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continue in FCP6 or…?
Hi.
I am finishing an offline cut of a 35mm feature, performed in FCP 6, telecined to 23.98 SD files. Concurrently I will be cutting a new feature: shot on Red, and must begin to organize/cut immediately.
I understand that FCP7 (which I bought but have yet to install) handles Red workflow better. Yet I need the same Mac quad to finish feature #1.
Should I uninstall FCP6 and install 7? I’m concerned about the stability, to handle two major projects from different formats. Can’t make a mistake — the clients are too good for future work to allow f-ups.
BTW the Red footage has already been transcoded to 1/4 size, prorez HQ for the offline cut, to be conformed to 2k on the out. Comments? Thanks -
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Might think about a second startup disk for the new install… and keep both that way.
Jerry
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Interesting because I just bit the bullet and upgraded two machines of four from 6 to 7. I’m nearing the end of a fairly large project (some 40 hours of mostly HDCam footage). 7 has some things I could use and I took the risk. So far no issues at all. I did one machine and opened the project on that one. It was just fine. And that machine (MacBook Pro) is running Snow Leopard. I went back to the other machine (8 core Mac Pro running Leopard) and opened it on 7 there. No issues. Of course it remains to be seen how stable it is in the long run. But most of the issues I’ve heard about have related to file based footage and not tape based.
And following on the suggestion of a startup disk: You could get a small USB external drive. Run Superduper to make a bootable clone of your startup drive. Then boot off of that. Install 7 on just one of them. Doesn’t hurt to have that backup anyway.Non-linear: all the time and nothing but.
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I agree with the above. When I upgraded I kept my old system drive intact and installed 7 on a fresh drive. I, too, had no problems after the upgrade.
John
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Hi Steven,
From what you’ve told us I can’t see any benefit to you doing the offline with FCP7. I would consider FCP7 if the files hadn’t been transcoded yet, as I would tend to choose ProRes LT or Proxy (new to FCP7) for an offline. Being that they are ready for you to start editing in FCP6 I’d just crack on and think about upgrading to FCP7 in your own time on a separate disk, as suggested above.
The added RED support in FCP7 is really just the additional codecs for offlines and the option to conform to 4K in Color. Neither of these options are what you intend to do anyway.
For the record, I upgraded to FCP7/Color 1.5 last week and haven’t had any problems reading old FCP6 or Color 1.0 project files.
All the best,
Alex ElkinsSalad Daze Films – Freshly Tossed
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