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FCP real life RT abilities in HD?
hello all
i am currently working on a project where the powers that be were wondering how FCP would do in the following siutation.
we have 2 layers of SD footage that will be resized and placed within a grahical interface that will be finished as 1080i.
then many of the elements of this interface (which have animations already created in AFX) need to change over the course of the piece.
what are the limits of FCP IN 1080 as far as layers of footage, QTs, alpha channels, etc.
say a nicely equipped quad g5 or mac pro with a raid array would be used ( or if you have suggestions for equipment)
thanks
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[rendernyc] “we have 2 layers of SD footage that will be resized and placed within a grahical interface that will be finished as 1080i.
then many of the elements of this interface (which have animations already created in AFX) need to change over the course of the piece.
what are the limits of FCP IN 1080 as far as layers of footage, QTs, alpha channels, etc.”
There are no limits. But none of this will be real-time on an FCP system. It will not re-scale SD to HD in realtime. You want something like the AJA Kona 3 to up-convert your footage to 1080 on the way in so you can edit in realtime.
[rendernyc] “say a nicely equipped quad g5 or mac pro with a raid array would be used ( or if you have suggestions for equipment)”
Quad or Mac Pro with a Fibre Channel Array and AJA Kona 3. I recommend Med
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thanks walter
one layer would be scaled up by 50% and the other down by about 50% to fit within the GUI that has been designed… so nothing would be truly uprezzed to 1080.
id love to go with a mac pro, but we need to AFX on this system as well and it looks like it still will be quite a wait till then…
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