[Ed Dooley]

Sassy, I’ve been called many things, but never sassy. Thanks 🙂
Try a google search “bud lite real heroes music and you’ll find this:
https://omega.med.yale.edu/~pcy5/budlight/
Ed (sassy Ed)

[Ed Dooley]

It’s fine (and highly recommended) to have all your apps on drives other than your media drives.
Put all apps on the boot drive and all video/audio files on the media drives.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Halogen lights are hot lights, so there won’t be any flicker issue with them. I’m a little skeptical of
a hotel ballroom where there will be presentations using 50 watt lights though. That’s like a regular
residential lamp light bulb. My Arri tungsten lights are 2,000, 1,000 and 600 watts. I would be hard
pressed to light a big ballroom with all 9,000 watts. One other thing, be careful about flourescents showing
up in the background somewhere, they’ll still flicker and can ruin the shot.
I’ve used these guys, just once, but they were good:
https://www.camalot.nl/
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

1)Hitachi, Seagate, and the higher end Maxtors are all good.
1a) Would work fine, but remember when using some apps, like Photoshop, you need a big swap-file or cache buffer.
1b) Yes
2)The only benefit would be if you wanted to have 2 SATA internal drives as your media drives and you didn’t want
to add another internal drive for booting from. Using the FW drive for booting would allow you to stripe the 2 internal drives.
2a)Yep, that would work, but why not go with a bigger drive, not much more $ and it will accomodate more files for moving around
2b)Go with a 7,200 RPM drive
I used a FW drive for booting in a G4 MDD. I put 4 drives in the box, striped, and it worked great for years (still works fine actually)
Ed

[WaterBoy] “editing wise, there’s nothing more attractive than a rock solid FCP system, especially when the guy behind you is editing on an AVID and it’s crashing all the time.

so here’s my questions:

1.) what’s the best brand of internal SATA drive to use as my FCP start-up drive?
1a.) would a smaller drive work OK? it should, but is there a benefit of having extra space?
1b.) can/should i run all of FCS (FCP,Motion,DVDSP) on this separate start-up disk?

2.) is there a benefit of using a FireWire drive as a start-up disk?
2a.) if so, would a small portable 80g work OK? my thinking is i could take FCP/FCS with me and use clients machines when necessary.
2b.) smaller FW drives tend to run at the 5400rpms. is this OK or is 7200rpms required?

i’m sure most of this is “master of the obvious” questions, but i’d rather not go down a road of time & $$$ that i cannot afford.”

[Ed Dooley]

Gee, did you do a search? I googled “bud lite” “real men of genius” and came up with a bunch.
here are the MP3s for all of them
https://thefuntimesguide.com/movabletype/archives/2004/10/bud_light_real.html
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

It says USB2 here:
>>>>Catapult is the world’s first device to allow capture of video footage from DV or HDV video cameras directly to iPods or virtually any USB drive, and begin editing immediately.<<<<< But further down says: >>>The Catapult is designed to work with DV and HDV format cameras that include a FireWire connection, such as those from Sony, Canon, JVC, and Panasonic.<<< Which is it? Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You can simply scale it in FCP, although some folks say that the scaler in After Effects is better.
Or you can hire a company to do hardware scaling, which gives the best quality, at a price.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

You could also look at Flip4Mac to create WM9 files. If you were happy with WMV on a PC, the F4M plug-in lets you create them on Macs.
Depending on who your audience is, it could be the best solution.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

Yes, no problem. Dubai is 220v 50hz, buy an adaptor plug and you’re all set.
Ed

[Ed Dooley]

I forgot this part: NOOOOOOOO!!! you can’t fix it in post. There are tons of posts of this very problem
on COW forums and elsewhere, and nothing in post gets rid of it completely. Best to not let it get that far. I’ve also
noticed that strobe can be very subtle, so when you’re shooting you may not notice it until it’s too late. I
would look very carefully at your viewfinder and field monitor to make sure it’s not showing up.
HTH,
Ed

[Mike Hennessey] “Can I fix it in post as I am going to have to digitize the footage anyhow?”