Up-Grading to Lightshop 5

Good morning,
I am running Windows 8.1 with Photoshop Elements 9, my question is can I up-grade to Lightshop 5 with just the up-grade version?
Many thanks
Tyrone46

You need to have a license key for an earlier version of Lightroom to upgrade to LR 5. Having Photoshop Elements does not qualify you to get the upgrade price for Lightroom.

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http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/action/
and I was wondering what Color grading controller was that guy using?
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/mac/finalcutstudio2/2008/inaction/applefinalcutstudio_eurorscg_20080617640x360.mov

It's a JL Cooper control surface. http://www.jlcooper.com/cgi/index.cgi?home

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I am about to get a new Mac Pro set up specifically for color grading as I am a cinematographer and need more control over small projects where there is no budget for color grading of images at professional post houses. My vendor suggests using the 24" HP DreamColor LP 2480zx monitor driven from a Black Magic Intensity Pro card using the HDMI output. I have read conflicting reports and read a huge amount on forums such as Creative Cow about this but still not convinced I can get full 30bit grading from a Mac OS X using this monitor. I am in Australia and most projects here are in PAL format in HD at 1080p25 or 50i. I use FCP 7.
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are you saying I should look at Da Vinci Resolve to grade? Why?
It depends on whether you're a day-in and day-out business, and your preferred workflow. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. The Balckmagic-branded daVinci has a number of internal core processing advantages, a tracker that works, far superior color science, especially in secondary processing, but suffers from an old, "tape-to-tape" single-layer capability. However, it is truly "real-time", but that isn't as important to some.
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The question... is it the software or controller that makes is (sic) so good? misses the point. Its a synergy of elements, just like good grading itself.
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Did you not read my very post to your question? I answered this question for you. Look above, you'll see I tell you that the Kona LHe downconverts hd on the fly and I view it through component analong in my Sony PVM. I don't mind helping but you've asked this question 3 times now.
Worst case scenario (I guess) would be to down convert the HD footage to SD and color-correct in FCP via a Firewire and a SD CRT monitor. Correct? And if that's the case how would you do the the down conversion before the color-correction?
Yes, that is a very worst case scenario and one you should avoid. Personally, shooting hd to deliver in sd makes no sense to me at all. Darn near every show I've worked on this year is acquired in hd and then broadcast in sd and we use hardware downconverters that are horrendously expensive and yet the product is marginal.
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Sorry you can't

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TS3274 I up graded to ios7 now I can't get sound on my ipad2?

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iPhone: No sound or distorted sound from speaker
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts5180
iPhone: Can’t hear through the receiver or speakers
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1630
http://www.atreks.com/app-no-sound-on-ipad-4-%E2%80%93-what-to-do/
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1. Go to Settings
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 Cheers, Tom

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Hi,
I've finished a film and graded it. when everything is rendered, I export using either send to or as an xml. Both stop at around 50%. on the xml I get the following report.
I started out at a 20 min sequence then a ten minute sequence now I'm down to 5 minutes. i've got a 146 minute movie to grade and get back into fcp.
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers
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Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 14:07 - Errors Found Importing moral conflict 15min sequence.xml
<xmeml>: Unknown element <sourceprojecturl> encountered.( line 4 )
<sequence>: Unable to create new <sequence>.( line 5 )
<sequence>: Unable to create new <sequence>.( line 5 )
<sequence>: Unable to create new <sequence>.( line 5 )

The order of execution is confusing me.
On your first attempt, you tried sending the entire 146 minute project, graded and rendered it. Correct?
On Send To FCP, the XML failed... (hardly surprising)
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It IS possible to do it the way you want.
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