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What’s on Snow Leopard that you need/want to run?
I ran FCP 7.0.3 on Snow Leopard for a year or two with little to no problems. I have it installed on 10.7.2 without any issue as well. No matter what you do you;re stuck on an unsupported OS (10.5.8 or 10.6.X) with unsupported software (FCP 7.0.X). If there’s a feature you want/need on Snow Leopard or some other software that requires Snow Leopard I’d move up. If not, and you’re fine on Leopard then stay with it. If it ain’t broke don’t go fixin’ it!
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I think you’re doing it right. You either have to open the XMLv4 in FCP7 or Premiere Pro CS5.5 or CS6.
At some point you’ll probably need to comes to terms with the death of FCP and move over to Adobe or Avid. I made the switch to Adobe about 8 months ago, and rarely ever open FCP7 anymore. It was fun while it lasted!
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Well if you work on ProRes then you may want to connect at more than Firewire 800 speeds. Firewire 800 can easily play 1-2 streams of ProRes, but if you start stacking up multiple layers (or doing multicam stuff) then you’ll want a bit more headroom. I would recommend eSata or mini-SAS as an inexpensive alternative (or Thunderbolt if your Mac is so equipped).
As Dave says, building a good quality RAID for $2K is a challenge. It won’t be a fibre channel system, but you may be able to find something that works in your environment. Not everybody has the same demands.
You may look at some of the Mecury Elite RAID’s by macsales.com:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Mercury-EliteAL-Pro-RAID
or (rack-mountable)
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/RAID/Rack_Mount/G-tech makes some as well: https://www.g-technology.com/products/products.cfm
Lacie also makes some larger TB RAID setups: https://www.lacie.com/us/products/range.htm?id=10061
I think Drobo’s are excellent, but I’m not sure they’re made for video editing. They are more of a data storage and backup system. I don’t know how they would hold up to the constant demand of video editing and serving up 24, 30, or 60fps. Someone who has experience with them in this capacity could chime in. If it was my money, Drobo would not be my first choice for a video editing RAID.
My $.02
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What’s your budget and how do you plan on connecting the storage device? What type of HD – uncompressed? ProRes? XDCAM?
RAID 5 will provide speed but no redundancy (i.e. mirroring). But if you’re after speed then you’re good.
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If you’re doing ProRes (HQ) then you’re finished product will be over 100GB.
The data rate for 1080p (HQ) is 220Mbps. That works out to be about 100GB/hour. This Apple page breaks out all the different ProRes codecs and resolutions with their corresponding data rates:
https://tinyurl.com/5rfgafpThen you can use a bandwidth to file size calculator to come up with more exact sizes for your given scenario:
https://web.forret.com/tools/filesize.asp?speed=220&unit=Mbps&dur=3600Your file will probably run around 125GB as a finished mov (HQ) file.
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Are you taking a single .mov file of your entire timeline over to be graded? If so, just export it out as ProRes422 (HQ).
If you are giving them an XML (which they will need your media then to relink to), you’ll have to transcode your original footage and then relink your timeline to the new ProRes422 (HQ) clips. Not sure how easy this is in FCPX, but if you’ve got the time anything is possible! 😉
No matter what you’re in good shape. Don’t sweat it!
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Do you want a WMV or a h.264 video? If you want a WMV you’ll need Flip4Mac on your computer so Compressor can have the codecs associated with a WMV:
https://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htmIf you want a h.264 video it can come out as a mov, mp4, or m4v file (depending on what you specify). You can do these through FCP or Compressor.
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Or you can go really cheap and use plugins to simulate slow-mo: Twixtor
https://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/
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@Pratul – you’ll notice in QT that there are 2 FPS sections. One is labeled FPS and that comes from the metadata of the file. So whatever that file was recorded at is what will be displayed there. The other FPS is labeled “Playing FPS” – and that is only available when playing back. The playing FPS will depend on where your video is stored (external hard drive, flash drive, RAID, etc.) as to whether it can play back at the correct frame rate.
So you can trust the FPS label as that comes from the file itself. The Playing FPS can vary depending on your system.
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https://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/bad_tv.php
Or in video form:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/smith_stephen/badTV.phpRyan Holmes
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