Arnie Schlissel
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Why do people do stuff like this?
[jasonlel] “the footage is 1080iHD downconverted to DV letterboxed. The delivery format is DV downconverted squeezed (so it will display 16:9).”
If you knew that you were delivering to 16X9 anamorphic, why did you downconvert as letterbox? You could simply have made the 1st d/c anamorphic and have been done with it. That would have been the best way to have done this. (Why you shot 1080 to deliver as DV is another question, but I’m not really going to ask)
I’m not sure, but I think that Traffic from xmedit.com may be able to fix this for you. Check it out & see.
Arnie
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I think Apple may have a program to take old CPUs. Check with your local government about recycling/disposing of other electronics. Here in NYC, the city has a special electronics disposal drive every summer.
Also, some of that gear may still be useful to someone. Check out your local freecycle chapter, and look into local school programs to see if they’re interested in any of the gear. Even non-working gear may be useful to a program that teaches repair.
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[Tom Wolsky] “5.1 was not a maintenance release. It was in the new universal binary format that worked for both PowerPC and Intel machines. It was not a free upgrade. Updates are still available online. This product was never available online only as a standalone or a crossgrade purchase.”
And FWIW, none of this was secret at the time. The crossgrade was available for something like 18 months. It was widely publicised at the time. There were dozens, maybe hundreds, of postings about it in this very forum from people who had bought it, were thinking of buying it, had issues installing it, didn’t think it was worth $50, thought it was a steal at $50, were upset about having to mail in their original disks, etc.
Right now, your options may be limited to upgrading to FCS 2, which includes FCP 6.
Arnie
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[royal124] “where do i get this “crossgrade”? And what does it do.”
The cross grade from FCP 5.0.x to 5.1.x was available for around 18 months. The offer ended several months ago, before the introduction of FCP 6. What it did was to provide you with a version of FCP, Motion, DVDSP, Compressor & Live Type that would run on an Intel based Mac. If your current version of FCP is 5.0.x, then your only real option right now is to buy the upgrade to FCP 6, aka FC Studio 2.
Arnie
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The camera has 3 settings for 720, 24p.
24P and 24PA are both “24 over 60”, IOW, they both record 23.98P with pulldown to a 59.94P video stream. They do this by adding duplicate frames in a 2:3 pattern, very much like adding extra fields to make 24P over 30i. The difference between 24P and 24PA is in the pulldown pattern, a standard 2:3:2:3 pattern or a 2:3:3:2 pattern.
24PN records only 23.98 frames per second, no duplicate frames. This saves space on the cards (and your hard drives!), so you get more recording time on a card. Very handy in the field.
Likewise, 30P records duplicate frames to make a “30 over 60” video stream. 30PN records only 29.97 fps, saving space on the cards & extending recording time.
Arnie
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Well… They’re only recommended features. 🙂
I’m guessing that you’re not going to get all of the FX Plug features. And FX Plug filters may take longer to render than if you had a newer graphics card.
Arnie
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[Sean ONeil] “I think it’s a great time to wait on a monitor if possible.”
Ain’t that the truth! Plus, projectors are getting better and cheaper. In a couple of more years, most editors may be able to afford a decent quality 1080 projector for a client monitor. Beat that for WOW! factor!
Arnie
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Start by reading this thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/953611Arnie
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You need an AGP card. AGP cards for the Mac are getting harder to find now that Apple has switched to PCIe. And any card with ‘Mobility’ in the name goes into a laptop.
How much can you spend? Check places like New Egg, CDW and Mac Mall, which AGP cards on that list do they have in stock that are Mac Compatable?
Arnie
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Exactly what settings have you fiddled? Most of the problems people have with alpha channels are that they’re not interpreted properly by FCP (or whatever other program is involved). Most of the time, this simply gets solved by changing the setting of the alpha in the browser.
Arnie
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