Michael Sacci
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[Ryan Cummings] “Portability is not of the essence for me”
Then never get a laptop. Nice thing about the iMac they are room portable and even site portable. The only downside is storage and expandability but you have the same restriction with the MBP. OWC is putting eSATA ports in the new models and if I got a iMac I probably would have that done. I love eSATA storage.
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could be a port issue, a cable issue. there is no drives needed to mount cards so you just need to start swapping things out.
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you use compressor, never use avi for editing on a mac. .mov is just a QT wrapper you need to make sure you use the correct codec to go along with that, ProRes is normally the best choice.
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You should never upgrade a Pro App, you should delete FCS2 and then install FCS3 fresh. Of course you need the old version’s serial number for this.
David Roth Weiss has a great article on going from one version to another somewhere on the Cow. (we so need stickies). If you can find it you should read it.
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[Shiraz Prince] “1. Safe reboot once again (I did it once before putting new RAM in)”
You only rebooted once? But if your reboots is hanging or giving you a kernal panic you may have bad memory sticks.I think the first course of action it to
1) first thing, put all the footage on an ext FW800 drive, these are super cheap these days, do not get a USB Drive, you need a FW800. This needs to be your FCP scratch drive also so your renders go to it.2) Make smaller sequences (if you project is really big you may want to do that too. First thing in the finder make a copy of your project file add (PARTS) to the name of the new project file and work with this one.
Close the Sequence in FCP and then Duplicate it 6 Times. Name the original one with (ORIGINAL) at the end and then the copies, (part 1), (part 2) and so on. Start deleting the footage from each sequence so you have it divided up as you think is best. Make sure you are saving after each step. At the end do a save and then a save as so you have a copy. See it this works. Then if it is still giving you issues you can break each sequence into its own project by doing a save as and then deleting the other sequences. -
this question can no longer be answered since you cannot buy anything in 2010 anymore.
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it’s like those stories about people that got one of those special combustion engines, you know a Cadilac that gets 100mpg.
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[Marco Aguilar] ” I didn’t shit at 59.94?”
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I’m not sure anyone would say that the adapter is BETTER than a true big sensor camera. But it maybe cheaper and fit into your post better. You have listed most of the negatives, setup, size and weight so they are not suited for run and gun. But they also eat up light, at least a stop.
With the AF100 a lot of the problems of DSLR are gone, you have a real video camera. The down side to these cameras is that if you are really wanting shallow DOF you have to start investing in fast lenses (but that can also be rented on an as needed bases) The AF100 is definitely the wave of things to come. But if you start getting the lenses that everyone it drooling over you are looking at a 20K camera but the camera with the stock 17-140mm (I maybe wrong on the exact mm) would be a great run and gun lenses (not fast enough for some work or real shallow dof, but then you rent Ziess or Olympus Primes to do more cinematic shoots that you normally use your adapter on.
My 2 cents.
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[Giuliano Bausano] “32Gb, 4 hours video”
That should have been your first clue that no way was that ProRes, in fact I don’t even know how that is a 4 hour HDV, which is about 12-13GB/hr. That sounds like a delivery codec and not HDV (which is a favor of mpeg2)
If it is not HDV I would convert the footage. I don’t work in HDV much but when I do I convert it to ProRes before I start.
If you convert you movie and name it exactly the same, then rename the original name(HDV). When you reopen the project it will load the ProRes and then you change your compressor setting of the sequence to ProRes.
Always backup the project file before starting.