Michael Sacci
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That would be my first choice but ProRes is read only if you don’t have FCP so your workflow maybe more than desired, not that it cannot be done just think it through. If you are editing PPro on a Mac with FCP also on it you are okay.
There are several converters on the market to capture to a compture. Take a look at AJAs Io line and Matrox’s MXO2 lines. You can get HDSDI to a laptop for under a grand. Of course you need express34 slot on the laptop.
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Sounds like the video was shoot 4:3 Letterbox and not 16:9, but was captured 16:9. Can you post the frame capture?
If that is the case you need to bring the clips into FCP deselect anamorphic and edit in standard DV (not anamorphic) seq.
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PC mode is for offloading cards. You need to be in Camera, for live or VTR, for streaming something all ready recorded.
Your software then needs to be about to receive a live feed. Your camera settings will need to match the required video settings for the software. So if it only takes 720×480 29.97i then your camera needs to be on that.
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You will not be editing AVCHD, it will be transcoded to ProRes for editing. So the File sizes does up to about 62GB/hour.
While the 13″ is nice on an airplane I cannot imaging editing with that little screen. For your media drive make sure it is FW800 and 7200rpm. They do make portable bus powered ones, they are a bit more expensive but IMO it is a must for editing.
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This is said about 10 times a day in one forum or another.
You don’t edit h264 in FCP, you convert to ProRes and then your seq. need to match the files settings. If the edit is just for fun, you are fine. If you are editing for real, convert.
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You move the image and then you recrop the shot. You cannot do what you are wanting to do the way you want to do it but you can get the end result.
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To add to Walter’s advice, in Compressor make the m2v encode method a CBR and it will be a lot faster than leaving it as a VBR.
Doing the m2v encoding in compressor instead of another codec, and taking that into Toast or even DVDSP means you are doing encoding twice and that is the most time consuming thing.
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Don’t know about the POP but your conversion method is not a good one.
Open mp3 in QT 7, export, Sound to Aiff> Options> Linear PC/Stereo/48.000/Sample Size 16 or 24 bit
Make sure FCP sequence matches.
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Not to be smart but are you really asking if a HD BluRay would be better than a SD DVD. Of course it is.
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Now is the time to buy. MacPro just got refreshed so you can get the latest and greatest if you want to spend the bucks. If you hold on to a system for a while (sounds like you do) it makes more sense to get the most up-to-date system when you make the move. The new systems should be shipping in a few weeks.
But if you want to save you can often find new but last gen models at a discount since newer normally brings faster for the same selling point as the old models.
Money spent on getting a system setup correctly is always money well spent.