Todd Beabout
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We use Sorenson Squeeze to create preview movies (320×240) that can then just be emailed to clients. The come back compressed at around 1.5 Meg for a :30 spot.
Sorry… don’t know much about the web site issue.-Todd Beabout
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This is just ONE of the small things that avid could do to hold onto their “base”.
If I had a dollar for every time I saw “Precomputes can’t be loaded…”-Todd Beabout
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What kind of problems do you guys get using Compressor from FCP?
I only ask because after burning 100+ DVD’s in that manner, we have had no sync issues at all to deal with. (I don’t really like tying up FCP for the duration of the encode, though…)
Just wondering…
-Todd Beabout
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Heh… Uh, hope my boss isn’t reading this… 😉
I do have a game or 2 installed on my Mac (not installed on my system drive), but that is really only after years of running FCP on my personal laptop while running my own business. I was so impressed at the multi-tasking of the Mac platform that I started pushing it a bit just to see what she could do. I found that running FCP3, After Effects 5.5, and Photoshop 7 all at the same time worked out just fine, so long as I didn’t have too much going in any one of them at the same time. Now, in PS I might have had a logo open that I was tweaking, and AE might have up a simple text animation I was working on. FCP3 was just using DV footage at the time also, and it really did all work at the same time.
Obviously if I am working on a time-sensitive, really important project I would not try to push it too much. It’s in the “slower” times that I have tried my crazy multi-tasking feats.I do remember back when I was first using NLE’s and it was a huge taboo to even have the internet connected. Times have changed…
-Todd Beabout
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Just try it and see. I don’t think you can “break” anything, but you might have to re-edit to tape if you drop frames.
This is one of the things I love the most about the Mac: multi-tasking! I sometimes push it a bit… Once I was rendering out a huge composite in Combustion, a sequence in Final Cut, and I booted up and played my “Soldier of Fortune” game at the same time. The game was a bit laggy, and Combustion render time went up to like 60 seconds per frame, but it all worked.
I will say this, though… I believe that when I use “Edit to tape” my mouse cursor dissapears altogether, which leads me to believe that the multi-tasking while laying off your video might not be the best idea.
You can always try though!-Todd Beabout
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Why not go with a megapixel camera? You can take any image size into FCP, and larger pictures allow things like DVE “push-ins” and the like. Just a thought.
-Todd Beabout
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How much?
My system is rock solid. We’d love a deal on a 2nd FCP suite!
-Todd Beabout
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