Terence Curren
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Do you need to pan and scan? If so, change the project settings to SD, and the aspect ratio to 4×3 drop the Pan & Scan effect on one shot and make the source 16:9 anamorphic, and the target 4:3. Now copy that effect from the effect window into a bin and drop it on all of your shots. Pan any shots that need it. Output to whatever tape or file format you need.
If you don’t need Pan & Scan, you can play out a 4X3 SD version if you have a Nitris DX and you can choose to make it centercut.
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Yeah, 5.5 only. 🙁
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Are you saving them to the root level of your drives? If so, and if you have AMA on (that’s the default) Avid grabs any QT movies that are on the root level of your drives. And yes, you can’t do anything with them until Avid releases them.
If this is what you are doing, try saving the exports into a folder instead of the root level.
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Mac is 64 bit so you already get the same advantage that going to Windows 7 will give you. The color corrector is not as fluid in Mac Symphony, and there seems to be a lot more crashing in the Mac version. At least, that is my experience.
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I do that type of work on Symphony, but I left XP years ago. Get to windows 7 pro 64 and add another 4 gigs of RAM. This will allow Symphony to at least get the maximum RAM it can in a 32 bit build.
And believe me, you WILL need that RAM. I was running out of RAM all the time on XP, and there were even sequences I had to break apart to work on which doesn’t help when using source side color correction.
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[Keith Pratt] “Colour management isn’t an iMovie feature. Nor is 4K. Same for sample-level audio editing. And something becoming simpler does not mean it’s become less pro.”
And when did I say anything about these things? I predicted using the iMovie code as a base, and adding features that FCP editors would want. It is much easier to do that than to try to rewrite FCP from the ground up.
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[David Roth Weiss] “What road? They didn’t show me much of a road. So little tangible information was revealed tonight that I don’t see how any of us with businesses based around FCS have could have anything other than anxiety about the future at this point?”
I am not going to argue that. I looked at the big picture after NAB last year and theorized where they would go with FCP. Tonight I was proven right. I based it on the big picture of Apple trying to replace networks just as it replaced music distributors. It is very apparent, and a great business plan for Apple.
In that universe, the few of us still living in the past, are not as important as owning the future. (For what it’s worth, you really should be looking at where you fit in this new world)
PS: Don’t shoot me, I am just trying to map out my future just like you. And I wouldn’t mind being wrong either, but nothing in the tea leaves leads me to believe that.
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[Matthew Sonnenfeld] “While it looks like Color and Sound Track are getting incorporated into Final Cut Pro X, we’ll need more information on DVD Studio Pro, Motion and Cinema Tools as they become available to really judge everything more accurately. “
Apple are masters of marketing. What they don’t say, they don’t want to be part of the conversation. I really feel there is a lot of “damage control” mentality in this whole thing from the “Secret” preview that was allowed to be talked about in February, to this VERY last minute, poorly handled from a PR point of view, NAB “premiere.”
I would bet that if you didn’t hear about it tonight, it probably isn’t going to be there. At least no in this iteration.
DVD Studio Pro? Are you kidding, that is so floppy disk yesterday.
Cinema Tools? Are you kidding, film is so dead.
Color? Are you kidding, didn’t you see FCP X? It has auto color correct, and shapes in the color corrector.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple makes money by selling hardware and I can’t help but think $299 FCP is designed to help MacPro sales . “
Well, personally I would say it was designed to sell, iPhones, iPads, iPods and AppleTVs. Along with a little commission off the top for whatever money changes hands through iTunes.
But that’s just me looking down the road a bit…
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[Craig Seeman] “Let’s remember that Apple’s business model is to use software to sell hardware. They’re thinking about all the MacPro they’re going to sell to push all this real time and background render to the max as we aim for the fastest possible workflows on impossibly tighter client deadlines (and tighter budgets).”
Your thinking in an old paradigm. Try iMovie with H.264 on an iPhone. Then tell me you need tons of processor for the new world. Efficient code, using the core audio and video, can do amazing things.
That and Thunderbolt, and you may be happy with any laptop or MacMini.
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