[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Andy, trouble with the progressive route is that I usually have legacy material to include. Any tips about converting this to progressive before the edit? I have AE, shake etc.

I do remember doing a upper/lower field comparison years ago in one of the compositing apps to establish correct field order but can’t recall the details.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

What do you mean by a proper monitor Jeremy? I have a broadcast LCD which I can’t hook up to FCPX and decent flatscreen computer monitors.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

No, I’d certainly not like to have to bin my IoHD.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

But Jeremy, if you can view individual fields in FCPX surely by selecting a suitable section of a clip and jogging through the fields you could check wether the field sequence is correct couldn’t you?

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Robert, that’s interesting.

Avid is the one name in the NLE world I will never subscribe to. I don’t necessarily want the application to always get the interlace right, I just need a way to see what’s happening reliably so I can take the required corrective steps.

So is 720 always progressive? I use XDcam (ex and HD -usually 1080i) so have the same problem with that.

The industry needs to get it’s act together not only with interlace but aspect ratio – haw many times do we see this incorrectly set?

Cheers Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Adam.

I remember doing this some time ago with R11 but then when c4d went 64bit the pref files were placed somewhere like Win/users/nnn/appdata/roaming/maxon etc etc and I just couldn’t puzzle out what or where:-(

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Agreed.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Easy do a batch rename in Xcel too.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Hi Pushpantha

No problems with the Dell, but I’ve little to compare with. I’ve been FCP for a number of years following the demise of my beloved Liquid Silver. Never really took to FCP so changed to Edius five years ago and then bought the Dell as a mobile solution for Edius.

Dell is M6400 quad core with nVidea3700 card 12GB ram, originally loaded with Vista64 and Edius5. About six montha ago I put an extra SSD in for Dual boot to Win7 and CS5.5 prod suite I’ve not used Prem since v6 so am getting up to speed again with it – hence the little to compare.

So far – very good but I guess as it’s now an old machine things have changed. Dell in the UK here have been great with their support but it was a high end machine so I’d have expected that.

Good luck

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

$299 is the price for full FCPX, this is NOT and upgrade from CS3

Alan

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