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fcp 7 & avc intra
A client is looking to upgrade to FCP 7 because he wants to take advantage of AVC Intra. anybody doing this now? Would love to hear if the group thinks this is a good idea.
Thanks,
mike
Michael V. Williams
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It’s a great idea. Have a look at my repsonse on the FCP forum.
Jeremy
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Works fine for me. You still have to use the Log and Transfer window to import the AVC-I footage, and FCP7 gives the footage a QuickTime “wrapper”, so the resulting media files will be QuickTime, not MXF. But the process goes very quickly–far more quickly than converting the AVC-I to ProRes, as FCP6 had to do (not to mention the fact that ProRes took up a lot more disk space).
Regarding any metadata in your AVC-I, it’s carried over to the Quicktime-wrapped file, but FInal Cut can’t see it/use it. Final Cut Server apparently can, but I haven’t tried that myself.
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Great idea. I just upgraded to FCP 7 last night. I was running 6.0.6. I left everything on my cpu in place. Plugins, settings etc.
Installed the upgrade. Took quite awhile. About 4hrs.
Launched FCP 7, perfect. Everything moved over fine AND I went to Log & Transfer and BAM, those P2 files came right in. YEAH.
I was having problems before with this.
FYI, I’m running and staying w/ OS 10.5.7 for now.
So, great idea.
Dual Core, 3GHz, OS 10.5.7, 16GB Ram, 2 TB internal HD, ATI Radeon X1900 Graphics Card, 4TB External Raid, FCP 6.0.5, Sound Track Pro, AE 9.0.2, Squeeze for the Web, MacBook Pro (MBP) 2.6 GHz, Dual Core, 10.5.7, Panasonic HPX300 Camera.
Owner of Full Graphics Design Firm Houston, Tx 19 yrs.
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When editing with these wrapped AVC-I clips, what kind of RT performance is there? Also curious what the render hit is if effects like 3 color are applied.
This sounds like the situation I was in with RED proxy files.
Bruce
Bruce Feagle
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