Faster FireWire Performance

November 20, 2011, 09:04 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip348.html

Turn off sleep mode by clicking the Apple icon, choosing System Preferences, and clicking Energy Saver. Hard disks love to spin and last longer that way, too. For fastest system performance, don't force them to go to sleep.

The Next Generation of VFX

November 20, 2011, 09:02 AM

http://www.moviescopemag.com/features/the-next-gen...

The original Next Gen report [into the future of the VFX industry] was quite critical of the education system, arguing that in this country we have separated humanities and art from maths and science, and that procedural thinking and computer programming isn't really being taught any more in schools. To teach and learn about things like compositing, you need a pretty good spread between the two.

For The Love of Dog

November 19, 2011, 08:14 AM

http://scruffythinking.com/thatpostshow/2011/11/18...

On this Episode of That Post Show, our guests are Kenn Bell, Ron Brinkmann, Michael Critz and Paul del Vecchio. We discuss video podcasting, the internet and how everyone loves their dog.

Meeting mocha Pro – AWESOME!

November 19, 2011, 08:14 AM

http://www.allcreativeny.com/meeting-mocha-pro-awe...

Ross Shain, chief marketing officer of Imagineer Systems headlined our meeting showing us mocha Pro for Mac, Windows and Linux. He explained how easy it was to replace content on screens, stabilize footage and marry graphics to camera motion, emphasizing to many in the audience who owned a recent version of the Adobe Creative Suite that they already had mocha AE and probably didn't know it.

Best Audio Format for Editing in FCP?

November 19, 2011, 08:07 AM

http://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/aiff-mp3-and-wavs-...

The most obvious fix to this problem is to use a higher-quality audio file format if avaliable. Most stock music sites (such as Premiumbeat) will provide their music and sound effects as either WAVs or AIFFs…both formats that play well with Final Cut Pro. Mixes from audio post facilities, as well as audio files from digiatal field recorders, are often recorded as WAVs. Some Mac applications will save high quality audio files as AIFFs. So, now you might be scratching your head…

FireWire Tips

November 19, 2011, 08:02 AM

http://www.larryjordan.biz/tips/tip347.html

FireWire drives slow down your system if you don't pay attention. Here's what to watch for. Here are some tips for maximizing performance when using FireWire drives: A FireWire drive should have at least an 8 MB cache, spin at 7,200 RPM or faster, and use an Oxford chip for data.

Fix to DNxHD Quicktime stuttering

November 18, 2011, 04:11 PM

http://www.biscardicreative.com/blog/2011/11/fix-t...

As reported in some forums, if you're trying to use DNxHD Quicktimes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5.2 and you have an AJA Kona card installed, you might run into an issue where the playback stutters badly. There's an easy fix for this. This is all on the 2.4Ghz 8-core Mac Pro, running OS 10.6.8, connected to our Small Tree Ethernet SAN and this is with DNxHD 145, 72op / 59.94 video.

Why is my Multigroup out of sync?

November 18, 2011, 04:06 PM

http://avidassteditor.com/2011/11/18/why-is-my-mul...

There are 2 main reasons for this: The clips out of sync with each other. (And as a result the multigroup is out of sync.) The wrong auxiliary timecode has been assigned to your subclips. While syncing the clips it is imperative that all of the clips are correctly synced to one another before creating [...]

3D Road Show Comes to ProductionCONN

November 18, 2011, 04:05 PM

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/news/story/...

Learn About File Based Workflows with Gary Adcock

November 18, 2011, 09:10 AM

http://blogs.creativecow.net/blog/6552/learn-about...

One of the smartest video guys I know (who also has impeccable taste in food) is Gary Adcock. Check out this two part video on working with file-based video workflows. Gary has served as a tech consultant on several books as well as technical projects… the man is a genius.