Jeremy Newmark
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There is also Color Finesse. You can get it as a stand-alone program or as a plug-in for FCP and other programs. The plug-in is a wonderful add-on to FCP if you are looking for better color correction tools, but can’t afford to spend thousands. You can download the trial version and check it out.
best regards,
jeremy
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LaCie does not actually make the physical drives, they make raid arrays and drives in enclosures. Most of their products are a couple of name brand drives (used to be maxtor, not sure what they are using now) raided together and put into a nice little box with various interfaces. So although the actual drives inside may have a longer warranty, LaCie only has a 1 year warranty on most of their products, because it is usually the internal electronics (raid controller, usb or firewire interface, drive bridge, etc.) that fails first, not the actual drives. They will repair drives outside of warranty for a cost, so that may be worth checking into. We have an older Bigger Disk 1TB drive that failed on us after a couple of months, they repaired it under warranty and it’s been working hard with no problems for the last 2 years.
best regards,
jeremy
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Martin,
Thanks for the info, it’s good to know.
best regards,
jeremy
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The one that worries me the most is color finesse 2. I would much prefer to have all the info there to work with for color correction and then deal with broadcast safe levels afterwards, but it looks like for this particular workflow, there might not be another choice. I just like to have all of my highlight detail to work with.
jeremy
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Eric,
In terms of cameras, it depends on what flavor of HD you are planing on shooting your normal speed stuff at (720p, 1080i, 1080p). If you are going the 720p route, there are a handful of cameras out there that can get you close to those frame rates your looking for, but if you are going 1080i or 1080p, then you would be looking at some of the higher-end high-speed HD cameras to get anything over 60fps. In this case you would probably want to rent and not buy, I would just need a little more info from you in order to recommend cameras to look at in this range. In terms of software for slowing down and re-timing footage, shake does a beautiful job with re-timing. Hope this helps.
best regards,
jeremy
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Enge,
Check out https://www.silhouettefx.com/roto/. I’ve only played with the demo, but it should do everything you are asking about and the UI is easy to use.
best regards,
jeremy
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Since they don’t have much time, I would suggest dumping this project onto a powerbook or macbook pro and simply projecting from that straight out of fcp.
best regards,
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Thanks Don! good to know.
jeremy
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Jerry,
We are running a Huge U320RX (an older one, before they were bought by Ciprico) on a G5 quad with an Atto UL5D and the performance is fantastic. The AJA Kona systems test for a 1920×1080 10-bit RGB 4.0GB file gives write speed at 314.4 MB/s and Read speed at 308.0 MB/s. This is on a 4TB array set up in Raid 3 mode and the array is 97% full at the moment! So if you are running in unprotected Raid 0, you should expect faster speeds then this and when the drives are empty it should scream. Hope this helps.
Best Regards,
jeremy
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Do your self a favor and get the Nattress plug-in. For $100 it is by far the best solution. The conversions are fantastic and render times are 40 times faster then doing it in compressor. If you do wind up going to a post house, make sure that they are done on either a Snell & Wilcox Alchemist, or on a Teranex, but that is going to cost you a lot more. If money is no object, outsource it, if money is a factor, get the plug-in, you will be happy with the results.
Best Regards,
jeremy