Walter Biscardi
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[Wayne Marx] “I recall reading on the COW that you advocate putting the FCP project file on the system drive and not the external drive.
Can you explain why.
Thanks in advance,”
Be glad to.
Your media arrays are constantly being written to and erased. This leads to a lot of fragmentation and a better chance of the array being corrupted. If the array gets corrupted you’ll lose your media for the project AND the project file itself. In other words, you’ve lost everything and have to start from scratch.
If you keep the project file on your internal System Drive, you may lose the media, but you’ll still have your entire project file to rebuild it. If the project was all capture from tape, you can simply redigitize everything. If it was all brought in from a tapeless format, simply re-copy everything back into the machine.
It’s a safety thing. Final Cut Pro Media on external media arrays. Final Cut Pro Project Files (and all Project files for that matter) on the internal system drive.
On all our Macs we have a folder on the root level of our main Mac HD called “Projects”. All our projects are save in there.
Hope that helps!
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Why are you exporting wav files? We export OMFs for work in ProTools. That’s pretty much the standard for ProTools with NLEs.
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[Tom Galli] “My question is can I do this without having to buy a HD I/O device?”
No, not properly.
[Tom Galli] ” if not, what’s the I/O device of choice these days?”
Matrox makes a product that Shane Ross really likes, the MXO series. Simply search this forum for Shane Ross MXO and you’ll find a lot of posts by him. He may even have an article or two here on the Cow as well.
Personally I love the AJA Kona LHi just because it gives me more flexibility not only as an I/O device, but also a realtime hardware conversion tool. SD to HD, HD to SD and HD Cross Conversion in realtime which we use all the time.
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[Matt Gold] “Project file and media is on an external drive via fire wire 800”
Big no-no. Project file should always live on your internal Mac HD. Only the media files should live on the external array.
As for the project not responding when coming back from being hidden, not seeing that here on any of our Snow Leopard machines. When you did the clean install of the OS, did you run all the Software Updates before you did the install of FC Studio? And then did you run all the Studio updates after that was installed?
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[Larry Ray Causey II] “FCP asks me to render audio files sometimes right?”
It shouldn’t if all your files are 48khz and are AIFF, WAV or MOV before you bring them in.
[Larry Ray Causey II] “By jacked up i mean, it repositions the the timing of the song so that the middle of the song plays at the the beginning of the clip.”
Honestly have never experienced this in all my years with FCP.
Make sure you’re using all 48khz AIFF or WAV files in your timeline. If they are not 48khz, convert them before you bring them in.
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Maxx Digital has Final Share SAN – https://www.maxxdigital.com/fs/
Small Tree Communications also has a shared SAN. – https://www.small-tree.com/final_cut_shared_storage_solution_a/205.htm
We have their system installed in our shop for three years now and it’s all ethernet based so the cost is literally pennies on the dollar vs. a Fibre Channel system. In our case we’ve been running 7 workstations on it for years and now will be adding 5 more.
So 2 to 12 workstations all on one ethernet shared storage system with no additional software to buy. You can edit ProRes HD all day long.
Here’s my Cow article about the installation and how it works.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/biscardi_walter/media_san.php
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[Ryan Cummings] ”
What do you mean not as much flexibility with the iMac as with the macbookpro? Wouldn’t the iMac have more flexibility and adaptability as opposed to a laptop?”I said Mac Pro. Not MacBook Pro.
Mac Pro’s allow you to pretty modify the machine as your business needs change. You can attach many different types of media arrays.
iMacs and MacBook Pros are limited in how they can be modified, how they can connect to a monitor and what types of media arrays that can be used with them.
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Edit in DVCPro HD, including the graphics. Make sure the graphics are protected for 4:3.
If you have access to an AJA Kona board, make the downconversion in realtime .
If you don’t have access to an AJA Kona board, then export your Sequence and use Compressor to make your SD file from the HD original and crop off the video to 4:3.
This is not nearly as clean as using an AJA Kona board, but it will do a decent job.
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iMacs rock with Final Cut Pro, especially the 27″ model. Not as much flexibility as with a Mac Pro, but the 27″ iMac is the best computer value out there today in my opinion.
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As has been mentioned hundreds of times now on this very forum, you cannot use the Canvas or Viewer to view your files for color correction.
What you see in the Quicktime Player will look different than the Viewer / Canvas. This is by design. The FCP viewers are essentially proxy images as Final Cut Pro expects you to have a proper external monitor connected to your system.
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