For more info visit Venezolanos en Hollywood’s website

Here is the Apple Trailers LINK

Our forkflow is at folows:
If the material comes from a DigiBeta, we transfer it at a dub house. If not we captured ourself. All material is captured at 10 bit uncompressed.
We create an uncomprresed 10 bit sequence and work on the proyect normaly. Since the file and the timeline have the same settings, there is no need ti render.

Once the project is finished we export with current settings. This creates a new uncompresed QuickTime file. This is the file that has the wrong dimentions while playing with QuickTime X.

It seems that is only a Quicktime issue because if you bring it back to Final Cut Pro it will show withe right dimentions.

I am here at the montly meeting of Venezolanos en Hollywood. Today’s guest is Javier Navarrete (IMDB Link). He is a music composser, who was nominated for an Oscar for his work in “Pan’s Labyrinth”.
Great speaker, an awsome talent and an amaizing career.

I wanted to create a server kind of setup where I can edit from any computer without the need to sync material or move material from one place to another.

Since we don’t have the capital to go actual servers and fiber optics, I decided to go ethernet. I upgraded everything to go gigabyte. I got new cables and a new switcher and got a 3 NAS Iomega drives. These drives have two drives inside and are setup as RAID 1 so I have a backup of everything.

I created a couple of folders in the biggest drive. One for Final Cut Projects and the second one for Resources (Inside the resources folders, there are folders for each project). All the rendering is done locally in each machine. I know that sometimes is a pain to render a few times but it is not a big deal for the projects we do. Initially, I try to run uncompress material from the drives but it was impossible, so I made Pro-Ress files from the uncompress originals and put those in the Resources folder and to my surprise it worked perfectly. The timeline in FCP is uncompressed and the Pro-Ress file and the Uncompress have the same name. When is time to output to master, I just reconnect the master file to the uncompressed which is also locally in the large editing system and voila, done.

The total cost of the improvement was about $725
• Netgear JGS516 ProSafe 16-Port Gigabit Ethernet Switch
• New Cables: about $125
• 3 Iomega StorCenter ix2 – 1 TB (2 x 500 GB) Network Attached Storage

Now, my question to you is what do you think? Can I improve this setup? and how?

Ok. iPad it out. Now what?

I have been listening to expert in the gadgets field. Some of then can’t wait to get one, others will wait for Version 02. There are many good point on both sides. For the ones that will wait, they mentioned the lack of camera or the lack of multiprocessing. Some hate the close environment of the device, basically you can’t install any application that you like like in a computer. But on the side of the people who can’t wait they say that it will change everything. That is an amazing device and for a great price.

My thought are mixed. And here is why. I would love for it to have a camera to video chat with my family that lives abroad. I would love the multi tasking, so I can work and listen to Pandora at the same time. But do I consider those improvements necessary: I don’t. In regards to the close environment, I DON’T CARE. I love the fact that I know someone is looking at the applications for performance and for any malignant code that can be inside of them. Every time I install something on my computer I wonder if they are stealing info for my computer. I don’t know. How can I check if the software is JUST doing what I was told it would do?

The 3G option is an option that is also a matter of consideration. Do I need it? Only if it works internationally. I have my iPhone to get my emails from anywhere I go. But for the iPad, where am I going to take it that does not have a wi-fi access? I keep thinking and can’t find a place. Maybe I am lucky that everywhere I go I can log to a wi-fi access.

I have a trip in April and I really can’t wait to get one. No heavy or large laptop to carry. Just a thing screen where I can read, watch a movie, work a little if I want to and play games in a nice and large screen.

That is it. I am getting one.

Thanks so much for your understanding

The Crexels’ Team