Kyle Macdonnell
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Not sure if I’ll be using .mts files again, but I need to figure out the whole transcoding thing!
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I’m shooting with a T2i & I had some .mts files from a Canon HF 10 which I initially converted to QT in CS4 encoder. FCP didn’t like some of those files & crashed when I put them in the timeline. I wound up converting the .mts files to QT using iSkysoft. I eventually made single Pro Res movies out of each camera. They are about 100gb each, I’m thinking this was a mistake to make such big files. There are spots on my timeline that hang up for several minutes. I’m also having problems with sound partially disappearing from dvds that I’m outputting from FCP.
I just noticed that apple isn’t listing my new i7 iMac for sale on their web site, only the i5 & i3!?!
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It just took me 48 hours to convert 2 hours of HD to SD in AE CS4. It takes me 1 to 2 hours to convert 1 minute of AVCHD to apple ProRes… I’m having a hard time picturing screaming speeds on an iMac!
Maybe my computer is defective; It’s no faster than my laptop & I just rebooted & my finder windows have question marks on the menu bars?!?
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I am new to FCP & CS4. I was using a laptop which was not fast enough. I bought an iMac i7 a couple of weeks ago. It is slow as slow can be! The Apple salesman told me he uses it to edit HD (WTF). I am returning it. Bottom line is you need a big computer to work with HD. I am looking for advice on what to get.
Things to consider include hardware acceleration & raid drives, which require a desktop model with expansion slots.
good Luck!
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I recently bought a new mac & was able to transfer everything from the old one following prompts. The only thing so far I’ve had to remove & re-install is the silverlight plug-in for watching netflix. You can leave FCP on your old system, the only problem will come if both computers are logged on & using the same program at the same time. There is that color corrector that comes with adobe & requires a separate serial #, which I have not launched on my new pc yet; I can see that needing the serial # entered again…
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I didn’t “Log & Transfer”. I shot .mov files on a T2i, 1080p @ 30fps & .mts on a Canon HF S100. The .mts files I first converted to H.264 using Adobe Media Encoder, but about 3 of the files crashed FCP, so I wound up using iSkysoft to convert to H.264, then I converted everything in Compressor to ProRes 422 LT. After I decided that HD might be too much for my setup, I down-converted to SD widescreen lossless QT in Media Encoder (this actually made the files much bigger)………………..