[Edward Bishop]

Hi Gary

I based the 2k Pro Res workflow on the statement below which comes from the website and you are absolutely right, they say don’t use 2k. Thanks for this reminder.

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‘Transfer the entire contents of your RED-FLASH CF card or RED-DRIVE to another drive for editing (RAID storage is recommended for best performance)

Import the desired QuickTime reference movies into a new FCP project. You can use either the 2K or 1K sized reference movies. On a MacBook Pro laptop, we recommend the use of 1K size movies.

Select the ProRes HQ 1080p easy setup in FCP to render files and create an online quality, HD rendered media for finishing.’

[Edward Bishop]

Thanks Ed.

I thought this might be the case, so I’m hoping capture and playback to and from an eSATA can be achieved using the spyder HUB connected to the FW800 port when I have the MX02 plugged in.

Thanks for the info
Ed

[Edward Bishop]

Great. Thanks for this Chris

[Edward Bishop]

Hi Chris

Thanks for this.

At the moment all workflows will be centered on my Macbook Pro, so no going on to a MacPro for increased CPU speed and connectivity.

I’ll be working with all the common SD formats and compressed HD. In fact the reason I’m posting is because I’m probably going to have to do a Red Camera job in the next few weeks so I want to be able to work with Pro Res 2k files as easily as I can. Hence why I want the eSATA unit. I think, from what I read, that the setup I outlined in the earlier post will just about be up to it. Also I need to work with XDCAM, DVCproHD and the other common compressed HD formats.

As you mention, having the eSATA unit hooked up to the Spyder HUB and then connected to the FW800 port, will reduce bandwith to that of firewire 800, but my thinking is that if there is no immediate need to have the Matrox hooked up, then I can just connect the eSATA unit to the Express slot and enjoy all the bandwith that it offers. Then when it comes to sitting with the client I root the eSATA through the HUB and connect the Matrox back to the Express slot.

Do you think this makes sense?
Also if I downcovert HD in realtime during capture, is a FW800 connection going to be sufficient. I’m thinking it should be at Pro Ress is about 14 – 20 MB/s and the FW800 connection has bandwith of around 50MB/s.

Thanks again for your thoughts

Ed

[Edward Bishop]

Hi Bob

Just got a call from AJA and they tell me that DVCPro HD 720p50 is not a supported format in FCP projects with a 25fps time base.

Not sure whether I’ve got this right but because my editing time base is 25fps I can’t playback 50fps Varicam footage.

The rather convoluted work around is to go to the Effects Handling Tab in System Settings, turn off FCP as effects handler for Uncompressed 8bit and then do all your editing in 8 bit sequences. Of course everything needs rendering so its totally impractical.

CAn this be true? If it is I hope that its an issue resolved in FCP 6

Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post and hope my info helps you