Samuel Frazier
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Vegas is big on naming as well, I find it very handy, and this is something I wish was an option in FCP. Just seems to me FCP is not really centered on doing things on the timeline. Perhaps in FCP 6 we’ll see more things like that, track fx, and being able to drag clips to overlap eachother to make cross fades.
But these kinds of things may constitute a different style of workflow, so I don’t know if they are a priority. I always like to have options though. -
Sorry for the delay, friends in from out of town. But I appreciate the help. Didn’t realize the highlight trick and it does help a lot. Still, I wish there was a way to set it to center in on the curser regardless. That would be a nice time saver.
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I agree with everything said here except the monitor choice. I bought a 24″ Dell LCD (made by Samsung) for around $1000. Its stats are much better than anything else on the market, reviews agree with this, and now I can view anything up to 1080p.
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Realized I was reading crucial’s prices wrong. $237 for 1 sticks of 1 gig ram is nice.
Thanks again for all the input and advice! -
I’m sorry, I don’t mention it as when I do it seems people ignore me from there on. It’s Vegas and Sony now owns it (and part of why I’m concerned about its future). Does all I mentioned (5.1, buses, filters on tracks, buses, automatic mini fades on audio cuts to avoid the pop from not cutting on a cross, lots more). Version 6 just came out and added VST plugin support. Has great integration with Sound Forge if you need super fine tuning. Noise reduction is a good thing to do there for example. Just send you audio clip to SF, do your work, save it, and a new version (or “take” as they call it) of the clip will open back in Vegas. Press ‘t’ to cycle through any takes you’ve made of clips. Lots of people also make 3rd party plugins to speed along audio work like ‘scripts’ that automatically lower or ‘duck’ music during VO. This is more of a rough in, but saves a lot of time.
Also, Vegas’s default is to have external video preview through firewire and audio via the soundcard. You can also add an external firewire sound card and everything stays in sync. If it ever goes off, it’s no problem to get back in sync. This setup is much more accurate and less noisy than the firewire out to my camera then to my speakers deal that I employ with my Mac Mini right now.
I’m currently playing around with different edls and AAF export import b/t Vegas and FCP to try to setup a good audio workflow, but I haven’t had much time to experiment lately.
Guess I believe in the saving that audio is 70% of the visual experience so I don’ understand why audio isn’t discussed a lot more.
Anyway, I guess this is my gripe about FCP and something that I know can be handled better.
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Thanks again, Martin. Yeah, that’s the hard thing. I come from a program that does all that you mentioned and I guess I’ve come to take it for granted.
Maybe I’m alone in this, but where I’d like to see FCP go in future releases is in the audio direction and address things like you mentioned. I just don’t hear many other people talking about it. -
Thanks, Jeff, I appreciate that. The problem is I’m used to doing all audio stuff along with the video (sub frame edits, compression, 5.1 mixing, etc) in the nle. It’s a real advantage. Just wish I had some of these programs (Peak, Logic Pro 7, Soundtrack Pro) to experiment on and see if it would work for me.
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Right, so unless I’m missing something, the x800 has 1 dual link DVI and 1 single link DVI. So, the only need for the 6800 would be if you needed 2 30″ displays. I wouldn’t hink that would be an option for many people. So, I’d go with the x800.
I have the dell 2405 and am very satisfied. Someday I might buy a second one. But, unless I’m missing something, I’d be fine to do so with either the x800 or the 9800 (which is where I’m leaning to save some money if I do pull the trigger some day soon). -
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. I’ll do some more research as I’m a newbie here (just finished rough draft of 1st FCP project). Practically speaking though, do you find it a usable workaround, or more of a hastle?
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The other place I’ve read to get RAM is from http://www.4allmemory.com. Very cheap prices, but I can’t speak for their service, quality, etc. Also, they only seem to sell PC3200 RAM, not PC4000. Not sure what kind of performance difference this will make though.