[Sam Ellens]

You have to install OSX to an external drive, or secondary internal, then install whichever FCP (6 or 7) that you don’t have on your other drive. Then when you want to change FCP versions you simply boot from the other drive.

I won’t provide step by step OSX install instructions because these are extremely easy to find online with a Google search.

Sam Ellens
Assembly Editor – Redemption Inc

[Sam Ellens]

Thank you both for the information, I’ll pass this on to my colleague.

Sam Ellens
Assistant Editor – Zamasti Films
Toronto, Canada

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

using an internal drive and constantly moving it back and forth between machines is a recipe for trouble. FW800 comes close to maxing most drives, and I’ve personally edited DVCPRO HD 1080p30 and XDCAM 1080p 35mbit from a d2 quadra with no difficulties whatsoever.

[Sam Ellens]

Media manager move is more risky than just doing a media manager copy then blowing away the original copy.

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

I’m not a colorist but I’d assume that “getting it in the ballpark” would either do nothing to help the colorist or, more likely, would actually get in his way and slow him down. Just like it’s normally easier to edit something from scratch than to fix a poor edit.

[Sam Ellens]

I agree with everything Mark says, but as he says nothing is going to give you a miracle. You can’t make it good, just less bad. Unless you have a lot of experience and a lot of free time.

also, I’m going to be using
“Under-exposure can be fixed a bit, because you still have bits to fix. ”
when I need to talk to underexperienced cameramen I’m working with. Good line.

Post a still so we can see how bad it is.

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

I’d recommend a straight export from Compressor into m2v and ac3 files. Exporting a reference file means another program has to make sense of it and has caused me headaches. Exporting a recompressed mov means you’ll have to transcode again to make a DVD, so what’s the point? Each recompress also sucks quality out.

Export from FCP using compressor, put it in exactly the format you need (m2v with bitrate dependent on length of movie), plug into DVD Studio Pro/Encore and burn. Best quality and likely the least time as well.

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

Yes, all core 2 duo pros can run it. I don’t know what could cause that, and a google for “agp card graphics required” turned up only this post. sorry.

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

are you using 3G because it’s the name of your phone? 3g has been around since the nineties I think, they’re not related. there’s a compressor droplet in 3.5 (FCP 7), h.264 640×480 1500kbit. I don’t know if FCS1 would have it but you can just use those settings. good luck

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB

[Sam Ellens]

The only 960×720 footage I’ve seen came from DVCPro HD 720, but I rarely get 720 footage.

and I love that this is considered a small number of filters by some. renders take a long time, and they take even longer on a macbook pro.

Sam Ellens
Intern – Zamasti Films
4th year at Ryerson University – Radio and Television Arts

My system: iMac 21.5 3.06GhZ 4GB