Cameron Clendaniel
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Some Bare Feats Mac Pro speed tests
https://barefeats.com/wst10c2.htmlOther CPU options (haven’t done this or even looked at the numbers so not necessarily recommending):
https://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-MacPro-upgrade.htmlCameron Clendaniel
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I also would steer clear of an iMac if you intend to use the machine for editing for several years. And if you can afford to wait and believe the rumors regarding the impending release of the next FCP, might as well see if the new version will take full advantage of the latest Mac Pros.
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If your original media is backed up, no downside or risk – and you don’t really have a better option than ProRes (note: NO NEED to convert to ProRes HQ – which is overkill and will eat up enormous amounts of drive space). Depending on how much footage you have (“600 clips” is less informative than number of GBs), converting to ProRes may end up saving you time as it’s less processor intensive and is more robust for whatever may await in your post process (gfx, titles, color grading, etc). Compressor is a good way to handle the conversion, especially if you have many cores.
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AE affords the most control but I’ve also used the Pan Zoom Pro FCP plugin in the past, which is relatively quick and easy.
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If you have the budget, having the conversion done through hardware on a Teranex at a post facility delivers by far the cleanest results in my experience. But for offline editing you could perhaps get by with software (the Nattress plugins can deliver decent results if used properly – a search in the forum will likely yield much info on this path) and then save the Teranex for an eventual online.
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it’s obviously time-intensive but nothing fixes system problems like a clean install of the OS
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all pro apps and cs5 are running fine on my machine with 10.6.6
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[julian stewart] “It would be ridiculous to upres all our 400 hours of footage, instead I was thinking of upresing any SD in the final 90 minute final product once I’ve got that.”
I agree in part. If you have HD footage that doesn’t conform to the specs of your final timeline, I would convert all of that footage to match your final sequence settings so you can edit that footage without having to render. For the SD footage, unless the majority of your cut is going to be drawn from the SD footage, I would leave it in its native format, accepting that you’ll have to deal with some degree of rendering with those clips in the 1080p timeline. As you get closer to a rough cut and have made more definitive decisions regarding the usage of those SD clips, then you could start adjusting and converting them to match your 1080p timeline.
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In case anyone’s interested, here’s the response I got from BMD:
“No, not that I know of. DigiBeta is NTSC resolution (720×486). The HDV compressor is designed to only be able to compress properly two different resolutions – both of them HD – 1920×1080 and 1280×720. The DV codec was designed to compress NTSC…
It sounds like what your are trying to do is up-res. You either need a piece of hardware, or you need to capture your NTSC clip, create an HDV timeline, drop the NTSC clip on it, select it to resize the clip, and re-render the whole thing.”