Craig Thomas quinlan
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Your XML is fine. Just change the ‘Open with…’ in the get info window for your XML, and hit ‘Change all’. You’d want to open it with FCP on your machine, but you can also open xmls in text edit. The person you’re giving this file to will know what to do with it at any rate.
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It depends on the material you want to edit. Since you only want 1TB my guess is you’re editing very low-bandwidth media. Look @ Gtech for a really solid redudant raid1 FW/eSata array. Some people use LaCie quadras but LaCie has never given us anything other than problems. Your mileage may vary…
If you need to graduate to something that can handle higher-bandwidth material (not to mention more capacity), look at the Maxx Digital evo2k and 4k line. You’d need a tower, of course, if you’re not already using one.
Figure out your bandwidth requirements before you make a purchase.
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What camera are you using? If by 24p you mean 23.976, then yes. If you mean 24.000, then you need to either shoot in 23.98 (if you can) or conform later once you ingest your material. Going to Pro Res is a great option for the h264 footage (is this a canon 7d you’re working with?)
Why are you using MPEG streamclip instead of Compressor? MPSC in my opinion has more room for error. Compressor will give you very nice ProRes HQ files in 23.98 for FCP to work with.
Your audio will depend on whether you’re shooting @ 23.98 or 24.000. No framerate for audio per se, you just need to figure out if you need to slow it for sync or not.
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Couple of things. You need to convert 5d material before you edit, plain and simple. 5D h.264 is problematic for FCP as well as the frame rate (30, not 29.97, etc.). There are many ways to do this… think about converting to Pro Res for editing. Use compressor, although some use Cinema Tools for the 30 to 29.97 conform.
This is half of the problem. The other half is throughput – don’t ever edit from your OS drive. It needs to run your OS and apps and shouldn’t be used for media. For ProRes, you can use an external FW drive or eSata drive to play back a couple of streams.
Also, visit this site. It’s at least worth looking at.
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/finalcutstudio/5dtofcp.html -
Try this: https://www.digitalrebellion.com/compressor_repair.htm
You may also want to try uninstalling and reinstalling compressor; do a quick search on these forums on how to do this. This might be your best bet.
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We use this all the time for media that is backed up elsewhere or can be recaptured, nothing else. You can get some great speeds with a three drive R0. You just have to work with the understanding that if you lose one drive, you lose everything. We’ve had several clients lose media this way. Do yourself a favor and buy good enterprise-level sata drives if you’re not getting them from apple. We like Hitachi Ultrastars over here.
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People usually get this error message when they are trying to open up a FCP project file in an older version of FCP than it was made on (5.1 project file on 5.0, for example.) However, this message is one of a few ambiguous errors that come up in FCP, so standard troubleshooting applies – trash your prefs using Preference manager, try opening the project file on another machine, ensure that all versions of FCP between machines are the same, etc., etc. You might also try opening earlier versions from your autosave vault and do a Save As, in case this error references a corruption in the project file.
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Have you tried opening earlier iterations of the project from your autosave vault? Open one timestamped right before it vanished, and copy it into the latest version of the project file.
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Option + W will turn on overlays in the timeline. This allows you to adjust levels directly in the timeline. For finer adjustments, hold down Command while you raise or lower the levels.
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Macbooks aren’t designed for pro video editing, and people have a lot of trouble with some of the studio apps on a Macbook (namely Color, which for fcp 5.x doesn’t apply, but you’ll upgrade someday). You absolutely need a macbook pro if you want to do any heavy lifting with FCP. You can technically run it on your machine, sure, but you’re setting yourself up for frustration.