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Selling it on the App store for $299 will ensure that everyone who uses it will have to buy it. If people in the business of post are worried that the next guy can compete with them with a software that costs ‘only’ $1000, or $299, think how it must feel to be competed against by people who don’t even buy the software. This may come as a shock to many, in the civilized world but…
That’s how it is in many parts of the world. Even companies considering themselves international and touting new phrases like ‘world-sourcing’, with offices in Hollywood, use as many as 20-odd FCP licences without buying even one. How long is Apple going to take a hit on this. $299 may sound small, but it’s 300 times as much as many large post houses are currently paying for FCP.
Ultimately the value of a siftware or system is what the system that sits between the keyboard and the chair does with it. Ever lower costs of acquiring editing-finishing systems will, in the long run, serve to raise the value of the human in front of it.
Finally, I think Mark Raudonis’ two metaphors on the new FCP during the editor’s discussion were very apt.
One was, “Skate to where the pick is” and the other from Henry Ford “if I ask people what they want they’ll tell me to make a faster horse”———————————–
Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
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FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
From your first post it was obvious that you had all the connections right. The fact that VTR Xchange saw TC, means TC was reaching your Mac. That FCP could control the VTR, means RS-422 was functioning correctly.
The AJA IO is uncommon, and many have not actually used it. It is also the only external IO box that you can use with an iMac for tape ingest and output. Till next Wednesday at least.
I’m glad you cracked this by persisting with it.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
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If it’s a live capture do you have a common ref fed to cameras and the LHi?
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
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If you had even more time you could consider cricket. It runs 5 days.
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Neil Sadwelkar
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twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
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I use both. There is a real price difference between them. But I havent come across any good explanation on why that price difference translates into a video quality difference. Maybe there is, but i havent found it.
About support, it depends where you are located. In my immediate vicinity, BM support is way better.
Aja LHi vs BM Extreme, one major limitation of the LHi is it cannot play out 24psf from a true 24fps (not 23.98) timeline which puts a limit on the kind of TV/monitor you can get. BM Extreme can.
BM ships with Media Express which, in a workstation that doesn’t have FCP installed, can still be used for capture, EDL batch capture and layoff to tape from a QuickTime.
Kona has an advantage that it is compatible with Autodesk Smoke so you can have FCP and Smoke in the same system.
BM Extreme has an advantage that it is compatible with Resolve on Mac so you can have FCP and Resolve in the same system.
Aja IO Express has an advantage that it is compatible with Avid MC 5.5 on Mac so you can have FCP and Avid in the same system. For capture and output.
There are indications that by Monday, or Tuesday evening, we may have to revise this whole thing 😉
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
Do the captured files show any audio waveform at all?
I’ve encountered issues with DV capture where captured audio was inaudible in FCP, deck played fine, no levels in meters during capture. And waveform showed audio.
When I panned the Ch 1 to left and Ch 2 to right with the mixer, the audio was fine.
Some kind of phase cancellation that seems to occur only with some decks.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
Can you open one of your ProRes 4444 clips in QuickTime 7 and export to Uncompressed 10bit QT from there?
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
I edited a full length feature some years ago where I had to edit at a client’s MacPro when his presence was needed, and edits on my time on my iMac at home.
All dailies and sound was captured on the MacPro’s internal drive. Right after i captured all the dailies and sound, I cloned the MacPro drive into another Firewire 800 drive and named it the same name as the drive in the MacPro. When I carried the drive home and connected it to my iMac, and opened the project, it was all online without needing to reconnect.
When I needed to work on the MacPro, I just took the project only, on a USB thumb drive, to the MacPro. When opened there it just worked fine. No reconnect. After working on the MacPro, if I took that project back to the iMac and it opened and connected automatically there too. Just to be safe, I set the drive as one of the targets in the ‘Search Folders’ setting in FCP System settings in both machines.
I did this back and forth for about 4 months editing alternately on both systems and keeping media at both locations too..
If new dailies were captured on the MacPro drive, I carried the Firewire drive there and cloned it again, so both drives were always identical. I used SuperDuper for the cloning, but you can also use Silverkeeper or Carbon Copy ClonerWhen FCP opens a project, it simply looks for a drive by name and folder structure and doesn’t care if the drive is internal or Firewire. Clips, sub clips, sequences all connect perfectly. Also, FCP allows you to connect two drives of the same name, to one Mac simultaneously. Of course, I never opened the projects with both drives connected.
Not sure if this answers your query, but it’s another route.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
Sure Avid at the FCPUG Supermeet seemed out of place. But then, if Apple were to take over this meet to show something new, why didn’t they just participate at NAB like they used to, and take that show by storm with something revolutionary. The NAB Show would have gained from it and it would have showed some solidarity with the congregated post folks.
Rather than doing it at a small hotel away from the main show but during it anyway. Or, they could have had something on Sunday in a larger hotel so it would effectively take out the wind out their sails before the show even began. Like they did at CES, or was it MacWorld with the iPad.
Just sayin..
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
And, the Apple Store is down…
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India