Jeff Greenberg
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[Wendell Davis] “is it worth getting the 2.7 ghz over the 2.6ghz”
You’re paying quite a bit for such a small bump in speed. It’s not going to be your real bottleneck (having the 8 cores is way more important.)
[Wendell Davis] ” Also SSD drives: Apple’s or other vendor such as Samsung?”
Apple is really ending the post customization of laptops. They’re using their own SSD connection; in fact, I don’t think you can get a rMBP without Apple’s SSD>
[Wendell Davis] “I don’t put in the 16 gigs now I can’t late”
That’s correct. Your ram choice is permanent.
[Wendell Davis] “External hard drive – thunderbolt – Pegasus R6 worth it or something else? Size is important both physically and storage capacity – minimum 8TB raid 5 for on the road.”
I love my Pegasus. But it is not portable. As a Raid 5 it’s the speed of an SSD. You can’t really get a portable raid 5.
Just so I say it (and realize I’m working on a 2.6 i7 rMBP), you’ll get far, far further with your dollar on a PC desktop. Unless you work from a hotel room, laptops are overrated. 😀
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[Adam White] “Resetting to my custom layout sometimes works to correct this, but other times it doesn’t and I have to manually re-arrange the windows (tedious).”
It’s been my observation that there are a bunch of bugs that are related to multiple monitors on OSX. If I tweak the arrangement of the monitors? Haywire.
[Adam White] “the timewarp window now always appears by default”
I suspect you saved it as part of a workspace. Reset the workspace and that should fix it.Alternatively, you can try to turn off your second monitor (set it to mirroring, without MC running, then run MC) and you should get the ability to get the window back.
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iMovie has the option of creating (conforming) projects to 960×540. For the consumer, this means their video will take up 1/4 of the space of full HD.
Technically, btw, 960×540 is HD, defined as greater than SD (640×480).
I’d suggest looking at the original QuickTime files – if they’re 960×540, you may have chosen this option when ingesting your material into iMovie.
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Is it a AIFF or WAVE file? Or its it an MP3? If it’s an MP3 or AAC file, convert it to AIFF (48k, 16bit) and you should be good to go.
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This is probably the fastest way (there are others). You don’t need to remove it from the timeline, merely duplicate it and slow it down.
Copy the clip (Control-C)
Paste Insert (Control-Shift-V) the clip at the playhead.
Select the 2nd clip.
Clip menu > Speed Duration (or Control R)
Set the amount of speed reduction you’d like and choose “Ripple editing, shifting clips”Best,
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[John Slattery] ” is it generally best to go with Mpeg-4 from VTS
or to DV/DVCPRO?“
It’s all about what you’re trying to do with it.
If you have a MPEG2 VTS (usual a VOB on a DVD) and you want to:
- Edit with it? – pick an editorial tool than handles raw VOBs like Adobe Premiere Pro
- Edit with something that doesn’t handle VOBs? Transcode to ProRes (OSX), DNxHD or Cineform
- Send it to youtube? an h.264 MPEG4 is excellent (at a large bitrate)
Each end use dictates what you should do.
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[Robin Fearon] “files were converted to .MOV files”
Are they h.264 QuickTime Files? Yeah, that’s a problem all h.264 is going to be a problem with FCP7.
Convert to ProRes.
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No, but you could rate them in bridge instead. Messy, but has icon view, sees (I think) all video types (yes, to XDCAM/P2 card copies.) You could use bridge in this regard, as a media clip/browser/database (no subclips or other good stuff.)
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[Brian Cooney] “thanks Jeff! what s the typical set up to get best performance and the least rendering and still be able to export at high quality”
You’ll have to pardon me, I’m at the inlaws answering before I head out to dinner.
If you have a beefy machine (2-3 gigs per core, not much more or less) and a great video card = least rendering. Fast drives to keep access quick.
I wish I could be more specific than that. I haven’t tested your specific hardware, your footage.
Best quality is to export via Media (to Adobe Media Encoder) and ignore renders. This yields best final quality.
I’d do your own render test on your own system. There are a bunch of sequence presets that are literally the same except for their names. The sequence presets are there to make it easy for people. But I’d pick one that matches your footage, set up a minute long clip, put some heavier filters (some GPU accelerated first…and some non-gpu accelerated) and try a couple of different codecs. Hmm, this sounds like a good blog post. 😀
Oh yeah, there’s this book I wrote with some other guys that has a chapter that goes over some of the Adobe Premiere Pro sequence settings. Editor’s Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro – there’s a great illustration of what all the preset use for their rendering codec.
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If you have the ability to get to mxf directly from Clipwrap, great. I don’t think it does that.
Can you go through AMA as QuickTime? Sure. You’ll have to consolidate at some point.
Import is essentially doing a consolidate as long as it says “Fast Import” – That’s the best speed you can get via import – as it just copies the media out of the qt container and places it in MXF.