[Zane Barker]

No offense but your question can be answered in 2 seconds by doing a search of the Apple online store. Please do some looking on your own before jumping strait to posting a question.

https://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?find=final+cut+studio

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[Zane Barker]

Fire wire is the ONLY way to go for a Macbook. USB works in bursts of data and therefore will cause problems when you try and use files needing high constant data rates like video.

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

If that gray screen has multiple languages on it, then it is called a Kernal Panic.

99% of all kernal panics are caused by janked up software. Definitely uninstall the Norton AV.

Also there is really no need to have virus software on your mac, as you have experienced, they will cause more problems then they will ever prevent on a mac.

I have NEVER seen a actual virus on OS X.

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

[Ingo Helbig] “I’m working on a project in 16:9, which will be delivered in 16:9, but the client requires supers and translation text in the lower third to be within 4:3 safe so that viewers receiving the program on SD monitors will still be able to read all the text.”

if it is delivered in 16:9 then the DVD’s you give them will just be letter-boxed and have black bars on the top and bottom when viewed on a 4:3 TV

So I really see no reason at all to keep all titles within a 4:3 space.

The only reason I can see to have all the titles fit in a 4:3 space is if you are actually going to deliver both a 4:3 and a 16:9 product.

Just explain to the client that a 16:9 DVD will just show as letter-boxed on a 4:3 TV.

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

[Mickey Power] “Another question: the drive they supplied is USB2 only. Is that acceptable for editing in FCP? “

Absolutely NOT. USB works in bursts of data, where as FireWire has a sustained data rate.

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

[Dan Wharmby] ” I’ve heard of people using terminal to do this, but I have zero experience with Terminal”

If you don’t know what you are doing when you are using terminal then you could really screw up your system.

I say STAY OUT OF THERE!

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[Zane Barker]

[Michael Hancock] “But how do you get it on a PC? “

You don’t!

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

[Jeff Carpenter] “I took some sample footage to an Apple store and previewed it there. The problem is that the Apple TV is made to stream data live over a network and can thus only take a certain data-rate. Using Quicktime’s standard Apple TV export setting, I ended up with an image I didn’t find thrilling. “

The image quality on a TV has nothing to do with the streaming over a wireless network, it may just take it a little longer to load in a file streaming. And lets face it for a showing like you are talking about you should really be loading the video files right onto the TV itself and not streaming.

I also have not had the greatest success with Apples preset, but after I tweaked it, my results were GREAT. My guess is that your footage was not 24p. The highest image size the TV c an play is 720, and keep in mind that the ONLY frame rate of 720 that the TV will play is 24p.

I am betting that your original video was not 24p. The presets that are there will automatically scale a video down to a frame size less then 720 and maintain your original frame rate.

My best images on the TV came when NOT using presets and setting the frame size to 720 and also changing the frame rate to 24p (my original was 1080i 60fps)

The resulting image looked GREAT.

Image quality is in the encoding settings not in the wireless network streaming!!!

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[Zane Barker]

Also there are plenty of little videos at

https://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio

Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Zane Barker]

Here are some of the Final Cut Studio demo videos from the last couple of years.

I am sure you can find them at higher quality elsewhere, but youTube was the quickest way for me to find them for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymFADDfeFUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAfprNEqeZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_XzuvYtaM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M5dZec1Log

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