[Rob Pitman]

Hi Chris,

Most of my work will be for online or DVD but as a freelancer I work in the UK TV industry. I am concerned that post houses are now going to move back to Avid or just hold off their planned FCP switch and so I will be burned there?

I work in tapeless, some DSLR, some XDCAM so I think that I will maybe stick out with FCP 7 for online use and try and learn Avid for my broadcast commitments?

What are your thoughts?

Rob

[Rob Pitman]

Hi Craig,

Thanks for responding. I can wait for a year or so, holding on to 7 if you really think that X will sort itself out.

My worry is that in the UK, freelance work for TV (one of the areas in which I work) will move more and more back to Avid or now not migrate to FCP as they had planned.

I can manage on FCP 7 for online and corporate stuff for a while.

What do you think?

Rob

[Rob Pitman]

The object which was the aim of the color separation was too big for the fcp 8 point matte, ive tried to download the paul crisp plugin of the larger mattes by my version of fcp 6.0.5 just doesn’t seem to like the files?

Where could I be going wrong with the render in color? I added the clip to the render list and clicked render, it says its successful and shows up complete in the scopes window but when i go through the send to final cut process its still and ungraded version of my clip?

Rob

[Rob Pitman]

Yea, obviously taking from the tape would be ideal but it is the turn around time that is key. Basically, ive got about 10mins to get in, cut, out and loaded onto the web so it needs to be immediate, ie as live!

Rob

[Rob Pitman]

Thanks mate, sorry if I’m being a little slow but how does the signal from the camera get to the IOHD? It’ll most likely be shot on a Digi using obviously digibetcam?

Rob