Videomansf
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My only real problem with the BCF2000 is the noise of the faders. I have one on a G5 dual 2.7 and I love it, but it is no mackie control. I have a universal on my Logic/PTHD system and it is by far a much better product, but if $1000 is too much, and you don’t mind the noise, the BCF2000 is a great midi control. Oh, and do upgrade to 1.10 firmware. SysEx is a good mac x midi dump program. much better MCC support.
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Shake is great at Film 2K and 4K native support for pulling off those “impossible” keys and composites. As for “motion graphics” and lower 3rds, it is well beyond overkill. I have one Shake 3.0 mac, and use it exclusively for cineon to QT and Cineon file compositing. For that work i charge $500/hour, but only get about a project every 2 months. Motion 2 and AE make a great SD/HD combo. Motion on a fast mac with a 256MB graphics card (ati R800 or GF6800 or Stock Ati 9650) can handle all the day to day graphics work. The “rock the vote 2004” campaign was done in motion excessively and looks great. AE 6.5 on a dual 2.7Ghz mac almost feels like motion, Keylight runs at 20fps in SD, and a 10 second ram preview of keylight renders in 15 seconds. If your not dealing with Film 2k/4k then you do not need shake and shake will be a waist of time and money.
VideoMan
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Didn’t have a choice, the dual 2.7 came with tiger. All pro apps are running fine. Even my io and kona 2 get along great. Yet, I still put in that order for fcp5. Hi Apple, you make life easy, here’s my money.
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Also i would recommend a colored FCP keyboard. I have used FCP since version 1.0, and at version 3 got a keyboard. I learned more about fcp from the keyboard that I did from years of mousing around. Oh, and the sticky things apple ships come off and are very tacky.
Adam
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The deck may be reporting a servo problem over 422 that its internal circuits are ignoring. Also some decks do this without a BBG or when in local and not remote. What deck are you using?
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i am on 10.4 on a dual 2.7 g5, and all is good, but i would hold off till qt 7.1, and fcp 5 come out. compressor is funky under 10.4 and dvdsp 2 is giving me problems.
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Are you using DV or a larger video codec?
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The video in the timeline dose not match the sequence settings of the time line. If the video is say animation codec @ 486×720, and your using the dv sequence settings you must render the video. Under the “final cut pro” menu you will find easy setups. Use these settings to capture and edit in the right codec. or change the sequence settings to match the video settings.
Adam
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