Alan Thorburn
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I would stick to the SD Panasonic cameras and not use the Canon 7D. The 7D will produce much better quality (I have an HVX200, 7D and a 5D Mk 2), but won’t not match the quality (or lack thereof) coming from video cameras. Conversion from the 7D QT H264 to Apple Pro Res isn’t very fast even on a 8 core machine.
Good luck with your project.
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Try reversing the fields of the troublesome shots by applying the Shift Fields filter found in the Video folder in Effects.
Alan
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Make sure your Photoshop project is in RGB, not CMYK
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I’ve heard you don’t need to use Apple Pro Res HQ, just the regular Apple Pro Res will do. Try doing a test file and see if that helps. Also, try to use your desktop display and run the audio through the Apple sound card and see if that helps.
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I have this same camera and FCP setup.
Make sure you are monitoring your sound via the HDMI output and not through the Apple computer’s sound card. That would create a 2F offset . . . cause it does on mine.
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I would copy your media files off the external drive to another drive, then re-import/re-link those into your project. If your external drive is dying, better to do this sooner than later. Consumer HDs have a high failure rate when used in video editing. Try running your disc utility program and see if anything shows up.
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Is FCP crashing only in one project or all projects?
Try creating a new project, copy all your media to a different drive, and then re-import, re-link.
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Try turning off your file sharing.
Alan
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You might get away with 3mb/sec for the picture. Try encoding 18 minutes worth and see if the file size comes out to around 400MB, then 10 times that should be about 4GB plus 180MB for your audio and you should be okay.
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I would take your 3 hr audio track into compressor and encode it as a Dolby Digital audio file at 128KB/sec. This will reduce your audio track from about 2GB to 180MB. You will then have most of the DVD available for your video.