[Carlton Hathcoat]

Thanks Shane. I thought that the internal drive would be faster than the external G-RAID Drives I have. Do you recommend a good external for editing.

again thanks. You are always very helpful!

[Carlton Hathcoat]

even when I save the file it is very slow to save. I feel like I am editing on a G5 again.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

All the media is on the desktop . The dropped frames thing is very concerning. I get the dropped frames warning with no filters, just putting FCP basic text on video.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

I will be editing a lot of 1080i footage with filters. I have read that MacBook Pros overheat. Do you find this to be true? I have a tower but do editing on road a lot lately so trying to figure out what I can do with the MacBook pro, what limitations there are etc. The most ram for MacBooks is 8gb.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

I will be editing a lot of 1080i footage with filters. I have read that MacBook Pros overheat. Do you find this to be true? I have a tower but do editing on road a lot lately so trying to figure out what I can do with the MacBook pro, what limitations there are etc. The most ram for MacBooks is 8gb.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

Thanks for all the info. They need H264 because we are shooting in a small town in the middle of Michigan and we have to send this video to TV stations all over the Midwest. We’re shooting in HD but could never upload a full res file that size.

Thanks everyone.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

they are going to send this to TV stations, so I understand the reason for the high rate, but I don’t know how to make a 24bit audio file in H264. Thanks for the info.

[Carlton Hathcoat]

Thanks!

[Carlton Hathcoat]

I figured as much. This is my laptop but my Desktop is a G5, so you’re saying that won’t work either, only the Intel Macs?

[Carlton Hathcoat]

Craig,

I appreciate your help in these matters. I have read several other posts, but I figure I should ask about my particular situation. I am working with an Apple Powerbook G4 with OS X.4.11. I edit on FCP 6.0.6, Compressor 3.0.5 and I have Quicktime Pro 7.6.4. Codec DVCPRO HD (720p60). The video was shot 24fps. The destination codec is my question. This video is going to be used on a webpage for potential clients to view, so the quality has to be pretty good. Having said that, the file size needs to be small for those that don’t have fast connection speeds. This is a marketing video that’s being sent cold to meeting planners, so the ability for them to view quickly is vitally important. I typically use compressor to make h264 movies, but based on some of your other posts it sounds like MPEG 4 is better for web? you wrote the following to someone else:

Here’s the trick – crunch it down as a quicktime and then open it in Quicktime Pro and export it as an MP4 but ONLY wrap it. Don’t re-encode. Select pass through for audio and video. Load it up in JW Player or Flow Player and tell it to auto buffer.

I am not certain about what you’re saying here. I am hoping to get it in the ballpark of 60-80mb without losing too much quality (I know it won’t be as good). When you say crunch it down as a QT and then open it in QT Pro, do you mean just a normal QT movie, or use QT conversion? You then say export as a MP4 but ONLY wrap it don’t encode? I don’t understand this, I don’t see anything in my version that offers “wrap it”. You then say load it up in JW player or Flow Player. I am not aware of these, i assume they are for website developers etc?

Thanks again,

Carl Hathcoat