[Devin Crane]

Sorry Per but your dead wrong, we do it every week, we record a 3 hour program twice each weekend directly from our cameras into 3 editors plus 2 Xdcam decks that can record only 45 minutes at a time. When the footage from the Xdcam breaks we take the next clip make a cut in the multicam timeline and drag it over the angle or camera in the Viewer that needs to be preplaced, a small window pops up and gives us several options one of which is replace it. Simple as long as you don’t have to do this 100 times.

[Devin Crane]

You don’t need a copy of the codec, it’s included in FCP since version 5.

[Devin Crane]

Thanks Walter, probably won’t be getting it anytime soon but nice to know what different options are available.

[Devin Crane]

I’ve always been intrigued by Flame and Smoke after watching some demos at NAB years ago but what’s the big deal for a product that costs $15k. What does it do that AE can’t other than being able to edit in the timeline? Looks like a cool product but just wondering why it merits such a high price.

[Devin Crane]

The New Mac Mini “Server” that was announced last month should theoretically support the current FCS since they upgraded the graphics card to the Nvidia 9400m and should work fine as a render machine. However I don’t think you would need to purchase the server option on the Mini. If you would turn file sharing on in your system preferences and hook into your main computer via GigE from the Mini you should be able to use this as a rendering station. There’s a lot more to it than that but yes the new Mac Mini’s should be able to support FCS.

[Devin Crane]

Yes, this inspired me to turn it on my assistant editors computer. It’s good for a cheap laugh!

[Devin Crane]

Got it that time.

Thanks!

[Devin Crane]

I’m sorry but I’m either that thick in the head or I’m missing something in the link because it’s sending me to someone who’s posting about the KI pro and media manager and there’s no company or anything else, the last response on the thread was from JG asking “How exactly are you using the media manager? What process?”. No company or solution is mentioned.

Thanks for the help
DC

[Devin Crane]

Sorry not seeing how the 2 are similar. I’ve got a file that was not properly closed in VTR Exchange due to it crashing and trying to restore it since QT won’t open even though all the Gigabytes are there from the recording.

[Devin Crane]

Not a 100% sure what your looking for but you might want to take a look at the Telestream Pipeline encoder. It can handle 2 streams of HD or there’s a 4 stream SD version that hooks up to your Mac Pro via Gig E. It can also do a multicam edit on the fly while you’re recording.