[Adam Duguay]

This is all awesome information! Thanks so much everybody!

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[Adam Duguay]

Hey Steve,

Thanks for the response. I’ve reconfigured the specs blow, let me know what you think.
I’m trying to keep the price under $4000.00 to stay within our budget.

Specifications

Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core)
4GB (4 x 1GB)
320GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
3 x ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB
One 16x SuperDrive
Apple Mighty Mouse
Apple Keyboard (English) + Mac OS X

I’m not sure about the video card. I’m not sure about the benefits of the other cards that apple offers. Would you consider the one I’ve chosen a midrange card? And does 3 X ATI etc… mean that it comes with 3 individual cards?

[Adam Duguay]

Dave thank you so much buddy!

You seem to have a good grasp on this topic. I think what I’ll do is render the graphics for him to drop onto his FCP timline. Unfortunatly I’ve already created my graphics at 29.97.
So what I’m going to do is have him copy and past the clips from his 24p/A timline into a
29.97 timline. Then drop my graphics into that 29.97 timline. Will FCP be able to do this?

Thanks Dave

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[Adam Duguay]

Thanks for your hlep!

Well then I think I’m just going to send him the greaphics and he can drop them into
FCP. Do you know what my comp settings would be if I want to render graphics for his
24p Advanced Timline?

[Adam Duguay]

I think I’ve got it, I needed to connect the splines by right clicking on the imported Ai text and selecting connect. If anyone knows of a better way to do this please share.

Thanks,

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[Adam Duguay]

Oh, O.K cool…..I’m not crazy then. I’ll wait for them to come up, the first tutorial was very clear and concise.

Loved it!

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[Adam Duguay]

Dave,

You rock man! thanks so much, very clear. I totally get it now.

So here’s a little tid bit of information I received today. I found out that it is confirmed that we are using a new HDX 900 Panasonic HD Cam. Do you have any experience in working with footage from this camera? Apparently the camera man has told me that the Panasonic line of HD cameras processes the progressive frames a little differently then the Sony cameras do. I’m hoping that the camera man will be able to shoot 1920X1080 24p. Then I’ll have an Avid Nitris digitize the frames at the native format and export them to me.

Thoughts?

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[Adam Duguay]

Hi Tony! and thanks to everyone for your responses.

Tony, what did you mean by

(Shooting in a full (or non-compressed) color space would be the other thing to look out for. HDV is not HD it is better then DV for keying when you scale it down but it is still without color.)

Can you elaborate on this a little more? I think what we’re going to do is shoot 24p. Now let me ask you a question about workflow in After Effects. When I get my footage digitized I’ll have it exported as 1920X1080 24P. I’ll bring those files into After Effects and do all of the keying as pre-comps. Then when I’m ready to start incorporating that into my final scene, what should I work at? 720X 540? If the frame rate of the footage is different from the working comp will this cause problems in the final render? Should I be doing a pull down on the Keyed footage to 59.94 and then adding the pull down HD keyed footage to my 29.97 720X540 comp?

Sorry if this sound convoluted.

Hope someone can help.

Adam

[Adam Duguay]

Love this last post, its a great diplomatic way around it. All of these posts have been most helpful guys!..
Thanks a Ton!

Adam

[Adam Duguay]

Thanks so much for your help Chris! Much appreciated!

I’ll try to absorb some of this.

Adam