Steve Eisen
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Now that you have different options, I am going to second Jerry’s suggestion. Think of your computer as an investment. You will get many uses out of it and hopefully pay itself off quickly with some jobs.
If you buy from the Apple online Store, you may qualify for their 0% interest for 12 months credit card.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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If it looks fine on a Standard Definition TV, there is absolutely nothing you can do to improve the quality. Video was shot, edited and delivered in SD and the image is being “blown up” on a large screen TV. That will degrade the picture.
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[david reichelt] “I don’t think I did transcode”
I think you would know if you did!!!
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[Jason Luna] “I have converted the files to .MOV files w/Quicktime.”
.mov is just an extension just like avi. You need to convert to a FCP friendly codec such as ProRes.
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Eisen Video Productions
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[Zach Hammel – Shaver] “So after spending days reading about different workflows for HD video I’ve come to the conclusion that there is not one best or right way to do it. This has been a frustrating and liberating revelation.”
There are correct ways of editing with HD. If people can work in 4K, HD editing should be simple if done correctly. HDV is a very difficult codec to work with. So is the very compressed h.264 codec. Codecs such as DVCPro HD and ProRes are VERY EASY to work with.
[Zach Hammel – Shaver] “I exported that as a self contained QT movie and the audio is synced but the file size is now 83.4 GB.”
This is normal. You could have changed it to standard ProRes and it would have been smaller while maintaing the same quality. Drop that file into DVDSP and create a Dual Layer DVD.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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[Stephen Snow] ” I can’t get FCP to recognize the clips in “LOG and CAPTURE” either b/c of the issues mentioned above.”
You do not use log and capture with P2. You use log and transfer in FCP. Premiere also has its own workflow.
Like Chris said, search for tapeless workflow for P2.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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If anyone has, they wouldn’t be allowed to talk about it publicly. It there is such a camera, NAB would be the time. I would assume, Panasonic would stick with the Micro 4/3rd s sensor.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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You need an HD DVD player to play your disc. HD DVD is a dead format.
If need a high def dvd, you need a blu ray burner and blu ray discs. DVD SP can not create a blu ray disc.
If all you need is an sd dvd, create a m2v ans ac3 file and burn in dvdsp.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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The PCD-35 is a great reader. I hope you are getting fast downloads. I went from 45 minutes (single card usb) to 18 min for a full 64GB.
Download P2Formatter and you will be able to reformat and give your P2 cards a unique name.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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My answer was going to be with some very f@#$%& expensive equipment.
Not your average job. Most people fake it like Dave said.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Vice President
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group