[Frank Philip]

I’ve been editing DV25 material on a iMac 2.0ghz with 2gigs of ram and the standard graphics card that came with it. Motion and color runs fine for me for wedding and small corporate stuff. The reason I mentioned those programs are because they are the most taking on the graphic card. Rendering in final cut using the dynamic button is fine for me, but maybe not when a client is expecting close to 100% quality at all times.

The reason I choose the iMac was for cost versus Mac Pro, but also a trial run to work with FCP, and I must say that the interface is much cleaner and intuitive.

I come from about seven years working on a custom made pc running Premiere Pro 1.5 on a Matrox RTX100 system. My main reason for leaving PC was the constant crashes, blue screen of death.

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[Frank Philip]

I’m with you on this. I’m sick and tired of having these problems with my Canon XL1 and GL1 not syncing properly during capture now. Mine is about the same around 25-30 frames off.

Another issue I have is when I sync things together. I’m viewing the video out from the XL1 to a monitor and audio using “built in”. At this point everything is in sync. As soon as I turn off video monitoring everything is out of sync inside FCP canvas. I also tried out putting audio to the client monitor with video and same thing – no sync.

Is there a better way? What is the correct way to monitor audio and video. I never had these problems with Premiere Pro, Vegas, Liquid, and Media Studio Pro.

Thanks,

Frank

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[Frank Philip]

This is probably the wrong area to post on this thread but I want to know how you are monitoring your audio. Currently I have a iMac with firewire out to my Canon XL1 for a digital to analog conversion to a 20″ monitor via composites. Is it better to run audio through iMac’s on board speakers or through the 20″ monitor? There’s an obvious delay between the video on the iMac and the 20″ monitor.

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[Frank Philip]

What’s the best way to convert to AAC? Will the conversion mess up any a/v sync?

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[Frank Philip]

I checked the format and they are both the same. I’m not able to burn a hour and half video on to a single layer dvd? I’ve done this before after tweaking the encoding portion in DVDSP. Even going to the lowest VBR (two pass) it still won’t fit onto a single layer dvd.

I changed DVDSP parameters then saved and exited. Opened DVDSP and same thing. Not enough space.

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