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Upgrading to FCP 7 and AVC-Intra Software Decoder for Mac
I just bought FCP 7 and it’ll be here in about a week.
In my previous FCP version 6.0.6 importing my P2 footage has been quite a hassle to say the least.
In FCP 7 do you still need to go to Panasonic’s website and get the AVC-Intra Software Decoder for Mac and install that OR is P2 footage native now and a lot easier to Log & Transfer?
thx
Dual Core, 3GHz, OS 10.5.7, 16GB Ram, 2 TB internal HD, ATI Radeon X1900 Graphics Card, 4TB External Raid, FCP 6.0.5, Sound Track Pro, AE 9.0.2, Squeeze for the Web, MacBook Pro (MBP) 2.6 GHz, Dual Core, 10.5.7, Panasonic HPX300 Camera.
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The AVCIntra codec is now part of FCP. You still need the P2 card drivers, but AVCI now can be imported natively in to FCP…like DVCPRO HD. So it will come in with the AVCIntra codec…and fast.
HOWEVER…
There is not AVCI ENCODER…so you cannot have an AVCI Sequence setting. You must use a ProRes timeline.
Shane
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Thanks Shane.
Dual Core, 3GHz, OS 10.5.7, 16GB Ram, 2 TB internal HD, ATI Radeon X1900 Graphics Card, 4TB External Raid, FCP 6.0.5, Sound Track Pro, AE 9.0.2, Squeeze for the Web, MacBook Pro (MBP) 2.6 GHz, Dual Core, 10.5.7, Panasonic HPX300 Camera.
Owner of Full Graphics Design Firm Houston, Tx 19 yrs.
Mac user since 1988. -
I have a question if you have to have a pro-res timeline then
would it not make more sense to import the clips in pro-res 422?.
Also is a G-Raid connected via FW800 fast enough for AVC-INTRA 100mbits
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[adrian califf] “if you have to have a pro-res timeline then
would it not make more sense to import the clips in pro-res 422?”Well, ProRes takes up a LOT more space than AVCIntra. So if you have dozens of hours, or hundreds, it adds up…fast. So it might make sense to import as AVCI and just render out the sequence as proRes.
[adrian califf] “Also is a G-Raid connected via FW800 fast enough for AVC-INTRA 100mbits
footage?.”Yes….it is fine for ProRes too.
Shane
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[adrian califf] “Also is a G-Raid connected via FW800 fast enough for AVC-INTRA 100mbits
footage?.”Yes….it is fine for ProRes too.
Blimey gotta say I’m surprised a g-raid3 is fast enough for 10Mbits avc-intra. But what about a pro-res 422HQ sequence?.
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ProRes HQ on FW800 is pushing it. I doubt it. But via eSATA…totally would work fine.
Shane
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So presumably 3 internal sata drives connected to the onboard
sata connections and striped together would be fine for avcintra 100 and a 422 prores HQ timeline. Although I thought I read somewhere on this forum that you can’t stripe raid 5 using disk utility but I could be wrong about that -
Raid 5 only available if you have a hardware controller, like the Apple Raid Card or the Caldigit Raid card. Caldigit is cheaper, and user installable.
Shane
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Hey Shane:
If I ingest using AVC intra 100- smaller files, and then I have to render out on the timeline when going to Pro Res, isn’t rendering at that point pretty time consuming in it’s own right? Do you know how much longer the ingest process is going to Pro Res HQ versus going to AVC Intra100? (Using a dual adaptor and FW800 drives for innital on set ingest, going to ESATA raid speeds of 120 write 130 read
Do you recommend going to Pro Res 422 HQ or Pro Res 422? I plan to master with this timeline. Output is to DVDs and Web for now, with broadcast or film festival outputs in the future.Using a MB Pro 2.4 w 7.0.1 and MXO
James Mulryan
Sunset Park Media, LLC
Santa Monica, CA
info@jamesmulryan.com
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