Russell Lasson
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I wouldn’t suggest making a BetaSP from a MiniDV tape. MiniDV is very compressed. Here are a couple of suggestions:
1. Make your BetaSP master directly out of FCP. There are tons of places out there that you can send them a QT file and they’ll make your master for you.
2. Master to ProRes. I’m not sure what your timeline is set up as, but ProRes is a great codec and will help maintain quality.
3. Get a colorist to do a pass on your project. This is often over looked and a good colorist can really help to take your project to the next level.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
Remote desktop is like $300. 10.5 is $129. Both would do what you want. I know where I would put my money.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
Looks like it’s time for you to upgrade:) iChat sharing also requires 10.5.
You might try to fine a free vnc program that will allow you to do what you want. But the integration into 10.5 is very useful.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
I personally would convert everything to ProRes, then edit.
The other option would be to set your sequence to ProRes 1920×1080 with square pixels, then just adjust your render settings to render complex stuff when you need. I don’t like this option as much, but it could work fine.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
[Lou Borella] “My 2008 MBP has a FireWire 800 and 400 (plus the X32 slot if I need it) so this has never been an issue when I am on the road. “
On the older MBP, both the FireWire 800 and 400 share the same bus, so it’s like you were daisy chaining. You shouldn’t have any additional issues with the new MBP.
Or you could also capture to a 16GB SD card…… hmmm…… For some reason, that just doesn’t sound appealing!
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
Cool thing is that you don’t even need to open iChat. Turn screen sharing on in the sharing pane of system preferences. Change the settings so that remote people can log in with username and password. Then open safari and type in vnc://(insert ip address here). This works great and means you don’t need access to the other computer at all.
I have found that the other computer should have a monitor connected and turned on, or FCP gives some crazy error that you don’t have a compatible graphics card.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
In FCP:
In Compressor:
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
[Ben Adler] “hard drive which has 7200rpm over 5400rpm”
It’s usually not a great idea to use your system drive to edit. If you’re in circumstances that you want to do that, I think 7200rpm is worth it.
[Ben Adler] “I am investing in a new Macbook Pro on a budget to edit P2 HD. “
If you need to do ingest of P2 cards, then fine a Macbook Pro with express card and use a express card to pcmcia adapter. Don’t get the Macbook Pros with the SD slot instead.
[Ben Adler] “or whether the big difference in performance will only be seen with a 2.5Ghz/3Ghz over 2.4Ghz processor. “
In FCP, it will be hard to see the difference. If you use compressor often, you’d probably see a difference if you pull out a stop watch and time it or if you have a compression job that would take an hour, you might shave off five or six minutes with a 3Ghz processor over a 2.4Ghz processor.
I’ve stopped buying the top of the line processors because I think they’re over priced and not significantly better.
As a side note, a 600Mhz difference in process speeds used to be a big deal, but now that processors are as fast as they are, that type of difference doesn’t seem as big.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
I really think that the refurbished 8-core 2.8Ghz computer is a great price. To get 8-cores for $2400 is a bargain. I’d much rather put the money into a nice capture card like the AJA Kona LHi.
I would order 8GB of ram through crucial.com
I also think the using the CalDigit RAID card with four internal drives is a great way to get into a RAID 5 set up.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net -
Great. Thanks Walter.
-Russ
Russell Lasson
Colorist/Digital Cinema Specialist
Color Mill
Salt Lake City, UT
http://www.colormill.net