Matt Doe
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I prefer to edit in the native format, if you shot 1080i HDV, I would cut in 1080i HDV. This avoids unnecessary rendering during the edit. The only time I transcode is if I have strange material (like the h.264 from a Canon 5D MarkII or something).
I would save all the re-sizing/de-interlacing for compressor.
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From the sounds of it, the easiest way would be to compress the videos into a H264 quicktime and house them in iTunes, then from there you can create playlists galore of your videos.
Having never used front row I am not sure whether you can see your iTunes playlists, I believe you can, and if that is the case that should solve your issues.
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Jon,
I am a QC tech at a post house in DC which deals with a lot of National Geographic programming. I am not exactly sure about their acquisition formats but I do believe that DVCPro HD (P2) is acceptable.
Another example is the Discovery Channel. They have various levels of “HD” programming based on your format and how much of that format is in the final program. Gold being shot on VariCams, F900s and so forth.
Having only dealt with final programs from these to networks I can’t say for sure that I am correct, please someone correct me if I am wrong.
Check with whichever network and they can provide you with an a guide of what formats are acceptable.
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You could also use tech tools pro, https://www.micromat.com/
I ran the system check off the install DVD prior to installing leopard. My quad 3.0 ghz, 3 gb ram took about 2 hours to complete the test if I recall correctly.
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Camtasia does give you a broader control over file formats and compressions, I believe. As far as I know it is PC only (forgive me if I am wrong). I have used both Camtasia (on a PC) and snapz on my mac, other than the nitty gritty guts of the programs I noticed there to be no big difference. I am not a big screen grab/capture tool user though, I just wanted to point you in the direction of tools that I knew of, if you have access to a PC and a Mac, give them a try and see which one you like better.
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To capture the actual computer screen with the mouse moves, you would use a program like Snapz Pro. Once you have the quicktime you can bring that in to Motion and achieve that the 3D effect by adding a camera and key framing its position to get the look you want.
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I work at a post house in Washington DC, we deal with these type of “outputs” all the time. Most of the outputs are done through our Final Cut system through a Kona 2 card. If you were to send a 23.98 QT, we would simply make a 23.98 sequence and let the Kona handle the pulldown and I would imagine any post house in your area would most likely handle the output the same way.
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Not sure of your drive set-up, but I ran into a long start-up on my quad 3.0 ghz mac pro, 6 gig 3rd party ram, when one of the 3 non-system drives I had in RAID 0 was on the way out.
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I am in the same sort of situation. I had a RAID 0 set up with 3 500 gig drives. My machine was running quite weird for a few days; when finally disk utility came back with an error saying one of my RAID drives was on its way out and to pull all data off the drive.
My new drive arrives today and was wondering if I should stick with RAID 0 “scary raid” or would I still see the speed benefit along with the redundancy of RAID 5?
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I vaguely remember seeing a video podcast a while back regarding the use of XML with FCP as a way to import data from a spreadsheet to automatically update lower thirds, or maybe it was within Cinema 4D.
Sadly I cannot remember, but you may want to take a look at the XML back end of final cut, I know it can do some nifty things.