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Apr
8
comment Looking for compressed standard definition file format to share footage between Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
Thanks @AJ Henderson yes I am aware of the meanings - i.e. lossless (decompressed lossless file is identical to original, e.g. as in FLAC for audio) and lossy means information thrown away but smaller file size/data rate.
Apr
8
comment Looking for compressed standard definition file format to share footage between Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
+1 upvote. Which "flavour" of MPEG4? There seem to be a few: AVC, H263, H264, with container this, container that etc. etc. Can you advise on which MPEG4 type Final Cut will support - for Adobe I would expect it to support it as it does very well at supporting most formats. If you can get back to me I would like to accept your answer. I can't really understand why these would have visible quality loss when MPEG4 is also used in HD video (and the file sizes compare favourably to uncompressed AVI). If I choose the correct quality settings then surely there will be no noticeable degradation?
Feb
7
comment How to do live monitoring of audio input on Mac? (i.e. hear the input sound on audio out)
+1 thanks and accepted answer
Jan
23
comment Tips for silently prompting people to not get too close to mics?
+1 good tip @filzilla
Jan
23
comment Effective working at audio/video editing sessions (avoid fatigue making steady progress)
+1 Thanks @Chris James Champeau
Jan
23
comment Tips for silently prompting people to not get too close to mics?
+1 @AJ Henderson thanks for your input
Jan
23
comment Effective working at audio/video editing sessions (avoid fatigue making steady progress)
+1 Thanks @AJ Henderson for your experience! I will leave the Question open for other contributors and then look at closing.
Jan
23
comment Tips for silently prompting people to not get too close to mics?
+1 For the physical barrier. I'll leave the question open for a few more responses and try to close a bit later. Thanks.
Jan
23
comment Effective working at audio/video editing sessions (avoid fatigue making steady progress)
+1 Thanks for your input. I guess the difference between editing and illustrating a book might be that with editing you start with raw content whereas with illustration you might sometimes start from scratch. Where they are the same is that both involve iterative work, going over the same content to refine.
Jan
23
comment Tips for silently prompting people to not get too close to mics?
+1 Good question @Bart Arondson - the former - the mic standing on a stand.
Jan
11
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
I believe sample accuracy is possible in the main window - according to: apple.com/logicpro/specs "Sample-accurate audio editing in the Arrange window" - the arrange window being: help.apple.com/logicpro/mac/9.1.6/en/logicpro/usermanual/…
Jan
11
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
"You can't edit to sample accuracy with Logic in the main window" - Is this true? gearslutz.com/board/7593458-post23.html
Jan
10
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 @ObscureRobot - great to know Logic can do it - I'm leaning towards this now.
Jan
10
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 @ObscureRobot for both these comments. Ctrlr looks interesting and thanks for introducing me to JSON - I knew of it but not much about it.
Jan
10
comment How to do a “deep” / full copy of a nested sequence in Premiere Pro CS6? (i.e. constituent components are all copied)
+1 and accepted - it tells me that what I want is not quite possible (yet). Thanks. Which version of FCP by the way do we see this in? I also have FCP 7 - the last (I think) version before X.
Jan
9
comment How to do a “deep” / full copy of a nested sequence in Premiere Pro CS6? (i.e. constituent components are all copied)
Understood and thanks. However my preference was that when Premiere Pro is copying a sequence, that it would also make true, independent copies of the components that the copy of the sequence should contain. It's inconvenient that this has to be considered manually by the user.
Jan
8
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 Thanks @ObscureRobot - which application are you referring to regarding alignment marks? Is any of this available in GarageBand or Ardour do you know? I like the idea of getting Logic (or maybe Pro Tools) but for free is welcome.
Jan
8
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 @ObscureRobot for the point on SysEx. With my software background I wondered if it would ever be possible to define SysEx as a XML Language and describe various devices with that and use the XML to drive a generic SysEx engine to provide a clever way of representing vendor-specific stuff. Myself I (incompletely) developed a tool called "MIDIFS" for a final year degree project years ago, which presented the Korg M1's (which I still own today) patch memory as a file system to enable drag drop of patches to a host computer's file system.
Jan
8
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 Warrior Bob (indeed about the specs), +1 Friend of George (tips on SysEx). Warrior Bob, in Logic or Pro Tools, can you see the audio waveform side by side with the Piano Roll, so that, for example, one could check that the 2 are in time with each other?
Jan
8
comment Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?
+1 thanks! looks like a good general answer, will leave open for a bit but looking to accept answer...