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Holy Freakin’ Moly! ProRes 1080i via FireWire!
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This feature definitely feels like a kludge at the moment. Come on… no log & capture, not even any preview? Ugh. It feels like this was rushed out the door. Hopefully it will work better in a future update. In the mean time there are some very affordable HDMI solutions out there that do a much better job.
Chris Paul
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[Post Office Video] “This feature definitely feels like a kludge at the moment. Come on… no log & capture, not even any preview? Ugh. It feels like this was rushed out the door.”
Capturing to the Apple Intermediate Codec NEVER gave you the option to log and capture. My guess, is that it douse not let you log and capture because it needs to save every ounce of processor power for the ProRes encoding.
And there is preview, at lest there was when I tried it with my FX1.
My guess on the no log and capture is based off of when I tried it the preview actually told me that the preview was a certain percentage behind the actual play back. On my Dual 2.5 G5 it fluctuated between 9% and 13% behind.
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I am quite happy to bring in all the footage when capturing provide that it has scene breaks. At the moment I have the option of bringing it either via an BM Intensity card or firewire as HDV. The latter is my normal way of working, then I batch convert to ProRes, but perhaps doesn’t give me any gain of simply laying HDV down on a ProRes timeline, any thoughts?
Geoff
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I captured 40 minutes of footage from one tape today using the ProRes firewire option, what I discovered is that it makes a new clip on every camera start/stop. So I just let it rip and it finished in just over real time, then it took me less than an hour to go through each clip and either toss it or name it, there were about 40 clips. then I just tossed all the master clips from the browser and dragged all the re-named clips in. Done.
Honestly this worked out fantastic, and didn’t take any longer than having a log and capture window. So although it may have been rushed to market, it can still be used on a practical basis.
Have a great Holiday!
Have a wonderful day.
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[Chris Poisson] “So although it may have been rushed to market, it can still be used on a practical basis. “
There is absolutely no reason to think that it was rushed to market. By saying that it gives validation to speculation, at that is where rummers start. And rummers are just that rummers.
This new feature is extremely similar to capturing using the Apple Intermediate Codec. Because the burden os on the processor to do the encoding I believe that logging and capturing was probably left out for this purpose. Having the processor not only run the operating system, the application and the BIG task of encoding the video to ProRes is a lot to give a processor (especially any older G5) By not making it do extra thinking required for a log and capture it saves the computer from a bit more work, and thus less potential problems capturing the material.
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[zrb123] “at that is where rummers start. And rummers are just that rummers.”
RUMORS….rumors. Rummers are guys who make rum…or are they rum runners? Rummers?
Shane
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Who cares if it starts a rumor? I wasn’t complaining, just pointing out that what might seem like a mistake, oversight or shortcoming is not something that can’t be worked around. Apple rushes lots of things to market, because FCP or any of their products will never be finished. That’s why there’s always going to be patches and updates.
Have a wonderful day.
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What Easy Setup do you choose? I only have the two options of HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 1080i60 or HDV-Apple Intermediate Codec 720p30.
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I finally read the fact that you had FCP 6.0.2! I upgraded and just successfully digitized the same Apple Pro Res codec with no problems – timecode and all.
thanks for the heads up. I was having a heck of a time with digitizing HDV in 6.0.1. This seems like the way to go for now.
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