New to FCP – starting a 55min film – need tips to work with HDV

[Walter Biscardi]

Um, your format is DVCPro HD, not HDV as you mention in the subject of your thread.

Running on a hackintosh? Good luck with that. Can’t recommend any video cards or any other hardware because who knows if they would work on your configuration.

[Ariel Brener] “please direct me because as mentioned – I’m new to Final cut studio
and this is my first High Def project. “

Well, you’re starting yourself off in a very bad position because you’re not even running the correct hardware so there’s absolutely no guarantees anything will work or work correctly.

DVCPro HD runs on a standard Mac with no additional hardware necessary. As for learning Final Cut Pro, there are tutorials on this forum and many training tools available.

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[Ariel Brener]

OK, first of all, thanks for replaying.

Please disregard the fact that I run hackintosh.

My system is rock solid – and all Apple Hardware is working great on my rig – So please leave the compatibility issues for me…

So if you may, please guide me as if I had a Mac Pro.

You said:

DVCPro HD runs on a standard Mac with no additional hardware necessary.

So basically what your saying is that I will not need any hardware to run it smoothly?

Applying effects? rendering? Color correcting?

would you recommend any card to boost performance \ rendering\ optional display out maybe?

Thanks again!

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[Walter Biscardi]

[Ariel Brener] “Please disregard the fact that I run hackintosh. “

Can’t because there’s zero guarantees anything will work correctly in terms of Studio and related software.

[Ariel Brener] “So basically what your saying is that I will not need any hardware to run it smoothly?

Applying effects? rendering? Color correcting? “

On a Mac, Yes. Any basic Mac can cut DVCPro HD with no issues.

[Ariel Brener] “would you recommend any card to boost performance \ rendering\ optional display out maybe? “

I don’t know what to recommend with your configuration.

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[Ariel Brener]

Thank you very much!

I will report in the next few days after I’ll build my rig.

I understand that you can’t give guarantees for my rig – but I didn’t ask for them.

Thats why I wanted to ask you to consult as if you were consulting a Mac pro user.
And how a mac Pro user should relate to working with DVCpro HD.

All Apple supported external Hardware works out of the box with Hackintosh.
As the PCI-E it depends but please let me worry about that – I have other places and forums to check for HW compatibility.

But before that – I need to know which HW to check and examine.
Thats why I wanted your experienced help.

If I want to use external monitor for displaying the image from sequence. which card would you recommend?

I currently have to LCD displays:
20″ DELL 2007 & 24″ DELL 2407WFP

Is there an option in FCP to send a full display image to a hole monitor?
(Premiere has this option).

Thanks again.

________٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶________
New Rig (Leopard 10.5.7):
Final Cut Studio 2
CPU: Core i7 920
RAM: 12gig
GPU: GTX 285 2GB OC
HDD: 6 X 1 TB HDDs: 4 HDDs in RAID 5 and 2 HDDs for System.
————————————-
OLD RIG (Win Vista Ultimate 64bit):
ADOBE MASTER COLLECTION CS4
RAM: 8GB (Corsair 800Mhz)
CPU: Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz (Q6600)
GPU: ATI x1950XT 256MB
MB: Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP