is a complete re-install. I just went through this whole process about 5 months ago after i stalled QT 7.5 on my FCP 4.5.

FCP 6.0.6 and Snow Leopard
FYI - I've been running on SL for a week now, and nothing seems broken...

On PC, Sonic has just come out with BD PowerStation which includes some version of their CineVision encoding software. I hear it is based on DVD-It which has

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Disks are dead completely, not just BR. Distribution will be either through the web or on chips and this box is going to replace the DVD player in the living

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Are you saying you?d seriously consider spending 2K on a BD Burner? - RK

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Funny how that thing looks EXACTLY like my AppleTV with the ?ATV? hack installed, only with a frighteningly crap interface and even worse remote (I

True FCP multi-tasking needed...
http://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/tfr/1374565806.html As hilarious ?in a bizarre, uncomfortable way ?as this is? what have we come to?? Anyone up for

This is what I have been waiting for since seeing a mockup of it at NAB. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10348492-1.html Terence Curren www.alphadogs.tv

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:51 AM, "Robin S. Kurz" ... In complete agreement there.

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Rick, ... AFAIK, the AACS fees apply to replicated copied and are tiered, based on quantity. I would contact someone like Deluxe in LA for an official quote.

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I'm missing something with that player. How is it professional if it only s-video and composite video input? I can't seem to get 1080i down the svideo cable.

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... That?s pretty much what I was talking about/what I meant, yes. ... I don?t see it staying very viable or interesting as a medium for data for very long

Re: Uprezzing Software
I would like to thank the people who offered suggestion for uprez software. Great suggestions. The best suggestion would be to not take video sourced from a

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... And Google. Google have some Flash APIs but are deprecating them to focus on HTML5/CSS/Javascript. ... At least MP4/AVC (H.264) video is the common between

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Me me meeeee... My clients are asking for it. I want a decent authoring tool. Preferably on a Mac, though it's at the point I'm starting to consider a PC

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Patrick, ... That behavior has become a lot better in CS4 than it was in CS3. Encore is still better than the Apple solution if you need something with a few

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
For Duplicating BR media this is the fastest we have see in our Lab so far. They have a 2-drive unit which we support in our new Discribe Robotic v7.0 Software

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... I don?t see BD playing any relevant role whatsoever. What does strike me about that list tho: Apple is the only one pushing *OPEN*, non-proprietary

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Auyomated BD Archiving is here today on the mac. Drag any volume you want backed up onto the Discribe Robotic Enterprise software and it partitions the data

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Sorry for branching off, should have re-labelled the Subject. Thanks for the input and links. Andy Edwards ... [Non-text portions of this message have been

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
That's such a great question Andrew. Wish I had the answer. BD for archive is getting more reasonable every day and is completely separate from the question

... Yipes, no wonder people are already talking about Blu-Ray being a dead format. -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
The tinyurl link works fine for me. Remove the inadvertent space between the "." and the "com" Jim ... -- Jim Feeley POV Media

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
This is old and the tiny url is expired. Do you have the original link Oliver? Thanks  Rick Emery www.rickemery.com ________________________________ From:

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Is that for real? -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I did find this. http://tinyurl.com/oyfoxn   It links to a pdf with the fees on it. Wow, they are high. No replication for me. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
When I do that or click the link they bring me to another old message from Terrance C with a tiny url about the death of HD DVD. I'm trying to find the fees

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
A project I just finished up, DVD5. 2000 copies, glass master, standard dvd jewel case, full color box label, and 3 color silkscreen on disc, shrink wrap and

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I found that link on a replicators site. The web page said you can pay the replicator the fees, or pay the AACS directly. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
My understanding is that you will pay this high admission fee whether you want to use DRM or not. It's a big boys club too. Just order 10,000,001 copies and

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Sorry, but there in fact is *no such thing* as a DRM *FREE* BD if it needs duplication (one of the reasons why FCP can?t burn BDs that are suitable for

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Not sure how it compares to other replicator costs, but IDMA (http://www.idmadvda.org ) is offering small business ($500/year) and corporate members ($1500/

Not sure how it compares to other replicator costs, but IDMA (http://www.idmadvda.org ) is offering small business ($500/year) and corporate members ($1500/

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
This is old and the tiny url is expired. Do you have the original link Oliver? Thanks  Rick Emery www.rickemery.com ________________________________ From:

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I found that link on a replicators site. The web page said you can pay the replicator the fees, or pay the AACS directly. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I did find this. http://tinyurl.com/oyfoxn   It links to a pdf with the fees on it. Wow, they are high. No replication for me. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Yipes, no wonder people are already talking about Blu-Ray being a dead format. -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Is that for real? -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
The tinyurl link works fine for me. Remove the inadvertent space between the "." and the "com" Jim ... -- Jim Feeley POV Media

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
When I do that or click the link they bring me to another old message from Terrance C with a tiny url about the death of HD DVD. I'm trying to find the fees

This is old and the tiny url is expired. Do you have the original link Oliver? Thanks  Rick Emery www.rickemery.com ________________________________ From:

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
When I do that or click the link they bring me to another old message from Terrance C with a tiny url about the death of HD DVD. I'm trying to find the fees

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Yipes, no wonder people are already talking about Blu-Ray being a dead format. -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I did find this. http://tinyurl.com/oyfoxn   It links to a pdf with the fees on it. Wow, they are high. No replication for me. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
I found that link on a replicators site. The web page said you can pay the replicator the fees, or pay the AACS directly. Rick Emery www.rickemery.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
The tinyurl link works fine for me. Remove the inadvertent space between the "." and the "com" Jim ... -- Jim Feeley POV Media

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
... Is that for real? -- Wes Plate Automatic Duck, Inc. http://www.automaticduck.com

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
Not sure how it compares to other replicator costs, but IDMA (http://www.idmadvda.org ) is offering small business ($500/year) and corporate members ($1500/

This is old and the tiny url is expired. Do you have the original link Oliver? Thanks  Rick Emery www.rickemery.com ________________________________ From:

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
When I do that or click the link they bring me to another old message from Terrance C with a tiny url about the death of HD DVD. I'm trying to find the fees

Re: The cost of Blue-Ray replication
The tinyurl link works fine for me. Remove the inadvertent space between the "." and the "com" Jim ... -- Jim Feeley POV Media

I don't have experience with that camera, but normally the HD component would be uncompressed, so you should be getting 422 out of it, the firewire is

Re: 422 from a Canon XH A1s
From what I?m told, the *G*1s has ?studio connectivity? with HD-SDI output for uncompressed Full HD (1920x1080) video with 4:2:2 colour sampling and

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Actually, I¹m using FCP 6 with the AJA io HD as AJA doesn¹t have a driver for FCP 7 yet. From what I can gather on the web, you can only get uncompressed

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Can anyone tell me if I can capture 4:2:2 from my Canon XH A1s by using the HD component out with a AJA IO HD to a MacPro (dual quad 2.8 GHz, 8 Gigs Ram and a

A friend emailed this question to me so I figured I'd see if anyone here had an answer: We are capturing DVCPro HD tape that was shot on Varicam. It is coming

Re: Send to Compressor issues
Not so far. James ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: 422 from a Canon XH A1s
I don't have experience with that camera, but normally the HD component would be uncompressed, so you should be getting 422 out of it, the firewire is

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Can anyone tell me if I can capture 4:2:2 from my Canon XH A1s by using the HD component out with a AJA IO HD to a MacPro (dual quad 2.8 GHz, 8 Gigs Ram and a

Window-burn in tapeless environment
Hi, I'm new to the tapeless environment, so my question is what's the best? quickest? most efficient? way of getting 60 minutes of interview to the producer so

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Thanks everyone who responded. It worked out great. ProxyMill looks pretty cool, too. Curt -- Curt Bailey curt@... ... [Non-text portions

422 from a Canon XH A1s
Actually, I¹m using FCP 6 with the AJA io HD as AJA doesn¹t have a driver for FCP 7 yet. From what I can gather on the web, you can only get uncompressed

Send to Compressor issues
Hey everyone. One of the new features of FCP7 is supposed to allow you to take a sequence and "send to" Compressor, then jump back into FCP and continue

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Another way, if you're in a hurry, is Export a QT via compressor and use the TC generator Filter in Compressor. Not as versatile as the Reader and Generator in

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Ah! Thanks. All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
I do this all the time (P2, XDCam). I import the footage and put it in the timeline. Then I apply the "Timecode Reader" filter and export MPEG2 using

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
www.imagineproducts.com - PROXYMILL This will make QT proxies with burned in timecode into any format you want...in the background, whenever you load a

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Apparently, this all changed in Snow Leopard. Now the application that creates a file is not bound to open that file. George See this thread and article links:

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Hopefully there will be some kind of utility developed providing a graphical interface to all this so it is easy to understand and modify all in one place...

Snow Leopard Changes Application Bindings
I thought this info should be top-level posted, so I then managed to cross post it. Embarrassing. Second try. This was posted in an earlier thread by Martin

It's a new one on me too, so I could be wrong, but my guess would be that the symbol on the option/alt key is reminiscent of a cross-section of a bathtub. At

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Apparently, this all changed in Snow Leopard. Now the application that creates a file is not bound to open that file. George See this thread and article links:

Frame Rate Conversion Q
A friend emailed this question to me so I figured I'd see if anyone here had an answer: We are capturing DVCPro HD tape that was shot on Varicam. It is coming

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
I do this all the time (P2, XDCam). I import the footage and put it in the timeline. Then I apply the "Timecode Reader" filter and export MPEG2 using

Send to Compressor issues
Hey everyone. One of the new features of FCP7 is supposed to allow you to take a sequence and "send to" Compressor, then jump back into FCP and continue

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
I can?t let slide. I give up: why the bathtub key? All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Snow Leopard Changes Application Bindings
I thought this info should be top-level posted, so I then managed to cross post it. Embarrassing. Second try. This was posted in an earlier thread by Martin

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Ah! Thanks. All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Thanks everyone who responded. It worked out great. ProxyMill looks pretty cool, too. Curt -- Curt Bailey curt@... ... [Non-text portions

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
Another way, if you're in a hurry, is Export a QT via compressor and use the TC generator Filter in Compressor. Not as versatile as the Reader and Generator in

Window-burn in tapeless environment
Hi, I'm new to the tapeless environment, so my question is what's the best? quickest? most efficient? way of getting 60 minutes of interview to the producer so

Re: Was: Exporting Quicktime Movies
... BINGO! ;-)))) You win a free upgrade to 10.6.1! Which by the way (for anyone interested) is your ticket to having Motion 4 run for longer than 10 minutes

Re: Exporting Quicktime Movies
Hopefully there will be some kind of utility developed providing a graphical interface to all this so it is easy to understand and modify all in one place...

Re: Window-burn in tapeless environment
www.imagineproducts.com - PROXYMILL This will make QT proxies with burned in timecode into any format you want...in the background, whenever you load a

Re: Send to Compressor issues
Not so far. James ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]