Bill Davis
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I’m seeing this with the Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme card on a Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.4.8 and FCP 5.1.4.
Cheers,
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Awesome. Thank you! We can’t go to 5.1.2 just yet, but I’m looking forward to the improvements you describe.
Bill
Bill Davis
Interface Media Group
Washington, DC
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I was thrown back into the Avid world for seven months last year to offline a Discovery Channel series. I’ll add a few “Avid does it better” items since we’re on the topic…
1) The Digitize Tool. One window contains everything: big flashing red button that easily tells you when you’re digitizing, buttons for track selection (how many times have I captured audio only in FCP because the track selection is hidden behind a tab?), the ability to name a clip WHILE it’s capturing, actual live timecode display during capture (very helpful when a deck is in another room), and live software audio meters during capture.
2) Zoom. ‘Nuff said on this one in previous posts. It’s the only Avid key I still reach for after 4+ years of FCP use (after 8 years on a Media Composer).
3) Digital Cut Tool- Avid’s “Edit to Tape.” This shows the playhead moving through the sequence during layback as well as live software audio meters and timecode display from the record deck.
So, my gripes are mostly I/O based (getting stuff in and out). FCP’s capture and output tools haven’t changed much since version 1.0, but a refresh could go a long way…
Despite my minor gripes FCP is still by far my tool of choice for actual cutting and effect work.
Cheers,
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Just the registration code. Since FCP4, Apple doesn’t require the previous version of FCP to be on the drive, since newer systems won’t boot into OS 9.
Bill
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I can’t make a direct comparison, but we had a few Laird LTM-5000s in our facility a while back, and they were very unreliable components to work with on a daily basis. We sent both units back more than once and were never fully satisfied. There were frequent dropped frames during playback and I vaguely remember a workaround where turning External Video off and on would straighten them out for a while…
We also have a number of AJA Io boxes in use now and, as people are likely to say, they “just work.” Very tight integration with FCP (Apple develops the drivers for it).
Bill