Richard Cooper
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Your MacBook is really the bottle neck here. Get a MacPro tower or at least a new i7 iMac if you are using FW drives.(I don’t believe FCStudio will not run on a MacMini, so that is not an option) Use it for all your rendering and exporting (or vice verse)so you don’t have to tie up your ONLY computer while exporting. An MXO with h.264 enhanced compression will speed up your compression of the h.264 stuff to nearly real time I believe. Another idea is DONT SPEND ALL THAT TIME encoding for DVD!!! Man, just go out and spend $100 on a set top DVD recorder and play your time line out your new MXO (you are going to buy) and record your DVD in real time. Its only for client review, not replication so you don’t need to worry about menus and such. THIS IS A ONE TO ONE PROCESS and it sounds like it will save you about 8-14 hours of rendering per episode.
Also in FCP set your XDCAM timeline to render to ProRes (you can do this in the time line render settings) it will save a bunch of time and your MBP will thank you for it.
Don’t worry about the separate video tracks for stills and video, wont make a difference on render times no matter how you do it. You are fine there.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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I agree with Bob,
Put it up on Youtube or Vimeo and you will have a much nicer presentation and you can still embed it on your own web page. Best part is, it is free.Good luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Sure… as long as you have your project the way you want it just right click on the FC project file icon and duplicate, then put your original project file somewhere safe on your old OS drive and your duplicate project file somewhere with your media files. I assume you have all of your media files on a separate dedicated RAID or Firewire drive(s), neatly organized, ;~) correct? Just make sure NONE of the media files, including any stills, graphics, music, VO tracks etc you need for your project are on your old OS drive…This should be standard practice… but sometimes there are stray files here and there. Once you have all of your media separate from your old OS drive you can reconnect once you have the project open in the new FCP version.
Good Luck!
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi Casey,
In the event that you want to open up your f/stop (smaller number) to achieve a more shallow depth of field, and you want to keep your shutter speed reasonable (so you dont get the “Private Ryan” look to your footage) you will need to use an ND filter, and unless you have a matte box to stack ND filters (depending on your light level) you can get a variable ND filter that you can attach directly to the front of your lens ( https://www.singh-ray.com/varind.html ) this will allow you to control the amount of light coming into the lens so you can keep your f/stop where you want it.Hope this helps
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi Chris,
If you do, make sure and ARCHIVE your current OS hard drive (put it on the shelf) don’t forget to make a safety copy of your FC 5.1.4 project file and put it on your old OS drive first) Then, start with a fresh new drive, clean install Snow Leopard and Final Cut Studio 3 with all the updates and extra software you may need. PS, AFX etc and then open your 5.1.4 project file. FCS3 will ask if you want to convert your project file to be read in FCS3, click yes.(At least I think it can from 5.1.4, it does from a 6.0 project file) Then if it all works your are fine, welcome to a brave new world. If everything goes to H*ll it is as simple as putting your old OS drive back in the machine and you have only lost a day or so and you’re right back where you started.
This is how I upgraded from FCS2 to FCS3 and fortunately my old OS drive is still sitting on the shelf untouched now for 3 months. No problems here.Whatever you do DO NOT just upgrade on your current OS drive, that is a recipe for a disaster.
Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Ahh, I see… I misunderstood your post. Yes it would be a nice option when working with multiple formats to include XDDCAM to ProRes conversion on import.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Hi Veen,
I could be wrong but trans-coding XDCAM-EX to ProRes with Log and Transfer has never been possible. You can do this with the 7D footage no problem but XDCAM EX, no.
Strange that you say that it used to work. Everything I have experienced with my XDCAM (and 7D) working with FCS3 tells me that this is not possible through log and transfer, but I will be watching this thread with interest…Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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Excellent, thanks John.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com -
James,
Yes, the Nikons work well for video on the Canon DSLR (I use the 7D) but be aware, the old Nikon (Nikkor) primes, with some of them anyway, the focus ring on the lens moves back and forth a little while focusing which can be a pain if you are using a follow focus.You will need a Nikon to Canon-EOS adapter, and I would suggest one adapter for each Nikkor lens you have as they are sometimes difficult to get back off the lens. Just have one for each and it will work well for lens changes on set. Keeps everything simple.
I found these on ebay ($14.95 each): https://shop.ebay.com/kawaphoto/m.html
I ordered 5 of them, one for each lens and they work great.Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
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My assistant editor had this exact same thing happen randomly to him while roughing out segments on a mac book pro running Snow Leopard and FC 6. He was monitoring with headphones out of the headphone jack on the laptop. I thought he was going to throw my laptop out on the street! Totally random and NO extra hardware. Very annoying and hard on his ears. We wiped the drive reinstalled the OS and FCS and have not had the problem since. Still don’t know what caused it…. but problem solved.
Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you.
Hope this helps.
Richard Cooper
FrostLine Productions, LLC
Anchorage, Alaska
http://www.frostlineproductions.com