Don Greening
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[Matt Callac] “Can anyone advise me on what would be the best type of internal hard drive to perches for HD editing?”
Seagate or Hitachi drives are good.
– Don
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[Steve Woronko] “Is there any way to get rid of that totally?”
If you can’t find the missing component that’s prompting FCP to inform you it can’t load the Boris CC programming you have a couple of options:
– look for a de-install app. that may be available for Boris CC, either on the Boris program discs or at the Boris web site. Once the old components are removed re-install Boris CC.
– do a spotlight search on your startup drive for all remaining Boris CC components and remove the files manually.
– clone your startup drive to another one using programs like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper. Minimum Apple requirements for an external startup drive is firewire 400. Reformat your internal startup drive using your Mac OS install discs and re-install everything.
– Don
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You’re welcome. Good luck with your project.
– Don
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[Steve Woronko] “Is it on the FCP Install disc? “
The only Boris stuff that ships with FCP is the Title 3D plugin. As far as I know, Boris Continuum Complete is a separate set of Plugins that you go out and buy.
You might consider just de-installing FC Studio and re-installing everything from your install DVDs. Might save time in the long run. I use FCP Rescue all the time and I’ve never had it delete any critical software that FCP needs to run properly.
You can Google search for a de-installer program called FCS Remover. It’s a freebie app and will get rid of everything to do with FC Studio on your startup drive and allow you to do a fresh install.
– Don
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I think the Letus Ultimate reduces the available light by about one 1 F stop. Maybe a bit more. There shouldn’t be any discernible loss in picture quality. One of the earliest adopters of the EX/Letus combo does awesome work and swears by them.
https://www.philipbloom.co.uk/Philip_Bloom/Home.html
– Don
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[Michael Palmer] “Don, I haven’t been able to down convert using the new Clip Browser 2.0 with my EX1 HQ files”
I just read a recent post here that someone else tried and hasn’t been able to do it, either. I thought it was Craig but now I can’t seem to find the darned thread. I’m still using the very first version of Clip Browser and the only time I use it is just to preview the raw EX .mp4 files on site just before I empty the card. So…..can’t help you there 😉 Sorry.
– Don
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[Michael Palmer] “What Camera are they shooting with?”
They’re using the F350, Michael.
– Don
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[Steve Cohen] “Not sure if I want to edit in HD and then output to SD (haven’t done this yet) or down convert to SD during Digitizing”
Probably the least expensive way, rental-wise to get your media into FCP is to rent the PDW-U1 XDCAM Disc reader/writer. The drawback is that it’s a USB 2.0 interface only. Here’s a link to a Sony PDF brochure that contains the info on this deck on page 15.
https://pro.sony.com/bbsccms/assets/files/micro/xdcam/brochures/xdcamhd_family.pdf
The more expensive way, but probably much faster in the long run, is to rent the deck you’ve referred to in your post and connect to your Mac Pro using HD-SDI if you have something like a Kona board, which would also also allow you to down-convert the files to SD on the fly.
However you slice it you’re still going to need some sort of XDCAM Disc reader. You can use the Sony Transfer Tool to transfer files from any of the XDCAM decks if that’s the way you want to go.
You can also do your FCP edit numerous ways, depending on how you like to work:
-edit in HD and output a self-contained SD movie with whatever SD codec that’s required using the “Export Using Quicktime Conversion” command.
– creating an SD timeline right away and dragging your HD files or already down converted SD files into the sequence. After the edit simply render and export a self-contained QT movie using current settings.
– if the final delivery is for DVD you can edit and export a full HD movie and Compressor will create an MPEG2 version. Or you can export directly to Compressor within FCP.
– if your final SD letterboxed movie is for broadcast then you need to output to tape. Connect the appropriate deck and FCP will export to that as well.
– Don
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You need Toast v.9
– Don
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Once you read the definition at the link below you’ll have a better idea whether or not the programs you have now will do what you want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
– Don