Nick Price
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I presume you have also selected ’empty trash’If there is definitely nothing on your drive that you want to keep use disc utility to erase/format the drive
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Hi Colin,
i am a big fan of Gtech hard drives. I still have one G-tech G-raid working fine since i bought it in 2004! G-Raids are super fast and have a silent fan in them to keep the drive cool. The also have 2 firewires and an eSata (although with you iMac that wont be much use, much quicker than firewire though). YOu can get 4TB versions now which should keep you going for a while.When working with card media, I tend to have 2 drives. Drive 1 with the card media one, and Drive 2 with the transcoded rushes on. Once ive finished editing i consolidate the rushes on drive 2 possibly to a 3rd drive where i archive all my programmes and then i can delete the rushes from drive 2. I always keep the card media on drive 1. It will get full after a while but drives are so cheap nowerdays.
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Why does anyone need to upgrade? Because it comes with lots of great new features and you need to be competitive. This isn’t something that will be fixed with an update. This makes my computer obsolete when it should be lasting 5 more years.
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I trie downloading all the 3 apps from the apps store and my 2009 Mac Pro wasnt supported!
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Hi Keith,
sounds like you have already done lots of research! The iMac will speed you up massively from a G4. In terms of your questions:-The supplied card in the iMac will be fine for editing ProRes and HDV, although for what its worth i would aways convert your HDV to proRes for the edit. When you get FCP7 it will come with versions of ProRes that take up less space then the HDV for better quality.
-I wouldn’t necessarily upgrade your internal drive. External Drives are a must with video, being able to fill them up with rushes and then stick them on a shelf. And as you say new thunderbolt drives will be coming soon.
-Think about partitioning your drive into a system drive and a backup system drive, and maybe a partition for your projects.
-Bear in mind that the FCP7 wont work on your G4 – you can still use FCP6 with it and then FCP will update the project on your iMac to a FCP7 project, but you wont be able to go back to the G4 with a FCP7 project, although i imagine you would need to anyway
-you can capture HDV straight to ProRes with a firewire lead. Check it out on the CoW. Again i wouldnt bother capturing as HDV.
oh and get more RAM than it comes with but for FCP 4GB is the max it will use. But CS5 apps will use more if you have it. 16gb if you can afford it but but i might spend the money on 2 x decent hard drives and get 8gb RAM.
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hi paul,
the aja products are great, but a little pricy for my money. Blackmagic seem to be better value. THe Decklink studio for example seems to cover all analogue and HD inputs and outputs, including HDMI, but not including 2k and up. I am about to get a couple…if anyone has something of better value let m eknow before i spend my cash!!https://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/decklink/models/
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and of course the whole announcement i imagine was because they got wind of Avid’s new deal and wanted keep FCP Pro users onside. not sure they have achieved that.
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there is also an app called ‘A Better Finder Rename’. I used this for exactly the same thing, and have used it more since
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i would persevere with compressor if i were you. If you are using a machine with multiple cores like a mac pro then you can utilize all of them making it way faster than doing it in FCP. Once you are done you can use a program like ‘A Better Finder Renamer’ to rename the files exactly the same as the H264 ones and then just relink and all your timelines will be the same. Duplicate your project just in case though.cheers
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Wow, loads of great tips there…nice Christmas present!
Just to go back to a technical point of the original poster. I would always create the multi cam clip at the beginning of the edit otherwise you will have to cut in the master clip again. I treat it like a separate clip and then decide on which cam to use later in the edit,
Nick