Tom Downey
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Patrick,
Apoliogies for the delayed reply.
I ended up buying the 2.66ghz i7 15″ with 8gb of ram.
I decided that the sluggishness was going to annoy me too much if I purchased a 13″.
The 15″ works like a charm for what I’m doing. I;m not sure how the older 15″ MBP’s compare to this newer model.
Hope that helps.
Take care,
Tom
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They are not self-contained and I know FCP does have to search, but I’m wondering why once it finds them, FCP still has to search again the next time I open the project. Any way I can stop that from happening? Thanks.
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It’s for radio cuts–it’s not about the visuals–and I personally really don’t need 17″ to asses the content and presentation quality in interviews and roughly hack them together. I did it before on a 13″ and that monitor size was fine for this purpose. There’s no way I will schlep a 17″ computer with me given where and how much I travel. For me it’s serious overkill for the purposes I outlined above.
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Thanks for the advice Jeremy.
I’ve been using mpeg streamclip to do this in the past but will look into the other possibilites you recommend.
I get you on the transcoding being processor intensive,but there is one good thing about that stuff, which is you can set it up to batch encode and just leave it overnight. If I am willing to do that, would I be able to do the kind of cutting I speak of with the 13″?
Envy your commitment to the 17″ but have to say that I’ve made the opposite journey from 15 to 12 to 13 and wish there was still a 12!
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Thanks for the MPEG Streamclip suggestion–did not think of that. It is much quicker and the files are much smaller than going the ProRes route. I haven’t worked with the stuff much on FCP yet, so we’ll see. I’m keeping both options open until my editor starts working with it. Seems consensus is ProRes is better to work with in FCP, but man that codec takes a long time to compress and uses a helluva lot of disk space.
Anyone have opinions on ProRes vs. XDCAM in this specific situation?