Greg Penetrante
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Tom,
I know you were shocked, like I was. But I dove in and started learning the keystrokes (Q,E,W,D, T, Position Tool) and once I learned how to move around the timeline and actually edit, the trimming and slip/slide are more intuitive and faster. Insert/Overwrite works as advertised. And the P tool works just like FCP7 and allows one to just slap clips atop each other willy-nilly. In/Out-click-and-drag works fine, too, for marking clips and dragging into the timeline. I actually LIKE the active ripple, it works remotely like ProTools where you can drag clips around and they ripple around for you. To Turn that feature off, I just use the Position tool.
I just completed a mini-doc on FCPX (shot on PDW-F350 and NX5U, converted with XDcam Browser to a folder which I imported) and it went pretty well. Now I am going straight to Blu-Ray (with my external burner). Then I will export the self-contained movie and go into FCP7 to dump to HDCAM! 😉
There are lots of missing features, and I am glad FCP7 still exists for my tape workflow. Hope Apple listens (I talked to some of the team at FCPUG) and puts tape in/out and OMF/XML interchange in version 10.1 😉
Cheers,
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… mschirad is right.
I’ve completed a two-hour show in 60i 25Mb CBR and now I’ve got to wait 10 HOURS for $!@#$ Compressor 2.3 to finish encoding the self-contained QT. Yikes!! Compressor doesn’t appear to use all 4 processors. What the hell, Apple?!
In hindsight, it would have been faster for me to drag my HD sequence into an anamorphic uncompressed SD sequence and Export to Compressor from the timeline… prolly would have taken 4 hours 😉
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Hello,
I just did an XDCam HD import right into FCP 5.1.2. 23.98fps footage. Load time for 1 hour of raw footage was approximately 35 minutes. A bit faster than real time. The Import software looks and works great.
cheers,
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As Tony said, in you FCP installation disk, there is an “Extras” folder.
In this folder you will find a Panasonic DVX-100 Audio Sync “thingy”. If you install this it will compensate for the slight loss of sync…Best,
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Jason,
So my two questions are this.
1. Should I have them recapture the footage as Native HD or should we just edit the DVCPro-50 footage and then just recapture when they go “Online”. Yea, Dead term I know.
*** IMHO, if the aspect ratio is 16×9 on both projects (it probably is) and if you are not going to do any heavy motion-graphics then you can go ahead and edit now and then do an ‘online’ with the tapes, PROVIDED that they LOGGED the tapes correctly and there were no timecode breaks!
If you are going to incorporate any heavy graphics then they should recapture the footage in the native DVCProHD, that way you don’t have to deal wth repositioning any graphics elements and such…2. Depending on what choice we do, how should I set up a new system. This system does not have to handle uncompressed HD at this time but it would be nice to add those upgrades at a later time. Thru my limited knowledge this is what I came up with for the NativeHD.
QUAD G5 2.5GHZ 2.5 GB RAM, 250GB
NVIDIA QUADRO FX4500
23″ CINEMA HD DISPLAY- For Desktop
27″ WIDESCREEN LCD HDTV- Can I hook this up to the second DVI slot on the Quadro to view playback?
For storage could we just use the drives that they capture it to.*** The Quadro would be overkill right now. The NV7800 GT would be 3x cheaper and close in performance. The Quadro 4500 is for hardcore gamerz and/or heavy 3D users (like Maya, Cinema4D).
*** Later you can get a fibre-channel or U320 card and a large RAID so that you can edit in Uncompressed HD.
For the current DVCPRO-50 footage that they have couldn’t I just run that on any G5 with FCP 5. Also what would be needed to watch playback.
** Yes you can run it on your current setup. You’ll have to see if the Cinemave can do RT transcoding from DV50 to NTSC…
I currently am working on a
G4 D1.25, 1.25 Ram, Cinewave 4.6 with the Pro Digital BOB.
Also have 17″ Powerbook, but would prefer not to have to use that.
And for jokes I have a really big paper weight also known as a Discreet *edit 5.0 system.Thank you for any advice you might have.
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Hi,
In your timeline settings, set the video processing to “White” and not “Super White”. This also got rid of the luma shift for us…
Best,
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You are not alone. HDV editing is slow on my dual 2.5 as well.
I get similar performance on my Avid Xpress Pro HDV.
I don’t think HDV was meant to be a post format. Because it uses Long GOP codec (MPEG-2) it really should just be an acquisition format.
here’s how I got around the speed hit: I transcode all my HDV footage to DVCPro HD 60i and edit that way. Speed is vastly improved and I have an actual intra-frame codec to work with instead of having FCP 5 do the heavy math on the Mpeg-2 codec…
Hope that helps a bit.
Cheers,
-Greg