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2 questions
Hi, Two quick things that are troubling me… I’m fairly new to fcp and coming from an avid background… i have to digitise a large number of digibetas for offline usage, in avid I’d do it 10:1 or 5:1 etc how do I do this in fcp? can I bring in digi at dv quality? The other thing is a company I work for recently installed a new system and purchased several usb 2 drives (no firewire) for storing media, i well aware that the firewire would be ideal but i gotta work with what they’ve got. What kind of problems might I be facing, i was capturing dv this afternoon onto one of the drives and after 9 mins fcp kept telling me there was insufficent disk space (disk had 300gb free) and when i changed the scratch to the system disk there was no problem. Is there a limit to the amount of footage you can write in one go to a usb disk? Thanks in advance for any advice
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Capturing as DV is an option. Capturing as OFFLINE RT is an option. OFFLINE RT was the low res codec Apple designed for this purpose, but if you capture at DV, at least you can monitor the footage on an external monitor by routing thru a DV camera or deck, or DV converter like the ADVC-110.
USB is DEFINATELY NOT usable for video work. USB does not have a sustained data rate, it sends data in BURSTS or packets. Only firewire has a sustained data rate that video requires. USB drives will not work for capturing or editing video. Dropped frames, out of space warnings…issues galore.
Shane
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will the usb drives be workable though? i’m really gonna press them for firewire replacements but would take a few days
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Workable? No, not really. If you don’t mind having to press OK at that warning, or disabling it and dealing with your footage skipping. Or trying to capture the footage and it dropping frames….but to me, ALL of that is unacceptable.
USB drives are for archival purposes only. NOT for video. If you can capture to the internal drive (works for some) without dropping frames, do that until you get firewire drive replacements.
Get those USB drives away from the system. Put them on a shelf.
Shane
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I agree with the comments on USB, although one time in a pinch I edited a 25 min video on a Western Digital drive with no issues. Although I was crying nervously the whole time! G-tech has been great for us in the FW800 or Sata category.
Also, I was told once that many commercial USB drives that are formatted for both PC and Mac use have a limit to an individual file size (Fat32 I think?? not sure) which was somewhere around 6 or 8 gigs. We re-formatted the drive to Mac OS and it was fine. That could be the problem for your USB drive.
Hope that helps
-Matt
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