Todd Gillespie
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That defiantly doesn’t sound good.
Empty Trash, restart, run Disk Permissions/Repair on the HD for starters.
I would guess that either the drive has a problem or there’s an application that’s hanging it up. Try making sure all the applications are closed, see if it ejects faster. Try on another Mac (if you have one) if it’s still slow to eject, then you’ll know it’s the drive. You could try something like Disk Warrior, but if it’s a hardware issue it won’t help.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Nicholas,
To keep with your car theme, you’re kind of asking, “I need to buy a cheap car that I can use for racing?”
Cheap and racing don’t really go together, neither do FCP and cheap.(unfortunately)
Fortunately you don’t have a lot of choices to go through, Laptops, MacMini, iMac and MacPro’s. I would stay away from the Mini’s they are a little underpowered for HD editing.
I’ve edited HD on Laptops, iMacs and MacPros just fine. So the cheapest of those would be a iMac or MacPro Laptop-since they are the same price to start with. I’d be happy with either of those for editing.
I didn’t know if you were thinking a used Mac? If so, you should at least get a Intel based machine using the same rules. Get a Firewire 800 HardDrive and you’re ready to edit.
FWIW,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Bill,
These types of questions have been asked and answered again and again here, so you can search for more info on the topic.
Neither the RAM or Video card will help you with FCP or rendering. The 2 biggest factors are Processors and Hard drives; the faster those are, the faster you can be. 7200 FW HDs are really the slowest of the slow for performance, you’d to a lot better with a faster array. eSata, SATA, SAS, fiber, etc.
If you had another computer to could off load the rendering to that one so you could keep working? But RAM and Video would do much for speeding up FCP. Sorry.
FWIW
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Cláudio,
I think you are on the right track. Once you have the full version of Flip4Mac, you should have what you need.
What I don’t understand is why you need AVI files in the first place? Unless you need to EDIT on a PC, I can’t think of a reason to export out to AVI. You can export to just about any codec and flavor you need from FCP, so it would be good to know exactly what you’re trying to do with the video.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Always, test with a smaller segment before you send hours capturing. Check the sync, but you should be fine.
Todd at UCSB
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A lot of the time I don’t have many problems with having a 32k audio in FCP. But if you do, just export the audio to an AIFF 48k, then import the file back and sync it and link it to the video.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Zane,
Ah, now I see the rub.
Yes, I was referring to exporting ONLY. I guess I assumed that he’s be going over to a PC for the AVI, otherwise what’s the point of the AVI? 🙂Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
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Unless I’m missing something, you should be able to export to AVI by using Compressor and choosing ‘QuickTime components’ from the video pulldown menu, then choose AVI.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Jared,
48k is what FCP edits with, but chances are it will digitize the materail at 32k. After you capture you can convert the audio to 48k. When capture over FW, you usually can’t change the sample rate, FCP automatic will detect it. So you’ll want to convert it after you capture.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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Hi Romeo,
It a very short clip, so it’s hard to see exactly everything that’s going on.
As with most effects, there are a couple things going on at once, there’s some ‘time remapping’ where the shots slows down. Also there’s a little bit of the shot that gets over exposed, they probably transfer modes and/or masks to create that.FWIW.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production