Quick Tip: Fixing (Some) FCP to Premiere Problems

Quick Tip: Fixing (Some) FCP to Premiere Problems
Here’s a quick tip I encountered a few hours ago: I was moving an old FCP7 project to Premiere Pro CS6 through XML, and the import kept freezing/crashing Premiere. It was a large project with 500+ clip of P2 DVCPro HD footage transcoded to .mov in FCP. I did a little research and found this post.

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10 Reliable HTML5 Video Players for Your Website

10 Reliable HTML5 Video Players for Your Website
HTML5 will probably be the new standard to show videos on the web. Recently Flash players were extremely popular, but now they are going with the times. More often users choose HTML5 solutions. It happens because new players are flexible, compatible with major browsers (their older and newer versions) and well displayed on mobile devices. If you want to know more about your browser and HTML5/CSS3 compatibility then view this comparison table.

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Premiere Pro gets Lumetri Deep Color Engine and a boost from Speedgrade

Premiere Pro gets Lumetri Deep Color Engine and a boost from Speedgrade
Adobe introduces Lumetri Deep Color Engine, a new tool to help editors get GPU optimized color control right inside Premiere. You can apply one of the existing presets, LUTs, or saved Looks from Speedgrade.

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Color Correction

Color Correction
This short article began with the rather dry title, "Tracking CDL Through Post." As I began to write, my thoughts started to meander into the obvious and maybe not so obvious ancillary aspects of this topic. I now feel the more gestalt title, "Color Correction", actually seems appropriate. And please forgive me if this post comes off as very "101".

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MAXON CINEMA 4D Integration in After Effects CC by Chris and Trish Meyer

MAXON CINEMA 4D Integration in After Effects CC by Chris and Trish Meyer:
As we noted in the preview referenced above, with After Effects CC you will be able to import a .C4D project file directly into After Effects, which will treat it as a footage item. Once you add this .C4D footage item to a composition, a new CINEWARE plug-in will automatically be added to that layer, which will render requested frames from the .C4D project on demand inside After Effects, without the need to render the whole project ahead of time in CINEMA. This process is laid out in the following movie:

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Delivering on the promise of HTML5 video

Delivering on the promise of HTML5 video | Videonet:
While ideal for basic video playback, HTML5 has a way to go before it becomes a fully-fledged solution for the most demanding use cases of online video delivery. In the interim, workaround tools, and online video platforms have emerged to help content producers and developers deliver on the multi-platform promise.

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More Handy Free Apps for Creatives

More Handy Free Apps for Creatives | GLJ Media Group:
I find these days that most of us do more than one thing. That is, as creatives we have to be multi-hyphenates: we write, we direct, we shoot, we edit, we blog, we launch web sites… and with few exceptions, most of these creative pursuits are aided by software. While I’m usually working in Adobe or Apple’s pro applications, there are always some free applications in the toolkit as well. So I thought I’d share some free cross-platform applications that I’ve found handy, in case any of them are new to you. Here are several free programs useful for creatives:

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Canon 5D RAW vs BMCC vs Bolex vs Ikonoskop vs Scarlet vs Kinefinity

Canon 5D RAW vs BMCC vs Bolex vs Ikonoskop vs Scarlet vs Kinefinity | wolfcrow:
This article will compare cameras that cost less than $10,000 that claim to shoot RAW video. The goal is to compare features to price, to estimate true value for money. This will give us a better understanding of what we’re getting into before we make that decisive purchase.

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Importing a Final Cut Pro Project to Adobe Premiere Pro

Importing a Final Cut Pro Project to Adobe Premiere Pro: 

Video editing is often a collaborative process. You may need to work with someone else’s editing project that was started using Final Cut Pro. Adobe Premiere Pro is a very flexible editing solution. You can easily import projects and media started on other edit systems. For example, moving a project over from Apple Final Cut Pro is a snap.


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Tips for Workflow & Encoding AVCHD Video

Tips for Workflow & Encoding AVCHD Video:
In this post, we've rounded up the bestFREE apps and workflow tips for transcoding your AVCHD (.mts) files for video editing.

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The Adobe Prelude Workflow (Part Two): Ingest and Logging

The Adobe Prelude Workflow (Part Two): Ingest and Logging:
Here are some limitations:

Prelude doesn’t do stills/images or pure audio codecs.

There is no support for logging RAW formats on set, including CinemaDNG.

There is no OnLocation (but it supports opening OnLocation projects)!

There is no support for logging raw MTS streams.

Some of these limitations are quite serious, and in my opinion, undermine its utility. The positives:

Prelude can playback all formats supported by Premiere Pro*, so you’re not totally left in the dark.

Support for AVCHD and H.264.

Support for Canon XF (MXF) and XDCAM (MXF and MP4).

Support for P2 media.

Support for DPX, TIFF and JPEG.

Support for AVI and MOV wrappers.

Support for ingesting R3D only*.

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Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorial - Lumetri Deep Color Engine and SpeedGrade!

Adobe Premiere Pro CC tutorial - Lumetri Deep Color Engine and SpeedGrade!:
Adobe Premiere Pro CC has a lot of new tasty features and the Lumetri Deep Color Engine is one of them. It allows you to apply color grades and sophisticated looks within Adobe Premiere Pro, thanks to the new Lumetri Deep Color Engine integration. Of course its not as extended as many 3rd party plugins or SpeedGrade, but it can be more than enough for many filmmakers and editors. In Premiere Pro CC you can use the new Lumetri Looks folder in the Effects panel to apply preset color grading effects, so it works exactly like any other effect in the previous versions of Adobe's product. You can also use the Lumetri effect to locate exported .looks from SpeedGrade or LUTs from other systems. Andrew Devis of Creative Cow did a very nice video tutorial in which he shows the new option and how it may be used with SpeedGrade CS_Next to create, save and apply your own custom looks.

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Clipping Magic Removes Image Backgrounds in Seconds

Clipping Magic Removes Image Backgrounds in Seconds:
Cropping an object out of an photo in an image editor can be a tricky task, but Clipping Magic is a new webapp that does it for you in seconds. All you have to do is paint the foreground object one color, the background object another, and the app does the work for you.

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The Smoke 2013 Extension brings support for Blackmagic video IO devices!

The Smoke 2013 Extension brings support for Blackmagic video IO devices! - motionVFX Blog:
At NAB 2013 Autodesk and Blackmagic Design announced an electrifying news - that both company will begin a technology collaboration, and many were wondering what to expect from it. Now we know a little bit more as only a few weeks later, the first result of this collaboration is here - The Smoke 2013 Extension 1 release will introduce support for Blackmagic video IO devices: DeckLink (PCIe video boards); UltraStudio (Thunderbolt boxes) and the Intensity product line. According to Chris Bradshaw, senior vice president at Autodesk, the feedback of the community was tremendous, and with this new extension Smoke will now include two highly requested features – Blackmagic video card support and a powerful new set of trim tools.

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High Frame Rate White Paper

High Frame Rate White Paper | 3Droundabout:
This white paper reveals reports on the aesthetic experiments conducted by the S3D team at Emilly Carr with a focus on High Frame Rate (HFR) and Variable High Frame Rate (VFR) to provide a basis for discussing best practices in Stereoscopic 3D production with High Frame Rate technology.

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Simple post processing of 5D Mark III RAW footage in OSX

Workflow video: Simple post processing of 5D Mark III RAW footage in OSX « cinema5D:
You have probably seen our extensive written guide on how to get Magic Lantern’s 24p working on the 5D Mark III, which also includes a step-by-step instruction on how to end up with usable ProRes 4444 files.

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Rec.ommendations for Display Gamma

Rec.ommendations for Display Gamma - NegativeSpaces - Ben Cain:
Old news really as this white paper from the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standardizing gamma for reference monitors in HDTV was released in March 2011! But the topic of Gamma Correction as it pertains to Display Gamma is one that comes up constantly in conversation with colleagues in both post and acquisition. So much so that as I was combing through old NegativeSpaces articles detailing monitor calibration, I felt that a post on Gamma for broadcast monitors is one well warranted.

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DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing

DuctTake: Spatiotemporal Video Compositing
DuctTake is a system designed to enable practical compositing of multiple takes of a scene into a single video. Current industry solutions are based around object segmentation, a hard problem that requires extensive manual input and cleanup, making compositing an expensive part of the film-making process. Our method instead compos- ites shots together by finding optimal spatiotemporal seams using motion-compensated 3D graph cuts through the video volume. We describe in detail the required components, decisions, and new techniques that together make a usable, interactive tool for compositing HD video, paying special attention to running time and performance of each section. We validate our approach by presenting a wide variety of examples and by comparing result quality and creation time to composites made by professional artists using current state-of-the-art tools.

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Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading

[Phoronix] Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading:
The Handbrake open-source video transcoder program now supports using OpenCL for accelerating certain operations along with introducing other new features to its brand new 0.9.9 release.

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תהליך העבודה עם קובצי 5D שעברה שינוי חומרה

תהליך העבודה עם קובצי 5D שעברה שינוי חומרה:
ברשת מדברים בשבוע האחרון רבות על שינוי החומרה של מצלמות 5D (גרסה 2 או 3) שמאפשרות היום הקלטה של 1080p, 24 ביט ב-RAW. הבעייה היא שלא ניתן להעביר את הקבצים ישירות למערכות עריכה, אלא יש קודם להמירם מ-RAW ל-DNG. הוויידאו המצורף מתאר בצורה מהירה את תהליך ההמרה.

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