Richard Cooper
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It is either a “hobby” or a “livelihood”
Once you decide this, or once there is money exchanging hands you have your answer. Just a hobby? why not still get a business license and gain some TAX relief from your equipment purchases anyway.
Bottom line if you ever plan on making any money doing this, a business is the way to go…. even if it is on paper.
Better to be somewhat prepared for the possibility of success than to have a chance at success and fail because you were not ready for it.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Oooops, Sorry, you need the Studio Pro version. It is $179 to be able to encode to HD WMV’s
Here is the link:Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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What is a WMV….?
HA! Just yanking your chain…. You need FlipForMac PRO (i think $99) it allows HD encoding to WMV from QT7 and I think even FCP7
Hope this helps,
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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I agree with Chris, edit XDAM and set render co-dec to ProRes.
“Will it (encoding XDCAM to ProResHQ) raise the quality?”
BTW… encoding to ProRes HQ is a waste of time and hard drive space unless you are working with a 10 bit or 2K/4K project. You will see no “raise in quality” by doing this. The damage has been done at this point. If you really want to improve the quality from the XDCAM co-dec, get yourself a KiPro and record straight to ProRes 422 and bypass the XDCAM compression all together. Otherwise you are just putting 3 gallons in a 10 gallon bucket. It is still 3 gallons. And Color can render out to ProRes, so stay XDCAM, send to color and your graded final will then be ProRes with as little conversions as possible to get there.
Good Luck!!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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CLASSIC!! Would have loved to have seen this!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
Hi Mathew,
Are you trying to do what Shane said in on the clips in the time line or the browser bin? Won’t work in the Bin. The clips must all be on the timeline.Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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You bet, Simon.
In Color, just go to the Setup tab and they the user tab then chose your Kona Card in the video output drop down menu. This should send your video out through your Kona for proper monitoring.Hope this helps!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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“…does that mean the only codec Final Cut works with natively is ProRes? Or does it work with others as well?”
…Uncompressed HD, DVC Pro HD, XDCAM HD, XDCAm EX, HDV… all work natively in FCP7, you just need to tran-scode formats like AVCHD and h.264. and others I am sure, to ProRes.
But what is really common, if you are working say on a doc with many different flavors of codecs and camera types over the course of the project, is trans-coding everything to ProRes 422 upon ingest via HD/SDI through an i/o card like the Kona so your project wont get bogged down trying to work with all kinds of formats… Can it do it? Sure… in small doses, but when your business depends on a SOLID WORKFLOW, life is much less complicated when working in ProRes. It just works. Every Day… All Day.…YMMV
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
“I believe the 7D (and HVX for that matter) take the video as .MOV and when I import into FinalCut it automatically uses compression as H.264 in the Sequence Timeline Settings.”
You need to bring the 7D footage into FCP through Log and Transfer. This will allow you to choose the ProRes flavor you wish to work with. Never try to edit with H.264 files. FCP does not support this codec. Just asking for problems.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
B&H has the combo kit (SR-HD1500 and VC-50HD) for $5,554.50 So yeah… Not $200……
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com