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You could work DVCPRO HD, but now you’d be transcoding a full raster format into a thin raster format. Your 7D footage is already very compressed, so that’s a route that would probably work but you really should upgrade to at the very least, Final Cut Pro 6.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Best thing to keep in mind. When Avid recommends particular hardware (especially video cards), they don’t recommend them, you MUST use the ones they tell you to use. You might not notice problems immediately, if you deviate from their recommendations, but they’ll most likely creep up.
I never “built” my systems from scratch, per se, but I would buy a barebones version of their recommended systems and then add the appropriate video card and storage myself. That’s probably a better way to do it, since if you ever need tech support and you’re not using a recommended system, you’ll limit their ability to help you.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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What version of Avid Quicktime Codecs LE are you using? It sounds like you were using a version older than 2.3 Here’s a link to download the newest version https://avid.custkb.com/avid/app/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=372311
That said, I still occasionally have issues exporting Quicktimes with Alpha Channels from After Effects to Avid and find the most reliable method to be exporting to Apple Animation with Alpha (or as After Effects calls it, Lossless with Alpha).
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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They all do certain things better and worse than one another. This is a question that has been asked very frequently in both this forum and the Final Cut Forum. Do a search and get to reading.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Have you tried applying the 1.85 Matte to filler above your clip, and then using the 3D Warp effect to reposition the clip itself?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You won’t necessarily get a better imaging by converting it to SDI first. The only real reason I can think of for you to use a converter, is if you were using a Kona 3, that doesn’t have any analog inputs, but since your LHi takes analog it, there’s no need to put a converter between the deck and the editing system.
Again, technically Pro Res is a lossy codec, but it’s designed to stand up to color correction and com positing. It is a 10 bit codec (despite the fact that your source footage is 8 bit), but again if you’d like to split hairs, capturing 10-bit uncompressed will be the highest quality. You’ll need a fast RAID in order to capture, especially if you’re going to upconvert on ingest using the LHi.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You don’t need a component to sdi converter with the LHi. That can capture component directly. Your footage is not 10-bit log, so there’s no reason to capture it as so. Pro Res SQ really will be your best option outside of 10-Bit uncompressed.
There have been posts upon posts in this forum about pro res SQ versus HQ, so I’ll leave at, if I were you, I’d capture Pro Res 422 (non-HQ), the only exception being if your client absolutely insists on HQ.
With the Kona LHi, you can upconvert on ingest also. Read the manual on the specifics, since you’ll have to choose how you upconvert, whether you pillar box, center wide, etc. It’s all in there.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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You’re talking about buying Media Composer 5, but then installing Media Composer 4. I believe a dongle that is licensed for MC5 will run fine with MC4, but I’m not sure if MC5 comes with a dongle, as I thought they were phasing out the dongles. I used a dongle for my copy of MC5, but that’s because I upgraded since version 3.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Two versions on one system is a recipe for trouble (that goes for any program). Especially since both version of Media Composer are qualified for different OSs. I think MC4 is compatible with OSX 10.6.2 and MC 5 is qualified with 10.6.3
I believe you can bring bins back and forth, as long as you aren’t transferring a bin dependent on a feature of the newer version (like bringing in AMA footage into a Pre MC4 system)
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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Despite all that’s happening on websites and cellphones, it’s still standard practice to work in standard broadcast resolutions through out post, and compress the final video at the end.
It makes more sense for After Effects to deal with different resolutions, since it’s aimed at com positing and motion graphics where you might composite elements of different resolutions together.
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks