[Geoff Watson]

What do you use this card for? Does it replace your existing graphics card? I do a lot of work in After Effects and am considering purchasing Da Vinci Resolve for color grading. I also have a Mac Pro 1,1.

Thanks

[Geoff Watson]

[Dave LaRonde] “So you ought to both have Final Cut Suite. There’s one purchase. In any case, you’ll want to invest in one or two of these: https://www.CalDigit.com/VR_mini/“

We’ve actually got a few hard drives, each with 500gb of storage on them. They’re serving just fine!

[Dave LaRonde]“If you get two, he can be cutting one show while you color grade the other. If you swap drives for each show, you can even use The Duck, because you’d have the original media! Oh, but that means you’d also need your own copy of Final Cut Suite for the necessary codecs.”

We’ve actually just figured it out. He puts together a rough cut in FCP, tells me which media files to use, I color correct / add effects on After Effects, export as a quicktime file, he replaces the file in FCP, and we’re gold!

[Dave LaRonde]“Oh, and have you given any thought whatsoever to a plan for archiving all this footage you’ll be shooting on the road? You know, for future use? You don’t want to go to all this trouble and expense just to use the footage once, do you? Don’t forget, you have to keep those tiny-little laptop had drives cleaned off for your current edit, or everything comes to a screeching halt.”

Yep. Again, we have 3 hard drives each with 500gb of space. All our footage has been archived and stored without a hitch and still have just around 1tb left PLUS the space on each of our lap tops.

Thanks for the help though. Best to ya! I think we’ll manage just fine.

[Geoff Watson]

Thanks for the response.

We’ve been working in the Apple Pro Res format on the machine with Final Cut Pro, and we can get it to the After Effects machine no problem – but we can’t seem to export files from After Effects at 1280×720 without doing a “Quicktime” export, which ends up being 2gb / 30s of footage.

Is there a way to export Apple Pro Res from After Effects?

Again, much thanks for your response.