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DUDE!!! Thank you guys so much. I am not at the office so I can’t try it, but I just called my boss and let him know about the setting. I am guilty of not even looking through the settings, I was so caught up thinking something else was the culprit. I am going to check it out first thing monday morning, and see if this is the resolution

Thanks again guys!

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Of course its an issue. Its recording BLACK during those extra 4 or 5 seconds during an INSET, so any video there is being replaced by black frames, overwriting with black video I have not included in my mark points. Plus its not a post roll issue, I have tried different machine templates, and one of the first things I did was set the post roll to “1.”

Thank you for the replies though. Tom, good call on checking the settings, after my current output is done I am going to check that out.

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Thanks for the reply.

Yikes! iMovie! I guess I could give that a shot… What kind of files does iMovie make? Am I sacrificing quality to use that?

Anyone else out there have any ideas?

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Hey, thanks for the input. I guess I am effectively answering my own question in asking this, I just wanted to see if anyone out there had any input on what they would opt for in this situation. Since finding out that Final Cut Studio 2 is more processor intensive, I was interested to know what others would do in this case. Anyone else have any suggestions or thoughts?

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I screwed up and posted this subject inside this thread instead of making a new post. Sorry! I reposted a new one, can a Mod please remove this subject about the Upgrade to Dual Quad Core?

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Our Power Mac G5 Dual 2.5ghz that is powering our Final Cut Edit Suite is in desperate need of an upgrade, and I have been presented with some options from my bosses.

We have a Mac Pro (model MacPro1,1) Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3GHZ with 2 processors (4 Cores) with 8gb of memory that is currently being used for After Effects and DVD authoring in our graphics area.

Here is the dilemma. The bosses here are looking to buy a new MAC, and they are contemplating on some things. Here are the possible scenarios:

Scenario 1 – Buy the newest fastest Mac Pro(Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) and put it into our graphics area for After Effects, and put the old one (Mac Pro (model MacPro1,1) Dual-Core Intel Xeon 3GHZ with 2 processors) into our Final Cut Studio 2 edit Suite, which would upgrade our old Dual 2.5 G5.

Scenario 2 – Buy the newest fastest Mac Pro(Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) and put it into our Final Cut Studio 2 Edit Suite, which would replace the old Dual 2.5ghz G5, and hold off on the graphics area computer update.

The dilemma from my point of view seems to be that my bosses believe that they can save a buck by updating the Graphics area computer, and just using the old Dual Core Intel Xeon for the Final Cut. They are convinced (without doing any research mind you) that Final Cut Studio 2 won’t need or utilize the power of the newest available Mac Pro, and that the money would be better spent to update the graphics computer.

We also have the After Effects artists chiming in, whining about the rendering, and trying their best to state their case that “After Effects needs it more.” What do you guys think?

In my opinion, I think it is not the smartest of moves. I think putting anything less than the best available into the Final Cut Suite is kind of a stupid, considering they want to be able to take full advantage of Color, multi format timelines in Final Cut, the ProRes Codecs, and everything else the new studio has to offer.

Any ammo you guys could give me to back this up would be awesome!

Thanks

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Thanks Dave!

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Thanks Gary. I have not tried any SD capturing with the Apple ProRes yet, and probably wont even bother. The company I work for is planning on an intel mac upgrade in the next month, so I will conduct all my tests then. Thanks again for your input.