[Richard Clark]

Minimum of 4Gig Memory, just my thoughts as a starting point.

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[Richard Clark]

All I want for Xmas is a Media Management System that works, a standard SMPTE language for all things editing. Maybe a FCP for those who simply want to edit, just like a Moviola did or a Steenbeck or a KEM, but never, ever like those dreadful offline systems. We have made life so bloody complex that editing is not editing anymore, it’s postproduction. I don’t want to be a post producer, been there done that, I want to simply be the best film editor I can be. I want a rock solid software system to simply edit a film, all that other stuff, sure some of you are into all that windowdressing, eyecandy stuff but please, have it as separate sections.
Create the following
1. Edit
2. Audio
3. FX
4. Colour aka color
5. Seemless, read . . . SEEMLESS DVD output.
However, above and beyond all these elements, Media Management. Build from the base up.
Storytelling via film/TV/whatever, is basically simple, edit one scene against the next against the next . . .
K.I.S.S. my . . .

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[Richard Clark]

Just finished 2 hour movie, need to create a QT for client and composer, then need to burn to DVD, do the same parameters work in PAL as you have laid out for NTSC?
My Sequence is HD(1440×180) (16:9)
Compressor set to XDCam 1080p25(3MbsVBR)
Field dominance none.

Do I simply create a QT Movie as per sequence settings and then burn a DVD as per your instructions?

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[Richard Clark]

many thanks guys, we installed it and it worked like a dream, yeeha!

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[Richard Clark]

unfortunately Tom, I have been told that eSATA Express on a MacBookPro won’t work with my G-Tech’s as they are Raid arrayed, any thoughts? many thanks, Richard.

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many thanks, does MacDrive need to be downloaded to the PC.

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many thanks Tom and Alain, i will let you know how I go, cheers, Richard.

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[Richard Clark]

i edited 4 P2 projects last year, ingested into FCP and edited, simply output to DV via FW.
I use a Sony HDDV 10MU Deck, it is flaweless. personally the new sony camera with XML and Tape is what I am aiming for. best of both worlds, no issue with Archiving.

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many thanks Shane, we are 5 hours behind but a day ahead here in the shaky isles and so it was 2:30 am when I read your info slowly and carefully. We don’t always have the budgets, there is but one Peter Jackson in NZ, to hire assistants and so it is good to know the Cow is there, grazie amigo, Richard.

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nope, we didn’t convert anything, it came in from the Contents file, i must admit i was amazed. Now, my most recent venture with P2 on a panasonic 502 created more of a challenge but thanks to this forum I was able to fix the problem and now feel like an old pro . . . .wait a minute, I am an old pro. good luck, Richard.

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