Jeff Carpenter
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iMovie is made to work with DV cameras over firewire. So you’ll want to encode a Quick Time file that has all the same specs as DV video.
If whatever software you use to encode doesn’t do that, you can buy Quick Time Pro online and it will let you do it.
https://www.apple.com/quicktime
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iTunes is what you want.
Quick Time might be able to do it too, but iTunes will let you pick as many files as you want and do them one after the other. That sounds like what you want.
Go through all the Prefrences and menu options for 30 minutes. You can learn the entire program in that much time.
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Should be fine. Shut down Final Cut before you do it. When you open it up again it will tell you it can’t find the render files. Tell it that you’re OK with that and just re-render.
It should clear up some space since you do probably do have multiple renders from the past floating around in there.
Just make sure you go in and erase the QT files, not the folder itself, and you should be fine.
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Go to Apple.com
Click on the “Store” tab
Look for the big red “SALE” tag in the lower right part of the page
Look at all the refurbished G5 iMacs, pick ANY of them
Go to Crucial.com and buy some more RAM for it (they have 2 slots) Try to get up to 1 GB, total
Get an external firewire hub and an external firewire hard drive
=====That should easily handle some home projects.
I could walk you through ways to get an even cheaper system put together but then you’d end up waiting a lot longer for things like DVD compression. Overall you’d save a little bit of money for a big hit on performace. This would be my suggestion if you’re looking at overall value instead of simply the lowest price.
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Why don’t you tell us what issues you’ve had along with what kind of projects you work on.
I can tell you that I use Final Cut Pro, but without knowing what problems you have I couldn’t say if this would be any better for you or not.
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Thanks, Don! 🙂
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Hope this is useful.
======Very much so. Thanks to you too, Matte.
I know just enough abuot audio to make things really complicated if I wanted to. This kind of advice is very useful to me because it really shows me what has worked for others. Left to my own imagination I am certain that I’d end up setting up redundant items and just wasting a lot of effort and money.
I’d still welcome any advice from others but I did want to thank you guys for what you’ve said already. This is exactly what I was asking for.
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I usually have a folder somewhere that contains all the elements for my project that aren’t video. Like, photoshop files, music, etc.
Like you, I think iTunes is an excellent way to store music library songs. Even though you can’t drag right into FCP, I think this works well:
Once I find the file I want, I drag it into that project folder I have. Then, in FCP, I import that copy from my project folder. This is much easier than finding the file where iTunes keeps it becuse my project folder is much cloer to the “surface” of my computer.
I know that on paper it doesn’t sound much different than going to find the file in the hard drive, but in reality it only takes me a few seconds to do so I think it’s much faster. Plus, if I back-up that project folder when I’m done with the project I get the music along with everything else.
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This might be worth a phone call to Adobe. They may be able to trade in all your past Photoshop discs for a full version of PS7 for a small fee or something.
Now, I have no clue if they’d actually do something like that, but it seems to me that it’s worth your time to ask.
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The Manual Way:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
After you do that, get this free program:
https://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/fcprescue.html
Use it to backup your current settings and when you have a problem it will restore everything to those settings. If you’re got a problem NOW, you’ll have to fix that manually first. Otherwise this program will just backup the “wrong” prefrences and that doesn’t help anything.