[Paul Escandon]

OWC makes some really affordable external firewire-800 RAID systems. For about $360 you can get a 1tb external raid.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/PerformanceRAID

Others will point you in the direction of G-Tech or possibly CALDIGIT. They are solid choices too.

I’m using an internal software raid in my Mac Pro myself for now – obviously that’s not a choice for you as a MacBook Pro user.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
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Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

I think the bigger question that you need to be asking yourself is what kind of video format are we talking about? It doesn’t matter if there’s 80 gigs or 1000 gigs as long as you have the external storage for it. What matters is the codec of the video in question and whether or not your computer has the processing power and is up to date enough to handle it.

I think your machine might be able to handle DVCPRO HD material as well as HDV material. Uncompressed or Pro Res footage would not be possible. You might just need to give it a shot and see if it works.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Sue,

I am no CC pro (there’s a whole other department where I work for that) but my understanding is that the closed captioning information is technically “seen” in your final cut because it is indeed visible on the top lines of the screen. The reason you don’t see the closed caption data on screen at home is because it is at the far top of the screen so it is off of the safe region. Needless to say, it actually exists and as far as working in Final Cut I believe you should be able to see it.

Hope this helps.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Go with the Mac Pro – you won’t regret sacrificing portability.

And if your needs change in a year or so, you can at that point buy a MacBook Pro that is just as fast if not faster than your Mac Pro is today.

The speed of the Mac Pro vs the MacBook Pro is significant.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

While I’ve never done a workflow like this I’m thinking that you should be able to place the CC’d track in your uppermost video track and crop out everything except the top few lines that contain the CC information. You should be able to do this with the crop parameters in the motion tab in the viewer window.

Do you have a monitor where you can test if it’s working properly? I have a sony broadcast ref monitor that can read the CC information.. so being able to see that you’re doing it right is probably pretty important.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Change the motion filtering quality to best.

Sequence Settings > Video processing tab > motion filtering quality – BEST.

Try re rendering it out and see if there’s an improvement.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

Just do it now. You can wait forever looking forward to the next big thing. When you need an edit system you just have to make the decision to get it and never look back.

I purchased a Mac Pro 2 months ago and now they’ve updated them. Do I regret it? No – it’s still a great system. I just bought a 23″ Cinema Display and they’ll probably update it pretty soon. Will I regret it then? No – it’s useful to me NOW. That’s what matters.

And no, Apple won’t do anything for you when they announce the next greatest thing. Apple stores do however give you 15 days to return something if they update the product for a new one… but even then I believe you pay restocking. And I don’t think that’s for the online store, just brick and mortars.

Just my two cents.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

That will never happen. There’s no demand for a world’s smallest computer and video editing laptop…

Or is there??

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

SHIFT+L toggles linked selection in the timeline. You can do this to manipulate just one piece of a linked clip (audio seperately to video, or vice versa). You can toggle this option on or off “on the fly” by holding down the option key when you select something in the timeline (I find it to be faster this way).

Also, you can unlink parts of the clip entirely by clicking the linked selection and hitting CMD+L. This will unlink clips that are linked and then you will only be able to manipulate these separately. You can always relink the clips using the same method you used to unlink them.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University

[Paul Escandon]

When is it grayed out? When it’s viewed in a browser and right clicked on in the quicktime player?

If so, you should be able to just do a save as from your browser’s menu. I do this with Firefox loading quicktimes (A link directly to the file) all the time. Not sure about other browsers.

If you were talking about something else then I misunderstood the question.

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Paul Escandon – Lead Editor @ Outdoor Channel
Producer | Director – Oremus Productions
http://www.oremusproductions.com
Apple Certified Trainer – Final Cut Pro
– –
Adjunct Professor of Media
John Paul the Great Catholic University