[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Thanks Shane, are you refering to Leopard Snow or Leopard? Which is better for FCP and Color? Im coming from 10.4.

Thanks for the idea on that Warren. So put a new drive in, install the new os to that drive. So I can run 2 different OS? My original 10.4 on drive 1, and on drive 2 Leopard snow? Would I tell it at bootup which one I want to run? I have 3 harddrives in my mac at the moment, drive 1 has the os, when I install the new os leopard on a new drive it wont touch any of the files on the other drives? Or do I havde to back those up as well?

Does anyone have experience with Quicktime X? That just seems weird to me, I assume it has the same functions as Quicktime Pro? Would I need to buy a new license to export out of Quicktime X?

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[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Hi Jurgen I hope you’re having luck with your documentary, I hope I can be of help with this information.

I used a customized Blu-ray data rate calculator I wrote up for my company at New Element Productions (Los Angeles). If your film is 145 minutes, to make it fit on a single layer BD 25, encoding at 28,939 data rate will give you the best quality and fit, leaving room for a few still menus or short logos. Your film will look great doing a 2 pass encode with a high quality encoder such as with one we have here. If you want the best quality however encode at 40,761 but that will be for a dual layer BD 50. This is all considering you have maybe 1 or 2 short logos and .ac3 compressed audio, and not a lot of features on the disc. If you do, another calculation will need to be made for the film and all other assets to ensure the highest quality for the disc space available. Also I suggest using VC-! encoder instead of Mpeg2, as it offers superior quality, we use that here at my company as well.

If you want a professional studio quality and functional disc with no errors, you can view my portfolio of over 25 BD Blu-ray titles replicated with no mistakes. We have also authored hundreds of SD titles. We work with clients across the globe in many languages if needed.

https://www.newelementproductions.com

Have a great day Jurgen and I wish you the best with your film.

Feel free to contact me directly at newelementproductions@yahoo.com or call me at the phone number listed on my website, thanks.

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Cinematographer/ Visual FX Supervisor/ Editor/ Blu-ray Author/…

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Thanks, but

How do I do this within FCP? I shot using the m2 lens adapter, all my footage is upside down, I must flip 180 degrees to edit,

How can I do this so its the best quality?

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Cinematographer/ Visual FX Supervisor/ Editor/ Blu-ray Author/…

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

What are you importing into FCP, a .psd, .tiff?

I would recommend .tiff, it may resolve it. If not, import the image into after effects, render out how many seconds you need as an uncompressed quicktime, then import that into that .mov of your image into fcp.

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Cinematographer/ Visual FX Supervisor/ Editor/ Blu-ray Author/…

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

wow really, crap, thanks for letting me know!!! So what does the green mean above each clip? because when i export a quicktime, it does it fine without any needs render message, its weird

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Cinematographer/ Visual FX Supervisor/ Editor/ Blu-ray Author/…

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Thanks Michael and Shane, but I want the pro to have an easy time with my files.

So how should I place them to make his job easier?

All music on 1 track, dialoge on 8 other tracks, effects on 10 other tracks? What are some workflows that you guys use when editing, and handing it off to a pro so he can find stuff easily?

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Cinematographer/ Visual FX Supervisor/ Editor/ Blu-ray Author/…

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Great sounds good, what is most funny about this is that I too am a college student, but yeah this will be a good experience for a less experienced person, thanks for the tips.

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Blu-ray Author/ Compositor

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

Hey kid, move to LA first before you even continue to make any posts. If you want a Visual FX house to take you seriously, if you are serious about your career, you have to move to LA, sorry thats the way it is. Unless you want to be like Robert Rodriguez and own your own facility and make your own films in Texas. Hey, that would be a good dream why don’t you aim for that? Why not? But you have to work hard, every day, night, and it will happen. But to meet a lot of great people, move to LA, dig yourself into craigslist.org and don’t get out, seriously. Do a lot of free work, build a nice website, impress people, but most importantly, pimp yourself, self promote yourself, no one else is going to do it for you, after working your butt off on a big film such as star wars, the hulk, or other film with lots of visual fx, you get a few seconds of screen time as your name passes quickly as people are trying to get out of the theatre as quickly as they can. They don’t know you, they don’t care who are you. So its your job to make yourself known, trust me.

So, with that said, you want to work on some shots for my film? Got anything to show? Email me, info@newelementproductions.com – Peace.

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Blu-ray Author/ Compositor

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

“MaxxDigital EVO HD series”, I’ll check that brand out Walter thanks.

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Blu-ray Author/ Compositor

[Clint Nitkiewicz hernandez]

“A single SATA hard drive will deliver about 60 to 65mbps on average. Stripe three together and you’re lucky to get 200mbps empty.”

I see, now the fog is clearing up. So that is why I see those $$$$ towers that have maybe 10 drives, so thats 60mbps x 12 drives = faster undisturbed realtime playback or = faster render times or both?

Oh no I wasn’t a discreet editor, I was looking into onlining onto a Smoke though, but decided to just do it on FCP.

But yeah so what does the more striped drives give you in the end? Please correct me if I am wrong below and or feel free to modify the list.

1. Protected Storage in case 1 drive fails
2. Faster Renders
3. Faster Previews in real time

Say I do get a separate $$$$ tower, or just go with the minimum built in my own tower, how do the programs utilize it? Say for Final Cut would I just start a project in a folder on that raid directory and all is good? Set my capture, renders, everything to that drive? Or do I have to install the program to the raid?

Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez
http://www.newelementproductions.com
Film-Maker/ Blu-ray Author/ Compositor