Geoff Addis
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Thanks, Tom. I guessed that it must be something simple tyhat I had overlooked!
Geoff
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The ‘shudders’ seem to have been sorted out, but still unable to save colour calibration settings. Otherwise running smoothley on 1080i/1080p25.
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I would suggest that you contact DVC in brighton,https://www.dvc.uk.com, they are great guys to deal with and really know the business. I would also suggest that you look at Edius as it is a great real time performing and stable system.
Geoff
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See page 509 et seq of Apple’s FCPX User Guide that is downladable as a pdf document.
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Surely the award is to recognise the skill of the editor, not the tool set!
Geoff
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Just a short follow up to my earlier post.
The demo version of Edius does not come with the additional third party FX that are supplied with the full version. Of these, I find the Mercalli stabilising software the most valuable; it only stabilises the selected part of the clip, is incredibly fast and is one of the best that I have used.
Wipes are found in the SMPTE section of filters.
A software bridge provides access to After Effects Plug-Ins.
I think that the FCP X chroma inlay is perhaps a little easier/better than that of Edius, but that is not to say Edius’s is unusable and there is a very good third part plug-in available (can’t remember the name, offhand).
Edius’s audio capabilities may be limited for some, but you can export XML.
Its multi cam editing is very good.
And finally,
I remember editing video tape with Ferrofluid and a razor blade, so that dates me!!
Geoff
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I’ve been a long time user of Edius, also Premiere CS5, FCP7 and FCP X since its launch. In the pre FCP X days, when I commented how slow and render intensive FCP7 was I was looked upon as I if didn’t know what I was talking about, how could anything be better than FCP? FCP X has changed things and now I hear from these same people how much the old FCP needed to improve and how terrible FCP X is! My experience with X gives me hope, in many ways it is far more efficent than FCP 7, but it still has a long way to go to catch up Edius’s real time performance and stability. Colour correction is a breeze and I would suggest that for anyone interested, it is worth down loading a 30 day trial also looking at these tutorials and GV announcement:
https://www.grassvalley.com/news/pres…ing-reputation
https://www.onscreentraining.com/
https://grassvalley.csod.com/selfreg/register.aspx?c=gvedius6
https://www.misterfrag.com/EdiusWBCC.wmvNote:
GV is to make their codec cross platform and that they provide input/output hardware that is suitable for brodcast monitoring.
The software does not utilise either GV or other graphics cards for accelerating their own FX.
If you have a Black Magic Intensity Pro card, that may be used for ingest although it does not (at yet?) provide an output.
+True, Edius may not be suitable for everyone, but for many it could be the answer.
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My understanding is that FCP X’s file conversion is to ProRes 422, not ProRes 422LT. I totally agree with Olaf, but interestingly I have found that AVCHD from an AF101, when converted by FCP X, does not play back well on an external monitor connected via a BM Intensity Pro when the Best Quality setting in FC P X preferences is chosen – it drops frames. However, ProRes 422 originated on a Samurai recorder plays back fine under the Best Quality preference! The 422 colour of the Samurai is definately a bonus when it comes to grading and it also seems to improve perceived resolution, in practice it doesn’t.
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Good news, pleased to hear that its all going well.
Focusrite have a good reputation.
geoff
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Beta 2 working here with Intensity Pro on 1920×1080 50i story line. Source material has been ProRes 422 from a Samurai, this will playback in Best Quality mode without dropped frames plus XDCAM EX and AVCHD (AH101) converted to ProRes by FCP X, but these two need to be played back in Best Performance mode as selected in FCP X Prefs to avoid dropping frames. The activity monitor shows max of 15% user, even when attempting to play the converted XDCAM EX and AVCHD files.
Using mid 2010 3.2GHx Quad MacPro with 16GB RAM and ATI 5780 graphics.
Geoff