Shane Ross
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A FEW After Effects plugins work with FCP.
Most don’t
Best to export the footage to AE for effecting, if you want the plugins. Automatic Duck does this nicely…as separate clips I hear…
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In order to move a cut from one machine to another, and have the online material link to the offline resolution material, is to bring the project file over, and then re-capture the clips…in their separate broken up form…at the online resolution.
If you have digibeta masters, and strike DVCAM dubs for offline editing…you first batch capture the DVCAM tapes and edit with them. When you are done, you then take you FINAL LOCKED CUT…THE CUT ONLY…to the online machine and capture ONLY the material used in the cut.
They way you have gone about it simply won’t work. It cannot re-link to the digibeta material for the clips aren’t exactly the same. This goes for FCP as well as Avid.
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People have had good luck with LaCie drives…and others have had them fail dramatically. They have a higher failure rate…at least from word of mouth thru the forums…than any of the others I mentioned combined. And they sell more drives…so…take it for what it it.
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Anything over 100 IRE isn’t “safe.” You want your whites to be under that.
For color correcting for broadcast, nothing beats going clip by clip and adjusting. and the 3-way color corrector is perfect for this. You can adjust the black levels, the white levels, and the color levels.
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Drives: Seagate, Hitachi, Western Digital. Those are the top three. Firewire will be fine if you are going with the iMac. If you go with a G5 tower, then get those drives as SATA internals. Far cheaper and mroe reliable.
VGA – Sorry. All that does is mirror the desktop, or in some cases, add additional desktop workspace. It wil not act as a production monitor out. Gonna have to look thru the deck. That is better anyway…monitor what the deck is seeing, or not seeing.
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Shane’s Stock Answer #8:
A simple path is mac > firewire > camera or deck > rca cables > tv
Then start up your camera and tv, then open fcp.
Then go View > External video > all frames
Video playback should be Apple firewire NTSC (If you are using an NTSC set)
Audio playback should be Audio follows VideoTechinially, this should send synched video to your TV
If for some reason you can’t view your timeline on your external monitor, there are a few things to try:
1) Make sure that the camera/deck is connected and powered on BEFORE you open FCP.
2) In the Final Cut Pro menu select AUDIO/VIDEO Preferences and make sure your signal is being sent out thru Firewire DV.
3) Go to the menu and select VIEW>EXTERNAL>ALL FRAMES.
4) Click in the % box above the image and select FIT TO WINDOW.
5) Go to VIEW->refresh A/V devices
6) Make sure the Log & Capture window is closed
If you want it to play in both the canvas and the external monitor you need to go to the FINAL CUT PRO menu and select AUDIO/VIDIO settings and make sure MIRROR ON DESKTOP is selected under the PLAYBACK OUTPUT section
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Sony HVR-M10E? Isn’t that an HDV camera? are you going to use the HDV footage, or downconvert to DV when you capture?
If you are going to use the HDV, then the iMac is definately NOT the way to go. And, seriously, I wouldn’t use it at all. It really isn’t meant for FCP. But, if your budget is tight, then use it if you must. I works fine with plain ol’ DV footage.
BUT…do not, repeat…do not capture to the drive that comes with the computer. You will need to purchase another drive to capture your footage onto. External firewire drive will work fine with DV. The main system drive is not recommended as it will drop frames all the time as the system accesses system resources from time to time.
As for how much room DV footage takes: DV (DV25, miniDV, DVCAM) Data Rate: 3.13 MB/second or approx 12 GB per hour of footage.
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SDI Standard Def…or SDI High Def?
Either way, a capture card will be needed. Decklink (www.decklink.com) or AJA (www.aja.com) are the top runners.
YOu might have to drop the HDV sequence (by that I mean copy and paste the finished cut) into a supported HD or SD format that can then be output by those cards…which means rendering.
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I admit that I am not…yet. I was looking at the Decklink Extreme, as a good friend of mine (two actually) have them, but I am moving towards two HD projects, so am considering the Decklink HD 4:4:4 card, that does both SD and HD.
But then I am getting into a whole other arena of drives and monitors…
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And if you go 8-bit or 10-bit…the only way to get the footage off your system at that point is to do it via a capture card, like the AJA I/O or Decklink.