John Heagy
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[Daniel Spagnoli] “Though if anyone out there knows a way to lock out the settings I’d still like to know :)”
You can lock the pref file or set permissions to read only on it. That will not prevent them from changing the Capture Scratch but FCP will not be able to update the changes, any changes, when it quits. Every time they launch FCP the scratch will be set correctly but it won’t prevent changes during that “session”.
I’ve asked for an admin default setting so when the prefs are deleted they go to our default not Apple’s. Apple’s apps are not written for admin management unfortunately. It’s the “One man band” user Apple caters to… aka “The firewire crowd” or my favorite “The underwear Army”.
John Heagy
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[Michael Gissing] “Is that faster than recapturing from tape?”
A single fibre attached LTO-4 restores at 75MB/sec. Capturing HD tape to ProRes is 20MB/sec and only 6MB/sec for SD…. so yes.
John Heagy
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[Mark Raudonis] “Archive? They’re already on beta tape. That’s your archive!”
Yes… but hundreds of hours of digitizing is quite an effort. 200 hrs of SD ProRes is only 5TB… a relatively easy amount of data to archive in order to preserve that effort.
We digitized 1600 hrs from HDCam last year and archived it all to LTO. We now have 1600 hrs of easily restorable ProRes that will link flawlessly to projects.
John Heagy
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Consider an Aja KiPro. Connect one video cable and push record. How are you going to archive all the files?
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I’m surprised Data Rescue didn’t find anything. It found a few ProRes files even after new files were written for me.
John Heagy
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[Mark CC Knobil] “Hear Hear!”
Thanks for chiming in Mark!
After speaking with Sound Devices at NAB I learned their PIX recorders LANC input supports simple contact closure (GPI) to start the recording, on the tip of the mini jack, and once in record outputs 5 volts on the sleeve with enough juice to power an LED.
Simple remote start with record confidence feedback… perfect!
John Heagy
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Either increase the shutter angle to increase motion blur or shoot a higher frame rate… 30p would help a bit.
The new “film look”…
https://the-hobbitmovie.com/peter-jackson-answers-why-48-fps-for-the-hobbit/
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[Stephan Walfridsson] “they have fallen so far behind both AE on the low end and Nuke on the high end that it would take a lot of money, sweat and a miracle to catch up.”
Agreed… Much of Motion will be integrated into FCPX. If people can do basic motion graphics work without leaving FCP, ala Discreet, that is all Apple can do to ward off AE. Motion will never be AE, so make it work inside FCPX where it can help do basic stuff that can’t be done in FCP7’s horrific effects GUI.
Compressor can be shown the door IMHO, and with 64bit memory and Grand Central, there’s no reason why compression can’t be done in the background as long as it’s effectively “sandboxed”.
The danger of all this background processing is it can bring down the whole app. Hopefully these separate processes will work much like Log & Transfer does now in FCP7.
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[Andy Mees] “Randy Ubilos he directly stated that AVCHD was natively supported in FCPS X, no transcode necessary.”
FCP 7 was billed as AVC-I “Native”… it’s not. Really depends on what his definition of “Native” is.
John Heagy
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Cache-A Prime is around $6000 now. Next to that I recommend a BluRay writer if 50GB per disk and a much slower read/write would work for you.