Ben Holmes
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Either de-interlace in FCP using the de-interlace filter, or do it in photoshop. Either process is quick and easy.
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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What was the problem? I have had two Lacie drives fail because the firewire connections on the back came loose. A bit of soldering sorted it, but the design is flimsy to say the least…. I’ve switched to G-raid.
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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Just to be clear (and this comes up about once a week) ‘Out of Memory’ refers to system memory, not disk space. The error seems to be caused by corruption in a project or sequence. Reverting to a previously saved or autosaved version cures this.
This is why to ALWAYS need to have autosave on….
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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‘Out of Memory’ refers to system memory, although it seems to be caused by corrupted sequences or projects in FCP. Previously, people have found reverting to a previous save of a project can get around this. I personally find this happens most often with text elements of any type.
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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Working with HDCAM? 10 hours storage will require a 2-3TB array. Not cheap. Working in HDVCPro will only need a few hunded gig and you could use a firewire 800 drive.
If you need to work in uncompressed 10-bit HD, you need dual-scsi or fibre-channel. Forget about 5 streams, you MIGHT manage 2 – unless, again, you work in HDVCPro (which looks suprisingly good).
For a FC or SCSI solution, go to Medea, Huge or Atto. Probably be looking at around $2500-$3500. There really are no shortcuts, faster drives cost money, and hardware raid systems are faster and more reliable IMHO. Or $500 for a g-raid using fw800 and (you guessed it) HDVCPro. If you’re doing a 5 camera HD Cam shoot, I would suggest that a few thousand dollars on a reliable disk array is money well spent…
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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BTW – That’s 2 x 3.0ghz Xeon/Woodcrest processors at $850 EACH. Won’t be a cheap machine with $1700 of chips (trade price) in it….
Slated Q1 ’07 are the ‘Kentsfield’ QUAD-core chips that promise us Octo-core (or something – anyway, 8 core) machines. Now THAT I can wait for.
God bless Intel and it’s transparent processes. Does take some of the fun out of guessing when the next Mac upgrades will come. Look out for a 2.33Ghz MBP in August running the Core Duo 2 chip (AKA Merom). That’s a 64-bit chip that uses significantly less power than the current Duo Core chips. Should be a quieter, cooler, faster MBP…
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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Not saying it won’t, just saying it isn’t recommended.
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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[bogiesan] “I disagree with the idea that the new models may not offer the same kind of giant leap that the new ‘Books did”
Sure, there’ll be a speed boost from the G5. Thanks to Intel’s open roadmap, it seems likely that Apple will use the Woodcrest 5100 (server) chips in the new ‘Mac Pro’ desktops. Why? Only the Woodcrest chips (shortly to be renamed something snappy like core duo2 duo duo) support multi-processor setups – so 2 chips will be a dual-dual core setup like the quad. The Conroe (Duo Core 2) chips do not support multi-processor setups, so will probably be used in the lower cost ‘Mac Pro’s’.
Currently, that’s a quad 3.0ghz machine at best, albeit running core arcitecture, so we may see some speed bumps from universal apps – as we have seen on the MBP.
My point is that the speed difference is smaller going from a quad 2.5 to a quad 3.0 than you will see going from a single G4 1.67 to a Duo Core 2.16 (to compare top desktop to top laptop).
Speculation? Yes. Informed? Yes. And when you throw in the compatability issues between most plug-ins and intel macs, along with no Adobe universals for a while, it’s a quad from me….
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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[Steve Eisen] “You will not be dissaponted with a Quad G5!”
Couldn’t agree more – I wouldn’t expect the new Intel systems to be a quantum leap in speed like the laptops (they were, after all, still running G4 chips….) so if you get a quad you will have a fast system that is actually compatible with all current plug-ins, as opposed to a ‘rev 1’ intel system….
That’s the decision we made anyway…
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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[Knoxville] “if any other software (finder included) is made active I can no longer make FCP active”
Don’t mean to sound trite, but don’t make anything else active whilst you capture. It’s pretty likely to disrupt the capture process anyway.
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