[Colin Mcquillan]

You must not have “Render Full” selected in your render settings. If you do any dissolves with the bug, or dissolve from bug to bug, double check that they are smooth. Without “Render Full” GFX like these can shift fields during transitions.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Not sure if this will work for you but if you have a multi core machine you could export a self contained QT of your show Pre-bug.

Open the new QT in compressor, add the bug overlay using the “watermark” option in compressor, then export to the same codec using a virtual cluster to encode.

I dont think u can use a .mov file as the watermark source, so this will only work if your bug is static.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Control surfaces:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=search&A=search&Q=&sb=bs%2Cupper%28ds%29&sq=asc&sortDrop=Brand%3A+A+to+Z&ac=&bsi=&bhs=t&shs=&ci=12234&basicSubmit=Submit

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I would suggest a small 4-8 channel analogue mixer for monitoring (the Mackie 802 would be great!) Connect this to your macbook via the headphone jack. You will need a mini-plug to two 1/4″ TRS cable (as this source is unbalaced you could also go 1/4″ TS), you could also go on the cheap with mini to RCA, but 1/4″ is better. (with the 1202 the RCA input passes right through to the control room/main output with no level control)

and on the real cheap for STP and FCP in software slider control shop around for something like:
https://www.samedaymusic.com/product–EVOUC33E

Be sure to read up on the product and make sure it
1) has USB (some just have MIDI coming out,, and then you would need to buy a midi-usb converter…
and 2) the manufacturer’s product site lists FCP/STP compatibility.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Adam White] “Mackie 802-VLZ3, Behringer XENYX 1204”

These are analogue mixers that will only adjust your reference speaker volume and/or analogue source input. (I use the Mackie 1202-VLZ3 and love it) Unless you are using an AJA IOHD or Matrox MXO2 to capture all your media, I doubt you hwill have much use for analogue input capability. The Behringer Xenyx 1204 has a USB connection, but this I believe is just for audio I/O, I don’t think you will have control of the sliders in Soundtrack Pro or FCP with this. (double check this, as I have not used this particular mixer)

If you want to mix in Soundtrack and/or FCP you need a control surface. I use the Mackie Control Universal Pro for this, but there are many options. ( STP button support limited to sliders and shuttle control, it is fully functional with Pro Tools)

You might just find a combo control surface/mixer unit if you search around, but I don’t think the two options you have listed will do what I think you want them to do.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Ryan Sebastian] “the upgrade is over $1000”

Buy the laptop with the least amount of ram possible, then buy ram from one of these places and install yourself.

Crunch the numbers and you will see a huge savings, especially on maxing out the ram to 8gb.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/Upgrade/DDR3
(These guys will buy back the ram modules you no longer need once you get the larger replacement modules)

https://www.crucial.com/mac/index.aspx

https://www.memoryamerica.com/

Just make sure you order the right kind!

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Ron Lindeboom] “I have removed all the spam posts and have left the one post that they did that was not spam.”
Although is a quick “cut-and-paste” from a couple wikipedia pages.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

In case you’re not familiar, here’s a little “how-to” on setting up a virtual cluster;

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/compressor_multi_cores_stitzer.html

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Bill Dewald] “I’ve found that compressor does a better job of encoding the video than DVDSP. The cost is a little added time to your workflow”

If you have a virtual cluster set up, compressor can actually be the faster method as well as better quality. Much faster. But you do need a multi-core machine to do this.

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Dan Herz] “Can you also explain to me what a Raid drive actually is? And what is an Array?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks

Colin McQuillan
Vancouver, B.C.