Andrew Rendell
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Jeremy Garchow: Ram has nothing to do with speed. That is bad advice. More and Faster cores always win over amount of ram.
I disagree to this extent – (a) much of the editing job is not about processing, it’s about handling data, so lots of RAM does help, (b) FCP doesn’t currently use all the available cores anyway (which may of course change in future versions). The point I want to make is that the raw processing power of the computer doesn’t necessarily translate into speed for such a particular task as editing.
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Broadly speaking, progressive is best for the web and high frame rate is best for slomos, so although one could debate the pros and cons ad infinitum for that kind of job I’d be inclined to shoot in 720/50P.
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Something “more modest” won’t ever give you “the same performance”, but where you’ve got limited funds, I’d say that you’re cash is probably better spent on maxing the RAM rather than getting the most cores.
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I’d export a still of the appropriate frame then open that in Photoshop (or Gimp or whatever photo editing software you’ve got) and use the “artistic” filters in that to get the look (and probably a couple of versions so that you can dissolve between them for a bit of an animated/drawing in progress feel). Then import back into FCP…
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I had a similar problem last year and it turned out to be an issue with making the Mpegs in Compressor – I had left the Frame Control setting in Auto, which AFAIK should have been ok, but there was an issue with flickering. I redid the conversion with everything else exactly the same but I set the field order manually and hey presto everything worked perfectly.
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Yes, it’s practice that makes your grades better, but you can be wasting your time if you haven’t got a good monitor to see what you’re doing on.
I find the scopes in Color to be ok, but I hire a room at my local facility and use their stuff, or pass it over to an experienced colorist for anything critical.
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NTFS-3G does it. Although, I usually just use it to copy the material onto a Mac formatted drive, so I don’t edit with it.
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Have you checked the Render Control settings in the User Preferences?
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I’d go faster rather than bigger for the drive. Anti-glare screen is a personal thing which also depends on where you’re going to be using it, I have just the regular screen and I’m fine with it, although I’m usually using it where I can move around and find a position where reflections aren’t a problem (which is generally a room that’s been booked for me to work in or my dining table, but I can imagine situations where it might be more of a problem).
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Depends on what you want to end up with. If you want to end up with an SD output to tape, file or DVD, you might as well cut it as SD. Will you ever need a HD version? If that’s a yes or you think it’s very likely, then go HD…