Walter Biscardi
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[Shane Ross] “Ouput to a KiPro! INstant capture to an SD file.”
never even thought of that. Great idea. I suppose we could use the Mini as well…..
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Greg Ball] “Walter, I’ve seen you discuss this a few times. I know I can use my LHe to convert HD to SD tape (Digibeta or Beta SP, but how do you convert it to a SD quicktime file that I can bring into a DVD? I’d love to see a tutorial on this.”
You simply play the file out through the Kona. Either to another computer or to a tape deck. If you lay it out to tape, you bring the file back in.
If you captured it to another computer, you’re ready to go.
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Premiere literally has an “Export to Final Cut Pro” command now. If that version doesn’t, then Export XML and open it in FCP.
Now the huge advantage that Premiere has over FCP is that it can edit MPEG, H.264 and other file formats that FCP cannot. So your only option is to convert any and all files that FCP cannot edit with.
I had to do that recently with a major project that was sent to us in Premiere. It was all edited with the raw MXF data from the P2 cameras and with a ton of H.264 files. I had to convert everything to ProRes before I could pick up the edit.
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The older your MacBook Pro, the slower your render times. Bottom line.
Typically a one hour movie on our Mac Pro’s take approx 3 hours to render the BluRay file. So a two hour movie would take about 6 hours. So your laptop taking as long as it is, not really surprising.
Particularly if you are making your DVD files from an HD original. In that case, not only is Compressor making the appropriate file, it’s also converting your video from HD to SD. One BIG way to increase the speed of the render is to do the conversion first and THEN make your DVD file.
That’s one huge advantage of our AJA Kona boards internal to our Mac Pros. We can convert HD to SD in realtime first, and then render the HD file to BluRay and the SD file to DVD. The DVD files are created in almost realtime that way. Maybe 90 minutes for a one hour movie, usually less.
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Funny, I did a Final Cut Pro tip on this very subject last month. It’s the Boris 3D titler than Shane mentions.
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SSD do zero to increase rendering speed. For FCP 7, that’s all in the CPUs. For me they are a waste of money right now because of the expense vs. amount of storage you get. They will get cheaper, but right now, much cheaper to go with a SATA RAID.
You say 60fps HD, but you don’t say the format you’re editing in. Any MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac Pro can handle ProRes 720 or 1080 editing today. Mac Pro is the most flexible.
I would recommend the most Mac Pro you can afford, put in at least 2GB of RAM per core and get yourself a very fast external RAID.
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As long as both ingest and output can detect dropped frames, I’m ok with third party apps for this. If the app merely plays through dropped frames, well, that’s gonna burn somebody.
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It’s clear from the “sneak peek” that Apple is doing their own thing with very limited input from the outside world.
No other way to explain taking a 10 year software brand that has made tremendous inroads in all areas of Post Production and then potentially dropping many of the features used day in and day out by said post production companies.
The “sneak peek” was aimed squarely at small shops, one man bands and those who “ooooooh” and “aaaaaaah” every new thing that Apple shows much like the marketing presentations.
What is completely ludicrous is that NONE of what we’re asking is a state or trade secret. We’re simply asking if the features that are ALREADY IN FINAL CUT 7 are still in Final Cut Pro X. But apparently Steve Jobs has the answer hidden somewhere because if competitors were to find out about this it would be bad.
This whole consumer based “on a need to know basis” approach to the reveal was and is still asinine.
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[Craig Seeman] “On Apple’s side, they know there’s going to be costs one way or another for people to jump. Their strategy was to make a presentation at an event (NAB) where they know those decisions are made. Their strategy is to get something out the door that’s at least workable while they race to add the other features while their competitors race to support things to encourage the switch.”
We don’t even know if FCP X will support hardware cards like the Kona and BMD cards. I have multiple meetings with folks at the show and the overall answer I got was “we don’t know.”
I did get the sense that the hardware manufacturers were talking much more about Avid than they ever did in the past. It appears Apple is going the “we’re all the hardware and software you need” approach. After all they have ColorSync which will make all your monitors show color and interlacing perfectly now so why do you need those pesky external monitors and projectors to view your work? You can do it all with our laptop.
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[Simon Ubsdell] ” I’d imagined this would be automated, but if not it might be that I did this yesterday (Friday) and it requires human intervention so nothing will happen till next week. At least that’s what I’m hoping. I don’t fancy having to battle it out with AVID to try and get any sense out of them!”
I’m sure it takes human intervention for this offer to go through. We haven’t tried it yet as we’re waiting for Avid to support the AJA Kona boards.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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