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jonhollis wrote:sidewalksurfing wrote:hey everyone
but apparently Apple will be showing Final Cut Extreme at NAB.
i guess we’ll see….
sounds good to me – trust apple to come up with something secretive and will probably blow us away. Anyway on a similar vein have you used after effects 7 – its amazing – it really is the flame killer. i have had it running for a week on a guad G5 (decklink 444 card) next to flame on an octane2 and it blows it away in performance (by about three fold) interaction (especially the sparks (sapphire rack defocus was real time)) quality (true 444 performance and keying) and features. im really impressed, and also the interface makes the flames look so antiquated. im not saying i will get rid of the flame but i am looking to what i will do in the future – a flame upgrade would allow me to but about 20 AE7 stations!!. jh
How can you seriously compare flame to AFX. It’s a really nice app when it comes to motion graphics, plugins and stuff. But man it’s not a compositing tool. I mean take a look at the masks or the tracking…. arrrrrgghh. And what’s wrong with a desktop to play clips and the batch flow? Superior to rendering quicktimes and using precomps in my opinion. For comping I mean, for motion graphics it rocks but a Flame killer… don’t think so. That would be something like shake, fusion or nuke.
Quote:Huh? I use both flame and combustion. The trackers are exactly the same.I use both as well and that is not my experience. They don’t “feel” the same to me.
If you haven’t tried mokey, do that! It’s a really cool 2d tracker.Vympel wrote:carolina wrote:I’ve try contrasting or degrainning the background footage but this doesn’t work either.
Myth, of course I have already tryed to change the reference, the size, roaming-fixed, the tolerance, auto snap, smoothing curves, smoothin the background…
Nobody else has the need to get an very exact tracker as if the object where glued to the background?
Carolina./
it can be useful you post a small part of the footage
actually combustions tracker isn’t escpecially good. can you get somebody to track your footage in another app? like flame or mokey. they are rock solid.
eltopo wrote:What about SONY’s blue ray disc…It can hold up to 23 GB I think, and it seems is fairly reliable.
article: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,109617,00.asp
I don’t really think this is media related. I believe that the whole archiving thing is a bit unstable no matter what media you are using. Shit always happens when you close the tape and “stuff” is written to the header and that one gets fucked up. I don’t think that it is the media that causes this, more like sloppy coding.
As Paul says this is not a new thing, it’s just that before most of us used digibeta. And if a tape crashed you could still save material by manually browse for it. That is not possible with sait/dtf etc. So now I think that it is VERY important that autodesk deal with this NOW!einstein wrote:At our facility we archive images to digibetas, since 90% of our work is pal and almost all elements come in pal res too. The rest (hi-res images and setups) gets transferred via ftp and burned to DVDs.We used to do backups to DLTs but reliability wasn’t too great.
Yeah, if you’re only doing pal digibeta is definitely the right media as it is more stable and you can still recover material if the header goes corrupt. But that doesn’t really work for us anymore. When discreet introduced mixed resolution and more and more productions are HD we found that archiving and splitting projects to different media just took too long. And it’s also a pain to open an old project not having everything in one place. That is why we chose SAIT. It works really good except for one BIG problem – reliability. We’ve lost quite a lot of data due to corrupt archives. It’s not even possible to open them with the OTOC file. A tip: everytime you write to an archive the OTOC file gets replaced. That means if something goes wrong with the archive the OTOC file might have the same problem. So you risk loosing everything on that tape. But if you do a manual backup of the OTOC you can still retrieve your earlier work. A bit tedious but can be well worth the effort. It would be nice if the OTOC file wasn’t overwritten but instead the old file was left unchanged and a new one generated with the same name and for example a new date added. We’ve been in contact with discreet and asked them to check our failing OTOC files but haven’t heard anything from them so far. Anybody else experiencing something similar?
ridaz wrote:Hi allVTR Beirut has Discreet Smoke 6.7 and we hope you could help us with the following problem:
Our aim is to conform an EDL (previously created by an AVID Offline) in Smoke, and then grade this conform, tape to tape, on a Pogle Telecine.
Our problem is that we want to give the Telecine a conform and EDL with handles on every shot, in order to grade the material without dissolves and effects.
What would be your advise for this problem?
Is Smoke capable of outputting an edit previously conformed with the handles digitized during the conform?
Since we will have a full grade with shots plus handles on a tape, how can we easily conform the full grade back in Smoke for finalizing the project (adding credits, etc?)?We hope you’ll be able to answer our questions.
Thank you in advance.
Sebastien Leclercq
Senior Editor
C/O
Rida Jaafar
Systems and IT ManagerIn the library select your conform. Choose export EDL. There you’ll find a few options (i guess you’ll have to read the manual). Anyway here you can generate an EDL with handles and save it. Smoke will then give you the possibility to ouput the conform to tape (or to disk if you like), in shot order with handles. Give that to telecine, do your tape to tape. Then it’s just a matter of conforming again with your previously saved EDL. Easy.
Cheers
jayfxjay wrote:What is the best support for archiving Images ?
We’re currantly using DTF, but I think it’s very expensive slow and not very stable.
Any idea for other media?Thanks
We’re using SAIT and it works nice and fast. The only downside is if an archive goes corrupt.. you’ll loose all data, and that happened to us (one tape of maybe 20 so far). But still for multirez archiving it is really good.
I think you can also archive directly to disk. Probably pretty fast and I believe diskspace is kinda cheap compared to SAIT and DTF.