Russell Lasson
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[l_vaughan] “will a macbook pro, or imac (the new ones due to be released) edit video straight out of the box with no capture card device (i will be using final cut studio)?”
With FCS, yes. They are great machines.
[l_vaughan] “I will be wanting to preview video on a tv / monitor. How would I do this?”
For an iMac or MacBook Pro you have a couple of options:
– Out put over firewire to the camera and then to a TV
– Use a second display and show it full screen through FCP
– Get a Matrox MXO (output/monitoring only)
– Get a AJA IO (for SD the LA or LD, for HD the IO HD) (input and output capable)If you get an iMac, get the 24″ if you can because it has firewire800 which is fast enough for the stuff you’ll be doing.
-Russ
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I usually select the clip and hit edit – copy. Then select the rest of the clips and select edit – paste attributes. Then select which setting you want to paste.
But it sound like you only want one filter to be applied. Another way to do this is to open the clip in the viewer and open the filters tab. Now select all of the clips you want to apply the filter to. Drag the filter from the filter tab down onto the selected clips in the timeline. It should apply the filter to all of those clips.
-Russ
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I’ve created presets for all sorts of compressor outputs and use them with great success. What type of file (compressor/codec) are you trying to export to? For small files sizes with good quality, I’d try H264 about medium quality.
Unfortunately, compressing files is more of an art than a setting.
-Russ
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It could be possible that they are future proofing the IOHD incase Apple develops ProRes444 someday. That way it could still connect to dual-link devices.
Just a thought.
-Russ
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Control+V
Your auto selects will determine which tracks it cuts.
-Russ
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Do you have the flip4mac plug in installed on the FCP6 system?
-Russ
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If you’re going to iDVD, just export a QuickTime Movie at current settings and uncheck make self-contained. (you can leave make self-contained selected if you have enough room and want the final video as one file for the future.) iDVD will do the rest of the compressing.
-Russ
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[WDEWDE] “In between the camera
and laptop we use a Belkin 6-Port Hub which checks out okay.”Does it work if it is connected directly to the laptop, bypassing the hub?
-Russ
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Check out this wonderful thread by JeremyG:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_thread.cgi?forumid=8&postid=940764&univpostid=939938
-Russ
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You can switch back, but you’ll need to make an adjustment to the clips in your sequence. Specifically, you’ll need to reset the basic motion and distort. This can be easily done by reseting it on one clip. Select the clip and select edit – copy. Now select the rest of the clips and select edit – paste attributes. Select both basic motion and distort and you should be good to go.
-Russ