Sean Oneil
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Change your offset in the Device Control Settings. If it’s consistent then you can do that and you’ll be fine.
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How old is your Multibridge? There was a recall because of problems with analog component input.
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I’ll play around with it more. The thing is, you absolutely should not have to create affiliate clips or independent clips to do this. The option “Delete Unused Media” is supposed to take care of this regardless.
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[David Battistella] “I would love to see a true DUAL channel card for FCP, with simple things like 3-way CC, dissolves and titles being passed over to the cards processors (which AVID does)”
Well I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure the Decklink HD Pro does this as well. Maybe not on a PC, but in Final Cut you can change the effect handling so that the card handles it. And the HD Pro is a dual-channel card.
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I’ve done this a million times in 4.5. Never had a problem. I never had to make the clips independent. I select the sequence, select MM, use the “create offline” option, check the appropriate options (select “delete unused media” and deselect “include master clips”). It just wasn’t working. I’ll try it with a different project.
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Pardon me, you guys are talking about PCs.
I played around with Premiere Pro a while back. It uses Direct3D hardware rendering (similar to Motion on Macs), so every single thing I tried was real time on the computer’s display. I mean everything. Lens flares, multiple codecs, mixed resolutions, you name it. Set the sequence settings to “Video For Windows” and set codec to “None” to take advantage of this. Of course there’s no way to output it to a deck or video monitor using these settings. But once you’re finished you can copy and paste it into a new project (i.e. a Decklink project) and then render it all at once.
Long story short, if I used Premiere I wouldn’t waste my money on that new Matrox thing.
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David is wrong about cards in general. The Cinewave is/was a card that did all of the effects processing. Media 100 was the same way (using it’s own software, not Final Cut). Most Avid products still work that way I believe.
With Blackmagic and AJA, just about everything is doen in software. The advantage is you get a less expensive card, and you can always increase speed by getting the lastest and fastest computer (which is always improving at a rapid pace).
The Decklink HD Pro does have a hardware scaler built in for high quality HD upconversion and downconversion. This works independently of Final Cut and is controlled in the System Preferences.
The Decklink cards, I believe (not 100% clear on this myself) have a small handful of legacy effect capabilities built in. But setting the effect handling to Final Cut Pro is vastly superior because the software rendering using a G5 is much more powerful. 3-way CC for HD may be the one and only exception.
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[MitchJi] “I think in the long run the move to Intel chips will be good for Mac users because Intel can afford to pour a lot more into R & D than IBM can afford to spend on PowerPC developm”
If you all remember only one thing from this monster thread, this is it.
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[Arniepix] “I still remember that one of their chips (the P3, perhaps?) didn’t do long division”
Long division? I vaguely remember something wrong with the P3. Regardless, my old roomate had one and I can tell you it blew away the G3 at my work at the time. Intel and AMD make solid products. I think the switch will be great. Instead using a measly 1.8% market share to pay IBM to play catch up every 3 years, Apple can reap the benefits of the latest processor technology that Intel will already be developing for the PC market. It will mean faster and less expensive Macs for us.
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No, you don’t have to render new media out of Motion. Just do what you’ve been doing, but don’t check the “embed” option when doing “Export to Motion”. Then import the actual Motion project file (not rendered media) into Final Cut. It’ll act as a video clip. You’ll have to render it in Final Cut though.