Richard Cooper
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This is really NOT the optimal the way to set up a client monitor. I would ditch the DVI connection to the HD monitor and get yourself a proper HD i/o card from AJA, Black Magic or Matrox. Will be a much more pleasant experience for you and your clients.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Have you tried this?
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcsmaintenance/
I great set of FCS maintenance utilities that includes a “Compressor repair” utility. I think you can also get just the Compressor repair by it’s self without getting all the other stuff, but most of it is quite useful.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Here is an interesting article from right here on the Cow.
https://news.creativecow.net/story/865351
Here is the direct link to the compant web site.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Here is an interesting article from right here on the Cow.
https://news.creativecow.net/story/865351
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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“Unless there is an efficient way to edit as HD and then downgrade to SD as the last step before outputting to DVD.”
I am assuming that ProRes is not an option because your non Intel is running an older version of FCP?… that does not support it? Can’t remember that far back on compatibilities. But if I remember correctly DVCPRO HD was doable on PowerPC machines. If so, try trans-coding everything to DVCPRO HD (I think you can do this in Mpeg Streamclip) and edit in HD and then, as you mention, down-convert to SD as the last step in the work-flow. This is what I would try first. Should be pretty smooth.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi Aaron,
Just sent them to you via YouSendit. You should receive a download link shortly via email.They are standard def but we routinely use them in 1080p productions, just re-size to fit your project. There is a read me file to explain a little on how to composite them onto a video track. Pretty straight forward.
Have fun!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Have you tried Mpeg Streamclip for the conversion?
Good luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
For the orange “film burn” flicker check this out. Really simple:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/200/890142I have some film burn files here that we use and just composite over the shot and adjust the opacity. works really well. Let me know if you cant find them, I can send some to you.
For the random “lighting flicker” before the orange check this out:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1011042Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Another option to Shane’s great advice (as he actually answered the question you were asking) is, why even go to the trouble of an “offline” version?? Both XDCAM and ProRes are highly efficient codecs and they take relatively little space on a hard drive. Neither require the speed a RAID. Get a bus powered firewire 800 LaCie Rugged portable drive ($120 for a 500 gig drive on Amazon) and just take your project with you at full res. Will save you a ton of time.
Just an another option. Good Luck!!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
Exactly, It takes about 6-7 minutes to bring in an hours worth of XDCAM from a 16 gig card into Final Cut Pro (using Log & Transfer or XDCAM transfer utility) if you use a Firewire 800 card reader or a card slot on a MackBook Pro… Longer if you use USB but still way faster than real time. Like Shane says, it is just “re-wrapping” the files not actually “re-encoding” them to another format for Final Cut to use.
If you want a “straight to ProRes” option you can use a KiPro fed from the HD/SDI of the EX and then you can have true direct to edit functionality, as well as a superior compression scheme compared to XDCAM…. but you will trade that for larger files sizes.Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com