Todd Reid
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$500 – $650 here in Dallas, Texas is what I’m charging.
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What is your sequence preset?
Change to DV NTSC 48kHz and see if that helps. -
I tried this and it did not work.
I put a band wipe on a lower third, just to test it.
I exported “quicktime conversion”, tried animation & million +…no alpha, came across as black.What am I missing?
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found a “too good to be true” deal at Best Buy.
Anyone have comments on Western Digital drives or this one specifically?
Western Digital 320GB Internal Serial ATA Hard Drive
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open all the sequences you need rendered (from the different projects), then change your autorender option to 1 min.
After a minute your rendering will start.
Not as quick as a keyboard shortcut, but it works for me. -
I’m assuming that you would be finishing the project on your FCP and not migrating back to the AVID.
I suggest having the company buy you an AJA Kona (or other input solution) and eliminate the PC altogether.
It sounds as if you were only using it as a digitizer anyway. Too much of a hassle to do that.
It would save A LOT of headaches/time if you just upgraded your system to ingest the digibeta. -
For some reason Lacie gets a bad rap.
I’ve heard VERY bad stories and I’ve heard people reply that they’ve never had troubles with them.
My personal experience has been very good with Lacie.
I use them for my home business (video editing) and at my day job (video editing).
I had once instance were a drive went bad on me, but Lacie replaced it with no hassles and I ended up only being out digitizing time. All harddrives will fail eventually!If your only desire is to transport already edited projects, I think most any firewire drive will work for you.
Lets see how many Lacie Horror stories come out of this. -
just a thought….
can you navigate into the nest and select the few shots you need, move them out of the nest, maybe in a temp sequence.
Then you might be able to minimize your recapture. You mentioned that you don’t need most of the nest, so this might work. -
I tried that, but the freeze looked a lot different then the .mov, fuzzier (tried the whole -1, 0, 1 thing nothing helped).
I also tried matching the .mov with FCP text.FCP treats this particular font differently, its much fatter in fcp than motion, even though its the same font, same parameters.
So no matter how simple or complex the motion file is, am I in for long renders?
For complex stuff I can handle it, you’d think two words would go quicker. -
Wow thanks for the tip, this looks great.
Would this set up allow me to work in the uncompressed world?
I normally digitize from dv tapes (dv/dvcpro codec). I have a macbookpro 17″ with 2gb ram.
Would I be gaining quality with this set up?
My initial thought is HECK yes.