• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  specs to set up in house small online suite???

  Posted by Deditster on April 6, 2005 at 1:06 am

  Hi,

  I would like as much feed back with regards to setting up an in house online facility. We currently have 7 offline final cut suites. We are mastering currently to digibeta for all shows. There are not a tremendous amout of graphics involved. Mostly titles/lower thirds openers bumpers. But the current online facility does quit a bit of color corection. i am planning on doing a pitch to save our production company some$$$$$money.

  We would like to online using final cut pro. We would need to get a digibeta deck as well as some external scopes. What else???

  thanks.

  d

  Walter Biscardi replied 21 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  April 6, 2005 at 1:27 am

  Check out http://www.promax.com. they have great turnkey FCP systems.

  And I brought this up the other day here:

  https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@398.KsrCanpKV2Z.2@.68ab3e90
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  Walter Biscardi

  April 6, 2005 at 12:44 pm

  [deditster] “But the current online facility does quit a bit of color corection. i am planning on doing a pitch to save our production company some$$$$$money.

  We would like to online using final cut pro. We would need to get a digibeta deck as well as some external scopes. What else???”

  If you plan to do a lot of color correction, then you want very fast drives to get the most RT out of your system. I would recommend Fibrechannel drives, such as the Medea FCR2X. As for the scopes, plan to spend about $15 – $20k to get an SD / HD scope like Leader or Tektronix. Since you’re purchasing now, might as well make one purchase to handle SD today and HD tomorrow. I’m looking at the Leader 5700A right now for my suite. If you click on My Profile, you can see what I’m running in my main suite (the first one listed) which is a full online SD / HD Uncompressed edit suite.

  I’m looking at Color Finesse right now for my new color correcting solution.

  Of course, we’re only 2 weeks from NAB so my best advice is to wait until after April 17th at least to see what Apple announces at their press event.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
  Creative Genius, Biscardi Creative Media
  https://www.biscardicreative.com

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