Dennis Leppell
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Heck, I’m using fresh install of FCP6 on a new Imac with Lion. No performance issues what-so-ever (although it took some black magic to get installed).
Download and install the trial of Digital Rebellion’s Pro Maintenance Tools. Run Crash Analyzer. It will point you in the right direction of where your problem lies.
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/promaintenance/
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Yep, intentions are VERY different. Marcum underwater cameras are a sponsor of our show (a weekly hunting/fishing show), and a tool we use on the water year-round to view fish or underwater structure quickly in as deep as 50 feet of water. It would not be good to use a different camera for footage when we are trying to get the viewers to buy the Marcum. Before we’ve always had the ability to aquire the footage, but our newest camera (sony z7u) doesn’t have AV input, thus the need for an alternative.
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According to GoPro’s website, they only have AV output. I need input.
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I’m assuming you are looking to replicate the lens flare AND the transition. It’s two seperate components that are pretty easy to break down.
First is a default FCP lens flare, with most of the settings turned off, to look like a spotlight.
The transition is a light leak transition, possibly home made. Search vimeo, there’s a few available on there free to download.
The clip following the transition has the same default lens flare, just a bit bigger.
Most the other flares look like they came from Video Copilot, or were hand made and composited.
Good luck!
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I can’t answer about the blackmagic issue, but do what you can to get on a ProRes format…and yea, HQ is overkill, especially for the file sizes that you end up with.
The hard drive situation sounds much like what I stepped into at the job that I have. Failures, multiple drives, bottlenecks, and expandability can all be answered with a RAID of some sort. I’ve gotten our syndication system setup with a Caldigit VR set up as RAID 1. Great support, reliable, and expandable (hot swappable drives), affordable and FAST.
If/when you get a Caldigit VR, you can take care of the organization issues when you transfer files off the old drives onto the new one. You’ll have to deal with reconnecting media to old projects, but that shouldn’t be a big deal.
Bottlenecks from the hard drives will also be eliminated since USB will be removed from the equation (and make sure there’s no media on the system disk!). If the computer indicates more than one internal drive, be sure that one of those drives is not a partition of the system drive that they are storing media on.
Creating a cluster for compressor is easy. From a post earlier this week by Rafael Amador and S. Sheriff:
In the System Preferences, open the QMaster Preferences.
Set “Quickcluster with services”, and in the “Options for selected service”, set “8 instances”.
Then “Start Sharing”.
And when you submit the job in Compressor you have to select the virtual cluster, instead of ‘this computer’ from the drop down list. This should be available once you ‘start sharing’.Last, but not least….ensure they’ve got at least 8GB of RAM installed. It really does make a difference.
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check your master volume level in the Audio Mixer.
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convert that wav file to .aiff
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If I’m not mistaken, the HC9 is an HDV camera, so you’ll need to find someone with an HDV deck.
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I’m using the lower end model 15″, and am having no real problems to speak of. As a matter of fact, I’m exporting from AE right now, and the fans just kicked in. Not much louder than my playback deck. They usually only kick in during renders and exports.
FCP 7 has been working without any real issues….sometimes a slight lag when hitting play, but not a deal breaker. I attribute it to 1 of two reasons…the lower end graphics card (unlikely), or I’ve still only have 4 gigs RAM installed.
A couple of MUSTS. Go for the high resolution screen. This is standard on the 17″. Matte finish is dealers choice; I really don’t have a problem with the glossy finish.
Skinny USB extensions, or a hub. The ports are too close together to use more than 1 usb device in most cases….the narrow extensions can rectify that.
If you can afford it, go with the better processor in the 15″. It comes with the better graphics card, but the big key is you can’t upgrade processors later. Screen and RAM can be upgraded after purchase, but not the processors. (I got a great deal on my MBP, and it had the better screen, so in that case I’ve ignored my advice)
My only complaint about this complaint I have right now, is that it does get hot when on your lap, and they have been VERY slow in releasing thunderbolt devices and adapters….I’m hoping/waiting for TB to eSata converter. Hopefully one day….
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My guess….bad tracking from a misaligned head. Our old canon xl2’s were prone to this. After some time, the tapes would only play back smoothly in the xl2 itself, but choppy and pixelated in a deck….eventually it would get to where that wouldn’t even work, and the cameras had to go in for service (cleaning/aligning).
My recommendation would be to find the best deck you can get your hands on, and see if you can adjust the tracking to recover your footage, or possibly even find another HC9 and try to play back in that.