Gary Askham
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Sorry if I’m wrong (I’m in the UK and don’t deal with NTSC/drop frame issues often) but isn’t drop frame only applicable with 29.97fps (NTSC footage). It doesn’t have any purpose in the 24fps world.
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I’m also interested in how other people deal with this.
We have 2 new DaVinci systems and I’m still trying to figure out a backup routine. Another thing I’ve come up against is trying to move projects between the two DaVinci’s
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I’m with the others.
How can you teach a class (doesn’t matter if it’s paid or not) when you don’t seem to know the first thing about setting up a project? I’ve spent the last 15 years of my life learning this stuff and I still would think twice about taking on a teaching class.
I have done a little bit of film lighting in my time – short films, the odd interview. If someone asked me to do a class on film lighting I would say no. I wouldn’t go on a web forum and ask how I should put the class together.
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Have you tried Digital Rebellion’s FCS Maintenance Pack? It has a utility that can open corrupt FCP projects.
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Sorry, I misunderstood the original post – I thought he had P2 DVCPro HD files… but I think that’s the media he has already got which he is trying to match the Mp4’s to.
In which case, I concur. Using the Compressor presets is the answer. I sometimes find that Compressor becomes quite unresponsive when working with large amounts of h.264. In which case I use Mpeg Streamclip (which has a batch converter that not many people know about)
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You shouldn’t need to use Compressor or any other 3rd party applications. Final Cut Pro’s Log and Transfer works with most pro video formats.
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I agree with Shane. It’s a good idea to set your autosave vault to a physically separate drive to the project you are working from.
I tend to work from a project which is on the desktop, my autosave vault will be on my media drive and at the end of every day I backup my project to an offsite server and I add the days date to the project’s name.
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We use Open Directory on all our FCP systems.
The advantages are…
– Every user has a unique login.
– Doesn’t matter which system you are working on, your user settings, dock preferences, Mail settings etc follow you around.
– It sets permissions to XSAN so you can only access the files and folders you are meant to.The disadvantages are…
– You need an administrator to take care of the server.
– Syncing is slow, complex and doesn’t always work.
– All staff need to understand the system.————————
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Yep, I had this issue and found that if you leave the system to get on while it ingest then you’re fine.
I still prefer Log and Capture as it is the only way you can add Reel Names and Timecode to your clips.
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RAID 0 drives are designed for speed and for large files. FCP projects tend to be smaller and sometimes don’t play well with RAID drives (never work from a project that is on a SAN or RAID).
Remember that FCP also has point releases – a project created in Final Cut Pro 7.0 may not open in Final Cut Pro 7.3 without the warning coming up.
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