Kevin Patrick
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Great suggestion. I got a copy as well. Watched on a plane trip to CA.
As long as Sony keeps writing their manuals the way they do, these 3rd party instructional guys will always have a job.
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[Rafael Amador] “The signal can even be improved”
Really? How can you improve on a VHS format? I was always under the impression that you can’t get more than what’s there.
I can understand how a compression algorithm can affect something that was never compressed. As with capturing via DV.
But are you saying you can get improvement? Or are you saying using a capture device (for uncompressed analog) will be better than the DV capture approach?
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[David Roth Weiss] “Kevin’s assumption is false”
I probably shouldn’t correct you, but …
I believe my assumption was actually sarcastic.
(perhaps no better than being false)
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[Chris Harlan] “EEPROM”
Now there’s a term I haven’t heard in a while.
It seems to me, people assume SSDs are better. Better than HDDs.
But is that really the case? Does anyone know what the shelf life is of an SSD? Sitting untouched, without power for years?
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I got up the nerve to run purge yesterday, just after I started with FCP X. Hours later, Inactive Memory was still fairly low. Perhaps it just needs a push to get it going?
If I don’t run purge, IM on my system can easily grow to over 5 and 6 GB. Hope Apple gets around to fixing it.
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I had a 25 year old VHS tape that I had to capture last year. I stuck it in a VCR hit rewind and it snapped.
I opened up the cassette, trimmed and tapped the tape back together, closed up the cassette and captured it.
Try that with a bad hard drive.
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I just started reading the book myself.
It would be interesting to know just how much Steve influenced the FCS team. Although, much of what I’ve read (outside the biography) seems to suggest that Steve knew the end was coming sooner than expected. Supposedly he focused in on the things he wanted to get done. iPhones, iPads. Now apparently iTV? (as in, not Apple TV)
I wouldn’t be surprised if he simply didn’t have time for the FCS team.
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I haven’t tried it myself, but …
Doesn’t FCP X support importing from tape based cameras/decks? Over firewire. Won’t that work for you? Obviously you need to run your analog device through a firewire deck or camera. For VHS, I use a full size DV deck.
I think another issue is what to do when all your old stuff stops working. VHS, Video 8, Hi8. Back in the day, I made “movies” with my friends on 8mm sound film. A few years ago we got together, I pulled out my old Elmo projector and the drive belt broke. Melted a few frames. I couldn’t find a replacement, but I’m not sure I would even risk it again. I finally got around to having them digitized. Shortly after that, I purchased one of Sony’s Hi8 portable decks. It takes both Hi8 and 8 and has firewire. You can still buy them, but I wonder for how long. I started capturing my old family videos (which I’ve put off for years), shot on those formats. Now that I have over 3TB of that stuff on a RAID 5 array, I wonder how long that will last?
Perhaps I missed the point to your post. Are you concerned that Apple might drop the existing firewire capture capability that FCP X currently has? Making it much more difficult to capture your old analog stuff?
I don’t think you have anything to worry about. Apple would never drop something like that. It’s too import, to too many of their customers. Just imagine if they did. You’d be hosed.
Surely Apple would never do such a thing.
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It may not have been a mistake on Avid’s part. Avid may have contracted with a company that manages their site for them, and they may have made the mistake. A mistake that may have been in violation of their NDA.
We all know of different web sites that pretty much make a living off publishing information they know is not meant for public viewing. They wash their hands of it by saying someone gave them the info. Or they found it on the web, posted mistakenly. Similar to the Avid case. What they do is not against the law. I know, I’ve personally been involved in situations just like this.
It appears that the Creative Cow chooses not to follow those kinds of business practices.
Is that censorship? Or is it being respectful? (as Tim put it)
I lean towards respectful and I’m glad the Cow does too.
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I meant, can you adjust the magnification?
Can I adjust it for my eye so that I can focus on it?
I can’t read without a correction.