Ben Holmes
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You’re just paying for the cost of new discs, as Apple will replace your old ones. As per the others here, don’t even think about it – just get it. This crossgrade was designed for you, and won’t be around forever. The performance gains will be worth it.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Or control click and select ‘open in viewer’ etc.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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You’d be best off going firewire in from the DV deck to the Mac. That way, there’s no conversion or data loss with the ingest. What you see is what you got. Whether or not you prefer the ‘look’ of other methods is another question entirely…. But SVHS shouldn’t be a ‘better’ option.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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[Adolfo Rozenfeld] “Walter is wrong this time”
Don’t want to start anything, but how is Walter wrong? Mike bought an express card based on the incorrrect assumption that he needed one to capture DV on his MacBook Pro. He doesn’t need one. The FW400 bus has been used for years on the Mac for DV capture in this mode – FW400 can be used (as with the AJA IO) to transfer 10-bit uncompressed, albeit without the drive on the same bus. With DV, that’s just not a problem. If he wants to move up to a SATA drive, or use FW800, that’s a different kettle of fish.
I was trying to get someone who seems new to FCP and the MacBook going, after he started from the wrong place, as was Walter. ‘Read the Manual’ is perfect advice here, as it spends a considerable amount of time explaining EXACTLY how to connect a DV camera and external drive. If he’s having a problem using the express card, it’s a better solution, assuming (which we still don’t know) that he has a FW400 drive and a DV Camera. Without more info, how else can we help?
I’m off to sit in the sunshine. It’s my day off. mutter, mutter…
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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About right. Although you won’t really get the ‘feel’ of motion and DVDSP will feel very sluggish. Motion is supposed to be a ‘realtime’ creation system, but it crawls on a machine without a GPU like the mini.
For FCP learning, it should be fine, and as I said, the others DO run.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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I would check a couple of things. First, do you have enough RAM in the Powerbook? 1 Gb is recommended, although I run 5.0.3 on a G4 PB with 768mb.
Secondly, try trashing all the FCP preferences. Apple help will tell you how.
Thirdly, I would do a clean reinstall of your system, first OS X, then FCP. Whilst this could be a settings issue in FCP, it doesn’t sound like it to me. The reinstall will also make sure all of your system components are up to date. Before you install FCP do a software update. Then do another one after you install. See how you go.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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OK. Can you give us some more info?
What drive are you using, and what type of interface? We assume it’s firewire 400?
Are you now connecting the drive directly into the MacBook? Easier to troubleshoot if it is.
Is the camera connected to the passthrough on the drive?
Are your capture settings set to DV (Pal/NTSC as required)? If not, use Easy Setup to double-check this anyway.
When does the capture fail? Is it after capture finishes or during?Let us know.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Nothing wrong with Michael’s answer, all totally correct. If, however, you want to use your quicktime for anything else (and don’t want FCP to re-render it a different size, which could cause a longer export) I would recommend the advice he gives for changing the playback resolution in Quicktime Player. It leaves the movie untouched as an anamorphic full resolution file, if you ever want to bring it back into FCP.
Personally, I always stretch the horizontal dimensions. If you want the math, since you are going to 16:9 just divide the vertical height by 9 and multiply it by 16 to get the correct horizontal figure to change your sequence to – so for PAL SD you end up with 1024×576… Nothing wrong with shrinking the vertical either, just like ’em big, and the playback seems to behave the same 😉
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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You’re better all round capturing in FCP – the files would have the reel number etc. for proper media management and re-linking. Any other solution (even if you could get a compatible format, which I doubt) would be a compromise.
You gotta stop him hanging around with Sony sales guys. They’ll sell you anything!
Ben
PS – Anyone wanna buy a Sony MAV-555?
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com
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Bob
This may be an impossible solution (or I guess you wouldn’t be asking) but can’t you put a green background behind the logo? The switcher would be able to key under then.
Alternatively, assuming you’re in a broadcast situation, and have two decks for playback in the show, create a second reel with identical timecode, with just a matte for the end key at the end. That’s how we usually do it. The decks can be ganged together simply enough – just kid them into thinking they’re running an insert edit or similar techniques.
Ben
Editec Broadcast Editing Ltd
EVS & FCP specialists for live OB operations.Producer/Director “The Supercar Run” now available for international distribution from http://www.electricsky.com