Darren Peister
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Thank you for your suggestions. YES: we did check to make sure they can play the digitbeta and stretch it. But we also made BluRay discs and hope that they will project the movie that way as the frame rate would stay native along with the aspect ratio. Indeed the DVDs do look good but of course the BluRays look even better! Of geeky interest, when I tried to play out the movie to tape the computer gave me under run errors and stopped. I ended up having to run TechTool and defragging the media drive (took many hours!) but that did the trick. I guess the ProRezHQ data rate was quite taxing to the system- even though the external media drive was wired up via a SATA cable to the CPU. Thanks again.
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When I marked in/out on a multiclip in the viewer, the option to make a subclip is grayed out. I’m using locaters but would really like to have made subclips. Thoughts?
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Todd, the idea would be to edit in a lower rez version of HD that takes up significantly less space on my edit system’s RAID and in turn the Raid would be capable of doing the 8-camera switch. I would not be editing in SD which is a plus and because the format is a variation of ProRez, FCP should be “happier” with the codec and not crash on me. It seems logical to me; dumb down for the edit while staying in HD and keeping the content moving along without choking.
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I just finished a job for PBS that was shot and then edited in XDCam. The codec bogged my (very fast new) system down. I’d jump to ProRez next time in a heartbeat. The stop/start/render time was a bummer and put a kink in my creative flow.
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Walter, since we’re still in the FCP novice section, can you explain how the AJA card assists in your workflow? I’m presuming you use the card to capture footage all at ProRez. But here’s a question; once all of your footage is ingested, does the AJA card assist you in any way during the actual edit; ie- does it speed up rendering time or processing?
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After a moment of desperation, I shut off the client monitor (View, Video Playback: none) and the video plays down in FCP! So the question then is: Why wont it play back in the client monitor? Hmmmm. Stumped.
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The footage is DVCProHD100 and it was captured in another system. I copied that footage from the client’s drive to my 1TB drive and connected it to my CPU via a SATA cable. The client monitor on my system comes from the CPU’s 2nd monitor output (that tiny apple-proprietary port) and an adapter to HDMI then connects it via HDMI to the monitor. Understand that this setup was working fine before I intalled v7 of the software. I have a raid-0 set of drives in the CPU; (3) 1TB drives striped as one. As a test I pulled a file from that internal raid that I used in my last project into my current project and it will not play either. I can only hear it and the monitors update once I pause on a shot. That shot wouldnt even frame up correctly in the viewer. It was stretched too far left to right. What is going on????
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The footage was already captured by another house and the drive was sent to me so whatever they did, I have. I know they did not upconvert the footage upon ingest so it exists as SD. I do not have a video card (yet). Knowing this scenario, what would you suggest? I could edit all the digibeta material in clusters then get it into HD but the question remains; by what method? Compressor? Media Manager? By timeline resize/render? Thanks.
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THE Tom Wolsky replied to my post? (Swoon).
I understand that the AVCHD file is highly compressed and not FCP friendly. It just seems bizarre that there’s no corresponding sized file or similarly sized file created by FCP. You import a grape; you get a watermelon at the other end- no option to make a kiwi or an orange. Is there perhaps a program (kind of like MPEG Streamclip) that can convert the files from the camera and make FCP compatible files before importing them? Thoughts on this?
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Dennis, do you think that because I’m working natively in HDV that this might be one of the reasons my timeline wont play out so easily? Playback still stops on a dime- when it hits a “green” section implying something is to be renedered but should play through, it wont. The playback stops and I get the under run error box. I can hit “play” again and it will pick up. Thoughts?
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Mac Pro 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
16 GB RAM, 3Gig internal Raid