• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DPX files from Glue Tools

  Posted by Kevin Roberts on June 3, 2010 at 4:39 am

  PHANTOM HD Workflow

  Jumping into a Phantom Project and could use some advise on edit workflow in FCP.

  The camera rental house will be de-bayering the files on the cinemage and use Glue tools to deliver files for me to edit in FCP.

  I’ve been researching a lot and am confused. Are people cutting the raw footage in FCP then having a Color Timer de-bayer or is it best to have them take the DPX files and convert them to h264 1980x frame in Glue Tools?

  I have been cutting Canon 5d footage that’s h264 1980x frame on my 2.6 Macbook pro and as long as I don’t have an external monitor attached I can make decisions.

  The big question is, for my system, should I have fibre storage/sata/eSata? I would love to be able to cut it on a laptop with a firewire drive.

  Kevin Roberts replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Gary Adcock

  June 3, 2010 at 7:44 pm

  “the camera rental house will be de-bayering the files on the cinemage”

  Cinemage is a Monitor from CineTal systems- it cannot debayer anything,

  “I’ve been researching a lot and am confused. Are people cutting the raw footage in FCP then having a Color Timer de-bayer or is it best to have them take the DPX files and convert them to h264 1980x frame in Glue Tools? “

  You cannot edit in H.264 files in FCP easily.

  the debayering process is part of the conversion to DPX if they are using GT PhantomCine Products.

  DPX files are still frames designed to be edited in a highend post facility and you will not be able to handle the files in real time on ANY laptop as you will not be able to playback the 200+ MBps thruput to handle the DPX files on a laptop.

  It sounds like you are in pretty deep, and IMHO this workflow is way beyond your equipments capabilities.

  Why not have them convert to ProRes HQ files and edit with those, it will be much easier.

  gary adcock
  Studio37
  HD & Film Consultation
  Post and Production Workflows for the Digitally Inclined
  Chicago, IL

  https://blogs.creativecow.net/24640
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  Kevin Roberts

  June 7, 2010 at 5:21 pm

  Thank you so much.

  We are renting an 8 core with fiber card and fiber RAID.

  So we will have the cam house convert them to pro res before editing…

  Correct?

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