Jeff Carpenter
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Yeah, it’s $699. But it’s listed on the crossgrade page, so that’s what I called it.
But you’re right, it’s under the “upgrade” section of that page.
So I guess it’s an upgrade, not a crossgrade. But it’s all on the same page, so hopefully hartcom shouldn’t have any trouble figuring it out.
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Go here and print out the proper form:
https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade/
You will have to mail the form to Apple with the payment AND with your Final Cut 2 discs. The form will explain what to send.
They’ll mail you the new Final Cut Studio discs. You are allowed to instal it on 1 desktop and 1 laptop as long as they are both owned and used by you.
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https://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade
Better do it soon, I don’t think these prices will be around for much longer. After that you’ll have to upgrade instead of “crossgrade” and that will be more expensive.
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Why a still camera? I have no idea what format it records in, but I find it likely that it’s some kind of 30 fps progressive format.
Just FYI, you’ll get better results going from 60i (normal DV) to 24p than from 30p to 24p. It sounds like you haven’t shot this yet. I’d suggest getting the cheapest DV camera you can and using that instead of the coolpix. (Unless you can find somewhere that the Nikon DOES record in a 60i format, but I kind of doubt it.)
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Yes, you’ll need to buy iLife. But for the price you’ll get multiple programs, so it’s a good value.
You’d drag that self-contained Quicktime movie into iDVD and then work from there. iDVD will do the compression and handle the burning. It looks like it will do everything you need and you can’t beat the ease-of-use.
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I’m answering all these questions from a 15″ Macbook Pro. Everything’s fine here.
I find it very unlikely that there’s some bug on the 17″ that’s NOT on the 15″ so I doubt that’s your problem. Hopefully trashing the prefs will work for you.
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In the upper left-hand corner or the timeline is a button that says “RT”.
Is it set to “Unlimited” with the two “Dynamic” selections also checked?
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It only effects the area where the effect is taking place. And it doesn’t mean that area is ruined or anything…just that it’s been altered.
For any compressed format like DV or HDV the computer has to un-compress the video, create the effect, and then re-compress it to the original format.
Imagine that you took a JPEG photo with a still camera but you had a photo editing program that can only edit TIFFs. You’d have to convert the JPEG to a TIFF, edit it, then re-save it as a JPEG to display it on your website. It’s pretty much exactly like that.
The quality will be fine, this is just a “how-it-works” kind of explination. If you were turning this video into a feature film or something it would be worth figuring out ways around this, but if you’re mastering back to HDV it’ll be just fine in the end.
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You’ve got it right. It means that if you input the video and do cuts-only editing, the video will be EXACTLY the same as it was on tape. Adding effects and color correction changes things, of course, but up until that point you’ve lost nothing.
You will need some kind of capture card (like Blackmagic’s) in order to monitor your footage on an external monitor. It doesn’t go back OUT the firewire in real-time like DV does.
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Tom, when you installed FCP Studio did you just do a “normal” instal or did you hand-pick what to load?
I ask, because programs like Motion and DVD Studio Pro have GBs of templates, loops, and graphics in them. When you instal everything you can chose which things to put on your computer. On my desktop I just load everything but on my laptop I cut a lot more of that stuff out.
Do you remember if you did anything like that?