Martin Curtis
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I find recording straight to DVD is a great way to do this. Realistically speaking, if you recorded to 2 or 4 hour DVDs, the quality would be fine for you to use, too. Client delivers a list of I and O points and a disc name, you have the VOB files on your HDD, open a VOB in MPEG Streamclip, export to DV. Using the Batch function will get it done even faster.
Daisy chain two DVD recorders so there’s no possibility of a foul up. As for the TC, almost all DVD players have a little display on them that shows elapsed time.
I love DVD recorders so much, I got the little Sony one so I can hook it up to the camera on the spot, record, finalise and hand over the disc.
Just make sure he’s OK with not having burned in TC if you decide to do it this way.
If they think the end product is only so-so (because of the live nature of the presentation) you may be able to talk them into using the presentations recorded as a jumping off point for some purpose made material.
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IIRC, the NX5U shoots SD as MPEG2 of a type FCP doesn’t want to know about. My suggestion would be to try MPEG Streamclip to transcode.
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In addition to what others have said about the wisdom of buying FCP on the cheap this way, if you buy an “education version”, there may not be an upgrade path for it, so you woouldn’t able to use it to springboard into the next release.
I got work to buy FCS for me, and I bought FCE for home to practice (the basics) with.
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Don’t rush out and buy anything. All the rumours sites are saying new Mac Pros are imminent, with new iMacs to come soon after.
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Sony portable DVD recorder attached to composite out+audio from the camera, get a copy of the PPT and save as JPEGs, convert the DVD to DV and drop the slides onto the timeline.
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Call me lazy, I like using the Share… function of QT X. Share -> YouTube and go.
Judging from the quality of results, and taking a look at videos exported from QT X for using on AppleTV and seeing how they are keyframed and what bitrate they have, I think Apple has put a bit of effort into making these presets really work.
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I have the HVR V1P for low end corporate work. I got it a few years ago now on the basis of price and its similarity to the PD150 we already have in the unit. It’s a fine camera but I personally think tape has had its day. I get occasional dropouts or “dirty head” messages – much more often than is justified by its usage – even though I just use Sony MiniDV tapes.
If someone gave me money for one, I’d buy the Sony NX5 and the external HD for it. A shade under $6k for the camera.
I edit on a 3GHz iMac using FCS2 so I’d take the opportunity to upgrade to a MacPro with a few fast drives so I could move to a ProRes workflow. If someone gave me the money 🙂
The new Sony HXRMC50U looks interesting as a second camera.
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[Shane Ross] “Single internal SATA drives handle multiple streams of ProRes just fine.”
Will FW800 handle multiple streams of ProRes (not HQ or 4444, just ProRes, LT or proxy)?
Apple’s ProRes white paper says that a Mac Pro with three-drive RAID 5 volume for media storage can handle about a dozen streams of ProRes while a 2009 MacBook Pro can handle 3 streams using a single (internal) 7200 RPM drive.
Just wondering what “real world experience” has shown.
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I use Flip 4 Mac Studio (and Studio Pro on another Mac, though Player Pro would do it) and MPEG Streamclip to convert WMVs to a QuickTime MOV using whatever codec my sequence is using (usually DV). I can then import it straight into the FCP browser and thence onto the timeline.
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I had big troubles with this until I stopped using my orange mouse pad. I stopped using a mouse pad at all with my MS Intellimouse and apart from the rare flyoff (and it always goes to the screensaver hot corner…) it’s all been good.