Peter Dewit
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I use an older snell wilcox one and it does a pretty impressive job.
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HDV’s not that large. It might be easier to get an external drive and just export a QT movie of your finished sequence. Pretty much the same as a tape backup.
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Just playing or editing the footage will not be a problem through a firewire 800 drive. Where you might start seeing some slowdown or slow renders is if your sequence is complicated with many video layers and effects.
If it’s a fairly straightforward edit you should be ok.
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DVDSP is one of those programs that’s as hard as you want to make it. There’s lots of advanced functions in there but if you want to go simple you could pick up enough to make a good DVD is a couple of days.
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Nattress is very good for a software converter but if you can afford it a hardware conversion is going to look better
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I did actually have to use the copy method since the media manager refused to correctly process the speed adjusted clips and kept giving me errors. I had to do a copy of the sequence in the uncompressed codec them made the media offline manually before recapturing.
I’ll have to see if that’s where the problem happened.
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Didn’t have much choice.
For next time I think I’m going to create a custom preset that uses offlineRt quality but matches the size of the final project.
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What kind of capture device are you using?
I know the AJA cards have an option to output different channels in their control panel.
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Depends on what you have available. What format are you using? If it’s HDV the file sizes are usually small enough you don’t need to work with low-res versions. If it’s HDCAM most HDCAM decks have a built-in firewire port that will allow you to output downconverted DV footage right into the computer.
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I think apple needs to completely overhaul media manager and possibly how FCP works with media altogether.
Thing is Media Manager issues have always been a major issue with FCP but it never seems to get fixed or even addressed at all.