[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks David … I will try it ….
I’m using to give a little clean up on actor’s face …. cause nobody is perfect … lol

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

David,
All filters that I’m using are from Red Giant:
Primate Keyer
Magic bullet colorista II
Magic bullet Denoiser

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

David …. that what I was thinking !
thanks for your understanding.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

You are right Michael. At the moment I dropped the Chroma Key filter, it asked for render. I did it to see the work. I had to do some color correction on footages that came from the Sony HDV camera and …. more render ….. At the Denoiser moment …. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and sometimes during the render it looses the sample and I had to stop the render, resample and render again …. . What a hell !!!

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks everybody for your responses but what I can see from them is that I would have to go for a Mac Pro, lots of Ram and a big Array/Raid.

I’m sure, Mac Pro is the right way to go. But I’m out of budget now. I live in a country where Macs cost more than twice comparing to US. Most of the time I have to wait for a travel to US to buy my stuffs. When I do it, I always, when I can, try to buy the top of the line of the moment.

As I’ve mentioned before, I have those 5 HD kept in a drawer and using them on a good enclosure with eSata connection could also be useful in a future Mac Pro and I would be saving money instead of buying those “whole” storing solution from Sonnet, CalDigi and etc .. that already comes with their HDs.
And even when I get my Mac Pro, having the Express Card on my MBP is worth.
Moreover, upgrading the RAM of my MBP from 4 to 6GB wouldn’t be bad.

Greetings,
Fredy

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Thanks for your response Bob. I always read what you write. I always get some inspiration and sometimes, when you are a little sarcastic, you provide me a funny time …lol
I’m sure, as you said, Mac Pro is the right way to go. But I’m out of budget now. I live in a country where Macs cost more than twice comparing to US. Most of the time I have to wait for a travel to US to buy my stuffs. When I do it, I always, when I can, try to buy the top of the line of the moment and thats what I did the last time with my MBP.
If, again as you said, “So will it be better – sure it will…”, will improve a little my work time, I will go for it trying to find someone to bring me those stuffs.
As I’ve mentioned before, I have those 5 HD kept in a drawer and using them on a good enclosure with eSata connection could also be useful in a future Mac Pro and I would be saving money instead of buying those “whole” storing solution from Sonnet, CalDigi and etc .. that already comes with their HDs.
And even when I get my Mac Pro, having the Express Card on my MBP is worth.
Moreover, upgrading my RAM from 4 to 6GB wouldn’t be bad.

Greetings,
Fredy

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Hi David,
As I always like your answers around Creative Cow, I’m sending to you some words of a post that I just did and if you could, I would like to read your thought about it.

Greetings,
Fredy.

” Dear friends:
I’m in a crossroads.
The bottom line is: The HD is knocking my door and I’m trying to solve my problems.
I’m using my MacBook Pro as described on my profiles and FCS on a “Blue Screen” production that has mixed materials from Canon D5 (HD) and a Sony HDV camera.
First I captured everything to Prores 422. So far so good …..
But when I start to apply filters (Chroma Key, Color correction, Denoisers) and increasing the number of tracks, FCP start screaming asking for render (I’m using a 500GB external HD over FW 800). Sometimes, based on experience (not as great as some of you guys), I do things and pray to be ok after rendering some clips. But I can not live like that ! It is frustrating most of the time.
I can’t increase the speed of the processors but I’m thinking to make better connections to my external drives and put more RAM.
Three things I’ve read here and there on internet and I would like some advices and a word if they are right or not.

1- Use a Express Card/34 with a eSata connection which is faster than FW 800.

2- Build a eSata RAID. (Which RAID would be better ?)
For that I would need an enclosure to use 4 or 5 HD that are getting dusty on a drawer. They were used only once on an old production.
Capacity- 750GB
Interface- Sata 3Gb/s
RPM- 7200
Avg.Seek- 8.9 ms
Buffer- 16MB

Does anyone know the product: OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Qx2 ?
Link: https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEQX2KIT0GB/

3- Now it is possible to put 6GB of RAM on MBP
In a short past, 4GB (2 x 2GB) were the most you could use on MBP but now I can see on internet, companies selling 6GB Kit (1 x 4GB + 1 x 2GB) for MBP. Does it really works ?

As buying a Mac Pro or change the processor of my Macbook Pro are out of question, would those things above help me ?
thanks fellows. ”

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

“AIFF files can be large enough to force a lower data rate for the video”

I’ve heard that once …..

Thanks.

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Everything was OK on your 4 options !
To double check I’ve duplicated the sequence in FCP and before changing to PRORES HQ, I re-exported the sequence and the same wacky thing happened. But with the HQ codec it didn’t.
Mysteries of QT ??? lol

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[Fredy Schwerdtner]

Sorry I had not update my profiles …. Now it is done.
I’m running Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and the latest version of FCS.

thanks.
Fredy.

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