Mark Raudonis
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If this is a new set up, check this out: (Quoted from apple)
If your Xserve RAID is used as storage space for video applications, such as Final Cut Pro, you may wish to uncheck “Allow Host Cache Flushing” in order to sustain the bandwidth and low latency for real-time video capture.
Here’s the URL.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302780
Lot’s of people seem to get caught by this on a new install. Good luck. Welcome to FCP.
mark
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Scott,
Aquisition format has very little to do with an “off-line” format. Therefore, to answer your questions:
#1. Yes. This camera can create a master of high enough quality to be accepted by Discovery or any other HD channel. HD aquisition formats can be VERY confusing and your selection of which one to use is often driven by considerations that have nothting to do with the camera. What are your delivery requirements? International requirements? Whoever owns the copyright dictates the terms.
#2. At first glance, it would seem like overkill to use an HD camera for an SD show, but if you set up an HD workflow for one show, you COULD relatively easily use that workflow to create an SD version of another. There’s nothing wrong with this approach… it’s just gonna cost you more time and money.
#3. Do your homework. There’s more HD/SD formats out there than there are candidates tossing their hat in the ring to run for president!
#4. Don’t know. I’m a “post” guy.
#5. Panasonic AJ-HD1400 Compact DVCPRO HD VTR will play the tapes coming out of this camera.
It sounds like you’re stuck in that netherworld between SD and HD with one foot in both. That’s a very confusing place to be, when new formats and cameras seem to be introduced almost daily. The pansonic camera you’re considering will pretty much “do it all” for your situation. Be aware that in the HD world, aquisition is only the tip of the iceberg. Your decision on aquisition format can have a HUGE impact on the cost and complexity of the post process. Find someone you trust who’s been through this to help guide you. Pay them. It will be the best investment you make.
mark
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[SPeditor] “the director now doesn
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[PaulD] “I worked with an ex-Avid editor who hadn’t understood FCP’s ability to have…”
That’s your problem!
Former Avid editors switching to FCP can’t seem to crack the “Project is everything” notion. I say, “It ain’t the project… it’s how you organize the media”. Shane and others have given you good suggestions on how to reduce the size of your projects. I’ll add another one. Just because an editor is coming from “Avid land” don’t expect that they have a better idea of how to organize your project. Trust your own experience and take it upon yourself to “save them” from their own ignorance.
The beauty of FCP is that all media is just a quicktime file. In a networked workflow, this means that you can find and view media without even opening FCP or any particular project. If you have a logical organization to that media, everyone can find anything WITHOUT the benefit of a project or even FCP.
Outrageously large projects are NOT NECCESSARY!
mark
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Go here, it’s free: https://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=180 Click on “Setting up for multichannel output”.
This tutorial on Lynda.com explains exactly how you need to set up your system for mulichannel output.
A year of total access only costs $250 bucks. Considering how many hours of tutorial they have, it’s a bargain.
Mark.
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Investigate Apple’s “X-SAN”. This is Apple’s answer to “Unity”.
As for the “same project” several people concept…. please note that with FCP (as compared to Avid), it’s NOT the project that is important, it’s how you organize your media.
We have almost one hundred editors using FCP and X-SAN working on mulitple episodes for network delivery everyday. They regularly share projects, media and outputs. It’s all about the workflow.
X-SAN is NOT a cheap solution. Neither is Unity. You get what you payfor. Don’t expect to achieve networked workflow for a buck ninety eight.
Mark
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$2,500 to $3,000 would be in the ball park if this was a straight license fee. How much you want to ad for “copyright infringement” is up to you. I disagree with Mike S and his comments above. A client that steals from you is NOT one that you’d want to cultivate. They’ve already shown their colors. Make what you can now, and don’t expect a payday from them EVER again.
Now, I’m NOT a lawyer, but I sure can GOOGLE like one!
Read this from the copyright statute:
(c) Award of Damages.
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Go to “lynda.com”. THey have a tremendous amount of these kind of tutorials.
There’s plenty of other books and sources out there. Google away.
mark