[Thomas Morter-laing]

I think so; but what is a proxy render then? Because surely if you import a lower resolution and stuff the rendering processes would just work as normal (albeit faster because lower quality), rather than showing that yellow line? So what’s that all about/ what conditions do you have to have for the yellow line to show?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

No! Please don’t use an FLV container- its a nightmare for anyone who wants to view it on a portable device (ipods, iphones, ipads hahah)- dont do it! 😀 But yes H.264 is cool.

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

It’s all a bit nuts considering it only reaches our tvs at like 19mbs lol
Cheers tho guys, but 3 questions; is it still correct and good to use it with hdv? Also because of the bigger data rates/ bit rates could it look almost better than hdv? (sort of like a post production nanoflash- same filming methods and camera but better output?)

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Yes there may be some confusion there- thanks a lot! So would an appropriate workflow be to use an offline codec (which are??) then recapture in a high qual codec for the final export?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Cool, so what can and cant u do with offline media? I mean presumably u can’t stretch it out, cos the end isn’t there?
Also I’m assuming it’s at this point timecodes are important? (eg if u haveto recapture).

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Degree; TV Production

iMac 27″ intel i7 2.93GHz, 12GB RAM, ATI HD5750 [1GB GDDR5], 2TB Int. SATA with 2TB External HDD; (FW800).

[Thomas Morter-laing]

That sounds pretty good, but rumour has it solid state is overpriced and actually has a more finite longevity because it can only take so many read/writes before it stops working:s anyone know more whilst we’re on the topic?

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Hmmm an interesting debate could be had here, onthe one hand you have the cleaning up of many lines of code, and a more efficient way of talking to the hardware, which suggests speed improvements, on the other; greater specs needed to run leopard in comparison to tiger… If you’re on an intel mac, upgrade to snow leopard! It’s fast, uses the hardware more efficiently than any other OS and is cheap… Rumour has it you can upgrade directly from tiger to snow leopard, it’s just that it’s not in the Apple licensing agreement to do so….

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production

[Thomas Morter-laing]

Or a flash transition and use the transition parameters to reduce the maximum exposure…

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production

[Thomas Morter-laing]

The mac pro has the latest, best types of technology. It hasnt been updated for a while and a tip from a guy who knows a guy I know: dont buy it yet.

In terms if iMac vs Mac Pro, I edit using an imac i5 with 8GB ram and the latest version of all software with loads of plugins. What’s more I also do it to an external firewire 800 (7200rpm) hard drive, and it’s absolutely speedy for what i do, which is a lot. BUT, i only bought that because of my budget, which was less that I needed for a mac pro. also imac (believe it or not) offer more portability, I often need to take mine to other offices, and whilst it’s not a lap top, it would be much easier than a mac pro.
HOWEVER, mac pros have more than one bay for internal SATA hard drives, which is what you should use of editing (even firewire 800 7200RPMs can lag every now and again). What’s more, I dont have any expansion things like a Kona or anything, which I believe you often need an express card slot for, which the imac doesnt have. Mac pros are simply easier to expand, and more powerful, but if you’re on a budget and not having the extras wont kill you, then an iMac would suite you OK.

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production

[Thomas Morter-laing]

If you’re editing with DSLR footage I’m sure most of the upper specs of the macbook pro range will do the job perfectly well. Just out of interest, what is the data rate for DSLR footage and what DSLR are we talking about?

The problem is, even the new macbook pros are still technically dual core processors, they just hyper thread to make it virtually a quad core. This however means that even with the macbook pro i7 with any render intensive stuff you will get a little bit of loss of speed in comparison to even an imac i5.
If it was me, though, and I had the budget, what I’d get would be a macbook pro i7 (for the express card slot), with 512GB solid state HD (although there is some debate as to their longevity because of their finite amounts of read/write, and its VERY expensive for something which is great, but something we’ve all managed to do without perfectly well). The antiglare display is a must. The one thing I’d buy less of is RAM- everyone raves about it but does it actually make huge differences to FCP after 4GB? Not that I can tell……

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Tom Morter-Laing
Certified Apple Product Proffessional, 2010
Production Assistant, Grace Productions
Degree; TV Production