[Dave Gage]

Craig,

Any thoughts on which of the two methods he described would be preferred? He did say the “effect” approach on the Video tab would be a better choice for slow motion effects.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

He said the proper setting for that clip would be “lower first”. Any idea why he would say that? Both upper and lower choices seemed to work.

I’m trying to shoot everything these days in 30p as it’s all going to the web, so it may be moot, but it’s nice to know this option is there.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Craig,

Agreed. By the way, if anyone finds this post in the future and wants more info, this is the page I got the Mac Network Preferences steps from-
https://208.69.38.205/

This page also outlines how to set up open dns at the router level (as well as Windows configs) so your whole home network is fixed all at once. Since I’m the only one accessing creativecow.net or having dns problems, I would likely just make the change via my own Network Preferences.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

Craig,

I just “googled” OpenDNS. If I run into problems again, I’ll give it a go. It looks to be easy to set up:

Mac OS X

1. Go to System Preferences.
2. Click on Network.
3. Select the first connection in your list and click Advanced.
4. Select the DNS tab and add 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 to the list of DNS servers.
5. Click OK

I hate to fix things that aren’t truly broken (yet), but this appears to be a simple solution.

Thanks,
Dave

By the way, great discussion over here-
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/344/3871
“Selecting all clips after click point”

[Dave Gage]

Craig,

Good to know, I’ll give it a go.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Craig,

Okay, it likely will be just fine. I seem to remember a number of posts at the Apple FCP forums with people blaming Perian for audio related problems. I also did a search a couple of days ago and found a bunch of posts for “perian and FCP”, but the majority of them said they tried disabling it in the System Prefs and still had whatever issue they were having.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Eli,

Good points, thanks for the response.

Dave

[Dave Gage]

Tony,

“…but Dave, I’m sure you’re like me and want to have easy access to the files in the future since you might not always have a tape deck laying around to load stuff in.”

You got it.

“Hard drives will get you by for now as long as you keep multiple backups and switch out hard drives every few years.”

Yep, and hopefully, I’ll pick up a Blu-ray burner this year. I really don’t have that much stuff from this camera, so with the hard drives, it should suffice.

I was thinking the same thing about the ProRes over the DV50. I guess I just wanted to hear someone else say it too.

“2) Put it in your museum for clients to admire the old days.”

Oh, said but true. I’ll check eBay, but I don’t imagine there is much use for a camera like this any more. I’d save it for my kids, but they are 6 and 8, so it would be a bit of a wait.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

John,

I do plan to keep the tapes, just not the camera, which would make it difficult to access the tapes down the road if I wanted to. Fortunately, there is no work related material on the tapes, I believe it’s all just family stuff as I was just starting out with video.

As I said in the original post, there aren’t too many tapes to worry about. I guess the main question is to archive as DV or ProRes.

Thanks,
Dave

[Dave Gage]

Yes, that was an excellent big picture view of the FCP-X Primary Storyline and it’s relationship to a FCP 7 sequence, nested sequences, ripple edits, etc. It took me a while to get through the 51 minutes as I kept stopping to take notes.

Thanks for posting this,
Dave