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Not registered? Click HERE to register now Re: The joys of XDCAM EX.... - 15 years agoJust so you know, the FCP plug-in IS the XDCAM Transfer software. Apple just gave you place inside of FCP to invoke it.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Final Cut and Sony XDCAM Transfer.app - 15 years agoI use the Sony XDCAM Browaser software to download the clips from the SXS and THEN us XDCAM Transfer software to convert the BPAV files to Quicktimes FCP can read. How are you downloading the footage from the SxS?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Project folder location on Hard drives? - 15 years agoThis is almost a religious debate amongst FCP users. If your a single user or multiple users with direct attached storage I agree with Derek. But if your sharing files then storing the FCP project files on the same volume as the media can lead to real problems. I'm not sure why that is but I didn't believe it when I first heard it and had to learn the hard way. Also if you do a high volumby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Canopus ADVC-110 - 15 years agoIf your interested, Western Digital has a device, the WD HD TV which enables you to play back multiple formats from a hard drive or USB drive. We use it to show samples of our work at trade shows and meetings. It displays HD via HDMI, we use H264 but it can also display MPEG 2 and 4 and other formats that we have not bothered to check. It has a remote like a TV with fast forward and rewindby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Best format for Round tripping FCP to After Effects CS3 and back in HDV720/24P - 15 years agoThe Animation codec is RGBA which is great for elements that are rendered in AE that you plan to composite over a background in FCP. But if your sending your FCP clip to be used as a background layer in AE then you don't need to use the Animation codec, if file size is not an issue then render an Uncompressed Quicktime. Your problem probably stems more from the effects artists ability to impoby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Best format for Round tripping FCP to After Effects CS3 and back in HDV720/24P - 15 years agoI have worked a lot "round tripping" HDV to AE, the quality of the finished content was fine. At least it looked as good as the original HDV. So HDV is not the issue. However, I use the Mac version of CS3 so AE and FCP played together exceptionally well. I have had very mixed results going from Mac to PC and back so I gave up and purchased the Mac version, really simplified my lifby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Seagate - 15 years agoInterestingly enough I'm not sure we disagree. The difference, I think, is when you use the RAID and what you mean by redundancy. As I mentioned earlier I use ShotPut Express to "archive" from the SxS card concurrently to two drives (I also do a tape back-up to LTO3). There's no need to transfer this data to a RAID because this is a file transfer, not digitizing, that actually happby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Seagate - 15 years agoThis is a guess, but I didn't get the impression that the OP has worked with XDCAM EX. You do not transfer/capture XDCAM EX the same way that you do from tape. It is a file transfer from cards that does not require a RAID. In fact you can capture directly from an SxS card at more than six times real speed via USB, again not requiring a RAID. RAID obviously doesn't hurt but you don't neeby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Preview Disabled...still - 15 years agoWelcome to the world of FCP, where there's a million work arounds to every problem whether you need it or not...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: XDcam files to test Transfer process - 15 years agoDan, The EX1 creates a "BPAV" file on the SxS card. This file is a file structure containing the image clip and metadate that FCP can not read. There are two applications that Sony ships with the EX1/3, XDCAM Clip Browser and XDCAM Transfer. In order to use this clip you need to download XDCAM Clip Browser, which enables you to browse the clips on the SxS cards, and transfer theby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Seagate - 15 years agoI have done a lot of HDV editing in FCP, which I do not recommend. Even though XDCAM is a long GOP, editing it in FCP is MUCH MUCH BETTER than HDV and I do recommend editing it natively. However if you try to import the BPAV folder into FCP it won't even see it and the Import XDCAM footage plug-in for FCP just invokes the standalone XDCAM transfer software. My point was more that the fby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA MXO2 - 15 years agoIn a recent thread there was some discussion about the MXO2 where I had asked Shane and others to share their experiences with the MXO2. Since that discussion I have purchased, installed and used the MXO2 and thought if anyone else was interested that I would post my experiences with it. First off, I wanted a device that would enable me to "calibrate" a 50" Plasma so that theby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Seagate - 15 years agoSomething else to consider. Since they are shooting XDCAM EX, and since you can not edit XDCAM EX footage in FCP I would characterize the drives the producer purchased more as archive drives. If this were my project I would have two drives connected to my MacBook Pro and use ShotPut Express to create two identical copies of the "BPAV" files from the SXS cards. Once shooting is cby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Coverting a 44.1KHz Music Library to 48KHz - 15 years agoWe just purchased a large Music Library that has 44.1Khz WAV files, is there a utility that can easily convert these to 48Khz WAV or AIFF files?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: OT- is it me or can we no longer scrub in the finder? - 15 years agoI wonder why they didn't implement the J > K > L keys like in Quicktime. Quick look is way cool it just seems that would have been easy to add while they were at it.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: System locks up with Matrox MXO2?? - 15 years agoI'm a bit partial to the look of plasma displays versus LCD's. I'm looking at the Panasonic TH50PZ800 and 850U's, and the Pioneer Kuro PDP 5020FD. for the money I like the Panasonic TH50PZ800 the best, the blacks in TH50PZ850 don't seem to be as dark as the 800 and in the set I was looking at the whites where just a bit off. The Pioneer is verynice but its about $1500 more and I don't thinkby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: System locks up with Matrox MXO2?? - 15 years agoShane, thanks for sharing your eperience with the MXO2, that's great to hear. I intend on using the MXO2 in the way you suggested as a "calibrated" client monitor, something that will get me as close as I can to what the final DVD will look like, not for broadcast. Regarding the display, since I just got the MXO2 now I'm in the market for a good Plasma with a one for one pixel mapby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: COLOR - is it a bug? - 15 years agoWhere do you trash the color prefs from?by Chuck Spaulding - Color Re: Anyone using Final Cut Server? - 15 years agoDoes Apple offer training classes for FCS?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Log and Capture Problems - 15 years agoI just went through this today, here's what I did to solve the problem: In FCP User Preferences, set the "On timecode break: change it from Make new clip to Warn after Capture." Push play in the Log and Capture window and do a "Capture Now." It captured the "bad timecode" area just fine. Afterwards it gave me this cryptic error message but the clip was fine.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Anyone using Final Cut Server? - 15 years agoThanks Michael, that's a good idea. I will give that a try.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Anyone using Final Cut Server? - 15 years agoI'm really not flaming Apple here, but your experience seems to be the norm, not the exception. I too would really like to use it but totally lack the confidence to try to deploy such a complicated solution with what seems to be little to no support. One consultant told me it would cost approximately $25K to set it up correctly. If I believed that's all it would cost I'd do it right now.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: System locks up with Matrox MXO2?? - 15 years agoI'm glad to hear that you got the MXO2 and are trying it. We are "almost" completely tapeless so I don't plan on using the MXO2 for capture. I'm mostly interested in its ability to adjust a plasma to (blue) bars for color grading. I know that it will not be calibrated for broadcast but I'm hoping it will be much better than nothing...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Benefits of using Pro Res as my render codec? - 15 years agoOK, we're chasing our tails here. IF your printing back to the Zi (HDV) then working natively in HDV is the most efficient way to work. So you don't need to convert to ProRes while capturing and it is debatable whether you will see any performance gains if you have your sequence render codec set to ProRes. That largely depends on what your editing and your style of editing. I believe this aby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Loading a Second Instance of FCP on a MacBook Pro - 15 years agoSorry, sometimes after the excitement of getting new stuff where's off I get so lazy, hence not reading the license agreement. I didn't even think about the FAQ. I'll check it out.by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Loading a Second Instance of FCP on a MacBook Pro - 15 years agoThanks Tom...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Loading a Second Instance of FCP on a MacBook Pro - 15 years agoI just got a 17" MacBook Pro and would like to load FCS2 on it. I currently have FCP loaded on a Mac Pro, can I legally load (a second) instance of FCS2 on the MacBook Pro? I know that Adobe allows this and I believe Apple does too, as long as I only use one license at a time. Also any tips or tricks loading FCS2 on a Laptop? This thing sure is sexy...by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Benefits of using Pro Res as my render codec? - 15 years agoBy the way, what ever happened to FindonChrispy?by Chuck Spaulding - Café LA Re: Benefits of using Pro Res as my render codec? - 15 years agoHi Casey, from a quality perspective, you can't get much better than that. Also, the one thing I don't recall you mentioning is which ProRes? Since you captured from HDV and I assume your not outputting to film you don't need ProRes HQ (220Mb). Do you have two FW800 striped together in a RAID0 or two independent FW800's for more capacity? If your editing ProRes 140Mb FW800 should be capableby Chuck Spaulding - Café LA |
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