Peter Pop
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I had a look through a bunch of the google results before i came here, and invariably they where all propriety, in development or custom built camera systems.
I couldn’t find anything ‘buyable’ never mind anything that appeared to run on OSX or WIN.
Still… i’ll keep digging.
Cheers
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Is there any reason you would want to ingest all of those hours?
My initial instinct would be to ‘paper edit’ from the logs and get the number of hours down first. Unless there’s some specific reason for capturing all of it, there’s just no way you need to ingest all of that footage.
I’d work in the format you intent to deliver on. So in your case a 1080p ProRes sequence.
If you have the diskspace and a capable i/o (mxo2 etc), I would uprez on ingest.
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How much tape based SD do you have?
How well is it logged?
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>If you can just edit in the top quality what is the point of offline/online edits?
I think that was Shane’s point. Unless you are restricted to dealing with USB2 drives or need high portability, There is little point in the traditional offline/online workflow.
Convert the files from the camera to ProRes Lt or 422 (personally I still go 422) and edit with those files. Back up your camera ‘rushes’ for archive
Canon provide a plugin for the L+T window of FCP that can do the job (and can also add a ‘time of day’ timecode).
I work with 7d, 550d and 5dmk2 footage on a daily basis this way. I’ve never had any real problems.
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Unfortunately not, it looks like the recycled the cards by just pulling the MOV clips off the cards into the folders.
Is compressor preferable/fast to mpegsteramclip for the prores convert?
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Hi,
Thanks for the help.
In the end I split the psd’s up into folders according to their content (i.e. 1 folder for 3 lines, one for 5 etc) and made a set of actions for each instance then batched them all.
I needed the text to be an editable layer on each psd.
Cheers
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I am not a compressor guru, but I don’t think it is capableof such a task.
If it was me doing it I would, MPEG encode my video in compressor then mux my mpeg and ac3 into a single TS in MPEGStreamclip.
If i recall correctly, if you have the mpeg and ac3 with the same filename, in the same directory, MPEGstream clip will auto open both… then you can just hit ‘Convert to TS’
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It’s older than that!
I cut my first feature on Dvision2.2 back in 1996.
I remember being told that AVID and MEDIA100 had to be ruled out because ‘they’ ran on a mac and that a mac would never access more than 5Gb drives..far too little HD space for a feature. So we HAD to have a dos based system. So began years of ‘dealer’ nonsense.
I remember spending a week or so with an Amiga running ‘video toaster’…. So in theory that was my actual first Non-Linear.
My only real regret about moving non-linear is the lack of ‘comfy headrest’ cushion on the sony 910!!
Anyways… Sorry for turning this into some ‘good/bad old days’ reminiscing blurb.. but you never know.. maybe in a decade i’ll be back asking how you’re all adapting to the new ‘edit by thinking about the shots’ software and the new holographic codec!
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Hi Walter,
I Wish I could say the same.
In practical and technical terms FCP is without doubt the better editing tool, and while I look back with a certain fondness for Edit*, you would have to nail me to a seat to force me to go back to cutting much with it.
Its hard to describe, maybe its muscle memory, maybe its autopilot syndrome, maybe its mental illness, but I still find myself trying to do things ‘the edit* way’; I am forever trimming single clips instead of ‘rolling’ the head and tail of two clips. Forgetting to deselect clips in order to zoom into my timeline position instead of the selection. Pressing ‘W’ to zoom into selection. All that kind of thing.
I have most likely picked up so many bad habits trying to emulate the edit* feel over the last few years that I fear I have irreparably gimped myself on FCP!!
Anyways… I’ll stop whinging… at least I now have zoom on the mouse-wheel.