Brent Dunn
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You need to copy your BPAV over to your PC, not the transferred footage that is probably ProRes on the Mac, which is not compatible with Premier on the PC.
Brent Dunn
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Are you running the AV cable’s directly into the recorder? Not sure why this isn’t working. I haven’t done much of this, so I’m guessing.
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DunnRight Films
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Use a wireless Mic, small PA system in the other room, audio comes out of the PA.
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
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Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
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with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
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Noah:
Actually, I’ve been very happy with my HP laptop. I don’t do a bunch of editing on it, but I actually do most of my after effects on my laptop since I have 64 bit CS5 installed on it.
I haven’t had any issues yet. I’ve had it over a year.
The other reason I bought it is that Apple was over a year behind on upgrading their laptops to the quadcore pentium and I couldn’t wait anymore. Apple used to be the leader and always first in computer technology, but when they came out with the iPhone, it all stopped. they put all of their engineers on developing the iPhone, iPod Touch, etc. Now that that has leveled off, they are back. Still waiting on the new Final Cut Studio (that has also been slow in coming out)
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
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Once you go Mac, you never go back…
except, I did buy an HP laptop since it was half the price of a Mac Pro
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite -
It depends on the project. Typically I back up the original footage files and the final edited project files and an exported final edit. Some projects I may need to work with again, I will back up my project file folders so I can have all my edits ready when I need to do some tweaks.
If it is critical footage, then you want to back it up to two drives in case one goes bad.
I just use the drives until they are filled up and then make a sheet listing what is on each drive, print this out and rubber band this to each drive and place it back in it’s original protective plastic.
It’s also a good idea to run these drives every few months to keep them in working order. No hard proof of this making the drives last longer, but recommended.
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite -
As previously stated, you can just drop your footage on the timeline and Final Cut will make the settings for you. So don’t worry about all the settings.
Also, if you ever shoot with different cameras, different codecs, it’s better to convert everything to prores first, or drop you preferred codec on the timeline and see what happens with the rest of the alternative clips.
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite -
Here is another awesome experience for you. The ReFrame Collective is made up of some of the top Event Videographer’s in the world. they put this together to offer another way to share their knowledge with videographer’s.
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Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite -
If you fill a 32 gig card, then you’ll take up 32 gig’s of space.
If you convert to ProRes, it dramatically increases the size, almost 1 gig per minute of footage. But, there is now ProRes light in Final Cut 7 which isn’t a big.
Always back up your original footage. I also have an exported editing timeline that I back up. You can back up your final cut project if you expect to go back for editing in the future.
For backup / archiving, you need to have a system in place. Always make a backup immediately before editing. Hard Drives fail, and you don’t want to be caught, loose your files, and end up refunding thousands to your clients.
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite -
Here’s a blog on setting up the multicam edit with final cut 7.
https://www.geniusdv.com/news_and_tutorials/2009/10/creating_a_multiclip_in_final_cut_pro_7.phpYou can do mulitcam editing with final cut as long as you are using the same camera, which you are. I’m not sure what issues you may have with the starting and stopping that is problematic with using DSLR’s.
Like was mentioned, pluraleyes is what most people use to synch the audio, but I haven’t used it, so I’m not sure how it handles multicam. You should do your research on their site.
Brent Dunn
Owner / Director / Editor
DunnRight Films
DunnRight Video.com
Video Marketing Toolbox.netSony EX-1,
Canon 5D Mark II
Canon 7D
Mac Pro Tower, Quad Core,
with Final Cut StudioHP i7 Quad laptop
Adobe CS-5 Production Suite