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Macbook Pro/HDV/workflow thoughts?
I am going to Europe for 2 weeks to cover a sporting event as a promo shooter/editor for a cable network. I have recommended the following scenario to my engineering dept. (I work for a large post house) – I travel with Sony HDVZ1 which we already own, we purchase a macbook pro with FCPStudio and a 500G drive which will be eagerly repurposed the minute I return I am sure. The producer and I will digitze via firewire from a deck that we also have, cut the spots there on the laptop in an HDV timeline, drop those finished 30s into a Standard Def timeline, render, and upload the finished product which will be downloaded and versioned here in the states for standard def broadcast. I have no NTSC/PAL issues as we are bringing everything we need (I think). Aside from cables, mics, etc, that is pretty much the plan.
The major issue is that I am getting some resistance from the engineers who say that the macbook pro and FCP 5.1 are both too new to be relying so heavily on a system that may have quirks that could sink our ship. I feel that any issues that come up will not be so major that I cannot figure them out or work around them. I also think that any issues we have we be related to getting the spots across the Atlantic, not cutting them in my hotel room. Does anyone have any feedback that could support this plan or show me they are correct for thinking this?
Also, does anyone have any recommendations for gear, software, or plug-ins that they would not take this trip without? Thanks, Luke
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why don’t you just upload the HDV version? I know it sounds obvious, but video files are large!
Also you will edit the whole thing without looking at field2 if you do it all on you laptop -so take enough cables
to hook the MBP & camera up to a monitor or similar.FCPS5.1 runs fine on my MBP, haven’t done any HDV though.
Peter
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Yes, the monitor is very important. Will take care of that. As for the HDV upload, forgive my ignorance, but for a 30 second spot, would that be smaller? Also, the spots will most likely be versioned in an AVID/DS or some other non-FCP suite that may not play as nicely with HDV as we are used to. Thanks for the thoughts, Peter.
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30 second spot HDV = 75 Meg
8 bit uncompressed spot = 635 Meg& that is exactly 30 seconds!
Thanks to Martin Baker for his widget too 😉
https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/videospace/Peter
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Thanks for the stats and the widget! I will be putting the whole system through its paces before I go so we can see if that size difference is legit and if there will be any issues versioning it here in terms of the HDV codec in non-fcp rooms. Thanks again.
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“FCPS5.1 runs fine on my MBP, haven’t done any HDV though.”
I just purchased an MBP with FCP Studio installed. After having an issues booting up, I took it to the Genius Bar. The guy there told me that FCP is not really authorized to run on MBP (emulated) and was told to uninstall and get the crossgrade to universal. Peter, are you using emulation or universal?
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