[Mark Laslo]

I’m keeping FCP7 for my work machine, but I am in the market to buy a new personal editing machine. I was looking at a Mac Pro and the FCP studio package but after this “update” to FCP I have decided to save myself some serious cash and go with a custom built PC and Premiere Pro and save probably $1000 atleast. As a starting independent editor that is a significant price difference for increased functionality.

Also I think the reason most people are looking to switch, and I could be off base, is because people do not want to be working in an application that has no future. FCP 7 is a great application for today, but it still has some glaring bugs (scrubbing in L&T window) that we now know will never be fixed. Also as new formats get released unless there is 3rd party plugins created these formats will not work in FCP 7.

These may not be the reasons that the majority of people are switching over, but these are my reasons for sure.

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks for the info. Premiere Pro, here I come.

[Mark Laslo]

The video can now be found here instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VXepNCs_iZo

[Mark Laslo]

FCP 7.0.3
i’m previewing within FCP, but I have upgraded to the latest QT and am externally previewing in QT 7
Sequence and footage is Prores 422

The render screen says Render 10-bit material in high-precision YUV – I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Thanks for your help, please let me know if you need additional information.

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks for clarification. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I think you may have responded to my question about this in another thread, does this RAID box look like a good setup to you? The guy at B&H told me I should be fine using the Esata connection and my IT guy confirmed my suspicion, but he knows very little about video. I know it’s not the most expensive RAID option out there and I’ll probably suffer some read/write speed, but we are typcially only laying between 1 -3 tracks of 720p60 ProRes 422 in a timeline. Most times it’s just 2 tracks or 1 video interview and pictures.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/624484-REG/LaCie_301435U_8TB_4big_Quadra_External.html

Thanks for the advice and information. I have learned much from you and the others here.

[Mark Laslo]

Thanks David,

The end goal is to get an 8 TB RAID box. There was no room in the budget to buy it yet, and the drives I have are not the same model so I could not RAID yet. Eventually the goal is to clear off the 1 TB and 2 TB drive put them on a 8 TB 4 drive RAID 5 setup and use the internal drives as backup.

Thanks for the info.

[Mark Laslo]

Hi David,

Thanks for the info. I actually have another thread on the COW where I got info about project files. My system is to have the project file with the media, have the autosave save a version every five minutes to the system drive, and time capsule backs up both autosave and the original project file every hour.

My bigger concern is where should the render files and all the other files that get stored in the “Final Cut Pro Documents Folder” be stored. Currently with only one media drive everything was on one drive and I would move my transcoded ProRes files from the capture scratch to the appropriate project folder, or occasionally due to poor diligence leave the files in the Capture Scratch folder.

Now that I have two drives should I be keeping the render files/thumbnail cache/etc. on the same drive that the media is being captured to, or can the capture scratch be on one drive and the other folders go on another drive.

This is mostly a question about which will give the best performance for rendering/playback.

Thanks,

[Mark Laslo]

Hi Mike,

Not sure if this is your issue, but I found this happened to me a few times.

Double click on an image, go to the motion tab and expand the distort box. Check and see if the aspect ratio has been changed. I ran into this when I transitioned from a SD DV timeline to a HD Prores timeline.

Hope that helps.

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

David,

Thank you for your information. My understanding was that the RAID was being controlled by the LaCie enclosure and that it would handle doing all of the RAID options. According to the specs on the device it supports RAID 0, 3, 5, 10. The tech at B&H also said it should work fine. Is he incorrect?

Thanks for the information, I’m a techie but RAID is a whole new field for me.

Thanks,

Mark

[Mark Laslo]

Thank you all for the heads up.

Right now the product I am looking at is https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/624484-REG/LaCie_301435U_8TB_4big_Quadra_External.html via eSATA.

I typically edit in 720p 60 ProRes 422. The enclosure from Lacie is a 4 drive 8 TB RAID 0, 3, 5 option. I’m thinking of working in RAID 5.

Unfortunately budget is limited as we are a non-profit so I am trying to get the most bang for my buck. I am glad for the warnings about gigabit and the Buffalo throughput issues. Right now I am really trying to find a decently priced eSATA card as it seems crazy to me to spend $150+ to give myself a SATA port outside of my computer.

Does anybody know if https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/481960-REG/Sonnet_TSATAII_E2P_Tempo_SATA_E2P_2_Port.html will work with that laCie drive?

Also would something like this https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/MPQXES2/ be an option?

Thanks,

Mark