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Final Cut Express support uncompressed SD?
My question is, does Final Cut Express support uncompressed SD? I’m editing with FCP 5, and the Kona LH from Beta SP at work, and another guy here just bought a G5 and is wanting to learn how to edit. However, he’s not quite ready to drop all the cash on Final Cut Studio, so he’s looking at buying Final Cut Express, and doing any capturing and outputting here at work. He has a FW800 drive to use as a work disk and to transport the files… am I wrong in assuming that will be fast enough?
Thanks!
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No it doesn’t support anything but DV and HDV as far as I know.
He should be working in the same software you are I’d think. Unless he works DV or HDV then the FW 800 is fast enough. Otherwise over 60-70% capacity they slow down too much for 8 bit uncompressed playback in any event. They woudn’t be recommended I’d say for uncompressed video. Ya need at least a SATA or FW 800 ARRAY like a G-raid to do this right on his end…
He needs a capture card to just see it externally on a TV set.
I’d say he should learn in DV however to keep ye old costs down. and FCE is FCP REALLY Lite…
Jerry
https://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/specs.html is the link to the specs… Compare that to the tech specs of FCP…
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