Tom Meegan
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Sorry Ed,
Missed the link you included. Impressive!
Tom
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Ed,
I googled a bit but couldn’t come up with anything like 250 gigs of online storage for $7.49/month. Do you have a link that quotes that rate?
It was good of you to clear up that 250 is a larger number than 5. Might have missed that.
;->
Tom
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The creators of xprove and syncvue are working together now. It will be interesting to see what they come up with…
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All the built-in FW ports, 400 and 800, share one bus, and the bus defaults to the speed of the slowest device.
Having both the camera and the drive on built-in Firewire often works, but sometimes does not, as you have found.
If you separate the drives from the camera by creating another bus with a product like this for your powerbook:
https://www.macgurus.com/productpages/firewire/LYCFWba-CB.php
Or this for your G5 (double check what type of slot your G5 has before purchasing):
You will probably avoid the freezes.
No implied sanction of B&H or MacGurus
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Check out these guys:
The website explains how it works.
The other option I’ve tried, and like, is:
A one month subscription to either service is less than the cost of one FedEx package.
Tom M
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I’m not Tom W or Wayne, but here are some reasons why xprove and box.net work for me.
xprove has the built in ability to manage access and accumulate feedback from many collaborators. The comments are attached to the file, so each person can see the feedback that has already been left right next to the video. You may have clients that do not have to run things through several divisions for approval, but I do, and xprove is perfect. Through access management, you can carefully guide a video through several work groups who all need to give approval separately.
xprove’s web site does an amazing job of demonstrating how the software works. I recommend checking this site out even if you don’t need the service, just to learn from how clear and concise the site is.
box.net allows for a huge amount of storage for not much money. Those of us who have sites we are paying for as a small business, not part of a larger company, may find that $7.95/month for 5 Gb of on line storage is pretty amazing. They also have some nice functionality built into their service, and are adding more all the time.
Additionally, and again for those of us who do not have a large IT infrastructure supporting us
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What format are you working in?
The IO or the IO HD are both very good solutions if you need to monitor. However, if it is really off line, what are you monitoring requirements, really?
I’ve edited with the Sony 8 or 9″ battery powered monitors in the field. These are usually for shooting, and they are small, but in your situation small could be good. The resolution on these monitors is very good, and it is cool to be able to use a battery if need be.
This depends very much on what you need to see, and how well. There is a wide range of what could be considered acceptable for off line.
Tom
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File > Export
Export drop dowm menu = movie to quicktime movie
Click the options button.
Click the Video settings button.
Compression drop down menu = DV/DVCPRO – NTSC
Quality slider = High
Scan mode = Interlaced
Aspect ratio = 16×9 (you don’t mention the nature of the DV footage – I’m it is assuming 16×9)
Edit in a DV timeline.
The other option would be to choose 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed. This choice would oblige you to convert all of the DV material as well, and take up 7 to 9 times as much hard drive space. The quality would not improve your DV footage, but your graphics and effects would render a bit more nicely, and the HD footage would hold a little bit more quality, however the difference will be subtle.
If you go this way, edit in a time line that matchs the format you choose. I recommend doing the DV conversion before starting to edit, as the timeline renders will drive you crazy.
I also recommend doing a test to determine how long the conversions are likely to take, and a test to compare both types of footage in both types of time line, with and without effects and graphics. View these tests on a reference monitor or at least the same type of TV or screen you viewers will watch. If you are going all the way out to DVD for delivery, and that is what your viewers will see, do the mpeg 2 compresssion and burn a disk of each of these tests to see if you can tell the diference.
This sort of testing, factored in with the edit schedule and the hardware you can bring to bear, is the only way to know if the upconvert of the DV footage is worth it.
Most times, it is not.
Tom
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The same thing is happening on my Mac Pro running FCP 5.1.4, OS 10.4.9 with Title 3D. Started this week, and does not happen consistently.
This plug-in is still where it belongs on my system (library/application support/final cut pro system support/plugins) but does not load under the generator menu. That path will also lead to Title Crawl. I’m not sure what 3D Crawl is.
As a work around I opened a sequence that had Title 3D clips in the time line, and then copied and pasted.
Tom
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Hello Editor,
I’m a fan of your posts on Art of the Edit.
All the numbers below are intended to give you an idea. Some are high, some are low, all are only intended to help as you start to research this more deeply.
Mac Pro pretty tricked out: 5K
2x 23″ Computer monitors: 1.5K
AJA or Black Magic Design Card(you don’t need this if only DV): 3K
Sony DSR-11 DV deck: 1.5K
Assorted Adobe software: 1.5K
FCS2: 1.3K
Plug-ins, other assorted software: 1.5K
Decent furniture including racks: 5K
Power Conditioning and UPS: 2-5K
Genelec Speakers with Sub: 2.5K
SD monitor used: .8K
Inexpensive HD reference monitoring (lcd, 17″): 2.6K
External SDI Scopes (used): 4K OR External composite scopes (used): 1.2 K
Wires, lots of wires: 1.5K
External Storage: .3-1.5K
Small audio mixer for monitoring: .5K
DVD player, VHS machine, other junk: .5 K
Xraid ( you don’t need this unless you are doing HD: 10K (more or less)
Other hardware: 3-5K
Everything on the list adds up to about 50K. You could spend a lot less or a lot more depending on your specific needs.
If you only want to do DV, you can get by with much, much less. Of course you could choose to furnish everything with Ikea