Jeff Carpenter
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You’re correct. It doesn’t come with it.
Last year Apple dropped the price on Shake and there was talk that they were going drop Shake soon. People thought that they were going to merge its functionality with one of the other Studio apps and just drop Shake.
I’m prety sure that was all rumor and that Apple hasn’t said one way or the other.
All we know for sure is that they’re still selling it as a stand-alone product at a much lower price than it used to be.
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There are only 2 big reasons to go with actual 23.98 fps files.
1) You plan on eventually putting this project onto film. It doesn’t sound like this is something you’ll be doing.
2) You have a very long project that’s either going on DVD or the web and the space savings of losing those extra frames will make a difference in storage space. For an 8 minute proect, this reason means nothing to you either.
So for you, it seems that sticking with 29.97 files is going to be easier without any downside.
At any rate, it’s a good idea to always test out your workflow ahead of time anyway. Take samples of the different types of footage you plan on combining and acutally combine them and make a DVD from that. Make sure everything works the way you expect and that the system has no problems and creates a nice looking DVD. Best to discover any problems ahead of time.
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Then I guess I should elaborate since I guess I wasn’t very detailed the first time.
1) Time Machine: This brings the same ‘auto-save’ feature that Final Cut has built-in to all of your other apps. I’ve already used a Time Machine backup to return to a previous DVD Studio Pro file. That was only possible in Final Cut before. Yes, I back my files up, but not multiple times a day. It’s nice to have this Final Cut feature on all my studio apps now.
2) Back to my Mac: In our business there are many tasks that involve lots of waiting. Compressions that take hours or days, even. Often you have to wait for some long compression or render in one program only to follow that up with another long procecess in another program. Often this means a 90 second task in the middle of two 12-hour processes. Being able to trigger this process from a remote location frees you up to actually go out for the day. Being tied to your computer while you work is one thing, being tied to it so that yopu can watch IT work is quite another!
3) Quick Look: True, apps tend to load pretty quickly now, but being able to instanly view a Photoshop file from the Finder without launching Photoshop (or whatever) saves a few seconds. Over the course of a day it adds up.
4) Networked drives: On Tiger, if a firewire drive gets ejected from one computer, any other computer that was accessing that drive goes crazy looking for it. Often to the point that Finder becomes un-usable for several minutes. Leopard segments this task off so that a missing drive doesn’t bog down the whole computer for 5 minutes. Obviously, that’s going to negatively affect your editing and I’m glad to be rid of it.
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>> What will it gain you in Studio 2?
– – –My only point is that it wasn’t accurate for him to say that there are no gains whatsoever from Tiger to Leopard.
We can all have our own opinions on how to best act on the facts, but I think that the COW should be a place where the facts themselves are accurate.
Saying that 2 pieces of software are the same when they aren’t doesn’t help the original poster. I also tend to think that sticking with Tiger is good advice. But that’s advice given alongside accurate information, which Adam can then use to make his own choices with.
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>>Will it gain you anything? No. Absolutely not.
– – –* Quick-Look
* Time Machine
* GREATLY improved Finder stability when dealing with networked drives
* Built-in Screen sharing (+ ‘Back to my Mac’)Forget Apple’s “300 Features” advertising. Just listing these 4 items is enough to make me very, very happy.
That doesn’t mean he should upgrade. A stable system is worth its weight in gold. Messing with that isn’t always the best choice, so I’m not saying he SHOULD upgrade.
But saying there’s no gain whatsoever is the same as saying Final Cut 4.0 and 6.0 are the same thing. It’s just not true.
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>> My understanding is that a DSR-11 can play a DVCPro25 tape analog out only, not firewire.
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That was my experience, many years ago. I’ve since heard that some people can do this. I suspect that they changed that at some point and that older 1500s can’t play DVCPRO from firewire while newer ones can.
I’ve never seen one that can, but like you, I have heard of them.
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I also do what has been suggested here if you want to see another example:
http://www.samanthacarpenter.com
Go there and view the source file. It’s very small. All it does is display my .Mac gallary inside that page.
All the transitions and slide-show stuff is run by Apple’s servers. It’s very easy to maintain once you’ve got it set up!
Feel free to use my code in your own site. Just change the few parts that need changing and you’ll be good to go.
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>>What company is your hard drive with?
It was a G-RAID
https://g-technology.com/Products/G-RAID2.cfm
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Yeah, Apple suggests a dual-chip 2.0 GHz G5 computer to keep up with that frame size at 24 fps. 30 fps would probably need even MORE power.
So your computer is a bit behind that curve. More info here:
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/player/specs.html
Things like iPods and Apple TVs are not more powerful than your computer, but they are specially built with hardware that’s made to decode that kind of video. So they can do more with less, so to speak.
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First, make sure you use an Easy Setup that matches the tape format and frame rate. The ‘Log and Capture’ window can sometimes appear different depending on the format chosen.
Once you’re sure of that, yes, just use Log and Capture. After you type in the ins and outs, click the “Log Clip” button. It should make a clip with a red line through the icon.
Have you done that and it’s not working? Or is that not what you were doing?