Mark Petereit
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Well, start at the beginning. 😉
What are the specs of your 3 Macs? (Make, Model, Processor(s), RAM, OS version, HD size(s), etc.)
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So what’s different between this Mac and the other two?
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HD? SD? Codec? Where is your media — internal drive, system drive, external drive? If external, how is it connected — Firewire 400? Firewire 800? USB 1.1? USB 2.1? SCSI? eSATA?
2GB RAM isn’t enough to do any serious editing in FCP. I recommend 8GB minimum with all modules of the same specs and manufacturer.
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Probably not in its present form. In order to do multiclip, all clips must be the same frame rate in the same codec.
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Who cares what your IT support guys say? They’ll never need to touch it. We had an 8-core Mac Pro in our editing suite for almost a year before our IT support guys even knew about it. The only reason they found out about it is because they came to do the regularly scheduled swapout of our UPS units.
They asked, “Does the CIO know you have that?”
I said, “She signed the purchase order.”
“You know we can’t support it if you have any problems.”
“We never have any problems.”
“I hope you never need to connect it to the network, because we don’t have any Mac techs.”
“It’s already connected to the network.”
“Who did that?”
“I did.”
“Who configured it?”
“Jonathan Ive”
“Who’s he?”
“Are you done with my UPS? I have work to do.” -
Yes, wait. Because when the new 12-core Mac Pros come out, all the cool kids will snap them up as quickly as Steve can pump them out. Then the market will be flooded with used, but otherwise completely capable 8-core machines that you’ll be able to buy from them for an absolute STEAL.
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Wait. I thought the world ended in Y2K?
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First, I would use Keepvid.com to make sure you’re pulling down the highest version available from YouTube.
Then I would compose a virtual scene in Motion with some high-quality HD graphics, then put the video in a small window in the middle — perhaps even on a 3-D depiction of a computer monitor. You could even put some text on the screen explaining that it’s a youtube video so people would know why the quality is substandard.
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That’s funny, I just read this quote from Jim Jannard, president of Red Digital Cinema, giving tips on how to get the best results from the Red One:
“If fans get noisy, replace them. Professional cameras need maintenance.”
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The old standby trick is to ask if you can pop the lenses out of their glasses for the interview, so they’re just wearing the frames. Just be sure to have some extra makeup handy. Glasses have a tendency to hide bags.