Andrew Rendell
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Brilliant.
While I’m rendering out a big QT, I notice that the movement has already started; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59ZYrB8Ws7Y&feature=player_embedded
BTW In the UK we have some horrible reactionary tabloid papers, so in order to avoid being contaminated by accidental exposure to unpleasant attitudes, I have the “kitten block” plugin installed on my computers: https://www.teaandkittens.co.uk/
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That’s a maybe… in the UK most of our TVs, DVDs, etc, have been able to show NTSC for a few years now, and I don’t know of any of the new HD kit that isn’t multistandard anyway.
But there are still quite a lot of older PAL-only tvs around (strangely enough I find them at work more frequently than in people’s homes), so TBH I think it’s still a bit of a gamble, although less so if it’s a niche thing than if it’s mass appeal.
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No, you cannot use any commercial music without clearing the rights first (which means paying). I have used instrumental versions of some top 40 songs and they were cleared in exactly the same way as the full versions would have been, so I don’t believe that makes any substantial difference.
There are times that you can use music without paying under “fair use”, but they are quite strictly defined (news, criticism, education, etc) and a company’s showreel is definitely not one of those.
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“Cool so even though in some instances seek time may not be improved, its still going to be faster because of this?”
In my experience, yes
“is there an optimum/ recommended size for a FCP video editor?”
I don’t know of one. Others might know better than me though.
“do you know how this is controlled? Ie in Disk Utility? And what about something like a G-Tech G-Raid where its already set up, is there a way of setting it up to be better?”
I think that depends on what kind of Raid controller card the drives are attached to. Disk Utility does have a Raid option but I’d expect that if you were using a third party Raid that was already set up, you’d have to have a utility that’s specific to that.
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IMO that’s a confusing way of putting it as seek time is only part of the performance equation.
When a file is saved on striped drives it’s split into blocks and those blocks are recorded alternately on the drives.
The “stripe size” is the size of those blocks.
Choosing the right stripe size for an array is a compromise – smaller size blocks are better for transfer performance but are poorer for seek times than bigger ones. So it’s possible to optimise the stripe size of an array to get better performance for either lots of little files or fewer but larger files.
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BTW There is an article here (on the ‘Cow) about ADR, which might be interesting to you (although if you’re already researching it you might already have found out what’s in it) https://magazine.creativecow.net/article/adr-hollywood-dialogue-recording-secrets
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I think it mainly depends on how good the actors are.
How familiar are you with the “method”? Being able to replicate his emotional state at time of shooting is one of the things that actors should be able to do.
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The fastest way to export is using current settings, then make low res copies for your boss.
I’ve been using Mpeg Streamclip for this recently as it’s quite a lot quicker than Compressor on my kit.
I’ve been doing this: open the file then select Export to Quicktime under the file menu, then choose your settings. I’ve been using Compression = H264, tick Limit Data Rate and put on 220kbps in the box, Sound = MPEG-4 AAC, Frame size Other and choose 320 x 180, don’t tick any other box. Those files are pretty crappy but are small enough to send 1hr+ interviews over the internet. I’m doing that to have interviews transcribed and it’s good enough for that purpose, so it may well suit you as well.
Sadly the longest amount of time is the export from FCP. You can put an IN and OUT point into Mpeg Streamclip to convert just a section of a file, so for some purposes you can make selects from the source files without going from an FCP timeline, but that doesn’t sound like it’s an option for you on this job.
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The first thing is to decide exactly what market you’re going for, as that will drive most of your purchasing decisions. What problems are you offering to solve for your clients?
When you’ve decided that the question becomes; which hardware and software will allow you to make the best income from doing those things with the least trouble?
In my own case, I only own the things that I use everyday (FCP7 and Avid) and I hire those things that I use infrequently. But I’m somewhere where I can get easy access to facilities that range from hiring a deck to software development and everything in between, so it’s better for me to work with those guys rather than try to compete with them.
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IMO what you need for Avid Editing is lots of screen space (you can survive with a 17″ screen – if you go for the 15″ screen you’ll find yourself realising you need a second screen very quickly) and lots of FAST external hard drive space (don’t use the internal drive for media).
There will always be occasions when the higher spec processors and extra memory will make things a bit better, but most of the time when you’re cutting the 2.2Ghz i7 and 4GB memory are ok.