Friday, September 18, 2009


Isn't Panasonic just adding to the confusion by referring to their cameras that record just one or the other, all as AVCCAM?

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Going back to LT is the only way to do it properly. I assume you imported the LT project into FCP. It should be easy enough to Open in Editor and tweak it

Re: AVC Intra footage
AVCCAM is thier term for high end AVCHD. The PH modes on their cameras record a form of AVCHD that their consumer models don't, nor any other manufacturers

Blu-ray Station at Silverado, free through September
Folks, We created a Blu-ray burning station at the new Silverado Studios location in Folsom: http://silverado.cc/shop/product.php?productid=1373 Through

Re: AVC Intra footage
Loaded up the FCP 7 drive and the footage can be seen. Now I have a date with Compressor and 320 GB of footage on some old quad core. Tried everything we

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Thanks Tom... but like I said my titles are fairly complex in LiveType: I am using 3-5 tracks of a combination particle/texture/ animation and it would be time

Re: AVC Intra footage
Even my Canon HF-200 which is $599 at B&H can record AVCHD at 24Mbps

Re: AVC Intra footage
Panasonic has a 35PH mode...I think. I'm a P2 guy, so I'm not ENTIRELY sure. -shane ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: AVC Intra footage
On 9/18/09 10:00 AM, "Philip Hodgetts" ... Several Canon AVCHD camcorders can record at the spec's maximum 24Mbps. The

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Never mind!... problem resolved... I guess some cleanup helped to straight things here :-) so for the record, yes you can apply a video filter to a LiveType

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
The Drobo Pro has been clocked at 112 Mb/sec over iSCSI at RAID6 (two redundant drives). That is not just a "consumer" drive John McClary ... From: John

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Except Canon does have the 24 PH mode on at least one of their AVCHD cameras iirc. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
You couldn?t just use an RGB Limit filter on the LT project to tone it down? All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
you mean inside of FCP? no... I loose all my color on that title... I am guessing some issue with the alpha channel? in LiveType? I could not find any RGB

Re: AVC Intra footage
... That's my conclusion as well. Like Jim, I'd be very happy to be enlightened if it's not accurate. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance


you mean inside of FCP? no... I loose all my color on that title... I am guessing some issue with the alpha channel? in LiveType? I could not find any RGB

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
You couldn?t just use an RGB Limit filter on the LT project to tone it down? All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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Re: AVC Intra footage
Panasonic has a 35PH mode...I think. I'm a P2 guy, so I'm not ENTIRELY sure. -shane ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Never mind!... problem resolved... I guess some cleanup helped to straight things here :-) so for the record, yes you can apply a video filter to a LiveType

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Thanks Tom... but like I said my titles are fairly complex in LiveType: I am using 3-5 tracks of a combination particle/texture/ animation and it would be time

Re: AVC Intra footage
AVCCAM is thier term for high end AVCHD. The PH modes on their cameras record a form of AVCHD that their consumer models don't, nor any other manufacturers

Re: AVC Intra footage
... That's my conclusion as well. Like Jim, I'd be very happy to be enlightened if it's not accurate. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance

LiveType title color correction ?
FCP 6.0.6 I have created a bunch of LiveType titles for a FCP sequence I am editing now. Unfortunately I did not have external vector-scope when creating the

Re: AVC Intra footage
Isn't Panasonic just adding to the confusion by referring to their cameras that record just one or the other, all as AVCCAM?

Re: AVC Intra footage
Loaded up the FCP 7 drive and the footage can be seen. Now I have a date with Compressor and 320 GB of footage on some old quad core. Tried everything we

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Except Canon does have the 24 PH mode on at least one of their AVCHD cameras iirc. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Going back to LT is the only way to do it properly. I assume you imported the LT project into FCP. It should be easy enough to Open in Editor and tweak it

Re: AVC Intra footage
Even my Canon HF-200 which is $599 at B&H can record AVCHD at 24Mbps

Re: AVC Intra footage
On 9/18/09 10:00 AM, "Philip Hodgetts" ... Several Canon AVCHD camcorders can record at the spec's maximum 24Mbps. The


Panasonic has a 35PH mode...I think. I'm a P2 guy, so I'm not ENTIRELY sure. -shane ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: AVC Intra footage
... That's my conclusion as well. Like Jim, I'd be very happy to be enlightened if it's not accurate. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
you mean inside of FCP? no... I loose all my color on that title... I am guessing some issue with the alpha channel? in LiveType? I could not find any RGB

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Never mind!... problem resolved... I guess some cleanup helped to straight things here :-) so for the record, yes you can apply a video filter to a LiveType

Re: AVC Intra footage
Loaded up the FCP 7 drive and the footage can be seen. Now I have a date with Compressor and 320 GB of footage on some old quad core. Tried everything we

Re: AVC Intra footage
Even my Canon HF-200 which is $599 at B&H can record AVCHD at 24Mbps

Re: AVC Intra footage
Isn't Panasonic just adding to the confusion by referring to their cameras that record just one or the other, all as AVCCAM?

LiveType title color correction ?
FCP 6.0.6 I have created a bunch of LiveType titles for a FCP sequence I am editing now. Unfortunately I did not have external vector-scope when creating the

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Going back to LT is the only way to do it properly. I assume you imported the LT project into FCP. It should be easy enough to Open in Editor and tweak it

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Except Canon does have the 24 PH mode on at least one of their AVCHD cameras iirc. Philip Philip Hodgetts President, Intelligent Assistance

Re: AVC Intra footage
AVCCAM is thier term for high end AVCHD. The PH modes on their cameras record a form of AVCHD that their consumer models don't, nor any other manufacturers

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
Thanks Tom... but like I said my titles are fairly complex in LiveType: I am using 3-5 tracks of a combination particle/texture/ animation and it would be time

Re: LiveType title color correction ?
You couldn?t just use an RGB Limit filter on the LT project to tone it down? All the best, Tom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Blu-ray Station at Silverado, free through September
Folks, We created a Blu-ray burning station at the new Silverado Studios location in Folsom: http://silverado.cc/shop/product.php?productid=1373 Through

Re: AVC Intra footage
On 9/18/09 10:00 AM, "Philip Hodgetts" ... Several Canon AVCHD camcorders can record at the spec's maximum 24Mbps. The


I don?t have it in front of me, but I know FD has a free READER that you can pass around. Does that not have any export options, no? - RK ... Robin S. Kurz

Re: Storage solution for P2 media
Kerry, I've been using an ezRAID from DatOptic for backing up my footage. 2 drive Mirrored SATA array. http://tinyurl.com/32uffo First one I got was no good,

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Sorry, but since when does QT support NATIVE AVC? AVC is *always* transcoded, only question is: what?s your setting? There is no AVC codec for QT. I

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
... I myself have never had it, nor do I know of anyone, so I can?t say what the status is. And I?m thinking it?s more of a graphics board/ chip/driver

Re: Final Draft... Favour needed!
I have Final Draft 8. I'd be happy too give it a try. DD David Dodson davidadodson@... 818-541-1225 818-523-0905 mobile

Thursday, September 17, 2009


Kerry, I've been using an ezRAID from DatOptic for backing up my footage. 2 drive Mirrored SATA array. http://tinyurl.com/32uffo First one I got was no good,


... Drobo is not "unbelievably" slow. Here's what to do: stick it on an old computer using USB put that computer on the slowest network (save $40 on gigabit

Re: AVC Intra footage
FCP 6 will import AVCIntra as ProRes. Just install the AVCI plugin from Panasonic. FCP 7, while it will import AVCIntra into FCP in it's native codec, like

Re: AVC Intra footage
Andy It is late here but, apart from the correct comments about folder structure etc., I am under the impression that only FCP 7 will play AVCI; FCP 6 wont. So

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
I will admit that I don't do tons of Roto work, but for the stuff I do the Roto Bezier seams to work fine. I am certainly hoping that the orange frame issue in

Re: AVC Intra footage
Found out we have FCP 7 on a hard drive sled ready to load in tomorrow morning. We did download and install the Panasonic plugins and rebooted. Footage was

Final Draft... Favour needed!
Anyone on the list have Final Draft? I need to reformat a Final Draft doc as a pdf for a friend who is hospital and I don¹t have FD software. Would be v

Re: Final Draft... Favour needed!
I am not familiar with Final Draft, but anytime I have trouble to open/edit a file format, I try Document on Google online. Document allows you to open a wide

Re: AVC Intra footage
Doesn?t really matter, since if the folder structure is missing, you?re ******. First hand experience. The only solution I know of in a situation like that

Re: AVC Intra footage
Nope...the REPAIR won't work for missing files and folders. It just isn't the directory structure, but the ICON folder has still images of the first frame,

Re: AVC Intra footage
Thanks you all for chiming in. Rupert: using FCP 6.0.5 I think we have a copy of 7 somewhere on one of the beta systems, but not hooked up to our editsan. I'm

Re: AVC Intra footage
Ahhh...sounds like they might have encoded to AVCIntra Native QT files, and since you are running FCP 6 and not FCP 7, you can't seem them. Still, that is an

Re: AVC Intra footage
If you are missing the file structure then you need to look to third party solutions. Raylight MXF4Mac Calibrated And you need to chew the asses off or

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Imagine Systems have P2 Log Pro which can "repair" MXF. don't know if it can create missing files.

Re: AVC Intra footage
Version of Final Cut you are using? Rupert Watson www.root6.com +44 7787 554801 From: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com] On

Re: Final Draft... Favour needed!
Hi , I have FD ver. 7 I can possibly do this but am not familiar with various formatting issues FD files have at times but could try. email me at


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

Wednesday, September 16, 2009


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...

Tuesday, September 15, 2009


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

Monday, September 14, 2009


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

Sunday, September 13, 2009


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

Saturday, September 12, 2009


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]

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