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fcp 4.5 question
Hi I have FCP 4.5 HD on my Imac with OS 10.3.9. I have am 80 GB internal HD, a 120 GB extrernal HD, 512 MB SDRAM and an 800Mhz G4 processor. I am thinking of editing an upcoming 90 minute comic standup DVD project on my system. I will shoot it on 6 DVCAMs, all ISO’d. 4 of the cameras will also be swictched as well. The remaining 2 cams will only be ISO’d since they are audience reax only. Do you think my system can handle all of this with no problem?
Bob
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Will the FINISHED program be (roughly) 90 minutes or is the “live event” 90 minutes?
Or, how much raw footage will be shot with each camera?
DV captures at about 13 GB per hour, so 6 times 60 minutes of capture would be about 70-80 GB.
Plus, if you capture the “Switched” DV tape, that would be another hour, or approx. 13 GB more.The external FW drive MAY or MAY NOT be reliable for this size edit.
Apple does not officially “recognize” FW drives for capture and editing with FCP although many editors use them successfully.That’s a LOT of capture and a long continuous playback.
You might have better luck if you edit it and output it in shorter segments, if possible. -
Will the FINISHED program be (roughly) 90 minutes or is the “live event” 90 minutes? BOTH 90 MINS
Or, how much raw footage will be shot with each camera? 90 MINS
DV captures at about 13 GB per hour, so 6 times 60 minutes of capture would be about 70-80 GB.
Plus, if you capture the “Switched” DV tape, that would be another hour, or approx. 13 GB more.The external FW drive MAY or MAY NOT be reliable for this size edit.
Apple does not officially “recognize” FW drives for capture and editing with FCP although many editors use them successfully.That’s a LOT of capture and a long continuous playback.
You might have better luck if you edit it and output it in shorter segments, if possible. HOW ABOUT IF I JUST DIG IN THE LINE CUT, A QUAD SPLIT OF THE 4 PRIMARY CAMERAS AND BOTH AUDIENCE REAX CAMS, WOULD THAT BE BETTER?BOB
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[gtg615] “A QUAD SPLIT OF THE 4 PRIMARY CAMERAS AND BOTH AUDIENCE REAX CAMS,”
How would you do that?
Do you have the capability of syncing 4 playback decks and generating a quad-split (with TC) of their outputs (with TC overlay)?
Otherwise, you’d still need to digitize all of each of the camera’s videos to generate the quad-split in FCP.Another choice would be to do an “Off-lineRT” (LOW-REZ Photo JPEG) capture of all of your footage (can fit many times the footage in a small HD space), make your edit, and then do a full-quality UP-REZ capture based on that (which will only require you to Batch Digitize the actual footage USED in the show.)
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_onlining_jordan.html
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