[Jack Bibbo]

Thanks,

No, no interest in Mac mini for this venture. As I mentioned before I am just trying to take old spare parts to piece something together and was wondering which piece was missing from the equation.

Thanks

[Jack Bibbo]

I hear you.

I am running FCP on a G4 laptop 867 but thought this dual 867 (with a new vid card) would run a bit faster.

I run fcp6 on all my other computers at the office – quad/eight core. I am just trying to retrofit an old comp sitting at home without dumping much money into it.

Are people running FCP on a mac Mini? What about G5 IMAC.

anymore info is appreciated. thanks

[Jack Bibbo]

Yeah I know but I have not had any problems running FCP 6.0 on my G4 laptop and it is 867 but a dual 867 should be fine.

I mean it is slower for sure but it runs. FCP is particular about some things while other things are simply suggestions.

thanks

jack

[Jack Bibbo]

[Jack Bibbo]

I have a DUAL 867.

I would rather not upgrade.

I imagine the FCP may be slow on this machine but I want to be able to do some things.

[Jack Bibbo]

Shane I could not agree with you more. And when I am at the studio we have all our broadcast monitors and they are calibrated, and life is good.

But however when you are one the road and doing something quick on the laptop you never have the luxury of home.

I figured out the issue. Totally my oversight. Seg Settings/Render Resolution had been bumped down to %50 on this machine.

thanks for your time.

jack

[Jack Bibbo]

No external monitor on this job. Just doing something on the laptop.

G4 MacBook Pro non intel.

I feel like I have seen this before. just cant figure why they would look good in the viewer, then dropped in the seq they look fine – unrendered) then rendered the lose quality. Again I have checked all my render settings and they are at maximum quality.

The other thing I cant figure out is that is doing this for both Boris and Photoshop files.

[Jack Bibbo]

Sorry I didnt clarify. My sequence is 10bit uncompressed. Footage captured the same off dig beta. However I am runninng all this off a fw 800 drive which now that I think of it could that be the issue.

is that issue and if so, what is the solution?

thanks

[Jack Bibbo]

excellent thanks for that.

Maybe you can explain something that I maybe overlooking:

if 4:3 is 1.33 pixel aspect ratio
and 640 x 480 is 4:3 and 1.33 pixel aspect ratio
then why is 720×486 consider 4:3 but the pixel aspect is 1.48

With that what would the cropping be on 640 x 480 to represent action safe and still be 4:3.

thanks for resolving my compression questions.

[Jack Bibbo]

So is that the only way to do what I was trying to accomplish – varibable data rate on my own preset. I would rather not have to bring it through another program if possible. We have QT pro but not on all machines.

I hear ya about the distortion. We do the 10 or 5 pixel crop to resemble the “action” of television. Distortion is minimal and unnoticeable.

Thanks thus far.