Richard Boghosian
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Forget Tech Tools, most would heartily endorse Disk Warrior. My biggest and most frequent source of trouble is the preferences for the AJA Kona Le control panel. Located in both the system AND the user pref folders. Trash and a restart are required. Can’t speak for the BM card-no experience there.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 6.03 Intel 2.8 8 Core Apple X-Raid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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I have been trying to integrate the SxS cards via Sony’s XDCAM transfer program and find the current version very tedious and extremely frustrating in the process of marking clips and re-naming the marked clips in the import process. Most of my current work is in DVCPRO HD format, and the import process does not allow for transcoding during import, nor allowing importing to specific bins within your FCP project. Utilizing Pro res is not a viable option since it actually required rendering for final output-albeit with the green bar preview for rough editing. I suppose if you only work in the XDCAM-EX format, your life will be simpler. Until FCP better supports the format, or Sony does a much better job of improving their import utility-I’d have to pass on XDCAM-EX, as far as FCP is concerned. Edius by Grass Valley handles the format much better. FWIW, workflow wise.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 6.03 Intel 2.8 8 Core Apple X-Raid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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I have stopped enabling Time Machine during FCP editing as it forces my FCP 2 to slow/freeze. A consumer app to be sure. In a professional environment, I have found the best fix is to put the offending mac on ebay and upgrade.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 6.03 Intel 2.8 8 Core Apple X-Raid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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OK, all the cost issues aside, help me with this: We shot 50 hours of DVCPRO HD on the road over 3 weeks with the HDX-900. Each tape has it’s individual (tape # =hour) timecode. How do you make DVD reference disks for the client to view and make edit selects from P2 cards!!!?They are not going to buy P2 players, and they won’t load proprietary software to view posted files. The actual injested material (mostly interviews) was a mere 20% of the running tape length, and the stuff on the “editing room floor” is actually safely kept on the camera original tapes-no back-up required. So the HD file off-load (the digitization)was really only a fraction of the storage needed compared to safely storing the whole shoot.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 6.03 Intel 2.8 8 Core Apple X-Raid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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I have found that with FCP. the ONLY file format that works smoothly is a PNG file (which by default is RGB) BTY, I try to keep the images below 5 meg in size. I own an 8 core, with 4 Gb RAM and the stills handling capabilities of the FCP ver 5 and now 6 are pitiful. You’d think that working with stills would be a cakewalk for a system that is HD 30 fps capable.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 5.14 Intel Quad XRaid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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OK, so I’m in the minority wanting an edit system that is not priced like an Avid, but has the functionality of FCP with the ease of use of an Edius and the real-time capability of Matrox. I’d be willing to bet that if a company could make a board or box that would give FCP these true real-time abilities, that company would fair well in the marketplace. Whether it’s Apple, AJA, or some third party-I’ll bet you’d all be buying. And I’ll bet that company could charge upwards of $5K for that kind of feature. Sure there is no one solution to everyone’s work/price point. Those who say they’re satisfied with 5 or more layers in real time should try adding a drop shadow to those layers. And those of us who require green screen can forget anything resembling real time in FCP. But if I offered that to you, you’d be willing pay for the speed and convenience, not to mention the creativity that comes with that smooth workflow. That all I’m saying…in the minority.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 5.14 Intel Quad XRaid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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At the time, the Apple XRaid WAS fast storage, and 5.04 ran faster on a Power PC than 5.14 on my current Intel Quad. And there is no excuse why we don’t have more PCI slots in those huge enclosures. And lane speed assignments- what a joke at the premium price. We accept what they make because we have to -they ignore the marketplace (and NAB) at our peril -unfortunately not theirs. In addition to an iLife division, they need a proLife division. One million of us deserve more.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 5.14 Intel Quad XRaid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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So what about the REAL need in FCP: a Hardware based, REAL time effects/rendering engine. Anyone remember AfterEffects on ICE? After countless hours rendering green screen timelines, multi-effects, and simply transcoding multiple video sources, why do we live with this underdeveloped program as it exists in the past 6 versions!? The new (ie.:Red) support features are simple a tease to keep us upgrading this lame pig of a product. Sorry to offend the million loyal users, but we have gotten the brush off from Apple in a big way this year.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV ProductionsFCP 5.14 Intel Quad XRaid and Atto SCSI UL5D Kona LHe
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I get a big kick out of that warning “never upgrade in the middle of a project” In the corporate world, there is no completed project, ever. Always revisions. So we are sometimes/always re-editing a project in a new software environment. There is no good time to make the switch, just a less painful time.
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I’ve had this issue as well, and if you want an SD disk that’s not letterbox, there is no solution other than to burn out the time line to a DVD recorder as suggested, or to print out to tape and reingest as an SD project. The DVCPROHD codec (and HDV) doesn’t fair well in FCP because of the compressed image format. Something they really need to address.
Richard Boghosian
Bogh AV Productions