[Roli Rivelino]

Also you can play just the base layer without turning off the layers above

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8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

As I understand it, when you capture in this way and then find the files in the finder, you’re just looking at reference files rather than the raw captured footage, those will be on your scratch disk where FCP puts all your media.

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Right (ctrl) click inside the bin you want to create a sub-bin in and select new bin

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System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

I was like you, then I discovered lynda.com, go and download their essential editing, it will be a long time before you need to aak another question like this again.

good luck, happy editing.

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Good idea, as a noob myself, I can never tell whether the questions I’m asking are really basic or not.

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System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Wow, sorry Martin, that’s got me stumped, my system is much smaller than yours, but plays back HDV (from my Panasonic HVX) fine; though I do get dropped frames if I’m editing effects rich and have lots of sequences open.

You sound like you’re in advance of me as an editor, so forgive me if it sounds like I’m stating the obvious, but I found that if I set the RT on the timeline to unlimited, playback is a lot smoother and I don’t get any dropped frames, this is done at the expense of full quality playback, but seeing as Final Cut always outputs at full quality I’m OK with this.

Also in the same menu I have ‘scrub high quality’ checked along with, dynamic, dynamic, multiclip playback and full quality checked.

In User Preferences, I’ve limited real time video to 44 MB/s, this is not default, but a tutorial I watched told me this is a good idea to set to this.

As far as the Pro Res 422 is concerned, you’re only meant to edit using that, Final Cut finds it too big to output with.

I got a lot of this set up info from the lynda.com essential editing tutorials.

I hope this helps, good luck.

Oh one last thing, do you have an esata card installed in your pro? I had a lot of troubles when I had one installed in mine, just a thought.

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

no problem, make sure your RT menu on your timeline is set to unlimited, that way you don’t have to wait for the render every time you change something.

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8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Scratch that, I saved again as a photoshop doc. and RGB and it’s worked, many thanks for your time guys.

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Hi Evan,

You were right my graphic was in CMYK, I changed it to RGB, and saved it as a 32bit Targa file now it’s coming in with a white background instead of none.

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Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Roli Rivelino]

Hi Chris,

I don’t seem to have that option in photoshop, when I go to save as I have the following options;

photoshop (checked)
photoshop EPS
JPEG
Photoshop PDF
Photoshop 2.0
Photoshop Raw
Scitex CT
TIFF
photoshop dcs 1.0
photoshop dcs 2.0

which one of those would be an equivelant?

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System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100