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I highly recommend you check out this book by Austin Kleon. It's helping me through my own burn out phase.

For further reading - The Passion Paradox is another great read regarding dealing with and preventing burn out.

It's hard to find, but Norm Hollyn has a fantastic book called The Lean Forward moment.

He's got a Lynda/LinkedinLearning class too.

This is a known bug specifically with Varicam footage for some reason.

First off try updating Premiere just incase they've staged the fix within the last week.

Otherwise your options (other than waiting for the fix to be rolled into the main release) are:

Use Premiere 2020 for this edit.

Or use Premiere Beta where the issue is apparently fixed (wouldn't recommend for actual projects!)

Or rewrap the video files and transcode the audio. You could use Shutter Encoder for this in the 'rewrap' function with 'filter' set to MXF. Then under 'Audio settings' select 'convert' and try 'PCM 32bit' which should be totally lossless. This may break the Panasonic video format which could mean you have problems with metadata later on if that's something you require in your workflows.

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I'm going to use my psychic media format detection power and guess that the drone is a recent DJI model?

If it is, your problem is variable framerate media. Grab Shutter Encoder, transcode the source clips to ProRes, and replace the footage in your project.

You might want to double check/test the SD cards that you're using on the drone, as when this has come up before (and it has a lot in /r/premiere!) a DJI user chimed in and suggested the cause was the SD cards not being fast enough to cope with the recording, so the drone drops the framerate to prevent the recording from cutting out.

That's on the VERY low end for grading. The important thing to know is your color display must be color stable and possible to calibrate for Rec 709/sRGB color space. If you don't know what that is you need to know before you buy.

Here's some displays on the low end of capable, they tend to have poor black levels:

• sony lmd-2110w $850 new (the only of these with a proper broadcast inputs / outputs)
• Eizo ColorEdge CS2420 $860 new
• HP DreamColor Z24x Professional 24'' $436.55 new
• BenQ 27 inch 2K Photographer Monitor (SW2700PT) $599.00 new

Okay deals to be had on ebay, as these types of displays get used for a while then sold when people upgrade.

But you will have to know how to calibrate these. The cheapest option for calibration is:

• X-Rite ColorMunki probe $140
• DaVinci Resolve (free)
• DisplayCal https://displaycal.net/ (free)

Other calibration solutions are $1,500+, so using this method may be confusing as hell, but don't let that stop you. Some use a LUT built in to the monitor. Do you want that? Do you need a LUT box? Will you be going straight out of the computer HDMI, or through a conversion box like the Black Magic UltraStudio?

I believe the Eizo has a built in calibrator, but I heard you have to do an initial calibration first anyway.

Basically Everyone starts somewhere, but the important thing to know is:

1. Color correction is more expensive and technically more complex than editing.
2. The differences between displays and color spaces, why one display over another?: What's P3 color space? What's Rec 2020? What's ACES?.
3. Don't buy anything until you know how and why you will calibrate the monitor you are buying. As a colorist, if you spend money without technical knowledge that money will be wasted.

I've learned by looking up specific tutorials on the types of look I want to achieve.

This tutorial on how to achieve a teal and orange summer blockbuster look is one of my favorites. It uses a variety of tools within the program so you can get an idea of what each one is used for, even if you don't want to get that kind of look.

Cargo usually has decent examples you can sort thru on their front page.

Personally I would just keep it clean and simple. Make sure your work is visible and well presented more than anything. I've spent too much time on my website in the past when in reality the work on their is more important than having a super slick website (unless you're a designer, agency or production company etc)

You shouldn't need the Avid codec's installed for Premiere, actually if you do have them installed you might want to try uninstalling them - you may have some sort of weird codec conflict, especially if it's an older version than you think.

If all else fails though, you could use Shutter Encoder to transcode them over to ProRes.

Shutter Encoder will solve your problem. Use Apple ProRes or DNxHR and it will make it CFR, you'll be getting HUGE files but you won't lose any significant quality.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Look for "Lite 12". It has most of the features of the full suite, and it's a professional editing suite.

If you need something easier, then iMovie may be a good choice too.

Try accessing GoogleDrive via Cyberduck -- it's an open-source FTP client, but works well to access GDrive and can get around the stupid zip file issue. I only recently discovered this method while searching for a workaround for my MacMini M1, since Google still hasn't released an official M1 client that supports FileStream.

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Try Testdisk. It's a command line interface and may take some reading up on before diving into but it should work, I have had much success with it in the past. It will take a LONG time to scan however depending on your data (i.e. Hours to days). Best of luck!

I don't know if this will help solve your issue, but I use this program to convert all my large video files to .mp4

Mpeg Streamclip

In the converting options you can choose the quality %. If i leave it at 50% the video converts more quickly and the image doesn't suffer too much.

>Conveniently the ProRes whitepaper doesn't have the word gamma in it. Absolutely no mention of how the codec handles gamma. Apple should be embarrassed.

One of the big reasons I dislike ProRes.

Conveniently the ProRes whitepaper doesn't have the word gamma in it. Absolutely no mention of how the codec handles gamma. Apple should be embarrassed.

Best I can tell you'll need to request a re-export of the project at gamma 2.2. If the export had color bars you could change your interpretation to make it correct. (With some quality loss.) Without a reference you'll never know when it's correct.

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The producer should be giving YOU the templates, tell them to do their job and leave you to get on with editing!

But no...all I've worked with is an excel document with CLIENT/JOB NUMBER/DATE/ and then a list of all purchases made against that project.

Why not use an online solution such as http://www.clicktime.com/?

Great music! Thanks for sharing.

But unfortunately, buying a track doesn't mean we have legal permission to use it in a video - the Bandcamp page states 'all rights reserved' - the default legal state of all creative works.

The easiest way to give others permission to use your work in creative ways is to apply a free culture license like Creative Commons Attribution, as used on albums like Petal.

Hard drives are cheap, buy another drive, format it for windows (EXFAT or NTFS is you have Paragon or similar), copy your footage over.

But since you are trying to edit in FCPX in windows, methinks you've got bigger fish to fry than hard drive formats.

Get a probe (X-rite) and a CG series Eizo and you are good to go. Dont bother getting UHD/ 4K color accurate monitor - it is not necessary unless you have 50K for a theater Ref monitor / projektor setup and the related client following.

The setup i use for everything from HD to 8K (mostly 4K delivery) is a Decklink card, with SDI output - > HDLink pro converter (SDI to DP 10bit) --> Eizo CG246 Monitor (1920x1200). I deliver to broadcast, web and sometimes theater commercials, but mostly web.

Then I have a calibrated GUI monitor which is UHD (Dell P2715Q). I really like this setup and get som good results. I just want to add a client monitor (4K/UHD 55" TV).

If I have to choose priority I'd say get a probe first and use what you have! - And then get good a calibration. I use the free software [DisplayCal](https://displaycal.net/). Newer trust "factory calibrated" spec or feature - they are all different and never consistant. Getting a probe change everything for me regarding monitors, tv and it really shows how different all monitors are.

Oh yeah an important question might be, what kind of work do you do, and for what platform - broadcast, web, ect.?

Unbelievably, this is STILL online. Ellen Page's breakthrough movie The Tracey Fragments. ALL the footage from the movie was put up by the Director on Bittorrent a few years back as the basis of a remix contest. This is the kind of opportunity you dream of..to cut a Hollywood Feature Film... HAVE AT IT !

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> Unfortunately using a software to convert to a constant frame rate would add way too much time to my workflow

If you're planning on editing it, I'm afraid you don't really have an option there. Pro editing software typically hates VFR!

You could use Lossless Cut to trim down the streams into just the sections you need, that will minimise your transcoding time.

Then use Shutter to transcode to ideally ProRes (fast but will take a lot of space, ~132GB/hr for 1080p60) or h.264 CRF ~20 (slower, will take up less space, more quality loss.)

I’ve used WeTransfer before as well as HighTail and they seem to do pretty good.

Kinda off topic but, if you’re working with another editor, you could have them down-convert and send you only the low Rez (smaller) files and then just send the project file after you edit.

Check out the new product released by BitTorrent here. It allows you to send large files through the web like this. Not sure how long 500GB will take though, unless you have an incredible connection on both ends.

2021 edition of this book is coming out in September! Similar material.

Digital Cinematography: Fundamentals, Tools, Techniques, and Workflows https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138603864/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KQSPKCC85DRG9TQVXB1J?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

There's a good book on this subject- Make the Cut (amazon link)

It covers techniques for getting the job as well as expectations while on the job. Highly recommend if you're looking to start as an assistant.

Please don't do this. Don't buy drives solely based on their price.

I'm guessing that you don't practice 3:2:1 - Three copies, two locations, one live.

Please, please, please, have a backup of your material.

Buy whatever drives use HGST or WD internal Mechanisms. Short version - Backblaze does a report of drive failures from their data centers. Yes, it's enterprise class. They open source the data.

The big end interpretation is that Seagate drives aren't safe. (Sorry /u/Tmhlegolas - Seagate owns Lacie. I even like the idea of their larger RAIDs but don't trust them.)

Keep in mind, that all drives die.

There is (essentially) zero speed difference between a single spinning disk when it's connected via USB3 and TB.

So, buy a USB drive that makes sense to you financially and have a backup of your media. Purchase a desktop unit (for heat dissapation) instead of the portable bus powered. Those aren't as hardy.

Slickdeals currrent user forum on hard drives There's a 8TB for $150 there from NewEgg.

I built this 18 months ago but with 64gb and dual 770s or 780s I forget: http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/130386-i7-4930k-asus-rampage-iv-extreme-32gb-ram-gtx-770-4gb-success.html

About 3k I think and clocks in at about the same as the 8k 8-core Mac Pro.

Rock solid, fast as fuck. Premiere is actually more stable and much faster than on Mac Pros because of the CUDA cards.

Took my a couple hours to assemble, a couple hours to fuck with the drivers to get it booting (that said I did it before the guide was updated for the R4E), so I got a couple day rates for my time basically. I have a pretty technical background, however.

I'm mostly FCP so its kinda overkill for that, and I don't use Avid that much but I haven't had any problems when I have used it, but I recently shifted a premiere project to working from home a lot because of how much faster it is with premiere than the basically maxed Mac Pro workstation they had me on.

If I were doing it in a production environment, I'd get HP Z-Series workstations and Hackintosh them to prevent against hardware fuckups from self-building. But for a home system its fine.

not sure about android but you definitely can with an ipad - https://www.duetdisplay.com/

edit: seems they've updated this since i've last used it, works on android now as well so in theory would work with an android tablet too.

FOUR editors ... all pulling Alexa 4k Pro Res HQ or 4444 or RAW(?) or RED 8k???? Not gonna happen without big cash.

Shit tonne of TB at this fast speed? ooofff

One solution would be:

Dedicate one iMac Pro as an 'online' bay and link it to fast RAID with 8+ drives connected with 10gbE and put it in a nice environment for charging clients loads for the online (ha)

All the other machines - proxy offlines connected to a SAN as detailed by /u/Kichigai

Seems you need to re-think your workflow a bit.

Can't work all in online Pro Res 4444 4k all the time and have realtime playback. Its not 2022 yet. :)

In your original post you are asking why you are not able to pull 4k Alexa footage

Pro Res 4444 (assuming its that) is 1131 MB/s at 4k and 24p (I think)

Your drive is only 300Mb/s

https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/docs/Apple_ProRes_White_Paper.pdf

You'd have to watermark them before you put them on the cloud, otherwise you're going end up using twice as much space!

Presuming that the OneDrive folder is an actual directory on your system that you can save files too, you could set up another non cloud directory to export your videos to, then use a tool that supports a watch folder (such as Shutter Encoder) to automatically transcode and burn watermark in to any files that are added, with the output directory set to be the OneDrive folder.

It looks good, impressive, but I question the pace.

You're editing at breakneck the whole time, which makes the performances less impressive, and your editing more monotone. I'm assuming here that the video is supposed to be a promotion of the firedancers themselves, but it comes off as a promotion for the filmmakers. I would've kept some of the flashy jumpcutting mtv-style at the beginning and the end, but kept some really long takes, the longest and most impressive (from the dancers' point of view) running in the middle.

For example, at 00:40-ish, a guy throws a burning thingy in the air. You cut away right before he catches it. Assuming he actually did catch it, I would've loved to see that.

One of my teachers said, way back when, that filmmaking is about making people comfortable, and right as they get comfortable with an element you change it up. Nothing is surprising in this video, because you do the same thing for 150 seconds.

This is my latest music video. It is by no means a masterpiece, but as I was watching the material, I made a conscious choice to keep every take going as long as I possibly could. That way, when I do start cutting fast, it makes that much more of an impact, and lingering on the shots afterwards makes that effect even stronger.

But keep up the good work! You're obviously very talented at the MTV-style cutting... just remember that slowing down every now and then will make that stuff pop even more.

I'm having this problem myself, and I've found two things that are decently helpful. The first is the Pomodoro Technique, which is basically working for 25 minutes, then taking a 5 minute break. You can download an app to keep track of it here. The other technique is a little more forceful, and it involves an app called SelfControl. You basically set up a blacklist of websites, and it blocks you from visiting them for a set amount of time. When you keep getting that 404 error, you realize just how many times you reflexively check Reddit or Facebook or whatever. Anyways, it's still something I'm struggling with, but hope those help!

Yo, I also suffer from Tinnitus.

As long as you’re wearing high quality headphones there’s really no difference between wearing headphones and using monitors. Make sure your volume isn’t too loud and you’re good to go.

I used these forever and it never impacted my ears.

https://www.amazon.com/MDR-7506-Proffessional-Foldable-Headphones-Protective/dp/B07CZ2DRW5/ref=mp_s_a_1_1_sspa?adgrpid=54933484526&hvadid=274710238781&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9052538&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=109882759...

Not the same but on the topic of stock... I was looking at the Medi-Cal webpage here and saw a familiar face.

I just went and measured, I sit just over seven feet away from my TV screen, and I live in a small apartment. Most people put the TV and their couch on opposite ends of a room, with some exceptions owing to room size and layout.

I know my parents' TV in their living room is 12-20 feet away, depending on which end of the couch you sit on (TV is in the corner, couch along the wall). In my old apartment the TV was at least 15 feet away from the big couch. Similar distance for my friends' basement entertainment area. None of them has a TV bigger than 60" (hell, my parents are still rocking the 27" I got them back during the W. Bush administration)

I wouldn't say that's exactly a common setup. Not a rare one, but I don't think it's as common as you think. And at those viewing ranges, the TVs would have to be quite large for people to see.

Nonetheless, there is no way 8K TVs will become a big thing. I mean, the screen sizes would have to be absolutely astronomical!

If you have down time you might consider competing in crowdsourced video competitions for major brands through outlets like Tongal. If you like the idea there are many more like them (see this Quora page). At worst you will end up with some spec commercials and experience in finding your own workflow!

I use Tick (https://www.tickspot.com/) for time tracking. There is no integration, but you can enter time manually or run timers. It's been wonderful for looking into how many hours were spent on similar jobs in the past for bidding purposes. Very easy to use interface.

You'll be looking at PR firms, news stations and NGO's more than production companies outside of Discovery Channel. I cut some reality television for a small company in Takoma Park, did some work for Discovery Studios in Silver Spring, worked at Al Jazeera, CNN, ABC, NBC, etc, mostly all on a freelance basis. There are PR firms like Home Front Communications, 360Live Media, Proof Communications, etc.

If you lean one way or another politically, both the liberal Center for American Progress and the conservative Heritage Foundation are hiring editor/producer/videographers right now:

http://www.indeed.com/q-Video-Editor-l-Washington,-DC-jobs.html

I use Subler to embed metadata to .mp4 files for my home media server. However, I don't use social media so I don't know how such metadata integrates with those platforms.

Premiere supports metadata, but I believe it's in the form of .xml attachments and not embedded in the file. Once again, though, I don't know how that that might integrate with social media.

I posted this video of myself using the medium Wacom tablet here about a year ago.

Sometimes I do switch over to a mouse for a bit, as even the pen can agitate the carpal tunnel.

Apparently Google Drive was giving them troubles, so they are switching over to Mediafire. They just sent this email to me:

"Hey everyone, no sooner than we launched did we find that there are some inherent issues hosting through Google Drive. We will leave the files on Drive and available as it may still be useful for individual sound download and some people have had luck downloading through Drive. In the meantime we are relocating the library to Mediafire which allows unlimited parallel downloads and the library will be contained in a single .zip file. The .zip file should be available within 3 hours. We have changed the link on the website so if you wish to see the google drive you can access it here:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwLYnKtaVQcxb05TNndDcDJhaFE&usp=sharing

We apologize for the confusion and we appreciate all the support and feedback we've received since launch."

I made this pack and use it as my base
https://sellfy.com/p/NWQC/

I found that LUTs that Sony provides are not great, so I designed my own. The base LUT looks similar to what you would get in Resolve color transformation and other LUTs have a distinct look to them. I would abstain from using modified PP if you want to get a good and consistent result.

Same try out Seer for windows http://1218.io/ disappeared from my machine a few years ago after a few windows updates. I got used to not using it so i didn't miss it but might check it out again.

The default is to put it in your documents folder.

What you need to grab (aside from an external drive!) is GrandPerspective.

It's a free OS X app that will show you a visual map of what is taking up space where on your system.

Like the top comment says. They're both 2 different names for exactly the same thing. With an SSD external you can expect to get about 470 - 510 mb/s read/write. That speed can be maintained by your USB 3 ports.

Simple answer, yes, your ports are capable of running an external SSD as advertised.

If you're still unsure, see if you can get your hands on I've for a few minutes from a friend or colleague, plug it in and run a speed test like this https://crystalmark.info/en/software/crystaldiskmark/

As a general rule I never edit H.264 since it's more processor intensive than editing codecs and has tendency to slip sync in FCP7.

I'd try using MPEG Streamclip, try exporting Prores 422, and force the frame rate to be 29.97. That should get get everything working smoothly. Honestly VLC has a terrible exporting/transcoding tool.

Also in the Media Encoder picture that green frame is usually an issue with decoding the file. I forget the more technical reason for it.

If all else fails screen record the footage and export prores. It's a little lesser quality, but you can't really recreate gaming footage exactly.

We do a lot of instagram teaser videos for clients. Here's one we did recently

https://instagram.com/p/tDnp3owsAl/

Don't try to fit a lot of information in the video itself. Use the caption section in instagrm for most stuff. Think of it more like a demo reel for the larger peice.

People mostly just want to see cool stuff on instagram. They don't really go there to get information or to read things.

FCPX has a 30 day trial.

I have quite a bit to say on "fastest." You shouldn't believe me - but I do know the major tools well.

There's a very cogent argument that whatever you think fastest in, that's your fastest editor. That most of it is "does the tool get out of my way."

FCPX is something like my 17th or 18th editorial tool. For most of them, it's more about does it drag me down.

What you might also want to address is "Where are you slowest using your tool of choice?" Determine this and see if/how it can work faster. (Feel free to reply - I might very well know how to get you faster.)

>I am thinking of purchasing an editing dock, so I can slap my SSD's in that I use for image capture and just edit the footage right off there (for smaller/shorter videos).

Honestly, that's not a good idea. NAND Wear is real, and you don't want to be stressing your camera's media.

>Does this sound about right for an editing workflow?

Well nowhere do you mention backup, and backup is important. Say something goes haywire and your footage is corrupted. What then?

> I'm going to be working with 4K Pro Res 422 60 fps footage.

No, you're going to be working with proxies, because that's the only way this setup sounds reasonable, to be blunt. According to Apple the data rate for that is 1257MbPS, or 566GB per hour. That's just 422, not 422 HQ, which is 1886MbPS or 848GB/hr.

Do you really need to be working at that resolution and frame rate? I mean, for a martial arts demonstration I could see how being able to slow down the action and blow up certain spots to call attention to it would be beneficial, but a seminar sounds like it's a talking head. Would the viewer benefit that much from being able to see more detail in the speaker's wrinkles or stubble? Do their gesticulations need to have super-smooth motion? Unless you're doing more cutting and are using blow-ups and repos to fake a second camera set-up (or your lens just can't zoom in far enough) I don't see the benefit for 2160p59.94 here. Seems way overkill for details and fidelity no one is ever going to see.

Final Cut X (starting with 10.1) stores everything in Libraries. There are no scratch disks in FCPX - everyone replying about these can be ignored.

File > New > Library. Make sure you create your library on your external drive.

Now, select all your footage. File > Move Clips to Library > and choose your new library. Repeat for your Media.

Here is a white paper that explains how libraries work.

Here is an apple doc on more information about libraries.

Give Shutter Encoder a shot with the following settings:

• Function: h.265
• Filter/Extension: mp4
• Under 'Bitrates' adjustment, set video bitrate to 2500
• Audio bitrate 192k
• Check 'Max quality'
• Under 'Advanced features' set 'Hardware Acceleration' to 'Nvidia NVENC'
• Set 'Enable fast start'

That should transcode things really quickly (probably around 4-6x real-time on a 1050) to around 2.5% the filesize of your OG XAVC-S files. Quality should be pretty decent, if you need better it's the bitrates you need to fiddle with.

Since it's using your GPU's hardware encoding chip, you should still have enough performance left over while it's running that you can get on with other work at the same time.

If those settings work out for you, you can use ctrl+S to save it as a preset.

It has watch folder functionality too so you can dump the clips in a directory and have them start transcoding automatically - right click the file queue and the option is there.

>I have a bunch of home DVDs that are starting to become unreadable.

Err, just FYI, this is the professional editor's subreddit (as in we do editing and post-production as our day jobs). This question is a little more along the lines of /r/VideoEditing, the amateur/hobbyist subreddit. We're not exactly snooty jerks about this kind of thing around here, but just a heads up.

> I need to copy them and want to convert them to MP4 format.

Any particular reason you need them to be MP4? You can copy the raw data into MPG files storing the MPEG-2 data right off the disc onto your hard drive, preserving as much quality as possible. You can make MP4 files from those MPGs, and use those for viewing, and keep the MPGs as your "archival" copies.

>Does anyone have any advice on the best way to convert these DVDs into a format that I can store on a hard drive and upload to a cloud so I don't have to worry about the media becoming defective?

Depending on how you want to handle this, it's pretty easy.

To make MP4 files from DVDs you can use Handbrake. If your DVDs are unencrypted then this'll be a snap, otherwise you may have to borrow some libraries to make it work. Then just use the Universal or Apple TV 3 presets and queue the jobs up.

If you want to store the MPG data, then you can use MPEG Streamclip, load the DVD in there, and then Save As an MPEG file.

In all honesty I would say learn to tell a story using the tools you have. This might be as simple as your phone camera and sony vegas. Absolutely no tools out there, regardless of price, will inject into the final edit what good story telling skills can do for you. And those skills will carry over from vegas to every other editing package and project for the rest of your life.

Yes, some software will make some takes easier, faster, or more refined, but if you can't tell a story using the simple tool you can't do it on the expensive stuff either. So, master the story telling skill. I would say thats the bulk of what the online free and cheap stuff will help with, how to convey the story, how to convey emotion. The rest is just technical and thats easy to pick up.

Example, this course: https://www.masterclass.com/classes/martin-scorsese-teaches-filmmaking

Would probably be a good start.

Eesh, this is not going to be pretty for you. You could try using something like PhotoRec to pull the data off the flash drives, but I can't guarantee which files it'll save. Worse yet, it probably wouldn't preserve the file structure. It may not even preserve file names.

You might have to shell out money and hire a data forensics professional, and when I say "money" I mean "great big heaping piles of cash."

To get the best odds possible of recovering any data that card must not be written to between now and whenever you get it. CF Cards work a little differently than a hard disk, but the data may yet live in the little NAND chips.

> It's open source

Incorrect. It's free, but it is not open sourced. Technically you aren't allowed to use BitTorrent Sync for commercial purposes. Of course since data is all peer-to-peer it'd be hard to catch you, but make no mistakes: this is not open source, and using the software in this way is technically a violation of the EULA.

It's indimidating as hell when you first look at it, but Bulk Rename Utility is great for this sort of thing once you get your head around the interface.

SnapChat has a feature where you can post to "MyStory" which includes the past 24 hours of posts you included. It's a way to send a snap to all your followers without choosing them one by one, the follower just has to choose to watch it and are not notified when you post a new one.

I've only ever been questioned on my hours once after submitting an invoice. I used an app from this list:

https://zapier.com/blog/best-time-tracking-apps/

You said it perfectly above, "people don't realize how time consuming editing is".

Windows compatible?
Screen recording standard is Camtasia.

Skitch (screnshot utility) for the PC (and others) will let you screenshot a full webpage if you drag a URL in

I'm not really a nomad editor but I do travel between a small handful of locations pretty often and need to sometimes do quick edits at the drop of a hat.

Getting solid internet access will be your biggest challenge most likely. I've found that having a robust static workstation with a great internet connection that you can connect to remotely will be a big help. This could be as simple as a home workstation so you can download masters and upload proxies through something like for your mobile workstation.

You can even get creative with this by having a cloud workstation through something like Shadow (now somewhat defunct because of the acquisition) or another cloud solution.

I'm in the US and there are a couple options for truly unlimited 4G/5G connectivity. I have some hotspots with external antennas that I bond together using Speedify to help with my downloads. I often bond these connections even with the hardwired connection of wherever I'm at at the moment.

I'll +1 using my iPad pro as a secondary monitor. Super clutch.

As far as my rig, I'm using the 13" MBP M1. For my use case, it's solid even when I need to do longer format (2+ hours) exports.

For storage I simply use a few 2TB SanDisk external SSDs. This is more than enough for my needs.

I use these plastic Orico 3.5" hard drive cases.

Amazon Link

If, for some reason no one comes up with an answer, you need a workaround then create a symlink (well, technically a junction) http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

You replace My Documents\Adobe\Adobe Media Encoder\Adobe Adobe Media Encoder Preview Files with a link to a folder on an external drive, and it appears to Windows as being on your local drive.

I use this to keep my steam games on an external drive and my SSD empty.

There's this article that helps you calculate what your time is worth but it's more for people who already have a job.

I have a day job. I make around $50k a year which according to this article says I should be charging about $20/hr. In reality I've been charging $15 as I'm less than a year out of college and only have a few completed projects under my belt. This is by no means the *right* way to do it, just what I've done.

I would also use a GANT chart or some kind of "milestone" template to make sure you get paid along the way if it's a project that's going to take months.

Just a random cheap one. Sharpkeys worked for me, so i’d look into a Mac equivalent app

https://alternativeto.net/software/sharpkeys/?platform=mac

This site recommends some as Sharpkeys isnt Mac compatible

Try the OLD freebie:

http://download.cnet.com/Apple-DVCProHD-Components/3000-2141_4-50633.html

if not, Calibrated should have you covered ($)

http://www.calibratedsoftware.com/products/DVCProHDDecodeV2/QDVCProHDDownload.php

Lastly,if you install FCP or Compressor, it should install those CODEC packs for you.

Rant away but there are alternatives and avid is still the best of the bunch in a shared environment. What are your major gripes software wise and what version are you cutting on?

Scathing reviews from employees though jeeze. Still doesn't change that it's the best editor out there for what you're doing.

They are in some rough shape lately http://news.doddleme.com/blogs/post-production/avids-argo-oscar-accolades-shortlived-due-to-accounting-issues/

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/newman-ferrara-llp-announces-investigation-210100625.html

You can do this in a live stream by using a piece of software called OBS, I know a few Twitch streamers use and do this. itmeJP is a good example. As far as I'm aware you just have to set the recording area of each person and then position it as you wish, basically like mini screen captures.

Using this you can also record the stream for later upload to YouTube or whichever dark place on the interweb you want to send it.

RAID 5 is not appropriate for an array with 3TB or more usable space, unless you are using 'enterprise' grade disks with a bit error rate of 1 in 10^15. This article is sensationalist, but the underlying message is valid;

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/why-raid-5-stops-working-in-2009/162

If you're using consumer grade disks with a bit error rate of 1 in 10^14 & you want parity RAID, then you need 2x layers of parity for an array of that size (so look at RAID 6, RAID Z2, etc.).

I like File Finder, but it appears to be discontinued.

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/20096/filefinder

Indexes and catalogues an entire drive's directories, easily searchable, even when the drive is not connected. Somewhat integrated with Finder so you can open the file directly from the app, or drag from it to a proper Finder window. It's really easy to see if a drive has moved and is no longer where it last was, great for tracking down offline and disconnected media.

Best of luck hunting down a copy.

You might be right but I've always been told 422 LT had lesser colour info. I definitely find keying better in HQ but that's more image quality than colour maybe.

From the White Paper below.

All Apple ProRes 422 codecs support up to 10-bit image sources, though the best 10-bit quality is obtained with the higher-bit-rate family members—Apple ProRes 422 and Apple ProRes 422 HQ

Oh I just realised I replied to you thinking you were someone else in /r/aftereffects so my answer probably didn't make a whole lot of sense!

Yup, each frame becomes an image with an index number. If the upscale fails, you can tell Topaz to start from a specified frame and continue the image sequence. Takes a lot of space though!

You can then either import that image sequence into an NLE, or using something like Shutter Encoder to encode the frames into a video file and multiplex the OG audio back in.

Vimeo has a pretty neat little plug in called a hubnut. Something like that would look pretty damn spiffy on a website. It basically just plays all your videos back to back on a slideshow, bringing the one being played to a larger scale...meh just check it out, I'm terrible at explaining things. :)

Hello, MixPad may be what you are looking for. Add multiple tracks to the timeline, adjust levels, and useful sound effects and clean-up tools. Check it out here: http://www.nch.com.au/mixpad/index.html

I built something similar to this. Works great. Have dual graphics cards, can handle transcoding R3Ds without a rocket. Clocks out basically the same as current Mac Pros.

http://www.tonymacx86.com/golden-builds/130386-i7-4930k-asus-rampage-iv-extreme-32gb-ram-gtx-770-4gb-success.html

Excellent answer.

Storage is cheap. You can get a 3TB external HDD for like $90. It might not be fast enough to edit off of, but it's adequate for archival use. Assuming you aren't willing to spend money on a proper archival drive or service.

Many of you probably already know about this but for documenting I recently found these two apps that saved me a lot of time:

(both have free versions)

PrintWindow5

Creates a pdf that lists the contents of any volume or subfolder. Very customizable.

NeoFinder

Reads the entire volume or subfolder and creates a directory with thumbnails of every file (dope!). Once it saves, you're able to search the drive without having it plugged in. The thumbnails take up some space, but I scanned 8TB of data to create a ~500mb file. Very useful when I need to go dig up a file from an archive drive but not 100% sure which drive it's on.

Do you know if NeoFinder lets you import libraries with XML, HTML, or even sheets that have values separated by tabs?

I use DiskLibrary, which is not supported anymore. I have so much stuff in it, and am dreading the day that MacOS doesn't support it anymore. I'll pretty much need a legacy machine to just run the thing

Edit: Nevermind, their website answered my own questions: http://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.6/import.html

DVDflick might work. For windows though, so dual boot or virtual machine.

There was another open source app called "Burn" for Mac, but their site seems to be down.

You sound more burned out than just distracted, but I think that happens to all of us from time to time. Anyway, I sometimes use an app called Self Control to keep the internet at bay. Other than that, get plenty of rest and allow time for your own projects/hobbies to keep that inspiration up!...If that doesn't work then yeah, adderall.

If it's a small(ish) file, try cloud convert and just convert it to mp4.

https://cloudconvert.com/

I use it when I've ripped stuff off the internet that's bugging out on me.

CloudConvert allows you to pick files from your account and it will save the result there as well. You can use a publicly shared Dropbox link; just make sure the URL points to a single file and ends in dl=1. There's a daily conversion limit for free accounts, but you can always pay for more.

If your ideal is compressing WMVs with AME, you can do that easily - on a PC. AME on a PC gives you all the granular control you expect, but with the added encoding options for WMVs. Personally, I run a virtual machine with a minimal Windows 7 volume in VMWare Fusion, but you could use Parallels, Bootcamp, or better yet, keep a small, inexpensive PC networked to do those occasional PC-only tasks.

There's also a free tool called VideoMonkey, which is what happened to the now-abandoned Visual Hub. It will allow you to do a 2-pass encode, which is better than the stock Flip4Mac.

Looks like you pulled the video stream out of a Matroska container, yes? If so, you may want to rewrap that as an MP4 file with something like YAMB (Yet Another MP4 Box UI). Alternatively, you could help yourself by converting it to a high-quality mezzanine codec like Cineform. It'll be a lot easier on your system than HEVC, though with larger file sizes.

What ancillary data are you worried about losing? Pretty much the moment you go out on HDMI you're going to lose some data, like timecode.

I mean, I suppose on the Roku 4 could do what you'd need to do (you'd need to transfer your footage to a USB stick though) but depending on the ancillary data you need, it might not make the cut.

I made some recently for Exodus:

http://instagram.com/ExodusMovie

Nothing too fancy but might give you an idea since they involve interviews/graphics/broll/film footage.

Most of these were cut down from longer interviews such as these ones from the Apple trailers page:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/exodusgodsandkings/

Not sure how much that helps, but take a look and I can walk you through some of the process if you'd like (although 90% of it was client direction).

There are a few free/cheap solutions, in order of difficulty:

1] Screenshots of the contents of every drive.
- cons: can't look at subfolders without mounting drive, no search.

2] use the command line or powershell(windows) to generate a txt or csv file of the contents of each drive, then import the data into an excel sheet or simple database (ms access, filemaker, etc.)
- cons: probably can't search anything but file name, may not show paths.

3] freeware, like 'cathy', which does limited volume catalogging.
- cons: need the index file and the software to look at the catalogs, has an item count limit per index. EDIT: is OAF.

asset management systems tend to require that all of you data live on network storage, and are exponentially more difficult and costly to setup than most small businesses want to invest in.

I use Restream.io to go to Facebook and Youtube at the same time. So far everything has worked out well. Just be sure to note the requirements of each platform. For example, Facebook is much more picky with what video you send it than Youtube.

Before you drop the 300 bucks, I would do a few test, check out the trail: https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/trial/ Make sure your imports actually work as intended.

The arrest sounds crazy man. Sorry that happened to you, really wild stuff.

UHD@25fps in ProRes HQ is about 737Mbps according to Apple's White Paper. 5 streams is about 3750Mbs. 4500Mbps would give you a 20% overhead, which is the minimum I would look for on 5 streams of video. 4500Mbps is about 560MBps. So I'd say look for 600MBps from your storage, give or take.

A G-Speed Studio is a 4 bay RAID that advertises 700MBps of sustained throughput for the 24TB model and 660 for the 12 and 18TB modes. Should get the job done. I'm guessing the 700MBps number is in RAID-0, so make sure you're on your backup game. If one of the 4 drives fails everything is gone. If you want RAID-5 to protect from a single drive failure (fault tolerance is not a backup solution) you'll probably need a 6 or 8 bay RAID array to get the required throughput. The G-Speed Studio could probably get it done in RAID-5 if you stepped down to ProRes422.

Our friendly mod is probably right.

First and foremost, Best Buy is not the right place to go for anything related to filmmaking. You wouldn't buy your instruments there, don't buy any other specialty equipment there.

The actual camera, it's going to depend. GoPro makes some good cameras for what they are. But unless you are putting the camera itself in harm's way, it isn't the right tool.

Most likely the right tool for the job is in your hand right now. No, not that, the other hand, the one holding your phone. The camera in a modern smartphone is of far better quality than most people think. And it is free since you already have it.

Now on to editing since that's where we are. For a free tool I recommend DaVinci Resolve from BlackMagic Design (https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve). The free version is quite good. It is a second tier system, but every first tier system costs money.

Yep, was about to say... this has been posted about ad nauseam. I've been using NDI tools since mid 2020 for remote sessions. It turns your NLE output into a webcam that you can select in Zoom. You can couple that with something like Loopback to ensure you're routing the proper audio channels.

Evercast basically ripped off OBS and started charging $600/mo. It's insane.

>Haha that's amazing.

No, what's more amazing is what when I whacked it with MediaInfo the metadata said it was mastered in GarageBand! But it looked good, either way.

> Maybe it was shot with iPhone?

Nah, by-hand animation.

>Murphys Law!

Most indeed.

Not sure if this is solved with Win 10, but I've found with Win 7 Adobe has some nuisances with dual monitors. Adobe can only maximize to a single monitor so if you want to use both you have to drag across for a floating window or create 2 separate windows. If you create separate windows than you'll have to click twice when switching focus, once to highlight the window and a second for the button.

Also, a single 27" monitor isn't quite big enough. I'd aim for 32.

Check out this website for some quick hunting. It's showing the Acer B326HK as the cheapest IPS 4K panel, listed on Amazon for $582 right now.

TL;DR - Single monitor all the way. Recommendation above. CES also just kicked off, so some new toys may be announced in the coming days

>Network communication

>* full network access * view network connections

>Phone calls

>* read phone status and identity

>Storage

>* modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

>System tools

>* test access to protected storage

That's not so weird.

Full network access to pull down content, and viewing network connections so it doesn't start preloading stuff while it's on 3G or something. Or at least that's the most common explanation.

Read Phone Status and Identity is typically used to make sure you aren't in a phone call when it starts doing stuff. Pretty handy if it's playing a video, so then it knows to pause playback.

Storage is for caching, nine times out of ten.

System Tools: Protected Storage is probably harmless.

>Audio settings

>* change your audio settings

OK, that's a little weird. Again, my best guess is something to do with video playback. I'm not sure what, exactly, is involved in that setting, but it could be as simple as allowing you to redirect audio from the speaker to Bluetooth or something like that.

>Microphone

>* record audio

That seems pretty unnecessary. However this may or may not be implicitly linked to another permission

I'd give PhotoRec a shot, but you aren't going to get the structure or names back most likely. The only thing I can say is in the future back up the card somewhere and use that to transfer media, never off the source.

> prores doesn't play in VLC which is my preferred player.

Oh?. It play ProRes just fine, it's the inability to play multiple discrete tracks simultaneously that's the kicker.

>DNXHD is very popular, although it takes some getting used to because there are way too many formats.

I guess it's my turn to be the one to point out that DNxHR works pretty much like ProRes does at this point. Just choose HQX (422 HQ), HQ (8-bit 422HQ), SQ(422), or LB (Proxy) and be done with it.

>I'm a huge nerd who gets off (sexually?) on building his own computer.

I see you've made the blood sacrifice with the sacred I/O shield.

>OSX is a superior UI and I miss the ease with which I move files around every day.

Unf. Whenever I have to do heavy duty file management on my NAS I break out the old MBP and get to it. Explorer is OK, but it just lacks too many convenience features.

You wanna have some real fun with file management, though? Try Path Finder. It's like Finder with a cybernetic exoskeleton.

Do a clean install to your OS of choice (I'm running 10.9.2 without issue) and yes, you can still install FCP7 from .dmg files. Perhaps it's a 10.10 issue, this not being able to run .dmgs of FCP7, but it's just fine in 10.9.2.

Check the Time Machine backup to make sure it has all of your programs, etc, before you do gank it of course.

Edit- one gizmo you will absolutely want to download if you like the way color labels work is Xtra Finder because Tags are a piece of shit.

>There's about 100GB of footage on a computer at my university that we desperately need this week. Do you know of any services I could use to transfer it? (ideally free, but I'd be willing to shell out a little bit of $$)

• You could break up your files into multiple chunks and use a file transfer service like Hightail, WeTransfer, Mega, or whatever
• You could throw all the footage on a hard disk and ship that (if you want to be ultra cheap but take up a lot more time you could burn the stuff all to data DVDs, BluRays, or flash drives, and then mail that)
• You could move your computer off-campus for a bit of time and get the footage out to BitTorrent Sync in the meantime
• If you want to get crazy perhaps set up a free AWS Micro Instance and use that either as an FTP destination or with BitTorrent Sync on that (so you upload via FTP to the AWS server, and then share the files to the receiver using BitTorrent Sync in the cloud).

How often do you expect to be transmitting footage?

>I attempted Bit Torent Sync which I've used in the past, it looks like my school has a block on that type of p2p.

Well, BitTorrent Sync is BitTorrent (that is, the underlying nuts and bolts is the exact same as the stuff people use for piracy) so it's no shock it's being blocked since there's no reasonable way to tell BTSync traffic from other BitTorrent traffic.