Michael Sacci
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since you are not coming off a tape there is no TC in the firewire stream. Just set Device Control to Non-controllable and you will be fine.
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Adding a matte is the way you would do it. There is also one built into FCP also.
Depending on your codec the external drive is probably not fast enough to play it. If you encoded it to h.264 (still HD if you want) it should playback fine.
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Try searching “RIPPING” in the DVD forums.
But I use Cinematize Pro to rip video and menus off DVDs.
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m2v is even more compressed than DV. and it is not an editing codec so they would have to rip it from the DVD if they wanted to do anything with it down the road. More quality loss.
If a client is paying a DV rate then just stay in DV.
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The GT120 can support up to (2) 30″ (not three like my typo in first post). (2) 24″ or one 30″ are a really nice fits but this a personal taste and likes, not a right or wrong answer. I like one big monitor over (2) 24s but that is because the split screen distracts me, but most people like the 2 over 1.
The only thing that will not work on one card is (2) of the new 24″ LED apple displays and that is solely because of the cabling. They are really nice monitors bright but they are high gloss glass which a lot of people don’t like. You can get 2 Dell 24″ for just over the cost of one apple 24″
You can also run mismatched monitors with no problem. such as the new 24″ and 30″ monitors at the same time. Once again no right and wrong, just what works for you.
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sorry that is a typo (2) BAD TYPIST 🙁
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It is not getting rid of the extra footage. It helps but all the footage is still locked together. It helps with the playback when you do this but you cannot send this footage to Color because of the linking. This is also non-destructive since you can reverse it by choosing Unclasped it the same way.
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Current graphic cards in Mac Pros can run (3) 30″ or smaller monitors. They have (1) DVI and (1) Mini Display Port, they are active at the same time.
For the second monitor you need to buy and adapter to go from the cards Mini Display port to DVI, the 30″ adapter is $100, 24″ are $30 (i think).
Two 30″ monitors would be huge, I would need to send out a search party to find my curser.
You cannot use (2) of the new Mac 24″ LED because there is no adapter (yet) to go from the monitors Mini Display connector to DVI on the Card.
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Add to the Dobly E warning, with that is being used those tracks NOT be monitors directly out to speakers. They can blow speakers quickly, it has to be run through a decoder to be monitored.
If they are 6 discreet channels you probably don’t wait FCP going any levels adjustments on output. Audio people don’t like video people messing with their audio. For fun I normally tell them, don’t worry DVD players automatically down-mix the 5.1 to stereo and then watch them twitch.
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Generic help – You may want to search forums and google “Dobly E” encoding, that is what is use to send 5.1 to broadcasters, it is a 2-channel file. This maybe what you are getting.