Tim Allen
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Nice! This is the bag I’ve been thinking about, but just wasn’t sure. I needed somebody to confirm it, so I’m sold! Thanks for the advice!
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The Real Tim Allen
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Excellent point! There will be two of us, tho with to cameras… so whichever bag we get we’ll probably score two of them for the treck. Tho… maybe each of us having a backup isn’t such a bad idear either!
Keep ’em comin’!
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The Real Tim Allen
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Thanks, Todd.
That makes a lot of sense. So if I read you right, for those shooting video on DSLRs the lens length translates identically – for the most part – from cinema 35mm film cameras. Yes?
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The Real Tim Allen
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Use compressor to export all your clips as ProRes files. FCP doesn’t like editing H.264 footage. That’s a deliverable codec and isn’t really designed to be worked with.
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The Real Tim Allen
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I do wish I had a Express slot, but it really hasn’t hurt me that much. I haven’t shot on tape in probably 2 years, and I often receive SD cards from some Panasonic cameras so the SD slot has actually come in handy. But you are correct that the Express slot is pretty sweat. More of a bonus than a need (for me anyways.)
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The Real Tim Allen
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Haha! Yeah, FTP can be tough to explain.
The best part about Dropbox, is I can hit Export out of Final Cut and walk away… even drive away! When the upload is done Dropbox starts to sync, so I can check the status of the upload with their mobile app and be on a shoot or in a meeting when I email the link to the client. Super sweat! 😀 I do use FTP if I need a quick turnaround tho.
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The Real Tim Allen
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I’ve use FW800 drives (nonRAID) all the time to edit ProRes and XDCAM HD footage at 1080p. You should be totally fine editing 720p footage off that setup.
I just opened up three XDCAM EX 1080p files and played them simultaneously off a FireWire800 drive. You’re good.
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The Real Tim Allen
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What about us poor saps who got a MacBook Pro after they removed the express slot. I now have this awesome little SD card slot instead. 😛
For the record, I edit on my system drive all the time. Often cutting 3 camera 1080p (usually ProRes or XDCAM) multiclips and I don’t have any issues. Maybe I’m not understanding what you mean by multiple streams, but I don’t seam to have this issue with my system drive. I dump what I need on my drive for that project, then archive to an external drive when I’m done. I do have a 7200RPM internal drive, and 8GB of RAM. Maybe that’s the key?
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The Real Tim Allen
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If you just exported using the H.264 codec you’d have a much smaller file size, and it won’t be any more compressed than your original footage so you won’t see any quality loss.
File > Export > Using QuickTime Conversion
Format: QuickTime Movie
Click Options, and under Video click on Settings.
Compressor Type should be H.264 and you can adjust the quality slider to be as high or as “best” as you want!
Your final final will look as good as your ProRes, but the size will be much smaller!
Hope that helps!
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The Real Tim Allen
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