[Mark Maness]

[Mark Longchamps] “I am a bit new to FCP so is there a “standard” external raid array that will work with FCP and has at least a terra bite of storage?”

The sky is the limit here… New technologies are allowing some awesome drive configurations.

[Mark Longchamps] “I would also like to “hot swap” out a drive and put a new one in if a drive craps out on me. Is fiber channel really worth it or will fire wire 800 do? How about SATA? “

There are lots out there. Personally, I would look into CalDigit for a local firewire or SATA solution.

If fibre channel is your thing and you can afford it, then you should really look at Facilis TerraBlock. It has the most bang for the buck. Its very easy to use and doesn’t require a dedicated server to run.

We’ve been using the TerraBlock system for a little more than a year now with absolutely no problems. I feel some much better having the protection that it affords and besides, the ability to share projects with other systems has really increased our workflow.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

This has always been a real issue with most people in FCP.

You can do this. Manually. Log your discs as normal using the Sony Transfer program. It will import your proxies to a folder that you designate in the preferences. From there, you will have to use this folder or copy all of your files to another folder. At that point, you can import these files and edit like normal, just at low res.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

I agree with all of these guys…

I’m applogize for this but I can’t let this one go…

In order to use a program like FCS2, you need to know the business of television and editing. You just can’t purchase a program and some hardware, quit your job at Wal-Mart and call yourself an editor/producer. It takes real knowledge of what is what. Get to know the codecs and workflow before trying something like, “I can’t get H.264 to work in my timeline”.

Oh Please…

Do yourself a favor, pick up a book on codecs and editing, study it well and put it to use.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

We’ve been using the TerraBlock for a year now… It’s been working very very well. No real problems to speak of. Its not scalable at the moment but future software will make this available.

Terrablock works on ALL platforms.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

[Jumpytunes] “We attach hefty wind screens to the lavs and never place them under clothing because of the muffled sound.”

We’ve been doing outdoor programming for the past twenty years, and I’ve found that placing the lavs between the layers of the buttons on a shirt is the best location. Its gets a little cover and blocks the wind noise. And placing them at the first button is always the best area for reduced noise.

If your audio seems a little muffled… no problem, just EQ it a touch on the high end to bring it back. I imagine you’ve worked with life vests before. This can be a real problem. The problem you get with hefty wind screens are the the bulkiness of them. Kinda looks like you have a dead rat on your shirt.

The best solution if you can afford it, is to have a sound guy running a boom mic (unidirectional) with a heavy wind sock as close to your talent as possible for best sound.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

[Jumpytunes] “My typical compressor settigns:

Threshold: -20
Ratio: 4
Attack Time: 1
Release Time: 90
Preserve Volume: Checked”

WOW… That’s heavy compression. I like it alot lighter than that. Here is a copy of my settings. Try this and see how you like it.

Threshold: -40
Ratio: 1.35
Attack time: 5
Release Time: 100
Perserve Volume: Unchecked

If the ambience noise that you talk about is like crickets, then you can EQ them out some. Otherwise, its always best to keep you ambience to a minimum so that you talent doesn’t get drowned out.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

Well… In tracks where ambience is a real problem, you could send those tracks to SoundTrack Pro to use the noise filter to lower these sounds.

OR… you could just lower the amount of compression. From what you have described to me, it sounds like you’re adding too much compression.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

Might be cool if the web link worked?

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey

[Mark Maness]

[eric] “But as I understand it, you need to encode to ProRes to do that first. Or I

[Mark Maness]

It seems to work pretty well… Motion 3 is a little slow, but that’s to be expected. But Color… its awesome. now I haven’t really put it to its max with Color but simple corrections are very easy and in realtime.

The ATI X800 XT is a card I would recommend to anyone using a G5 system. As far as I am concerned, its the equalivalent to the Mac Pro’s ATI X1900 XT – just a hair slower.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com
https://blogs.creativecow.net/waynecarey