John Foley
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Forgive me if I’m “thick headed” but HD is thrown around without defining WHAT KIND of HD you are working with.
Except for an older analog or SDI uncompressed HD camera/deck you probably won’t need a capture card. HDV which is usually what is meant by HD or DVCPRO HD are both capable without a capture card.
I only ask because I would have thought that you would already have some sort of capture card and RAID array if you were talking true uncompressed HD.
As far as what the current crop of capture cards offer, the details are very important to workflow.
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[MD Chought] “setup is asking for an UPGRADE to a later version of FCP 5.0.4, not an UPDATE”
I am not aware of the necessity for 5.1 update before installing FCS2. As I mentioned, my experience was with erasing all content and reinstalling MacOS X 10.4.9 and QT 7.1.3 before installing FCS2. At the time when it asked for serial numbers, I put in the new serial for FCS2 and then it asked for the serial from FCS1. When I had updated from 5.0 to 5.1, it still used the same 5.0 serial number.
You should not even have FCS1 on the same disk when installing FCS2.
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[MD Chought] “most are greyed out because it says i need to update the previous studio software”
Interesting! Whn I installed FCS2 on my Quad G5, I completely backed up my earlier version of 5.04 to a Firewire drive and reformattted the boot volume. I then installed the entire package and when it aksed for serial number it first aske for the new serial and then the one from Final Cut Studio 1.
What computer are you installing to? I would suggest that you NOT try installing the new FCS2 over FCS1 and don’t forget the requirements of 10.4.9 and Quicktime 7.1.6 as minimums.
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Color 1.0 as a start! It is the $25,000 version is it not? Now maybe it will be some time before the non-colorists develop into colorists.
How’s about (you mentioned) we have waited for an open timeline for how long? The extra special 422 codec is cool for some.
What about 3D in Motion? What about 5.1 surround in Soundtrack? What about all those cool templates and sound files that were loaded for both Motion and Soundtrack?
Cinema Tools for those that need them and LiveType is still usable!
It may be worth a “glossover” to some but to those who use most all of what was there in FCS1, It IS An Upgrade!
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Just so you understand; the Decklink Multibridge Extreme is no longer available from Blackmagic. They have replaced it with the Eclipse at a substanchable higher cost.
The Multibrige Pro is a good fit unless you need 4:4:4 HD color space.
BTW – Both Multibrige components now support only HDMI output (not DVI-D) which means their Extreme built in full pixel HD display on a 23″ Apple Display is now more complicated on the new Pro and Eclipse. You will now need to purchase the Decklink HDLink and feed it from one of the SDI outputs from the Multibridge for HD display.
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[James Mulryan] ”
At NAB 2007 La Cie rep told me all drives are the same, Hitachi, Seagate, Maxtor, WD”
AhHa! Of course a rep fro LaCie would say that. But, it Ain’t really true. If they were all the same, why would there be different manufacturers of hard drives? Tell me, why are Maxtor drives consistently cheaper than the others? Why does Seagate still offer 5 year warranties on ALL their drives when Western Digital and Hitachi don’t?
Now all drives are made the same but design quality is the difference. From my experience, Seagate, Western Digital and IBM (now Hitachi) drives were all excellent quality. Maxtor – Connor (any one remember them?) were less than quality. Hitachi bought IBM’s disk drive business just as Lenovo has bought the IBM laptop business.
But I digress!
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It sounds like your HD is really panasonic HD. That is a big difference from uncompressed HD.
The Fiberchannel RAID solution is costly and limited in cost per megabyte vs the SATA RAID’s available.
It really depends on the sustained speed you need to edit. For true uncompressed HD that is better than 200 MB/sec. For DVCPRO HD, that is 10 MB/sec and capable of transfer over Firewire.
With those requirements a good SATA RAID is workable at a huge cost savings.
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Frames per second and fields per second are only relevant when using interlaced video.
One might understand that once the frames per second is locked, fields per second is 2x that. DV, SD are two standard interlaced (NTSC) formats. While they are 29.97 frames per second, they really have 30 fields per second because the timecode generated for Drop Frame is missing some counts to virtually lessen the playout time.
In HD land we have mostly progressive frames of video 24 Frames per second with 24 fields. Except for 1080i which is again interlaced but Non Drop Frame 30 Frames per second but 60 fields per second
Most assuredly can be confusing cause this is the grand USA (ATSC)
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I might add that there has NEVER been any indication that Apple approves or reccomends using a firewire drive for capture or edit. Nowhere in any documentation for Final Cut Pro has there ever been any indication that Apple blessed the firewire storage concept.
Interestingly, you might remember that with each new operating system update we always got the warning to “unplug all firewire devices” before proceeding. Must be something about firewire that can be dangerous?
I switched from firewire to SATA way back in 2004 on my Quicksilver 2002 G4 edit station. I had been using a PCI IDE-ATA controller card to host several internal drives but SATA has never failed me since installing it. I still have 3 intenal SATA and two external SATA drives on that G4 today. That switch was caused by loosing access to a firewire drive after updating my OS!
Serial ATA has been a real benefit for we FCPers. While using a RAID 0 setup is fast, it is also dangerous to data longevity. However, I have not had a hard drive fail in over 5 years.
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Shane,
The X800 is an AGP video card while the X1900 is a PCI-express video card. The fact of the matter is that all video cards except the X1900 are out of stock for weeks now. That is the reason you can’r purchase one. The RosH European certification is throwing lots of hardware for loops.
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