[Steve Eisen]

The FS700 shoots AVCHD. Let it be known that I have not worked with this camera. With any tapeless workflow, you need to copy the ENTIRE card structure to a hard drive.
https://library.creativecow.net/ross_shane/tapeless-workflow_fcp-7/1

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

Shane

You are going to like Premiere. It has a lots of AVID (Trimming) and FCP 7 features combined.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

[Isabella Vella] “I have exported using QT conversion”

Export a Self-Contained QuickTime Movie. Drop that File into Compressor and use an h.264 export. There are presets for YouTube/Vimeo.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

You learned some bad habits. NEVER use USB drives to edit.

[Neil Gowan] “Would an eSata connection make any difference on playback reliability”

ABSOLUTELY! Do some research on connection speed and drive spin speed.

[Neil Gowan] “Trying to avoid transferring 300-500GB of footage”

I do that easily on my system with eSata or my laptop with Thunderbolt Raid.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

I have a 2007 Mac Pro and it still runs great. Your problem is your hard drives. If you do not have a Sata card installed, do it. A good one will cost you around $200. It will give you 4 eSata ports (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Firmtek/SERITEKQ6G/)

Attach a 4 drive RAID 5 Enclosure and you will get good speed with redundancy.

Another alternative is to RAID the 3 drives on your system. Keep 1 as your system boot drive.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

[Rafael Amador] “You haven’t said which codec are you working with”
Still doesn’t matter. Red has never been a video friendly color. To add to it, most people over saturate their colors. Even that is bad for video. It is very important to know how to read vectorscopes, RGB parades and histograms. It’s like driving with blinders on when you don’t use them.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

m2v file is for DVD. m4v is the h.264 extension for BD.

Use the m4v and ac3 file in Encore to create a BD.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

If you want a little better quality playing your video to your projector, you should output your sequence to DV Tape. Use a DV deck and connect that to your projector.

Computer signal and video signal are VERY different.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

What are you converting to in Compressor?

Is your sequence ProRes or DV-NTSC?

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group

[Steve Eisen]

You want, bigger, Crucial has a 960GB for $599.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Creative Pro Users Group