Zane Barker
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Johnsabbath, you keep asking us what your rate should be. We cannot tell you what it should be. It depends on a lot of factors like your skill, your experience, your location, the current economy.
What you need to do is figure out what YOU feel you should be making and then if they offer you the job, you sit down and negotiate a rate that you are BOTH happy with.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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[johnsabbath d’urzo] “Should I be charging more to use my gear?”
ABSOLUTELY your equipment cost you money.
Also keep in mind that if they are offering you any benefits then that plays into the whole overall package as well, and is another reason that the pay would be lower then your regular day rate.
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Could you tell us more about this network drive?
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How full is the media drive on your Mac Pro.
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[Cory Lei] “I have been trying to backup my project to an external hard disk on FCP5 but there seems to be no option within the program to do this. “
Yes there is it is called Media Manager. Media Manager will let you copy ALL the files used in your FCP project to your archive drive.
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Also I just realized after looking at the specks of the latest Mac Pro’s, the smallest amount of ram that they come with is 3GB, and you say you have 2GB or ram.
I apologize if I seem a little harsh, but it is just that what you are telling us just does not add up, and it can be difficult to help if we don’t know what exactly is in your machine, both hardware and software.
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[rachel pandza] “The computer is the latest mac pro desktop”
[rachel pandza] “I have OS 10.2”It is impossible for the latest Mac Pro to run OS 10.2, this is because the Mac Pro is an Intel Machine, and there was NEVER a version of 10.2 that would run on an Intel.
So what version of the OS are you really running?
If it really is the latest then it would have come with 10.5 on it.A couple of other things.
With a Mac Pro why not put some additional drives inside the machine to edit from. The sata connections of internal drives are 2x as fast as FW800 that you are working with.
It is also strongly recommended to have at least 4 GB of ram in a computer that you use FCP on. You said you currently have only 2GB
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What format video are you using?
What type of hard drives are you using?There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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h264 is not an exiting codec it is a delivery format. You should convert the files into a format that will match your timeline settings.
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[Alexander Kallas] “No, it’s not the codec that’s different. “
I don’t think that you understood what I said in my last post. I said it is NOT the video codec they are the same. It IS the audio codec.
[Alexander Kallas] “iMovie captures as DV Stream, which locks the audio and video.
FCP does not recognize “muxed” media from iMovie, and hence has to split the audio off, ie render. “Yes what you said is basically are describing is how the AUDIO CODEC handles the audio.
[Alexander Kallas] “But the camera is recording the DV Codec. “
We were not talking about camera at all we were talking about how the software interprets that camera signal and creates the file.
Unfortunately John has still not told us where he is getting these .dv files from we are only assuming that he is getting them from iMovie.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!