[David Sikes]

Thank you all so much for your extremely helpful answers!

I’m pretty sold on this camera – the question is the lenses, but the information y’all gave really helps in guiding that decision!

Hooray for the Cow!

[David Sikes]

That one looks great!

So, is there no manual control of the iris when shooting video with the t2i? Will it only function automatically, like the sound?

[David Sikes]

Thanks for the answer! Is there a particular lens you’d recommend me to start with?

Is there no manual control of the iris while shooting video?

[David Sikes]

Thanks for the tip!

I’m sorry to ask amateur questions, but how can I know the difference? And what is the reason for needing a fixed F-Stop?

[David Sikes]

Yeah, that looks great! And the identical kit only costs $100 more than the t1i!

I think Canon’s the way to go for several reasons. The newest I’ve learned about is Magic Lantern. That firmware looks fantastic, and it’s way more likely to come to the t2i than a Nikon (obviously).

Thanks for the suggestion! I think that’s the direction I may go in!

[David Sikes]

I’ve had absolutely no problems in the almost 2 months running the full Final Cut Studio 2 on my 2.4 GHz 20″ iMac with 2 GB memory.

I’ve had no problems working between Motion, FCP, or any apps in the Studio. The render time is good (definately better than the G5 I use at work), and stability is great!

– David

[David Sikes]

Mac the Ripper is just a DVD EXTRACTER. It does no conversion.

I use Handbrake (https://handbrake.m0k.org/?article=download), but my boss uses MPEG Streamclip. They’re both free.

Both work very simply:

Select the Video_TS file in the DVD

Choose your settings (Handbrake has a ton of presets: from iPod to Quicktime to MPEG 2)

Click start and let it crank away!

[David Sikes]

Another huge benefit I found to properly logging, is that you can SAVE your logged in/out points. If anything goes wrong while batch capturing, you can just start over by just clicking ‘batch capture’ instead of having to go through the entire process of marking in/out.

Happy capturing!

[David Sikes]

I’d also recommend the Apple Pro Training Series books. They really give a grasp all the features that Final Cut has to offer, through learning tutorials; also, its the book you need to go through to become certified by apple as an end user or trainer.

https://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321502655