[Alan Lacey]

My apologies.

Nevertheless it’s been very entertaining whatever it’s called. I guess I’d be less amused however if my livelyhood depended solely on Apple’s media software.

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
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[Alan Lacey]

Hi Nick,

Sadly FCP is the only NLE I know that doesn’t import bitmap sequences directly. The way I do this is via Motion.

Import the first tga, telling motion in its import dialogue that it’s part of a tga sequence. Once the sequence has been imported as a single media file you can set it’s interpretation as progressive, upper or lower field first – depending on how it’s been produced. Bearing in mind that it won’t be immediately apparent on PC/Mac monitor whether this is working correctly – you really need proper video monitoring.

You can then either put your Motion project directly in your FCP timeline or export a mov to import into FCP – again bearing in mind that field order is preserved during the export and import.

Hope this helps,

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
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G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alan Lacey]

Are you talking about a tga sequence, or individual tga still files?

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

I thought there was a ‘compare mode’ (ie side by side jobby) in BCC

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
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[Alan Lacey]

Sorry Tom, I presume you’re on a Mac

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alan Lacey]

I’m running Boris Red 5.05 in CS5.5 now!

Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
FCS,AE,Combustion,LiquidSilver,Vegas,Edius,
G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alan Lacey]

Hi Alex,

Yes I’m talking about removables. I work in the Medical field and many projects are started by others (medical academics – pretty video savvy) and passed onto me for finishing/polishing.

Started tape to tape, fell out early and permanently with Avid and never liked Prem in the early years, although kept it around from v1 to 6.5 as some ‘clients’ chose to use it. I’ve been recently encouraging those who will listen before initiating projects to try Vegas or pref Edius and put everything relating to the project on a single removable drive that they can then pass onto me.

It’s worked well for more years than I care to remember, but now that the Macheads will move away from FCP, I guess PPro is the most sensible alternativem hence my renewed interest in it. It has come on leaps and bounds since I last played with it, especially now Mercury accellerated, also I’ve always been a big AE user.

Cheers Alan

FlashXDR,XDcamHD,XDcamEX,D9 etc
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G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alan Lacey]

thanks for the quick response Alex.

Yes Win7 64.

I have many projects on the go, sharing a lot with others, and edit with FCP7 (hence the interest in CS suite since the FCPX fiasco) but also Edius and Vegas. I’ve never really got over loosing my beloved Liquid Silver – sob!

I usually set the respective media drives as P:\ however on occasions forget. Other apps are kind enough to remind me as to the paths to the clips so I was suprised recently to find PPro didn’t seem to have this informaton available.

I guess I have to keep a note somewhere when using PPro how the drives are lettered

Cheers ALan

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[Alan Lacey]

Cats only love you when they’re hungry.

Alan

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G5,MBP,Vista64,XP

[Alan Lacey]

I have a three year old Dell M6400 with the geforce 3700m working with Mercury. I don’t know how many cores the Mercury is using but I suspect it’s a LOT fewer than any of the desktop cards

Alan (uk)

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G5,MBP,Vista64,XP