Mark Maness
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That’s cool….
But there is a reason for this. Sony did help develop and implement the Blu-Ray format first. Remember, XDCAM came available in 2004 (I think). XDCAM is a form of Blu-Ray. So…. Yeah, they are really going to push it hard.
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Wayne Carey
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Ok… I gotcha ya.
I have noticed that Encore CS3 seems to crash every time on the burn. So let me ask you this?
Do you think that Encore’s compression is better than Toast’s compression technique?
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[walter biscardi] “Will it be nice if Apple ever rolls BluRay in DVDSP? Sure, I’ll use it for “Play Only” discs like I do with Encore now. “
I have to ask, Walter. How can you get Encore to work? Every time I’ve tried to use it for Blu-Ray creation, it crashes on building the disc every time. If it weren’t for your tip on using BD-RW, I would have created a bunch of expensive drink coasters.
For my one-offs, I’ve found that Roxio’s Toast works very well and faster than Encore and Compressor combined.
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Hey Mike,
If you’re looking at simple Blu-Ray output, then use Roxio’s Toast 9. It does a pretty good job and I haven’t made a coaster yet.
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Wayne Carey
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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen in a long time…!!!
AJA is going to have yet another big hit on their hands. Yes, the box is bigger but it has so many more features than the others on the market.
NOW…. If we could just get a stand alone hard drive to dump all of that SxS card media. You know, kinda like the P2Store. If that were to happen, you would see a huge market transition to this media.
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[Wesley Nolan] “Its kinda madness to be honest ! I don’t know why the cam guy shot it all full blown HD when the end delivery was gonna be DVD, but you live and learn I suppose ! “
Not necessarily… Its better to shoot in HD now and be able to use it in HD later than to shoot in SD then uprez it at a later time.
[Wesley Nolan] “The big nightmare is compression time !! Almost 13 hours or more to compress out 7 hours of footage !!”
From what you are talking about, depending on your particular computer, those render times don’t sound too far off. It looks like you have one of the new Mac Pro systems. There are some bugs that are still being worked out on these but I can tell you that your memory could be upgraded to 16 gigs and that would boost your performance some with FCS2. I’m hoping there will be an update very soon to address this issue and others like the loss of render files.
It seems that FCP has more issues with PAL than anything else… Let’s just hope that Apple fixes this soon.
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Wayne Carey
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Well, Wesley…
I read all of the other posts and they are right. But let me explain some more here…
You are trying to edit an XDCAM SD project (now, we don’t know what codec you are using – IMX or DVCAM) and you’re wanting to add footage that is XDCAM HD 1080i50.
First, are you working entirely in PAL or is it the HD footage that is in PAL?
Just as Shane has said, the HD footage is a form of HDV which is VBR compression. This means that every time you add footage to you SD timelines you are going to have to render, which in HDV land means that you will have to conform the video then render. Very lengthy renders.
You need to change your user prefs, render control tab to codec: Apple ProRes 422 (HDV, XDCAM HD/EX Only). This will help with your render times but not eliminate them.
Personally, I would suggest that you batch capture all of you HD footage into SD footage and then edit from there, if that’s what you are delivering.
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Wayne Carey
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Ok…
Take out 4 gig of RAM. Leaving you a total of 8 gig. See how that works.
Oh, one more thing. Is all of this RAM exactly the specs?
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Wayne Carey
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Kinda reminds me of an episode from Monty Python’s Flying Circus…
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Wayne Carey
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Well, let me add this…
Most everyone thinks they can just add memory to you machine and everything will be great.
Not so…
FCP has special requirements that even the fine folks at Apple aren’t very aware of. You have to add matching pairs of memory across the risers (A and B) in a special order AND FCP needs the memory to be in multiples of 4, meaning, 2 gig, 4 gig, 8 gig, 16 gig or 32 gig. Anything else will and can cause weird issues such as yours.
Let me explain the memory placement a little better. If you have 2 2gig bars in riser A, then you need to install 2 2gig bars in riser B. And you do this until you get all your memory installed.
Let me make my point. Remove the original 4 gig of memory. now install your memory that you added in risers A and B in the order I explained. Now, restart your machine and see how it works. I would bet that your renders will be faster.
Give it a shot.
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Wayne Carey
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