[Bryce Whiteside]

My educated guess is that the ATI 800x would give you the most speed boost. SCSI would maybe only add 1% to 5% speed boost if at all with a significant cost–the law of diminishing returns. Without changing your production pipeline, the only way to see a good boost in performance is with a new G5 DP 2.7 Ghz or an Apple refurbished G5 DP 2.5 Ghz with the ATI 800x.

As far as After Effect goes, just use it to fly your graphics around. Import your audio only as a scratch track. After rendering in AE, bring your .MOV into FCP and match it up to your audio track.

“More Tips and Tricks Night” from the LAFCPUG has a technique discribed by DV Creators’s Guy Cochran 3/4 of the way down the article. The same technique works with AE, but you highlight your scratch audio track just hit the “asterisk” key to the beat of the music instead of the “M” key as in FCP. The audio should play in AE when you hit the space bar.
https://www.lafcpug.org/meeting_3_26_03.html

I think it is the “asterisk” key. I am not in front of a AE machine right now.
You could then use SHFT+0, SHFT+1,SHFT+2,SHFT+3,SHFT+4, etc. to mark your music bars on the main timeline window like Chris Meyers likes to do.

You might want to do a follow-up question in the After Effects forum about other techniques which AE animators use. You do know that you can display the audio wavefrom by twilling (clicking on the little triangles) down on you audio layer. Does hitting “A” on the selected audio scratch track display the audio channel? Then just display the waveform.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

There is this here on the Cow:
TBC Crossfire X-K3 Non-linear Editing Console by Marco Solorio
https://www.creativecow.net/articles/solorio_marco/tbc-review/index.html

There are these:
Forecast-Consoles
https://www.forecast-consoles.com/broadcast/index.html

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

Since between now and June is when FCP 5 ships, it is a good time to decide whether to make the switch and/or the addition NLE platform. I noticed he wants to do multicam editing so FCP 5 would be the time to move without having to pickup a plug-in for that functionally.

Apple – Final Cut Studio – Final Cut Pro 5 – Quick Tours – Multicam Editing
https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/quicktours/multicamediting.html

Inquiring minds…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

ATI 800X graphics card is faster than your 9800. After that you will be at the ragged edge of any additional speed gains.

All things related to Macintosh Performance:
Real World Speed Tests For Performance Minded Macintosh Users – BareFeats.com
https://www.barefeats.com/
MacSpeedZone – Mac upgrade and performance information…
https://www.macspeedzone.com/

Matthew C. Abourezk – For example, flying around a 3300 x 4400 pixel illustrator file in FCP is an exercise in my ability to NOT slit my wrists.

This sounds like a work flow issue. AE 6.5 and Motion are better suited to fly large graphics around. Also, I never make my graphics larger than 2x or 2.5x the video resolution and with some preplanning I may only go 1.5x my video resolution.

As far as sizing graphics, size it in FCP and export a reference frame for Photoshop. Then take the original large graphic and resize it in Photoshop to match your pre-viz FCP export reference frame. Then save your new resized graphic with a different name than your orginal and import in FCP. Scaling in FCP looks like c**p below 50 to 35% where Photoshop or AE does sub-pixel sampling for a better look.

Inquiring minds…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

Now that is what I call responsive!

U da man,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

https://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2005/04/nab/gallery1.html

Inquiring minds…
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

It is my impression that you can go FCP Mac firewire out to –> 2nd Mac firewire input (probably a dual processor 1Ghz G4).

Then, under iChat AV on the second Mac select video input DV under preferences.

I am wondering if AIM 5.9 can’t handle the H.264 to well. You would have to have at least a 128 kbps to 384 kbps upload capacity I would think.

For broadband speed tests you can try:
https://www.dslreports.com/stest

What is your ISP?

Thanks for the link.

Inquiring minds,
Bryce

PS You would think someone would have had an article or how-to tip more obviously placed on the web. My information was gleaned from bits and pieces.

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

You have two issues here–FCP stream to iChat AV and then connection to iChat AV.

Mention of support of AIM and Jabber:
https://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/

Router configuration information:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208

This is a year old article but it show you which direction you need to go in.
AIM Embraces Video Chat with the Mac
By Matt Hicks
February 5, 2004
https://tinyurl.com/au48k

The current AIM client is 5.9 ( https://www.aim.com/ )

From my research on just iChat AV to iChat AV FCP client supervised edit session it would go a little like this:
FCP Mac’s DV firewire port –> 2nd Mac (G4, G5, PowerBook, iBook) firewire port in –> iChat AV (AIM client) –> your router –> Internet –> his router –> AOL Instant Messenger on a PC

With introduction of H.264 in Tiger and QT7 this question has come up in Mac to Mac collaboration.

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion

[Bryce Whiteside]

Well there is the one built into Tiger.
“Apple

[Bryce Whiteside]

Graeme Nattress’s G field
https://www.nattress.com/set1.htm

Joe’s Filters: Joe’s Field Fixer
https://www.joesfilters.com/joesfieldfixer.php

HTH,
Bryce

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion