Any advise on using less Memory storage but keeping Quality to Its maximum for a Final DVD Play Out

[Shane Ross]

Want speed? Less converting time? Full quality? Don’t use FCP 7. Use Premiere Pro CC. It’ll bring in the footage native, no converting. FCX doesn’t convert either, but it doesn’t have any DVD authoring software as Apple thinks people no longer use DVDs.

Or just get a larger hard drive. A 4TB drive can be had for less than $200. That’ll hold a LOT of these shows.

Shane
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[Gordon Henry]

Hi David,,

Thank you for your reply. Correct me if i am wrong. Are you saying that from the original material,my workflow and conversions should not need to be more 720 x 576 as this is the maximum quality I need to for a standard DVD. Would this make everything generally faster, My concern is not storage space as pointed out i am very aware storage is very cheap and i have plenty of it… the point i think i was trying to convey is that, working 1920 X 1080 right from the start to the very end … is this much more computer processing time which in turn would affect real time viewing on the canvas and viewer etc. Am i making to much work for myself unnessarily ??..

[Gordon Henry]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for your reply… for the time being i only have FCP 7 and really want to master this if i can… storage is not an issue for me as pointed out it is very cheap to buy … the issue is more about am i doing the right thing working 1920 x 1080 all the way from start to finish, or this is not road to go down.?

Cheers

[Nick Meyers]

as Shane says, you’d be better off working in an app that can handle the native camera formats,
Premiere, or FCPX
(you can use your current Compressor to make the DVDs)

FCP7 really requires you to work with ProRes,
and your LT is as small as you can get without losing quality.

you could try down-scaling your rushes as you transcode to Pro res.
that’ll take longer, and wouldn’t be wise, i’d say.
it’s smart to be HD “future” proof (“now” proof, really!)

Down-scalng on transcode would take longer, too,
especially for the best results.
you can test it, of course.

you could try an “off-line / on-line” process, where you work with a smaller file size while you edit,
then either reconnect to or recapture higher res versions,
but really it’s a pain!
you don’t want to do it.
it would take a lot longer, and is just not needed these days

PERFORMANCE
2 streams of LT should be very do-able, what sort of drives are you using?
FW800 should be do-able,
but USB3 or Thunderbolt would be better.

cheers,
nick

[Gordon Henry]

Thankyou gentlemen,

So I am at peace that i am doing everything correctly and easily (on the workflow) as can be … i am using a small 1TB USB 3 hardrive… i guess what suprised me was that fact that with all the concversions, play outs,mpge 2 conversions etc, from start to finish.. i was using nearly 600gig of storage space for this one project… mind you it is nearly 2 hours long though…
I guess just the time time and manpower taken with conversions etc – i wondred if i was making too much work formyself … I have no other apps or pragrammes running while working on FCP 7 and i use a 21 inch Imac at the mo with 16 gig ram and 500 gig internal Memory.

Shane i am very slowly beginning to understand the pro’s & Cons dare i say it with FCP??

I appreciate you guys taking the time to read and reply to my thread. cheers

[Gordon Henry]

Oh as i mentioned the storage was not a problem .. speed and time management is.. The main reason i work 1920 x 1080 is excatly as dave mentioned in the thread- Futire Proof for the clients.

[Shane Ross]

If speed and time management are issues, then you need to look at apps that edit the footage without conversion. Premiere Pro and FCX. Mastering software that’s over 5 years old, and discontinued to boot…is not advisable.

Shane
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