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Russ Pond
October 5, 2007 at 11:47 am in reply to: Updating to FCP 6 during a project

I just recently did that as well. I have a full length feature movie that I’ve been editing on since March, and I really needed Apple’s new Color and ProRes. So, I needed to upgrade in the middle of the feature film. The 90 minute feature has 960 clips and 28 sequences. It was a big project.

So, I first backed up the older FCP5 version. (You can always go back to a previous version, if needed). And, then created a new FCP6 project. It opened fine. All the plug ins were there. It was relatively painless.

Russ

Russ Pond
Director, Fissure
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Russ Pond
May 31, 2007 at 5:52 pm in reply to: Finishing a Feature Film with AJA Kona 3X and ProRes

[Russell Lasson] “As a side note, I’ve colored a feature that was shot on the Varicam in the old FT (before it was Color). In the dark scenes there was quite a bit of noise if I needed to lighten up an area. It’s suggest trying Nattress Color Plugins to reduce the noise. I didn’t at the time, but I wish I would have. Over all though, the Varicam gave me good flexiblity. It also helped that the DP was very careful not to overexpose the shots, especially skys.”

I’m sorry guys for keepig this in the AJA forum, but I have another question for (the other) Russ.

So, within Color, can I render out directly to ProRes 422 and then have FCP read that new project/sequence? I was under the impression that I had to export the timeline from FCP to Color, then color the film and then go back to FCP (native DVCProHD) and then render the ProRes. That just seemed like too much recompression going on.

But, I do see the value in going from Color to ProRes and staying there in FCP. That would really leverage the 32-bit Color workspace into ProRes for final output.

Thanks,
Russ
Russ Pond
April 17, 2007 at 3:17 pm in reply to: One long sequence or series of sequences?

I like your naming sequence. “001_apartment_version1.2”
And, the option drag is new to me.

Great advice. Thanks.
Russ

Fissure
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Russ Pond
January 21, 2007 at 2:46 am in reply to: DVCProHD workflow suggestions for a feature

That’s correct–no plans for film out, unless we hit some big festival and someone offers theatrical, but then we’ll let them pay for finishing it on film. Our goal is direct to video, and D5 masters are pretty standard for distribution deliverables.

russ
Russ Pond
August 24, 2006 at 11:20 am in reply to: Capture formats

So, what is the format that comes out of the camera that you can record onto a deck (if you’re going to bypass teh DVCProHD format)? Is that just raw 4:4:4 uncompressed HD? Is it an SDI interface? Does anyone know the deck that can capture that?

Thanks,
Russ