Al Bergstein
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Shane, if you can’t spend $200 then you are in consumer land. Go buy a black magic adapter for less than $150. It has decent quality.works on my mb pro just fine. But remember,you have stated your requirement is price, not quality.
Alf
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Did apple fall behind the competition? Yes.
Alf
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I’ve found that zacuta focus hoods are critical to really seeing the image focus on these hdslr’s. Has helped a lot. But I agree with the process bill covers, especially for students shooting a ‘hollywood”style video rather than a doc.
Alf
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Might be good to know exact version you are using, on what version of os and amount of ram, etc.
Alf
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Thanks very much! I’ll try all those to be sure I understand how they all work. I’ll be doing more time lapse, so it’s critical to get the workflow optimized. This sure would be appropriate for a FAQ .
Alf
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Try using a rented theater. I can get my local theater when it’s not in use for cheap.they have lights setup to do just what you want, and staff that mows how to do it.
Alf
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Jeez! I agree with Rafael !!! Yes, there are significant gaps in the apple lineup and adobe and dare I say Sony are fighting for them. I just edited a multi camera shoot on Vegas tonight with no transcoding for either the avchd or 7d footage. Spent four hours earlier today transcding on fop. A waste of time for the budget I was on. The rendering went fine, even with Boris fx.
I also agree with the arguements against the iMac. It should be faster than a 2007 macpro, that’s just dog bites man stuff. nothing new with that. New processors beat old…yawn..
Alf
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Well Thomas’ points are well taken. The iMac seems to be a limited tool for it’s expensive price. But i for one am not yet trading in my perfectly fine macpro 8 core just because a shiny new i7 shows up. To be clear, apple is playing catchup with these models as i7s have been in wide (and cheaper) availability in windows/Linux for longer, and yes, they do outperform my Mac in every case, especially rendering output. So good that apple catches up.
However , it’s great that apple takes off with Lightspeed ahead of the crowd. I think it’s a leap forward for field use. Everyone will be using it in 5 years.
However, if I just bought a limited expansion iMac, I would be pissed if apple didn’t offer a cheap upgrade path. You can imagine what the apple marketing discussions were like making that decision. Sadly,the bulk of those users are consumer/prosumer, and likely will be forced to sell their new machines to get the throughput. I doubt many pros would buy the limited iMac. It’s really not fish or fowl. I dont know why i would want my monitor built into my desktop. I know it didn’t appeal to me (though I consider myself a prosumer). But I am waiting now for a W7 laptop with thunderbolt to run Premiere on in the field!
Alf
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Thanks that makes sense. I haven’t yet had total meltdown but bet it’s ugly. I’ll keep it simple.
Alf
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Matt said: I think this is where good organizational habits are important. If you’ve been militant about keeping file names short, and avoiding “problematic” characters and duplicate file names, then things tend to go smoother, in my experience.”
I agree with your theory but when you end up using A) AVCHD and it’s “PRIVATE” naming convention, along with B) using an OS that supports long naming conventions (why not use long file names if they are supported? We aren’t going back to DOS anytime soon!) and C) that I am managing only my media and not some collaborative team’s media, then it doesn’t make sense that those issues should be an issue with media management.
I’m willing to be convinced I’m missing something here. Help me understand what you meant…
And yes, this is probably a ‘basics’ question, but I bet ‘basic’ users don’t think about this at all…
Alf