Bernard Newnham
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Media Express has lots of potential other than just capturing in various formats. There’s something I need, and it would be good if ME3 provided it, thus saving me buying competitors products when i already have a BM card.
They said a June release, and now it’s June. As I have vague deadlines, I just wondered when in june.
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Yes, I read that too.
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bernie
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Forgetting about the hardware and upcoming possibilities, in the current world FCP is easier to use than Premiere, and I think that’s what matters in practice. People can have endless Mac/PC arguments, but they are irrelevant – it’s just a screen and keyboard. What matters is how easy is it to use the software to cut together a story, and FCP is easier.
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…and SUPER – https://majorgeeks.com/Super_d5117.html – will change it for you. Sadly neither work on a Mac.
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If you have access to a PC, gspot.exe – https://www.headbands.com/gspot/ – will tell you the codec.
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For your master, export in the format of your sequence, don’t change anything. I don’t know what format you’ve been editing in, but you should make a self contained Quicktime file with the current settings. If you change stuff, you’ll lose quality which won’t come back.
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The things that make the most difference to the look of your piece is the aquisition format – a cheap DV camera, or a Canon 5D – and the lighting.
Very few people can tell the difference between something shown from DigiBeta and something shown from DV. Master it initially on MiniDV usuing a borrowed camera, which will cost a few pence for the tape. If someone wants your film for a major festival and will only take Digi, copy it across or re-master it.
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I don’t know the answer, but there are various tests you can try.
Trashing the prefs is always a good thing to do as a starter.
Try playing the video direct from a drive and not through FCP. Does it play correctly? If not, you have a computer problem, not an FCP one. If you’ve made recent changes to a computer and then it doesn’t work properly, the likelihood is that the changes are responsible. Undo software changes – restore the system to before the changes and try it. Check the drives, using a speed tester. Blackmagic have a free one in their software suite. Maybe you have a faulty drive from all that backing-up.
Having done all that, sit back, drink coffee, and have a logical think. One way or another, you’ll work it out by a process of elimination.
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You could try the demo of Clipwrap and see if that goes any faster.
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and later – my colleagues put Windows 7 on the machine. Still didn’t work. It must be the motherboard, though other things work fine. It might be best not to use an Asus A8N5X for this task.
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