• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Working with Pro Res 422 HQ on a laptop.

  Posted by John Bennet on June 2, 2013 at 7:03 pm

  Hello thanks for reading this!

  I am about to start work editing on a 3 minute promo being shot on Arri Alexa.

  I have been approached about using my own laptop with FCP 7 to edit. We’ll be on the move a bit. They are shooting 3 cameras over 4 days so I expect there to be a reasonable amount of footage. I would have plenty of media storage – GRAID connected by FW 800 probably. But will my computer be able to handle prores 422 HQ without transcoding? Or would it choke!!!

  Here is my laptop spec:

  MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011.
  2.3GHz Intel Core i5
  4 GB 133 Mhz DDR3
  Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB
  OSX 10.8.3

  Many thanks in advance.

  JB

  Nick Meyers replied 12 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Eisen

  June 3, 2013 at 3:07 am

  [John Bennet] “GRAID connected by FW 800 probably”

  It will choke with a FW800 connection. Thunderbolt RAID is what you want. Also add an additional 4GB of RAM.

  Steve Eisen
  Eisen Video Productions
  Vice President
  Chicago Creative Pro Users Group
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  John Bennet

  June 3, 2013 at 10:24 am

  Thanks Steve,

  You confirmed what I thought – many thanks!
  JB
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  John Bennet

  June 3, 2013 at 11:16 am

  Hi Steve

  i think the plan now is to transcode to 422 LT then relink to HQ for client screenings.

  thanks again!

  JB
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  Nick Meyers

  June 4, 2013 at 2:47 am

  honestly, there will be no need to relink just for a screening.
  your client will not be able to see a difference.

  the real benefit of the higher data rate come in when you need to do a sophisticated GRADE on the footage.

  LT looks fine.
  i know, i have cut a few features in LT, and we have had screenings in full-size cinemas.

  nick

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