Stephen De vere
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Thanks for the clarification Daniel.
I’ve decided to stick with a Pal DVD release for the moment, as I did with my first film, as it’s largely a UK audience product. Going the NTSC route would save some costs in authoring two formats but I would risk upsetting my existing fan base some of whom might either not be able to play the disc at all or be able to see the quality drop.
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Good point about the Trading Standards – hadn’t thought of that.
It seems you can author NTSC DVD using 23.98 even though the NTSC DVD spec is for 29.98fps – I can’t get my head around it.
Thanks for the reply.
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I only got MXO2 mini working (video only) for Client Monitor output in FCP7.0.3 under OS 10.9 by installing not the driver for Mavericks but the last driver listed as supporting FCP7: v2.6.1 for Mountain Lion.
If the old M/Lion driver istalled fine in Mavericks I wouldn’t mind knowing if it also works for the MXO2 in Yosemite.
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“The 10.x blackmagic driver I’m running now works with fcp7 and color
in os x 10.10.4”What blackmagic hardware is it you are using ?
I am looking for something to replace MXO2 mini for FCP7 HD monitoring in OS 10.9 or 10.10, (MXO2 audio output not working with FCP7 in my OS 10.9)
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There are no standards in place so each player has it’s own implementation.
As a side note re. making mp4… don’t use Compressor v3 that comes with FCP7 – it’s out of date compared to Compressor v4 and onwards – the free Handbrake app is 64-bit and up-to-date.
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I have not tried to install 10 because I assumed, perhaps wrongly, that it would not install in Mac OS 10.6.6.
I just went to the BM website and looked up the “minimum system requirements” versions in the ReadMe files and is the 8 the last version in that respect.
I suppose there is no harm trying 10 though. I have a film to finish at the moment with Apple Color so I don’t want to spend too much time experimenting/testing with a new app on older equipment.
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I was hoping to try a version 8 Lite as that’s the last one my system can handle (Mac OS 10.6.6) – is there a particular reason why there is no v8 Lite available for download, only v7 and then v9 onwards ?
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Good point about the Varicam name. Can’t see that being very relevant any more except for the following it had.
I had particularly in mind a 2/3″ camera for wildlife production that would bring us back somewhere close to what we had in the HighSpeed Arriflex 16SR – ie. 150fps comnbined with a small format – and the Varicam was the first camcorder to get us a little step in the right direction.
I am not aware of any 2/3 field camcorder that do 1080p at even 60fps. We have been stuck with 720/60p across the entire industry for a over a decade now.
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Thanks to both.
I clone all my media drives and my system drive regularly with CCCloner but restoring the OS drive I would prefer to avoid.
I only began thinking I should stop ignoring the update to 10.6.8 when I checked for the Flashback virus today. I think 10.6.8 is a lot to do with security. I know I shouldn’t strictly use an edit machine for email and web too but I’m not editing for a client, just myself, so if I run into trouble it’s not catastrophic for my business.
Also, increasingly coming across apps and plugins (in particular Java in web browsers) that require 10.6.8 or even 10.7 as a minimum.
Sounds like I should give it a go.
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Yes, the ProRes files have some minor quirk that means Cinema Tools (I am on v5.5.1 and FCP7) can’t conform them either. I have v1.5.10 (64 bit)
5DtoRGB can do the conform to the frame rate you want but it is still a bit worrying.
Rafael Amador pointed this out in March 2012 on these forums.
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It would be nice to have another option in the Luminance Range – to match footage from more cameras – eg. XDCAM EX EX3 footage which records super-whites 16-255 range. Using ‘Full Range’ preserves highlight info but the blacks get lifted which is OK but not ideal.
I believe an update for the FS700 camera files is imminent – which might a good match for EX1/EX3 files too.