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ProRes Question
Just got final cut studio 2 friday and after imaging my drive and installing the software, it seemed to work without a hitch. I have a few questions though, maybe i read the fine print wrong or whatever but isnt pro-res supposed to be an easy setup for capturing? I am running a dual 3ghz mac pro with 5gb of ram, a kona 3 card, and a 2.4 tb external sata raid 5+0. I started toying around with the new final cut and noticed a lot of nice new things and a lot of the same things. Whats the proper way to setup for capturing HD from an f-500 hd deck or an m-2000 hd deck and bring it in pro-res HQ in the system? Ive always just used the kona 3 easy setup for uncompressed 8bit 29.97 and had no problems, but i want to try out the pro res codec to see what it looks like and im not sure how to setup my easy setup. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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8 Replies
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If you don’t see ProRes Easy Setups, then you have not updated your Kona drivers for FCS 2.0.
Go to AJA’s website and download.
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I believe ProRes capture is only available on Intel machines with hardware support.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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He has a MacPro, Tom…so he can do it.
The Easy Setups show up, even on non-qualified Kona equipped machines (such as mine), useless as they are.
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[Tom Wolsky] ”
I believe ProRes capture is only available on Intel machines with hardware support.”Not anymore. FCP 6.0.1 now allows our G5 Quad to capture ProRes all day long.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
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hmmm..im gonna have to check it out once i am back in the office monday. It seemed kind of weird that after i installed it that i didint see any of those easy setups. Any other ideas?
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[scotts1919] “It seemed kind of weird that after i installed it that i didint see any of those easy setups. Any other ideas?”
Installed what? FCP 6 or the Kona 4.0 drivers for FCP 6? If you did not install the new Kona drivers, you will not see any sort of ProRes easy setups.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Broadcast and independent productions.All Things Apple Podcast! https://cowcast.creativecow.net/all_things_apple/index.html
Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi
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i installed the fcp 6. i thought that i had installed the new kona drivers a few weeks ago but im not sure. I am going to check tomorrow at the office. thanks for the info guys!
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Sorry. Misread. Thought he had a G5.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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