Alexander Wolf
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‘In my opinion the only reasonable workflow with the iMac would be a tapeless workflow.’
Do you also think it is the best value for the money if you shoot and edit XDCAM EX and deliver almost exclusively SD and h.264?
And is a RAID 5 system connected thru FW 800 fast enough for EX material?
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Damn, you’re right! I misread the option to install a 2 TB drive as an option to install a second 1 TB drive… that changes everything…
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I see the new iMac has a 1 TB hard drive and an optional second internal hard drive for another 1 TB. So why not opt for the second internal drive and capture to that? I don’t see a 1 TB drive filling up that quickly if you use it exclusively for editing video. Finished projects can be copied to your FW 800 drives.
I’m thinking about selling my G5 Quad + 23′ Cinema Display (trade-in value 850 euro’s) and exchanging that for the 27′ Imac i7 quad core, 8 GB and two 1 TB drives. I shoot SD and HD; deliver SD and h.264 so connectivity is not too big an issue. The iMac i7 will be a huge powerleap forward compared to my current system, for only around 1200,- after trade in.
Only worries is not having a RAID system that protects me from a drive failure. I now edit with a LaCie RAID connected thru eSATA, setup as RAID 5 that gives me peace of mind I will never lose a project because of a faulty drive. I don’t know if I can organize such security with two internal drives. My LaCie RAID tower does have FW 800 ports so I can backup at the end of the day, but during editing..? Can I configure it to backup my FCP project every 5 minutes?
I also currently have a Matrox MXO I bought a few years ago for monitoring and color correcting HDV on a Dell 2407. Meanwhile I have purchased an EX1 and want to monitor XDCAM EX material as well, but for that I need an Intel machine. I’ll have to look into connecting the MXO thru the MiniDisplay port to DVI-cable..? I’m very curious to see EX material on that 27′ LED screen. -
One pays top price for being an early adopter. You could argue that the better deals are often to be got from the-line-before-the-latest, especially when there’s no compelling reason to go state of the art.
I have bad experience with Apple Care, sorry to say. The problems with my G5 dual a few years back were downplayed as long as possible, until there was no other option than to give me a new machine. That was nearly a year later… -
You know what, David- I’ll take you on on that bet. And I’d like to inform you right away that you’ve lost… (left my G5 on overnight, this morning it was 9 hours and 13 to go)
I don’t know what’s going on- a straight compression to h264 is not much of a problem. Must be something particular in the settings that screwed Compressor up… -
You are right, of course. Let’s move this thread to DVD-SP forum. Sorry, mods!
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Down to 4,32 GB with the photo jpeg-file- a perfect fit for a dvd, which I can hand over to the client. Can barely see the difference with the uncompressed file weighing in at 55 GB. What the …?
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When I export using QT conversion I get the photo jpeg option but I can’t set it anywhere to 75%
Just quality High, Medium etc …Wait a minute, I think I remember how: make a new sequence with photojpeg @ 75% right? (FCP is rendering out the photo jpeg High right now so I can’t try it…)
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Thanks, Rafael. I exported using the ProRes HQ setting and wound up with a file of 12GB. Much better than 55GB but still very big!
But that’s HDV I guess…
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When I got the error message it did mention something about the codec being supported since the fcp 6.03 update. Maybe it went wrong when I upgraded from 6.02 to 6.05?
Anyhow, as long as everything functions the way I want it to, it’s no biggie I guess. I turned off the option that the transfer app looks for the codec every time it starts up- that’s one less nuisance…
Thanks for responding, guys.
Jeroen