[Richard Van harderwijk]

Haha, yes, my plan B. And you don’t have to read thoroughly for that 😉 Or a future as webdesigner for apple, playing hide and seek all day.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

whoops, didn’t see that…

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi

I use Resolve 12 beta now, and it is basically FCP8. So a lot of shortcuts are the same. It is for free, and the current NLE functionality is quite good. Especially since you only make rough cuts it should work pretty well for you. And you export an XML or EDL and hand that to the editors. You need a modern laptop to run it though, so download the latest configuration guide.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi,

As Shane said, the MXO2 mini is rock solid with FCP7. No lag or stutter when you hit play. It’s because everything (scaling and so) is done in hardware (and not in software by FCP7).

You can use your prores and other codecs and it will play fine, you don’t have to use matrox codecs. It will even do transcoding (if you have and SD timeline it will upress to HD and vice versa). Again in hardware so no lag. It should also do framerate conversion (your 23.98 to 60), but I am in 25fps.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Hi,

I have a similar setup (but I -nearly- don’t use FCP7 anymore).

A 2011 MBP15 with a TB display. From that display a TB pegasus raid and from that a Matrox MXO2 mini with TB adapter. The matrox feeds the video display and audio. It mirrors the canvas and source viewer. Works perfectly. You can even kind of calibrate the HDMI output.

I think the BM/AJA/Matrox will work equally well, all have FCP7 drivers. See the specs. The BM Ultrastudio mini only has HDMI output, so your sound should come via the monitor. And also think about the future; that you perhaps want to use resolve lite (free) for color correction. That one only works with BM hardware.

Mind your OS, I am (and with this mbp stay) on 10.8; and hear problems with audio slipping out of sync and more problems with 10.9 and this kind of setup with FCP7

So they should all work, check the specs and prices to see which one suits you best; and think of the future (FCP7 is long EOL).

[Richard Van harderwijk]

For the monochrome: perhaps you picked the Y Cb Cr (YUV) output; or your DVD is not set to composite. On the Y is the Luma (black and white) signal, and on the other two is the chroma (color) information. So picking the Y plug gives a monochrome signal.

Check the setup of your DVD player. The composite is a yellow plug, it should have the full video signal in the mediocre quality you are looking for. Interesting project! If it works, this hardware route should give the most authentic feeling, including low resolution, smear, etc.

[Richard Van harderwijk]

nice, one step further 🙂

try the other setup settings, it seems through the firewire you have deck control.
try the firewire-pal or firewire-ntsc first; and if that doesn’t work the firewire-basic

[Richard Van harderwijk]

You said you connected both the s-video and the composite (yellow) cable?

Try only the s-video and the sound (red and white), perhaps the box gets confused by double video input (just guessing, don’t know the device)

DV-PAL easy setup?

[Richard Van harderwijk]

You’re right, super speed. Nice goal!

Good competition

[Richard Van harderwijk]

Not fast?

Did you see Robben in Netherlands-Spain last Friday? (I did, I’m Dutch :-))))

But then again, like it or not; its cultural I guess….