Paco Sweetman
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Do I need fibre channel cards for the G5 and Mac Pro? If so should I get Mac ones and is it possible for the director to hook his laptop up the disk array using a LAN connector?
sorry if this seems ridiculous, this is all new to me.
Jon
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Hey Beth, I taught myself editing on premiere 6, moved to avid when i got work and now I’m freelance and most of my work is done through Final Cut Pro.
Personally speaking, I have found that FCP to be easily the most integrated system yet. Not that Avid doesn’t have it’s pro’s as well. But for total integration, be it graphics for your doc, cleaining up sound on soundtrack or just burning it to disc each one of these is speaking the same language. And if formats
The interface is very user friendly as well. I only started using FCP in January 06. I just finished an nine month edit on a feature film and used FCP for it. It worked like a dream, the only problems I had was when the cinematographer came to grade the film on our computer and crashed it because he had so many colour effects and filters on it. But that was once and I’d been using it every day for five months.
If it’s good enough for Walter Murch there has got to be something good about it.
Jon
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Yes, I sent it to the STP and then adjusted it and it appeared in my FCP timeline.
Jon
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Colin thanks for the reply. When you say re-render do you mean, just CTRL+R the whole sequence?
Could the sheer volume of information on the timeline be causing the computer to make computational errors. I have 22 audio tracks (not all with continuous audio on them) on a 75 minute film?
Jon
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Sorry Tyler, where do you find the effect, wiggle in position property?
Jon
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Thanks Leo, tried inverting Alpha but to no avail. The option is shaded out and not accessible.
I captured the footage into FCP 5.0, as a quicktime. But the versions I have on this machine (PC) have been exported as self contained QT files in both the HDV 1080 and DVCPRO HD 1080 file formats.anymore info would help,
thanks again,
Jon
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Sorry for wasting peeps time, the Nvidia display drivers werer out of date. Problem sorted.
Jon
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I have encore 1.5
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Thanks for the respond Dave, as usual I have left out details that were important. We shot 1080i, at 25fps, PAL. I know it’s not proper frame rate for cinema, but in the UK there is a small digital initiative for HD films to be shown.
What format should I export the scenes as for the after effects guy to import them into his machine? Can I give them to him as DVCPRO HD?
For the record I hate the Z1, the overscan with the ouput monitor has given us some ‘interesting’ compositions. We would have gone with the JVC and progressive scan except FCP 5 can’t handle 25fps progressive.
Jon