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I understand very well, but it still depends on what you want to use your equipment for. You shouldn’t advice someone to buy a sportscar to drive his children to school.
I’m working for various dutch television networks and never had a single complaint for the quality of my work.
It works for me so it might work for others as well, and save them a lot of money.
Greetings.
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I used a little box from data-video that only supports sd.
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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except dv, dv is always lower field dominant.
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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or you can make everything progressive and you will never have to worry about field-dominance again.
But it changes the look and feel of your programs.
Seriously… Try to find out where things go wrong by plugging a glass monitor to your different devices. I think you will find the problem very fast.
On the whole field debate: as far as I know almost every thing I edit in PAL is upper field dominant.
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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haha, you got a point there! The one firewire connection is very annoying and disappointing. I admit! They should have put more!
Anyway, it all depends on what you want to do basically. We can keep on making lists of what an iMac can or can not do. But the most interesting question is what you want to do with it.
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David,
Like I already said, I agree on the mac pro being the best mac to edit with. But still, I can’t fully agree on what you are saying. I mean theoretically you right, very much indeed, but practically…
Almost everything I edit at home enters my front door on a disc, so no more capturing.
Second, 95 % of my work consists of listening, watching, building. I don’t need to broadcastsafe all the time when I’m creating my stories. I just need to relaxed and focussed. (the iMac doesn’t do massages unfortunately).
Most of the time my final product will be a quicktime file that will go to color correction.
So tell me why I should still spend a lot of money on a mac pro? I think times are changing to more filebased workflows and you can do a lot more for a lot less.
Regards!
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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I am not disagreeing with the former posters here on wether or not a tower model is better. Ofcourse it is. But it’s also a lot more expensive!
I’m working on 27″ iMac and I love it! The screen itself is incredibly good. I used to work with a client monitor connected thru firewire, but I moved them to my attic. FCP has the ability to view your timeline full screen with a single push of a button and I’m using that a lot, even when a director is sitting next to me. The detail on this monitor is so great!
It’s a fast machine as well.
Hope I have been helpful!
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I just tried the same thing here on my system and it works for me. But doesn’t help you… When you say you rendered it, did the computer actually really took some time to render it? I always render using alt-r, that renders everything in the timeline, plus, I check all the possible render options in the render all menu. You go to sequence->render all-> check everything thing. I hope this works for you.
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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what do you mean with “adding widescreen”?
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Thanks Bouke. But I saved me some money this time by doing every clip manually, using “merge clips”. If this keeps happening I’ll buy your software!
Avid/FCP Editor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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