Robert Hotz
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So Michael, are you understanding this yet? Because I’m seeing this now too and am terribly confused. I shoot P2 AVC-Intra. FCPX ingests and I tell it to “optimize media”. It copies the original AVC-Intra file to the location I specify, and converts it to ProRes and places that file in the Project Library “High Quality Media” folder (which I hate, because I don’t need both). In FCPX, it shows the file as optimized, but links to the AVCIntra version. If I tell it to optimize, then why wouldn’t it be using the ProRes version?
Apple says FCPX will “ALWAYS USE THE OPTIMIZE VERSION IF IT’S AVAILABLE.”
I find that in FCPX, I end up with 2 versions of every ingested movie file and this takes up space. It does the same with DSLR. I don’t need to keep the original H264, so I have to go in and delete files upon every import. Ingesting in FCPX is very time and space consuming. Is this by design?
Robert Hotz
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I just purchased a Casio. The Exilim series is great. Tiny camera, 3x zoom and the screen in huge. 2.5 inches. Comes in a variety of MP. Canon Elph series is also good. That’s my advice.
Good Luck
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You need either a PCI card that wouold be installed in your G5 that gives you a video output, or a DV to analog video converter. This would plug into your firewire port. Set up preferences in your edit system to send video out firewire port. You could also use any camcorder with firewire connection and then an analog output. Most DV cams have this.