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Lawrence Vaughan
October 24, 2007 at 9:59 pm in reply to: FINAL CUT to DVD – jumpy playback

cool. ill give it a whirl, hopefully it will fix it.
thanks.
Lawrence Vaughan
October 21, 2007 at 7:25 am in reply to: FINAL CUT to DVD – jumpy playback

Thanks Colin!

The lines are after I export and watch the DVD on a TV. I don’t use another monitor, just my mac one. The fact that you have seen this topic crop up on here before is slightly comforting, at least I know it’s not just me who is having these problems.

I’ll do a search and have a look for a solution, which really – is what I should have done in the first place.

Thanks.
Lawrence Vaughan
July 23, 2007 at 11:10 am in reply to: HD video on a MBPro??

Thanks everyone. The picture is becomming a little clearer now.
Lawrence Vaughan
July 11, 2007 at 5:57 pm in reply to: What mac for editing??

excellent. thanks

justa quick question, is editing on a imac ok, or will it run real slow?
Lawrence Vaughan
July 3, 2007 at 7:48 am in reply to: What mac for editing?

one of the new features of FCP6 is that you can set your external video preview to a different format than your timeline … in your case you could monitor a downconverted DV version of your HDV timeline, via the camera, whilst editing. not HD, but nonetheless a workflow that leverages the power of FCP6 and doesn’t require the MXO. (but the MXO is a much nicer and full HD solution)

Is this feature available in Final cut studio 2?

If you want to use FCP and have it work well, you really need either a MacPro tower, or MacBook Pro. iMacs, Mac Minis, MacBooks are all consumer computers that are very limited in what they can do. The only expandibilty they have is RAM…period. A MacPro can have a capture card or eSATA card or additional firewire cards added. And a MacBook Pro can also have an eSATA card or additional firewire card added via the PCIexpress 34 slot. All macs have ONE firewire bus, and typically trying to hook up a camera and drive to the comptuer with one bus causes dropped frames and other issues. Not all the time, but often enough.

I am waiting for thew new imacs, is this likely to change?

2GB RAM is the minimum needed for FCS2…4 would be better. And never ever EVER store media on your main hard drive. That is for apps and files only. Capture your media to a separate hard drive. Secondary internal (MacPro only) or external firewire or eSATA drives are recommended.

I did intend on editing to an external drive but using the mac’s drive as backup. I will definitely be upgrading ram, probably a couple of months after the switch, as long as I can run FCS2 (even if it’s a little slow) i don’t mind for those initial couple of months. How easy is it to upgrade the ram in any mac?
One more thing, presuming i DID go with a macbook pro, can I output the signal to an external monitor instead of using the laptops screen, OR hook it up to a monitor and use both screens?
Lawrence Vaughan
July 2, 2007 at 6:00 pm in reply to: What mac for editing?

OK. Basically, I am sick to death of premiere crashing, unstable windows XP (and 98, me, vista the list goes on!). I tried final cut the other day and just have to make the switch.

I am filming currently on a Sony PD150 Mini DV, I occasionally use Canon XL1 and Sony DSR370 DV. I am looking at the near future of filming on mini HD (Sony HVR-V1E or A1E). I will be wanting to preview video on a tv / monitor. Which, as suggested I could output to via either the camera itself or DV deck.

Unfortunately I just cannot afford a macpro tower at this moment in time. If I were to edit using Mini HD could I output to a HD tv/monitor if I ran the output signal through the camera itself?

I would like the portability of a macbook pro, BUT – I don’t NEED it. And knowing me and my clumsy way’s I would end up dropping it. A desktop would more than likely suit me – of course, I won’t buy just yet, I am actually waiting for the new ones to be released.

When I do buy it I was thinking of only getting 2 gig of ram to begin with (and 250gig HD, purely for editing and apps), everything else on external HD for backup and music etc…
Lawrence Vaughan
June 1, 2007 at 6:59 am in reply to: Cameras – newbie question

Ahhh!
Thats where i’ve been going wrong (doh!). Thank you!!
Lawrence Vaughan
March 9, 2007 at 10:25 am in reply to: The best codec?

The files are off the internet. Not an amazing site however – I did not pay for them. https://www.archive.org/
Lawrence Vaughan
March 8, 2007 at 4:45 pm in reply to: The best codec?

I appreciate the codec isn’t the best. The files I am wanting to edit are stock (royalty free) footage. Unfortunately the only available format is in mpeg4.
Looks like i’m going to have to buy a new hard drive for this project.

Thanks mike.
Lawrence Vaughan
March 7, 2007 at 11:01 am in reply to: Mpeg in Premiere 6.0?

Excellent. Thanks for that. Strange that a cheaper version of premiere actually works with mpegs. grr!

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