Setswhether to simultaneously record low-bit-rate proxy movies when recording XAVC S movies. Since proxy movies are small in file size, they are suitable for transferring to smartphones or uploading to websites.
Proxy files are useful when doing complex video editting, collages or Picture in picture (PIP) and I have them turned on by default - however the proxy files do take up a lot of HD space because they are not so compressed as the original video.
If you have any effects, they will slow down playback, so you would have to render the range to see playback smoothly. I have a project that I just finished in which I exported parts to mxv files and imported into a separate movie, just so I could see playback smoothly. Of course if I made any changes, they were done to the original, re-exported/imported, until the movie was complete. Then I kept the original version with everything in detail, and a copy with only the mxv files. I used the copy to add chapter markers, multiple movies, and for exporting and burning. Exporting or burning go a lot faster and smoother. The inconvenience is keeping track of everything and having huge mxv files. Then everything is backed up on a data BD, including all of the mxv files, in case I ever need to go back.
Another tip from Magix is to resize all your JPEG's (stills) to the resolution you intend to export the project in eg. 1920x1080 pixels, in an image editor like Photoshop, prior to import into MEP. This reduces RAM usage whilst editing and helps reduce resizing artifacts in the exported video slideshow.
Can somebody with a good handle on best practices comment on pros and cons of the two approaches (plus others if I'm missing any -- I'm aware I can probably do the whole thing in Javascript/node or Java but those don't sound like a good idea.
I am looking for specific architectural reasons, and maybe the implementation options for each.. For example, with option #1, I think I can either do a service callout, OR I can alter the request.targetUrl property (not sure about name)... So if option #1 has two derivatives, is one better than the other, etc?
From the best practices point of view, you should always try to adhere to separation of concerns. If they serve the same purpose then keep them in one proxy and use route rules to route request pertaining to a target system based on proxy.pathsuffix and other conditions based on your requirement.
Top dig a little deeper... I would configure route rules in my proxy endpoint and then add an additional target endpoint for every new path I need to serve (while considering associating like-routes within a single api proxy and different routes in other api proxies? such as the pseudo code below?
The Coen Brothers have had a good track record of making films that receive reasonably good critical reviews and make a good return at the box office. The Hudsucker Proxy was not one of those movies. While the film has been a number of years in the making, suggesting a project close to the heart of the Coens, it bombed on its release, and critics were scathing.
There has always been a take-it-or-leave-it quality about the Coens. Their insistent quirkiness and glittering display of style over substance is likely to occasionally try the patience of even their greatest admirers. My patience is perhaps tried more than that of many film buffs.
Nonetheless there are a number of films by Joel and Ethan Coen that I simply love, and The Hudsucker Proxy is one of those. Time has been kinder to the film, and it can now be seen as their most underestimated work, a parable about the cut-throat world of modern capitalism wrapped in a fairy tale story that recalls the style of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges.
Moses acts the same part played by The Stranger in The Big Lebowski or the Blind Seer in O Brother, Where Art Thou. Ostensibly looking after the running of the clock in the building of Hudsucker Industries, Moses serves as an omniscient chorus whose knowledge of events is never really explained. Unlike the other two mysterious figures in Lebowski or O Brother, Moses does seem able to have a direct impact on the action at a critical juncture.
From this point onwards, the film offers a flashback to fill us in on the rise and fall of Norville Barnes. It seems unlikely at first that this absurd little man could ever become important enough to be the subject of a suicide attempt that would have serious implications for a large business.
Norville looks like a small-town doofus, with his hair sticking up at absurd angles, and his constant references to education at the Muncie College of Business Administration. His manners are gauche. His jokes are poor. He has a silly laugh. He has not a penny in the world, but seems to have a strange dream of a project that he thinks will make his name.
Still even if Norville had a sharper intellect than can be seen at first glance, he seems unlikely to ever get the opportunity to make a name for himself. An opening scene shows Norville looking at an employment board, which rapidly flips over a number of absurdly-named jobs, all of which require the experience that he does not have.
It is an unpromising job. Norville finds employment in the mail room of Hudsucker Industries, where a supervisor barks comically unfair instructions at him. However on the same day that Norville begins his work at Hudsucker Industries, another event happens that will change his fortunes.
It seems that life at both the bottom and the top of the company are unhappy. Mere profits do not bring contentment when working in a rapacious industry. Matters do not seem likely to get any better under the care of Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), the likely successor to Hudsucker, and a man who finishes the still-smoking cigar left by his deceased boss.
However Hudsucker has left an unexpected shock in his will. To the outrage of his executives, Hudsucker wishes his stock to be sold to the public. The execs wish to buy up the stock, but it is too expensive. What they need is for Hudsucker stock to be temporarily depressed long enough for them to gobble it up.
Naturally it can only be Norville, the mail man who comes to deliver a letter to Mussburger, but ends up setting a bin on fire and causing a valuable report to blow out of an open window. Admittedly Norville is smarter than he looks. He is well-qualified, and we get a glimpse of his innovative mind when he solves a problem involving an envelope that is too small for a pigeon hole, but which cannot be folded. Still he acts like an idiot, and that is enough.
A montage follows showing Norville being appointed as the new President, accompanied by the laughter of himself, and the less kind laughter of his new colleagues. Photographs in newspapers comes to life, showing each stage of his progress.
An additional problem arises in the form of press interest in this new appointment. Soon the company is infiltrated by a journalist and fast-talking career gal, Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Archer speaks in a strangulated Katharine Hepburn accent, dresses like a man, talks tough, and boasts about her Pulitzer Prize. Essentially she has stepped out of the newsroom of His Girl Friday, and into Hudsucker Industries.
From this point onwards, Norville is a success, much to the dismay of the Hudsucker chair holders. The hula hoop is all over the media, and we are treated to a succession of absurd images. A stereotypical father smokes a pipe while jigging a hula hop round his hips; meanwhile the mother is vacuuming the house while using hers. Couples get married with the hula hoop still around their waists. President Eisenhower congratulates its creator.
The Hudsucker Proxy may be a triumph of style over substance, but the style is certainly amazing, and it does not come at the expense of a good story. Do we really care about the characters? Yes, just enough to want to see Norville and Amy triumph over their enemies. There is no deep message here, but the film is undeniably good-hearted and funny.
Hey guys I have a 1gb 4k video file I am trying to edit (24fps) and every time i try to import it it stays stuck on 0% building video proxy. The audio will play just fine but the video track always says media offline and I get a black screen. My specs are an I7600k at stock speeds, GTX 980, 8gb DDR4 RAM. Thanks for any help steering mein the right direction!
-Oh no, Amy, pardon me for saying so but I find that very farfetched. That kind of person would come back as a wildebeest, or a warthog. No, I find it more likely that you were a gazelle, with long, graceful legs, gamboling through the underbrush. Perhaps we met once, a chance encounter in a forest glade. I must have been an antelope or an ibex. What times we must have had...
I ALSO SAW THIS IN THEATERS AND LOVED IT RIGHT AWAY. I thought I was the only one. I've never understood why, given the fanaticism for the coen brothers that most people seem to have, that it wasn't more well regarded.
I went to see it in the cinema because all the reviews kept comparing it to a Rosalind Russell/30's screwball comedies. The trailer looked funny, and it had Paul Newman, so what's not to like?
Why this isn't as loved as "The Big Lebowski" is crazy.
I have managed to convert some members of my family and a few friends, so maybe someday it will get it's due. Btw. Tim Robbins is amazing in this, and the rest of the cast fit perfectly.
That's interesting, if you consider that Winona later played a similar role in Mr. Deeds. (And yes, I realize that Jennifer Jason Leigh's role in The Hudsucker Proxy borrows heavily from Jean Arthur in the original Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.)
Bruce Campbell has come out on record to say he has never seen actors quite like Leigh before (Alec Baldwin said something similar in his autobiography, saying she was the best actress he has ever shared the screen with). Campbell called JJL an acting machine and said she never messed up a line even though she had a huge amount of dialogue that had to be delivered in that fast-paced manner. The most fascinating scene that exemplifies that is this one:
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