John Christie
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Walter
I know you’re happy with your solution. But for a lot of people, the “studio” in Final Cut Studio refers to a suite of tools that will solve all their needs. Our company hasn’t done a lot of blu-ray work yet, but we do a lot of menu intensive work in DVDSP. It would be a shame to throw away all the knowledge we’ve learned in DVDSP over the years and switch to another program.
We’ve all looked to Apple over the years to provide us with cutting edge software and hardware.
I started working with Final Cut at version 1.2. It was a killer app with some rough edges that changed the way I edited and changed the rules of post-production.
Remember how excited we all were when DVD studio pro came out? Here was an app that competed with Sonic’s $10 K solution and blew it out of the water for around $499.
Same with Motion, another great app that didn’t replace After Effects, but gives it a run for it’s money. We use Motion a lot. With 12 edit suites it would be too expensive to put AE in every suite, but Motion is put to use every day.
There are some cool new features in FCP 7 that I’m excited about trying. But once users start to look outside the FCS world for different apps to complete a job that FCS used to do, that’s the thin edge of the wedge for developers to un-seat FCS as a leading edge package. We’ve seen FCS accommodate every new shooting format that’s come along in the last 10 years.
Aja, Decklink and even the good old Cinewave that you and I used to use, have given us the hardware bits and pieces we need to edit with state of the art gear.
Compressor has kept up with all the new media formats we have to deliver in.
So that’s why it’s sad to see that Final Cut Studio has lost that cutting edge feel, by not keeping up with the latest disc delivery format. Sure, you can do simple blu-ray in FCP 7, about the same as what I can do in Toast. I expected Apple to wow us once again and change the way we look at post, but that hasn’t happened, yet.
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John Christie
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Hmm. Tried terms like Final Cut Pro 7 and Color 1.5. Got lots of hits going back to fcp 4.5 but nothing related to FCP 7. Tried using “Final Cut Pro 7” for an exact phrase match and nothing came up.
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John Christie
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Thanks Tom
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True, his little app “loader” is pretty cool
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John Christie
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I feel sorry for Digital Heaven, Bigtime worked well for us over the years.
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John Christie
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Hi Tom
Is there a link you can provide to these?
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John Christie
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That was it Jeremy! I don’t know what the original setup in the suite was, but when we changed to a Blackmagic 60 sequence rather than Blackmagic 59.94 we could duplicate the problem.
It was interesting to see that even if you change the setup, FCP remembers that “fileXYZ” was originally imported as 60 and deleting the reference in FCP and reimporting it doesn’t break that link. But creating a new project with a 29.97 or 59.94 easy setup will allow you to import teh file correctly.
Thanks again Jeremy, 8 years on FCP and I’ve never seen that problem before.
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John Christie
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My understanding from a local dubbing house is that SR machines CAN play back 24fps as 25fps while correcting for pitch if the tape was recorded on SR to begin with.
There will be a four percent speed difference and you’d need a 25fps machine to record the output.
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John Christie
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[Christopher Lowden] “(some assistant had the good idea to capture entire tapes of rushes in HDCAM)”
If they captured on the fly without machine control, FCP won’t break it down into individual clips. Check the master clip for that reel, if it starts at 00:00:00, you’re hooped.
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John Christie
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I’ve been using Transcend cards, seems to the best bang for your buck. Panasonic and Sandisk are great too, but tend to be more expensive. Most of the large on-line stores handle Transcend, so comparison shopping is easy. I’ve used Class 4 and 6 and can’t really tell any difference between teh two of them.
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John Christie