Kevin Monahan
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I thought that there already was a Baltimore group????
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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The time limit in capture now just plain doesn’t work. I am running FCP 4.5 on OS 10.3.9 on my dual 1 gig G4.
It is working fine here. However, Capture Now is not stable unless your tape is rock solid with no dropouts.
I need this feature for capturing about 60one hour hi8 tapes run off the client’s old camera, through my DSR250, and firewire in.
If I were you, I’d dub ’em to DV and capture them that way. Otherwise, you’ll tear your hair out. Those old hi8 tapes have noise and dropouts galore.These tapes vary in length, and I need to let them capture without babysitting.
That would be nice wouldn’t it? 😉I would watch them like a Hawk for Capture Now. If you were batch capturing the DV dubs, you could walk away.
Would playing from a hi8 camera with a built-in firewire out solve my problem if the time limit in capture now is not a fixable problem?
Capture now works fine. Your tapes, however, are likely going to trip it up. Even if they’re relatively clean, a single drop out will cause a whole 60 minute capture to fail.
Yup. I speak from experience. If you want to use Capture Now with those hi8 tapes, I don’t think you can successfully capture a whole tape. Every dropout will cause the capture to go awry causing synch loss and dropped frames.
Most folks these days want to capture HUGE chunks of video and then break them up. Although you can do that, I find that FCP works much more reliably and predictably with short, discrete clips with every clip having a single, short media file. My opinion and experience anyway.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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A network setup won’t buy you much in those regards. If you want more RT, then buy the fastest Mac you can afford. You want better performance? Stuff it full of RAM and buy the fastest drives you can get. An Xserve RAID is pretty awesome.
A networked setup with Xsan or the like buys you media sharing capabilities and distributed encoding for Compressor. You can do distributed rendering with Shake, too.
You don’t need Xsan for the distributed encoding for compressor or rendering for Shake. Gigabit ethernet will do–but you won’t get reliable media share capabilities.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Yeah. but to merely slap on a broadcast safe filter is not really the proper method to color correct. It’s only a safety valve, IMO. Once you know how to use the waveform monitor and vectorscope, you would use the color corrector 3 way to achieve proper luma, chroma and sat. Once that is done, the sequence is nested and the broadcast safe filter is applied to the entire sequence. This is explained in my book, as well as other resources that are available.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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What on earth are you guys talking about? Network rendering for FCP? FCP 5 won’t do that, but Compressor will do distributed encoding. Is that what you mean?
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Actually, after checking this out further there are 5 other possible SAN solutions for FCP out there. Xsan is still the cheapest and most reliable, though.
Here’s a spreadsheet:
https://www.silverado.cc/sancomp.pdfCool beans…
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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Nest the clip. Add the effect to the nest.
Kevin Monahan
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro
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I think I paid $229. Now they are a bit lower at $189.
https://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101587&affiliate=yahoo
Nice to have 100 GB in the formerly 40 GB Ti Book.
Kevin Monahan
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No Trouble George. Believe me….this confuses a lot of people as we see the “blurry photo” complaint CONSTANTLY. It’s understandable because there are at least 4 hoops to jump through to get high quality renders. And you really have to know how FCP deals with RT Preview FX.
You now know the issues, so if you can, help Matte and myself get the word out.