[John Foley]

Heres the splain’ – That P2 device has 4 memory “cards”,inside and a chip that allows them to be RAIDed for speed sake. Just like a disk system RAID, this P2 device also has the bandwidth to capture up to 1080p frames.

Please visit http://www.thefinalcutstore.com for all your Final Cut needs.

[John Foley]

–PCI EXpress G5 ATI Radeon Z1900 GT, 512MB–

Where are you finding this? It is not on the Apple web site? The one on the Apple web site is an X1900 GT which has 256 MB Vram not 512 MB Vram as does the one made soley for the MacPro?

[John Foley]

” Your comments were beneath this forum.
Trying to wiggle on what you said
doesn’t change that fact.”

That is also very unprofessional to critize anothers personal perspective. This is a Final Cut Pro forum, I believe. I doubt that someone with a $300 camera is going to spend $1300 of Final Cut Studio.

As mentioned, there is also a Creative Calf server for prosumer and other less professional type of questions.

If you want to be answering questions because they either don’t read the manual, (which is fairly impossible with a Japanese for Americans manual), or just want hand holding, then I am sure Creative Calf is a much beter place for you to hang out.

[John Foley]

If the camera was set to an anamorphic setting in 4:3 to “simulate” a widescreen look, then there is no way for you to recover those lost pixels at the top and bottom of the screen. The picture was not recorded to the areas that appear letterboxed.

Please visit http://www.thefinalcutstore.com for all your Final Cut needs.

[John Foley]

Any RED Laser DVD must be 29.97 fps. Using a progressive frame rate will not work in a RED Laser DVD., either 4:3 or 16:9.

The HD-DVD feature can accomodate other frame rates but I don’t know about 720p since that must go to H.264 and use a special player.

The content must play-out to a display device. IN the USA that is NTSC AND NTSC IS 29.97 STANDARD.

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[John Foley]

There are other reputable, knowledgable and professional resellers than the one on the west coast who specialize in Final Cut Studio hardware and software.

http://www.thefinalcutstore.com

[John Foley]

[Zach Smith] “a friend told me that what you want to set up is a Raid 5-0 setup where”
Zach – You are talking about twice the number of disks when doing a RAID 50. That is two identical RAID 5 volumes striped as RAID 0 by the computer to double the throughput from the drives.

[Zach Smith] “My friend also told me that I should use the fiber channel card from Apple, is this better than the Rocket Raid card?”

A Fiber Channel RAID is MUCH more expensive than a SATA based RAID. Part of the decision of which way to go is first- cost, then usage. If you don’t need a sustained 200 Mbytes per second for uncompressed HiDef, then XServe RAID with Fiber Channel is overkill.

A single external 4 drive SATA RAID setup with the RocketRaid card gives you around 240 Mbytes/sec over 2/3 of the volume before it starts to slow down to around 140 Mbytes per second. With their 2322 RocketRaid you can easily set up two X-4 enclosures with either 500 GB or 750GB drives and set both external to RAID 50 through the card.

http://www.thefinalcutstore.com

The link above is to my web store and information about this setup.

[John Foley]

Could be May 01 or could be May 31. Apple says it will ship in May.

And Yes, it is better to begin with a fresh install of everything. Spring Cleaning for your MAC.

I plan to make a complete backup on a Firewire drive, so I can get to FCP 5.1 should I want to.

[John Foley]

Apple bought Key Grip from Macromedia in 1997 and released it as Final Cut Pro 1.0 in 1999. It has come from a barely capable editing tool on MacOs 9, to FCP 2-3-4-5 and now 6 in 8 years. I’d say Apple has been putting some real effort into this project.

I really wish Apple would at least change the Media manager interface to qwell some of the unrest about MM and why is it still coded on the old code base as illustrateded by the look of the application compared to DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Soundtrack?

[John Foley]

You can easily edit HDV on an iMac. HDV is just like DV and less quality to boot. Any G5 built in the last 4 years can easily edit HDV over Firewire.

Even Panasonic’s DVCPROHD can be edited on a less than speedy MAC with the correct version of Final Cut Pro. Now that is true HD!