[Adam Taylor]

Couple of years back i was given a demo of CatDV, which is used to catalogue video material. https://www.squarebox.co.uk/catdv.html

The demo included being shown how an entire tape of material, digitized in one was, was then fed through the software and intelligently (and quickly) subclipped into individual shots.

It has tons of other useful features, so might be worth having a look.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

i just bought a couple of Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB External Hard Drives.

They cost only £199 each for 2 TB…

https://www.jigsaw24.com/default.aspx?&IP=1WG-HDFLSC-EXTERPL-DESKTFC-D1TBCC&ITEM=JIGSX824ARA

I got them to use as Time Machine backups, so have not used them specifically for video. They do come with esata, usb 2, firewire 800 (including all the cables and a firewire 400 to 800 conversion cable.

certainly worth checking out.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

nope, it was a 10bit uncompressed sd pal timeline, although some of the layers were shot in HD using XDcam and HDCam.

Check out https://www.character-online.com/hmaf/hmaf-in-action/

the three teaser ads are the ones i did on the laptop (everything except the initial edit and sound mix)…

if your at all worried, buy a tower. A laptop can handle hd, it just depends on how complex you want to get as to how performance will be affected.

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

seeing the overall boost my system got when i doubled its ram last week, (haven’t tried AE yet) i’d say put in all the ram you can. I was surprised to find that a 2x1gb chipset for my 3 year old laptop was just over £20.

Couldn’t say about the 2/4 cores. I have only a 2 core laptop and an 8 core tower. Every job is different, and i sometimes find that what you think is the simpler task, the computer will find much harder to do.
I’d find a way to get the 4 core and the 8gb (check out the ram costs buying them from somewhere other than apple…they rip you off for ram.

I recently did some intensive work on three commercials at home on the laptop, and yes it did take longer to do things than on the big tower in the office, but it certainly coped adequately

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

i have an older 2.16ghz 17″ Macbookpro and until recently only had 1gb of ram, and it handled CS4 really well.

you should be fine. Obviously it won’t be as powerful as an 8 core desktop with 16gb ram etc.

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

perfect…thanks Dan

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

thats fine if you have a good internet connection, and know the correct description or name of what you are looking for. If you don’t the searching can take much longer.

I much prefer to be able to sit down away from a screen and just thumb through a big fat block of pages, you often hit upon stuff you weren’t looking for but which turns out to be really handy.

I like the randomness of page flicking – you don’t get that with online digital manuals.

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

thanks Kevin…perfect!

how i wish Adobe still included a printed manual. trying to find info like that on the web based manual is a nightmare.

regards
Adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

Its also recommended that the camera is connected and switched on before you open FCP.

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk

[Adam Taylor]

you need to watch Andrew Kramers tutorial

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/futuristic_hud/

he covers almost everything you are wanting to know….

adam

Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
Oldham, UK

http://www.sculptedbliss.co.uk