Graham Hutchins
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That sounds like the way to go honestly.
Now I just need to convince my boss.
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
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FC Studio 3
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I already own that DVD and that’s really more for organization at the project level. We’re solid with regards to that.
I’m looking for something a little more meta.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
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And I’m just now discovering that they finally updated the EOS FCP plug-in so that it will recognize folders. No more DMGs.
Sweet.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
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FC Studio 3
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[Dave LaRonde] “[Brendon Marotta] “Is it possible to make a ProRes reference file I can cut from and then turn only the footage that makes the final cut into HQ?”
No. It isn’t possible.”
Actually Dave, it is.
I just finished doing this very thing with a behind the scenes video using CF card disk images, media manager, and log and transfer. I was able to cut using prores proxy, I then created an offline media managed project, and then dragged the offline clips into the log and transfer window one card at a time (FCP seems to crash when you have more than 2-3 card images mounted in log and transfer). Log and transfer prompted me to mount the appropriate card and it all came in as ProRes HQ and then sent to Color for grading.
I’m not going to say it was completely flawless. It seems that the “Replace Audio” function in Pluraleyes messed up some of the interview footage naming in media manager and I had a few “General Error” messages when exporting my final render (again, I believe this to be more of a function of Pluraleyes, MM and Color than the workflow. It took me a little over an hour to conform my 8 min piece and I’d have to say it’s worth it and will probably run much smoother now that I’m aware of some of the pitfalls.
I will say this though, making disk images can be painfully slow, although there are some utilities out there that can simplify the process, e.g. DropDMG. Right now I have a 25GB card being converted to a dmg and it’s going to take a little over an hour. Kinda slows things down on the front end a bit. It helps to write to a different disk than you are reading from.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.8
AE CS5
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Thanks for the response. To address your question,
“We would like to be able to deliver a 720p 16:9 master for both the resolution bump we’ll get for gfx and color as well as the ability to crop and reframe the image.”
Capture as a pillar boxed 1080 frame and then finish at 720 so that we have some latitude to reframe the image.
As I understand it, the LHi is capable of zooming into 4:3 footage to to conform it to 16:9, but I’m thinking that it’s kind of a dumb, one time process, meaning that it simply lops off the top and bottom and reframes the same across all clips w/o the ability to slide the footage up and down to customize the reframing, plus we will be locked into whatever framing we do at recapture instead of having some flexibility should we choose to tweak anything.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Would you care to post your solution for the benefit of others?
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Hey Eric,
That did it!
Thank you so much.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Hey Eric,
Thanks for the response.
If I’m not mistaken, wouldn’t I need a third party application like Raylight to rewrap the MXF files since FCP can only ingest P2 MXFs when they are contained in an appropriately organized files structure with XML data and not supported natively?
We can try a test, but that’s where my thinking leads me.
Also, would this be something that could be done as a batch in Adobe Media Encoder?
Thanks.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.3
AE CS5, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 16 GB RAM -
Hi Pasi,
Thanks for the response.
I posted the same question on the Apple forum and someone suggested a program called “Print Window” and it worked like a charm.
-Graham
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AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
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Hey Shane,
Thanks for the fast response.
When you ask “Raid for SPEED, or Raid for REDUNDANCY and backup?” I guess both, but with the provision that this isn’t really for editing, rather making the most use of the speed the PCD35 affords. I’m looking to prevent the bottleneck with offloading that happens on multicam P2 shoots with the provision that I have no intention of doing any kind of uncompressed online finishing.
Yeah, I’m aware of the difference in RAID 0 and RAID 1. The RAID 0 partition would be the backup to the external drive that would be delivered and would more than likely be completely wiped as soon as the footage is received and the copied by the client. The thing is that everything I’m reading about the PCD35 is that the bottleneck is in disk write speed, hence the need for some kind of RAID scheme.
Here’s where I’ve been getting my info:
https://www.studiodaily.com/main/searchlist/ROI-Review-Panasonic-AJ-PCD35_11176.html
and
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/193/876831
I guess my main concern with this is that we’re needing to get drives out the door ASAP and it seems like the PCD35 is the fastest way to get data off P2 cards. I’m just trying to figure out a way to make this happen. We could even just rent two laptops instead of one and just keep doing things the way we always have with FW800 external drives, it would just be nice to have everything in one place and not have to sweat the inevitable bottle neck. The more I look at the 4 bay SATA enclosure, the more that seems to make sense. I just don’t know how that enclosure with an eSATA RAID card will perform in conjunction with the PCD35.
Thanks for you time and input.
-Graham
OSX 10.6.2
AE CS4, Nuke 5.1.3
FC Studio 3
Octo 2.26GB MacPro, 6 GB RAM