John Foley
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I am happily running Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio on a PC that formerly ran XP. Once it is installed, there is very little difference.
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I use a 2.5″ SATA drive based enclosure that I put together myself. It can be self powered using a USB-2 port on your MacBook Pro or E-SATA with an Express-34 card adapter. e-SATA is much faster than USB.
There are many solution for this enclosure. I used one from ULTRA products that cost me about $25.00 -
Sorry, I forgot which forum I was in and assumed you were on a Macintosh.
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Which Mac are you using? All recent Mac Towers and most iMac computers have dual layer burners from the factory. You can look at the Apple System Profiler in Utilities and see which DVD burner mechanism you have, to be sure.
The trick when using a DVD-9 (dual layer) is to be sure the top layer content is larger than the botton layer. DVD Studio has a mechanism that allows it to selct that point, automatically, but you can calculate it from the timecode. Just make sure there is at least >1 minute more material in the top layer than in the bottom.
Be sure to test it with the simulator before building and burning.
As a point of fact. I have not been able to use DVD-R dual layer discs in any of my Pioneer DVD burners, but DVD+R works fine.
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To run Final Cut Express, you can use a MacBook, but you are limited to DV and HDV with the poor Apple codec fro HDV.
To run Final Cut Studio, you need a MacBook Pro. Then you are only limited to what material you can get in-out. Apple Motion andn Color use the video card GPU heavily.
I would not try to use a 15″ MBP unless I had a dedicated 23″ LCD attached screen. I use an Apple MacBook Pro 17″ 2.33 Ghz with 3 GB Ram and upgraded 320 GB 5400 Rpm disk drive. Also a Firmtek Express 34 2-eSATA port adapter and a two eSATA enclosure. I can swap in different drives and (unlike Firewire) never fail to mount.
I run Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio plus Photoshop CS3 and Encore DVD. This baby, although mearly 2 versions old, works extermely well.
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The Duel Adapter is an Express 34 to PCMCIA adapter and can only be used on a MacBook Pro.
You would need a PCIe PCMCIA reader than can read P2 cards for the MacPro. Not sure how you might save the P2 card contents until you get to the MacPro, assuming you are shooting in the field?
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-use disk warrior to defrag if you have lots of large files-
Disk warrior does not optimize or defrag data. It’s only purpose is to rebuild disk directories.
As a matter of fact, NEVER try to defrag your OSX boot drive cause that will screw things up! OSX UNIX takes care of itself, as long as there is sufficient disk space to to so.
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HDV is Sony’s answer to High Def using 4:2:0 color space. What does that mean to you? A good HDV camera takes a good looking 16:9 video but is a real paid to edit because of the limited color space.
DVCPro HD is High Def at 4:2:2 color space and also produces a great looking video but is easy to edit with camera’s like the HVX-200 and HPX-200 being P2 media instead of tape and color space very easy to capture and edit.
DVCAM is SD only – basically 4:1:1 color space as is any DV 4:3 footage. Definitely not High Def. Some use it as anamorphically but that just reduces the actually pixel count of a frame below that of a 4:3 frame.
XDCam is Sony’s High Def camera but still uses 4:2:0 color space (like HDV) and media cards, not tapes.
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I’m importing with NTSC Firewire Basic by the way.I thought you were in PAL land??? Is that not true?
“Digital pictures are effectively wider than analogue pictures by 18 pixels but the 4:3 image sits inside the 720 by 576 area. The additional 18 pixels are required for digital processing and it would be perfectly acceptable to leave them black
That language is not NTSCish. NTSC DV is 720×480 pixels. In an NTSC codec, there are no black bars.
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The Apple Pro Training Series – Motion 3 is a GOOD way to begin to learn the interface and tools within Motion 3. Tutorials are great once you have the basics down, but you need to begin learning somewhere.