Neil Patience
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I have been trying to find out about this since it popped up in another thread but it does appear not to be in use yet. As Steve says its based on an old press release.
There was speculation from one BBC producer I asked that some departments used FCP for “self op” work rather than programme making proper and that it may be to replace that, which would exlain the volume of licenses perhaps.
If I get any actual sightings “in the wild” I will report.best wishes
Neil
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Upgrades were discontinued a year ago now so your upgrade oppurtunity is gone unless you can sourse a 2nd hand copy.
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Neil
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No worries, sounds like you have at least got some options.
Many 24 frame feature films are transferred to DVD by simply changing the duration so its a long established principle.best wishes
Neil
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The likely cause of the stuttering you are seeing is that you shot 24 and are now going to 25 fps.
24 frames is not a native TV standard – its really designed for projects that need to have a correlation to film.
If you are in a PAL country much better to shoot 25P rather than 24P as otherwise it generally will come back to bite you if you need to go to DVD/Tape/TV etc etc. Obviously for web or workflows that need to go to 24fps film then 24 is fine.
Can you try Cinema Tools to conform to 25 ?, you will also need to correct the audio speed to account for the change.
Make a copy of your master QT and conform the copy to 25 in Cinema Tools. You may also need to pitch correct the audio depending on what it is and how it sounds with a 4% speed change.If you can create a 25P master that way you should see much less in terms of stuttery look.
Conforming a copy to 25 is instant in Cinema Tools so you can quickly see if your MPEG is better before tackling the audio.
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Even with expensive hardware standards conversion you still get some visual artifacts converting between PAL and NTSC
While FCP can to a degree sort out different frame rates its not quite as simple as just a speed change. The UK and US TV standards are pretty different and dont easily mix as you have realised.best wishes
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dont try to edut with mp4 its not an editing format. Transcode your footage to ProRes LT or 442 (not HQ or 4444) before you edit.
You will find things go much smoother then.
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Hi Jimmy
just wondering where you are based – if it is the UK deciding to shoot 30f as an ongoing format is a bit like saying – I am now going to drive on the right.
Obviously if you are US based then 30 is the right way to go.
Mixing the 2 is not a great option.
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I think that deck has firewire or compnent viceo out.
The easiest way is to use the firewire (iLink) output and capture in the relevent dv format.If you have a video I/O card that accepts a component input, like an AJA LHE for example, you could connect via that.
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[Chris Kenny] “demonstrates that Apple is abandoning professional users to go make shiny gadgets”.”
I have to say in my experience I am doubtful if Apple have ever cared that much about professional users.
Back in about 2004/5 I was editing freelance for ITV in London who decided to build a large FCP set-up for editing promos and trailers. (all programme making there was and still is Avid)
As I was one of the few people there with any FCP experience they employed me as a fairly minor consultant to assist in the edit suite designs.
They installed a 150TB SAN with about 20 suites all running uncompressed SD (but HD capable) over a large fibre network which went through 13 floors of the building. 4 online finishing suites, 4 ingest stations. ArtBox, and Final Touch (as was). Graphics stations with AE etc.
We were told that at the time it was one of the largest if not the largest single FCP installation in Europe. ITV were and I think still are Europe’s largest independent braodcaster.
So given that Europes largest broadcaster just installed just about Europes largest FCP you might imagine Apple would have been interested in it in some way shape or form.
The answer from them was, I was told, literally nothing. ITV contacted them about possible publicity, press etc etc but there was no interest from Apple at all.
It was quite a coup for them having this big installation right in the middle of an Avid using brodcaster but they never even blinked, let alone “cared”I have a similar tale about a London facility that was among the first all FCP houses of any size to be built. – pretty much the same story.
Perhaps it was because they are just US centric but I am not sure how you could be a more “pro” user than that and get little or no help/interest from Apple directly at all.
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Neil
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Like Paul, I am UK based and remember Avid dropping Mac for a short time, I would guess it was for around a year or so.
We happened to be buying a couple of media composers at the time and were told PC only.
It was around the time of the G3/G4 boxes and Avid had to resort to using Expansion Chassis to house the Avid hardware, as the lack of slots in the Macs meant Avid could not run all it needed hardware-wise.
It was certainly just about that time Mac was fairy briefly dropped.
I also remember that when Macs were re-supported, I think there was a disparity in features between the Mac and PC versions for a while until the Mac version “caught up” again.
At least thats how I remeber it – its a little fuzzy now.best wishes
Neil
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