Jerry Hofmann
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If you’re happy, I’m happy!
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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I think I’d work in an SD PAL sequence setting (ProRes) and you’ll need to change the frame rate of the 30fps material to 25.
Once you’ve done that, you’ll need to enlarge the SD footage to fill the frame unless pillar bars are OK.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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What’s the intended delivery format? a DVD? or a web stream, or?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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You can’t interlace footage shot progressive. Describe the flicker, and post the exact settings you used to transcode the footage to ProRes.
Jerry
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Got a portable drive? any FW drive should work if you’re going to capture it all as DV, and move the drive back and forth instead of just the project file… I’d use that method myself.
You’ll need a portable drive to copy the files after capture in any event to avoid capturing twice… Otherwise, if you just want to move the project file back and forth, then make sure the media on each machine has matching pathnames… so the media drives should be the same names, the folders in them should also be the same names etc… it “fools” the project file into thinking it’s on the same machine as before, and you’ll not have to manually reconnect the media files each time.
Where you’ll run into some problem maybe are render files made on one system, that will not be on the other… Might save renders for the final finish…
Still, moving the entire project back and forth is foolproof.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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FCP X isn’t based in QuickTime. I think I heard it’s based in A/V Foundation. But that’s a good thing I think.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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You were lucky before? It’s not recommended by anybody anywhere to run your media files from your startup disk.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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You need to be using an external hard drive for playback of your ProRes media. Can’t count on an internal to run the app, OS, QuickTime and read your files as well as play the video. A fast FW 800 drive should do the trick.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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[walter biscardi] “But again, nothing we’re asking is secret. These features already exist in the current Final Cut Pro.”
Right, the idea isn’t secret, but whether or not it’s in FCP X is. I really think they wanted to show the newest stuff rather than go through the old at the sneak peek. I probably would too. Doesn’t mean the old is there, but sure doesn’t mean it’s not.
Do you really think that the folk at Apple don’t know what a pro would need? I think they do. Same guy oversaw Premiere, FCP 1-7, iMovie versions, and now FCP X. I don’t think they want to give up the pros with a release that’s totally unusable by them. I think the attempt to create a new paradigm in workflow is laudable. Without the professionals backing a piece of “pro” software, it ends up going nowhere, and I’m pretty sure that Randy U and team understand this.
Shoot, no one’s really attempted a really new interface coming from a position like Apple’s FCP holds in the market, so I’d assume they’ve thought long and hard about what this next version needs to do for a professional, no matter how large or small the company involved is. After all, the source/record monitor manual bin thing has been around for 23 or more years now. Getting long in the tooth compared to other software innovations. Not that it’s bad, it’s just OLD.
It’s too early to tell what the future holds with this new NLE, but I’ll bet it sells tons of users out of the gate. If it doesn’t hold up by version 2, Apple will lose some of the market share that they’ve had for the past few years, and then maybe they’ll have to rethink. There’s just too little public to make any sort of iron clad decision on whether they’ve made a mistake or not. Wont’ be able to tell that for a while yet.
In any event, it was “jaw dropping” alright. Is it better? From what I saw some of it is better than FCP 7… speed changes were pretty cool, automatically helping you log was pretty cool too. That it addresses as much RAM as you can throw at it bodes very well for long form actually. Sequences soak up tons of RAM… There’s much to like, much unknown, and waiting is tough, eh? It will be here before you know it. What? 6 weeks or so? Certainly before June 20 or the end of the fiscal year for Apple I’d guess. Not having to package it will move it up a bit too.
Avid will likely work with Kona cards before long too… It’s still a 32 bit app though. In any event change is one thing we can always count on in our industry. FCP X is just another one. Again, Apple didn’t have a choice here. They had to start over, so why not leverage code from iMovie 11 and make it so a pro would be happy. Certainly that’s what they are attempting.
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.
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So apparently, making a decision about the future will have to wait until June… You’d need to buy a license for each station (normal for any new software), and any given project would have to start and end in FCP X or other NLE. I don’t see where there is a difference in what I’ve been saying for a facility with many workstations. If it won’t work for you, don’t use it. Use what does… I’ve seen more than one facility with more than one NLE installed BTW. I don’t see how this changes anything. Maybe you can explain?
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer, Producer, Writer, Director Editor, Gun for Hire and other things. I ski. My Blog: https://blogs.creativecow.net/Jerry-Hofmann
Current DVD:
https://store.creativecow.net/p/81/jerry_hofmanns_final_cut_system_setup8-Core 3.0 Intel Mac Pro, Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D, AJA Io HD, 17″ MBP, Matrox MXO2 with MAX – Cinema Displays I have a 22″ that I paid 4k for still working. G4 with Kona SD card, and SCSI card.