[Sean Oneil]

[Shane Ross] “Yet VERY dangerous if you are on a network sharing media with other editors. Certainly hope this option is something you can disable too.”

I don’t see how it’s any more dangerous in that regard than “Modify>Timecode”, “Make Offline”, or “Open in Editor”. And of course there’s never been anyone stopping an editor from changing the media name from the Finder.

Giving editors permission to alter media files from within FCP is hardly anything new.

I think this feature is great. Sometimes you want to change the name of something after you capture it. This feature eliminates one of the steps to doing that.

[Sean Oneil]

Check versiontracker.com or download.com. Search for “screen capture”. Sort by user rating or editor rating.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

Do some research on iSCSI. Check out Studio Network Solutions.

[Sean Oneil]

[Russell Lasson] “Final Cut Studio 2 Retail : 3-5 business days
FCS2 Upgrades: 2-3 weeks.”

This is actually really smart of them. It means that “new users” will be the guinea pigs. They’ll have a few weeks to sort out any major bugs before “upgrade users” start installing it over a working copy of FCP5.

[Sean Oneil]

I tried that and it didn’t work. In fact I trashed the Render Files folder on all my disks.

I’ve noticed that when running Disk Warrior in the past, it often finds problems with the “Constant Frames” folder. It’s possible that the person who discovered that trick only had that folder corrupted. But it seems the green slug thing can happen to anyone who has data corruption on a scratch disk.

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[Alan Lacey] “I’d agree with Walter, the tablet’s great. Beats RSI stone dead.

I like the idea of the N52 speedpad, as navigating the TL quickly is one of my problems.

How easy was it to set up?”

Very easy, just download the Mac software from the website. I can’t tell you how much I love that thing. And just so you know, you can have different settings for all your applications, plus a global setting for ones you haven’t programmed.

I’ll tell you how I have it set up for FCP.

Top row of keys (left to right): undo, cut, copy, paste, delete.
Middle row: Shift, Add Fav. Transition, Selection Tool, Select Track Tool, Select All
Bottom row: Control, Option, Command, Pen Tool

Wheel up/down: Zoom In/Zoom Out
Wheel Button: Add Edit (ctrl-V)
D-Pad: Arrow Keys
Orange Button: Play/Pause
Thumb Button: Change Shift State

[Sean Oneil]

[makkystyle] ”
I am cutting a film that is being shot on F900’s at 1080p. I want to cut at a reduced filesize and noticed that my BlackMagic MultiBridge Pro has a JPEG capture setting (at 1920×1080 23.98). Capturing some test footage I found that (with no audio) it has a data rate of 5.7MB/s!!! It looks great and is incredibly small as far as file sizes.

My question: Is there any reason why I should NOT use this codec to cut in? It seems almost too good to be true and I haven’t read anywhere else about people using this codec to work with so before I start capturing, I wanted to run it by you guys.”

Couple things.

1. Make sure the quality slider for P-JPEG is 75%. Blackmagic improperly set it at 25% for HD. They may have fixed this or not. Double check both capture and sequence settings to make sure its 75%.

2. You get no RT Extreme by default. But there is a way to modify a FCP startup script (discovered by yours truly 🙂 that will give you RT Effects when working with P-JPEG. Search “RT Enabler” in the Blackmagic forum. It’s about a year or two old.

Sean

[Sean Oneil]

I use a Kensington trackball in my right hand, a Belkin N52 Speedpad in the other. Among other things, the Belkin gives me a second mouse wheel in my left hand. I have this set to zoom in and out of a sequence in FCP. This is unbelievably useful.

I also have a Wacom, but I just don’t use it unless I force myself to.

[Sean Oneil]

I didn’t finish a thought there. What I meant was these cheapo no-brand-name external enclosures are almost passive devices. You don’t need to be concerned with quality. They perform a very basic task, so don’t worry about being a cheapskate when choosing one.

Sean

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Misha. This is my storage reccomendation.

Go to Newegg.com. They sell 400GB Seagate SATA disks for $95 each. 2.5TB would be about $600. If you are fortunate enough to have a Mac Pro, you can fit 3 drives internally.

If not, get multiple SATA external enclosures. There are ones at Newegg for less than $50 each, and some have the added benefit of a USB 2.0 port in addition to a SATA port (so the director can plug it in and review footage). These are practically passive devices so

You don’t need RAID0. A single 7200RPM disk is more than fast enough for multiple streams of DV and DV50. Get a SATA card, and you’re looking at less than $1000 total. But you might want RAID1 protection given the volume of footage you have to deal with, which will of course double your cost.

Sean