Chi-ho Lee
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[Chris Borjis] “Anyone who uses it for long form projects (I do mostly TV commercials and short industrials) knows that it can only
be reliably used with 30 minute or less sequences. “I completely disagree. I’ve used FCP for many long form broadcast docs (45-52min) and I’ve never felt the sluggish. I’m sure I’m not bless by Saint Steve. I think project file size has a lot to do with it. Keep it under 100mb by deleting or archiving old sequences to another project.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Marc Brak] “I will use it for FCP, after effects, photoshop, etc. Whatever I need to get a video done. So i do need a good, accurate monitor. Just not broadcast quality.
But why would it be okay for editing but not for client presentations? Either it looks good or it doesn’t, right?
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It’ll be fine as a computer monitor to edit with. I use one for editing, both SD and HD. If you playback a QT movie with QT player in SD in normal size, it’ll look fine. But once you zoom in double size or fill the screen, you’ll see breakup. Cuz the pixels aren’t there in the first place to size the bigger size.
It’s different inside FCP cuz you’re not really seeing all real size of the media inside FCP. It’s a proxy more or less.
That’s not a very good technical answer. Someone else can prob give you a more accurate technical answer. But as a computer monitor, it’s one of the best.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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[Marc Brak] “Most broadcast is still SD, DVD’s are SD, web video of course is much smaller even. You’re saying all of that would look like crap on a HD screen?”
I think I’m confused by your confusion! What are you asking? Do you want to use this Dell as a computer monitor to edit with, meaning – using it with FCP?
or are you asking if you can use this as a SD presentation monitor for clients?
If you mean as a computer monitor to edit inside FCP, it’ll be fine.
If you mean as a presentation/online SD monitor, it won’t be too good. If you want a good SD presentation monitor, you can get an used sony PVM for less than a grand these days.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Yes, I second buying refurbs. They’re covered by the same 1 yr Applecare as new machines. And if something is funky with it, you’ll know way before the 1 yr mark.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
[Ben Holmes] “I wish you didn’t have such an axe to grind on Apple – I think it colours a good piece, and confuses your message. Apple are building a proprietory world, and ProRes is the center-piece. I don’t think that’s a particularly unusual solution for a hardware company to pursue. “
Cory’s results and his efforts to let everyone know is applaudable but the tone and off hand comments made the article from bring a great FAQ article to just being a mere rant with some good info. And it’s not because he’s snarky about Apple. If I read the same tone against Avid, Adobe or etc, I’d think the same.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
What version are you on? If you on 5.1.x and run software update it should show the 5.1.4 update for you. Then you can just download and install.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
David,
I agree with some of your thoughts. I would think that Apple would want to put another nail in the Avid coffin symbolically by having a big show – even if you don’t have a giant release – I’d imagine they would have some x.5 releases. Without the Avid presence, even a x.5 release would look like big news.
I am pretty surprised. With these events, marketing is worth more than the actual product.
Who knows, maybe they made a back room deal with one another? Us mere mortals can’t possibly understand their higher enlightened reasonings.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Andy,
I got the download and so far it’s ok. But when I try to export an EDL, it says that “clips with different frame rate from the current project setting are on the timeline.”
Is this a case of the sequence supporting different frame rate but the EDL does not? If so, do you know how I can get around this?
It seems to export an AAF fine but FCP can’t import AAF – stumped!
Thanks for any help that you can offer,
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Andy,
Thanks for the reply. I’ll try to check out the free demo download first since I’d like to deal with it over the weekend. I appreciate your help!
Best,
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
HI Shane,
I got the cheapo one from geeks.com.
https://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020-OTB
I suspect I have a bum unit. A friend has the same unit and it works fine on my MBP. They’re sending me another one. Thanks for the reply!
CHL