Petteri Evilampi
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Rafael, how is it possible that FCP architecture allows Twixtor that does optical flow inside FCP?
“By doing it yourself you get exactly as it happens to outcome.”
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Or maybe You have G5 PowerPC-mac. AVCHD works only in Intel-Macs!
“By doing it yourself you get exactly as it happens to outcome.”
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Oh, and one more thing; make a work flow test before starting a big wheel.
Media Manager is a bit tricky…
I just noticed this thread here on this very same site just a little lover than this one.https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1055802
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As Arnie mentioned, ProRes422 works only in FCP 6.0 and later. Use Media Manager to export all your media as anamorphic DV for off-line work. Light codec (file size is 1/10 compared to ProRess HQ 1080), works in all FCP systems since version 1.0. To my opinion DV-quality is good enough for off-line. After finishing off-line just bring FCP Project File back to your system, re-connect files and your ready to on-line.
NOTE: do not chance the ANY media file names in any point of this proses or you are in deep s..t!
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I bet they have specs for FTP delivery in tv-station. You haveave to stick with those specs, so ask them and you are on the right track.
In generally DV is ok for news. -
I work with MacBook Pro and ProRess all the time and there is no problem.
Bluray is one of the most demanding delivery format because it is so high quality. All mistakes and faults from production are visible for end users. So use ProRess, Proress HQ or uncompressed, but with MBP there is some problems with uncompressed.
It´s kind of funny but small file size means high compression level and that means BIGGER NEED FOR PROCESSING POWER! Smalest amount of processing power is needed when working with UNCOMPRESSED material but that means HUGE file sizes.
With huge file size the problems are storage space, storage read/write speed and connection speed, for example firewire 800 is not enough for editing.
So our life is almost always compromise between filesize, connection speed and computing power.
And to my opinion in these days there is no need to go that old fashion off-line-on-line route. All modern Macs are fast enough for on-line and disk space is practically free. -
All these questions have different answers depending what You are doing, what is main image format of entire project and what is Your final delivery method? Is it web, sd-broadcast, dvd, bluray, powerpoint, hd-broadcast..?
“Are either of these formats significantly preferable over the other?”
-ProRes is an native Apple FCP editing codec, it works beautifully; fast renders, small file sizes, great image quality. By using it You are practically totally safe in all cases: web or Big Screen.
Motion JPEG is not real time supported on FCP, at least in FCP 6. I don´t know about 7.Forget DVCProHD, it´s anamorphic. And most of HD stock footage is not, so You would loose image quality by using DVCProHD.
But why ProRess Prozy? Why not just use simply ProRes? Isn´t ProRess Prozy ment for some kind of off-line use? -
I think they were actually demoing some sort of “extended version” of USB III connection that will be released next year. And i am pretty sure that this is going to be the future of FCP Editing!!
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Sutharsan Bala writes: Why would anyone in this day and age have anything else than an Intel-based Mac?
Why not? It is the king of the hill, state of art Power PC-mac, one of the last ones ever made, 4 x 2,5 processors. It works perfectly, not a single issue with it! And it is “only” 3 times slower than fastest 8-cores today.
But always with heavy renderings (Twixtor-slo mo on hi-def, etc.) i start dreaming of something faster…
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I mean FCP 7 and Snow Leopard are both INTEL only:(