Michael Sacci
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Is your footage 25i or 25p? If you shot and edited your footage at 25p you should retime the video to 24p NTSC, there is zero quality loss that way.
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You have to at lest try to read the programs manual. And then ask questions if you get stuck.
Also you have given zero useful info.
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Just wanted to point that out to others, the extra bay wasn’t mentioned so I didn’t want people to stripe 4 drives together as some have done.
Of course your setup is just fine.
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If you have encoded all the video before hand there is nothing to set. There is no such thing as a progressive dvd, just progressive assets on a DVD.
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You may want to check out a program called ClipWrap. It can transcode a lot of formats that QT doesn’t like. You would want to transcode them to ProRes most likely.
If you have Adobe apps and have a new version you can see if you can convert them in Media Encoder.
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RCA is the kind of ends not the cable. If it is not component cables 3 for video and you set the DVD to output progressive in its menu then yes it is interlaced.
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1st at this time you do NOT edit the files as they come off the card in FCP, you can with PPro CS5. For FCP you transcode them.
While DVDSP cannot do BluRay, you can make HD approval BluRay with the new version of Compressor. You can also use Encore and Toast, but no serious BluRay authoring on a Mac at all.
Personally I would spend the money for the SDD on a faster Mac, for heavy graphic, transcoding, compressing and rendering I think a beefier system would be a better use of your bucks. Plus as the SDD price drops you can always add that in later, you cannot add in processors.
RAID system, yours in fine but it is a little dated, SAS cards offer faster speeds but more importantly they can be set up as RAID 5 to give you redundancy. But your setup will get the job done, so it is not a bad choice just wanted to point you to a better choice. But the eSata will you a lot for your buck.
There should be a new version of FCP out this summer and MacPros normally get updated in July/Aug, so if you need it now, get it now, if you can wait there will always be new systems. But the system you buy today will be just fine when the new ones come out. If you are going to start editing the Canon footage now, I say get the system now.
Cannot comment on the BMC, no history with it.
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Select all the clips in the new timeline (Rename it with Filters removed or something like that) Then right click on any clip and select “Remove Attributes” check the Filters, hit okay. Then Export.
NOTE make sure you are working with a duplicate of your timeline.
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The files will go in but that is not the project file, all the editing is lost.
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Never recommend you encoding in DVDSP, use compressor.
But you need to export out of AE as 29.97 PRogressive, then in Compressor you set the field dominance to Progressive.
DVDSP will show in the info it as 29.97i (even if it is 23.98p) because that is DVD spec, but Progressive DVDs know how to put the progressive frame back together. It is confusing but this is a DVD thing and not a DVDSP thing.