Nigel Beaumont
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Thanks anyway Brendan!
This is really adjusting my thought process from FCP7 and not confusing “publish” with “export”.Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 12GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.7, Aja IO, some black cables&shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Thanks Mark,
I’d hoped there was a neater way to delete than navigating round the file system. But the last couple of days have been full of “why is doing _________ so complicated!?!” moments.
In fairness, there have been quite a few “wow, that’s pretty cool” moments too…..Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 12GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.7, Aja IO, some black cables&shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Sorry I don’t have the link – but there’s a MacBreak Studio podcast that addresses this in Motion 4 and will probably help. These podcasts are a great resource.
Otherwise, select the particular “arrow” and look in the inspector window to see what parameters you can adjust. You may get a speed or duration field you can experiment with. Templates are sometimes quite tricky to adjust as there are so many elements interacting.
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 12GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.7, Aja IO, some black cables&shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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I wouldn’t worry about it until you actually need to change. CS5 is excellent by all accounts and if you’re able to do what you want with Vegas, why change?
I was a very contented Avid user in my last staff job, but when the time cam to go freelance and buy my own kit, FCS seemed the best option. In particular the stability and reliability of the Mac platform was important and I liked the way FCS covered everything I would need to do (and much more) without getting other software. I’ve become a big fan of Motion for graphics creation for example and I love the way the different aspects of the suite fit together.
I’ve done a lot of work with companies that had FCS, so it’s been essential that we could swap projects and files, but if that isn’t something you expect to do then it might not be so relevant.New clients are rarely interested in what kit I edit on – they just want to see a great final product.
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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It’ll cost you but the idustrial revolution Superwipe does this. Has a few cool presets and then an imagewell that lets you use anything as the wipe.
Think you need the free Noise Industries FX factory to install it.
Nigel
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Loved your comment about the arrow – made me ask myself “do I know how to do that?” Had to go straight to my edit computer and check….
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Depends – initially a very good set of speakers to connect to the computer – something in the $200-400 range.
If you’re doing just material for the web you can get away with a computer monitor to check video but for serious work you need a proper TV monitor, connected either through a Video record deck of some sort or a card/box from AJA, Blackmagic or Matrox. (check the adverts on the Cow)But you can pace yourself – don’t need everything at once.
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Well you’re kinda correct – but when you want to actually read from or write to a hard drive there is the mechanical motion of the read/write head to the correct place on the spinning disk. It happens very quickly but those fractions of a second do add up during the day.
I doubt many people are scrapping their traditional HDs for SSDs (cost difference is still very big) but I think when you’re buying new it’s worth considering, especially just for the one OS/application drive which can be smaller than your media drives.For video editing you want to be thinking about the whole package, not just the computer. Having good audio monitoring, and a decent video monitor is going to help you get the best quality results. Oh, and you’ll want a really comfortable chair too…..
Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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Clock speed is processor speed e.g. 2.8GHZ. The higher the number the faster the processor and in theory the quicker the machine performs a task.
Think of a core as an individual computer, so an 8 -core Mac Pro is like 8 separate computers. you can get them all to do one task very quickly, or have them doing separate tasks at the same time. This can be very relevant for video editing, and particularly for rendering effects and compressing video to different formats.
On the current version of final cut studio for example, you can be compressing a video file while working on another edit at the same time.
A Mac Pro takes four internal hard drives, ideally you want one to use just for your applications and the OSX operating system. Use another one or more for storing video and audio files.
You can now buy Solid State Drives for a Mac. These SSDs work faster than traditional hard drives and so by using one of these, your computer has more time to devote to your editing, making actions happen faster.
As with most things in life, cost comes into it, but hopefully this will help you decide where you want to spend money.Nigel Beaumont
Mac Pro Quad 3.0Ghz 10GB FCS 3 OSX 10.6.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”
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My 2 cents and generalising terribly: Any Mac Pro is enough for FCP 7 but aim for 8GB RAM rather than six. Faster clock speed will be more visible editing, more cores and more RAM will be more visible when using compressor and Motion.
If I were buying today with my money, I’d go for an 8 core rather than 12 and spend the difference on RAM, fast internal drives and an SSD for the boot drive. But if money is no object……Nigel Beaumont
MBP 2.53 FCS 2 FCP 6.0.6, Aja IO, some black cables, shiny firewire drives
“Ofcourse it’ll be finished in time for tx”