Erik Wright-olsen
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If I’m editing in Final Cut Pro, once I’ve transcoded 1080p 24fps footage, is there a snowball’s chance in heck that a 5400 rpm drive will work, or do I need 7200?
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In Photoshop? I usually use the marquee tool first. With that, you can select a fixed aspect ratio. When I have the marquee tool as I want it, then I use the Crop item in the menu, not the crop tool.
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[Kevin Monahan] “Encode overnight.”
The only problem here is that when I’m in full-tilt production mode, I’m already using overnights for either capturing or editing to tape.
Is there a way to do both? Like, with AppleScript, if I know that the last thing I do before I leave is to get a two hour program onto tape, can I write something like “wait two and a half hours, then tell Final Cut Pro to close this file, yes to save the changes, then open this-here other file and get it encoding”?
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Yeah, it seems that the issue isn’t so much render time per se, it’s productive time. So if it takes, say, nine hours but I can still use my G5 for other stuff, that’s a lot better than four hours during which my G5 is occupied.
But I would have to do drive swappin’, eh? There’s no way that I could have my load of drives connected to both machines, and switch off which projects are using which drives in software, is there?
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At work I have a dual 2 GHz G5, but at home I have a Mac Mini with a single 1.25 GHz G4. FCP 4.5 on both machines, and I edit DV resolution. It’s not about to set any land speed records–I can definitely tell it’s slower if I’m paying attention to it. But if I’m just editing, I don’t notice.
What I do miss is a lot of things being realtime on the G5 that aren’t on the G4. No problem, really. I’m always editing from external drives and I walk them back and forth between office and home on occasion. If I edit something on the G4 that needs a lot of realtime effects, I just don’t render them. When I have the drives at work to lay off to tape, the beefier processor means no render’s necessary.
Maybe a similar semi “offline/online” edit situation would work for you?
I also use After Effects on the Mini. Renders aren’t great, but it’s fine to use. (Renders give me an excuse to take a lunch break, too.)
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Yep, it did. Thanks! (I would have responded earlier, but it has definitely been one of THOSE days!)
Thank you again.
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About 40 minutes after you posted your reply, I started the Edit To Tape I’d been trying to do all day. It seemed fine getting started, but I had to leave the office right after that. We’ll see tomorrow morning how successful it indeed was… but I feel good about my odds. Thanks for the response!