[Rhendrickson]

We keep all of our commercials in our XSAN as 8-bit Uncompressed Quicktimes. As soon as a new spot comes in, we load it, then immediatly make an mpeg2 and aiff and mpeg1 files for DVDs. In FCP, I have a sequence template setup that I use to put exactly one second of black before and after the spot. I choose File > Export to Compressor to make those files.

Thanks,
Ryan Hendrickson
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

[Rhendrickson]

We have a FCP project for each of our various brands, and we keep all of our commercials we’ve produced over the years loaded onto our XSAN. Sometimes, we might forget to change the capture scratch location when digitizing a spot therefore it goes into the wrong folder on the XSAN.

If we reimport all the files back into the project, as a work around, we loose all the IN/OUT marks as well as any adjustments to volume levels and color correction.

Media Manager allows us to retain these settings while relinking the original file from the hard drive.

Ryan L. Hendrickson
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
St. Louis, MO

[Rhendrickson]

That didn’t fix it.

[Rhendrickson]

No no no… Budweiser. Come on guys! 🙂

Ryan Hendrickson
Video Producer
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

[Rhendrickson]

We have 4 FCP5 systems here at A-B. We maxed out at 8GB of RAM on 3 work stations, and 4GB on our laptop. Haven’t run into any problems, except for, of course, getting projects done faster. But hey, that’s not really a problem, is it?

[Rhendrickson]

We were having the same problem with Compressor 2 running extremely slow after an upgrade. However, after we installed the patches released a couple weeks ago, Compressor is back to running at “normal” speed.