Chi-ho Lee
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If you’d like to manually set your settings in the “old” way, you can disable the auto conform feature in v6. I’m not 100% sure if auto conform will change your video output settings though, we didn’t get a change to see that at NAB.
Another cool feature not mentioned is the ability for FCP to play out HDV footage via SD firewire devices. The output will be a downconverted image though. This was only mentioned but was not demoed.
CHL
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You have the option to enable this feature or not in the preferences.
CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
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Yeah, bummer for us. I use the Nattress conversion as well, but when I get a tape/drive from the BBC or ZDF and we need the whole shebang, I just leave it rendering over night since there’s no way it’ll be done during the day. Or send it to the transfer house which as you’d know is $$$ over the course of a natural history show and you end up with a dozen or so PAL tapes.
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Chi-Ho Lee
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Didn’t know that. Thanks! Not exactly the same thing as you mentioned, but helpful nonetheless.
[MHancock (promoboy)] “I’d like to see Avid offer the option to Matchframe with the timeline In Out’s marked. That would be nice!”
Yeah. Seems like a great feature that everyone would find helpful, FCP, Avid, even Premiere Pro guys! : )
Chi-Ho Lee
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Hey Gary,
I know you’re tight with the AJA guys. Please tell them it’d be a great feature if we can use the card’s hardware to up/down/cross convert from digital files to digital files, which no decks involved. I have projects where people deliver me a drive full of one flavor and we need to convert it to another flavor. If somehow we can harness the Kona card’s hardware to do the conversion in RT within the computer without having to rent decks or output to tape and then recapture again, that would be fantastic!
And NTSC/PAL standards conversions conversion would be great as well! I work on lots of nature docs and we get lots of PAL footage to mix with NTSC and our current workflow is either time consuming via software conversion or expensive via hardware conversion.
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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So what some of you really want in the next version of FCP is an “Avid Mode” checkbox in the preferences. Make FCP behave just like Avid! Maybe that’ll bring module editing modes to FCP as well as well as the 1990s purple interface.
Not to sound unsympathetic, but if you want the interface to be like Avid, then go edit on Avid. It just kills me how many times people say it’s a bug, why doesn’t it behave like Avid. As if Avid’s implementation is the absolute truth? Sounds like what people really want when they use FCP is to be using a $1300 Media Composer.
I’m editing a big job on Avid now and there are quite a few things on the Avid that I wished would be more like FCP, ie. Match Frame. – Avid match frame only brings up your playhead on the current frame, it doesn’t show you the in/out point you used in the timeline. I’d much prefer the FCP match frame, where it shows your in/out and place the playhead on the frame you matched from. But I wouldn’t say Avid’s method is a bug! I’d see what kind of responses I’d get on the official Avid forum if I posted “Is Avid going to fix their match frame bug in their next version so it behaves like FCP???”
-CHL
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
Actually, this is a better link.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
El Gato just announced a USB Stick hardware H264 encoder. Sells for $99 Euros. It may only be available in Europe right now?
https://www.tuaw.com/2007/04/02/elgato-announces-turbo-264-usb-stick-h-264-encoder/
May be what you need?
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
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Walter,
Chill out, dude.
The guys is just trying to pass along some useful personal experience. Of course everyone will have to evaluate his advice based on their own needs and situations. Your own “Walter 6 months” test is of course valid but to say “don’t mention anything in this forum unless you’ve tried to kill it for six months” seems a bit like the opposite philosophy of what these forums should be about.
He’s not spreading factual errors or rumors or slander, just his personal advice on new gear.
Don’t be a playa hater. : )
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com -
I agree with John. Unless if you need to make SD screener DVDs, then one advantage is to offline at DV quality since the compressing time would be less than using DVCPro HD.
Chi-Ho Lee
Film & Video Editor
Apple Certified Final Cut Pro Trainer
http://www.chiholee.com