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Show all posts by userYour basic troubleshooting and discussion forum for all things Final Cut Pro X. If you are having issues with FCP 7 and below, post it in Cafe LA.
24 or 30 for audio workflow? - 17 years agoI'm about to embark on editing a film shot 23.98 HDCAM, and am having a dub house convert the tapes to DVCPRO HD. The trick is, audio was recorded separately, at 30 fps. If I lay the footage in a 24 timeline, and try to sync my 30 audio, will it drift out of sync? Will FCP automatically perform a conversion, but then my audio must be rendered? In short, if my footage is in 24 and my audioby Flabasha - Café LA Recommend LA dub house? - 17 years agoI'm looking for a good n' cheap n' quick (yeah, I know) dub house in the LA area that will take my HDCAM dailies and convert them to DVCPRO HD, and put them on a hard drive I'll bring in. I know many months ago, someone here suggested a house they used to do this exact thing, but after three hours of searching the archives to no avail, I give up. Any favorites?by Flabasha - Café LA System okay to edit DVCPROHD? - 17 years agoSo I'm editing a short to be shot on the CineAlta 900f, at 23.98 (HDCAM). I'm planning the workflow with my system, a dual 2.0 G5 with a Geforce 5200 (bleh) card, and 8gb RAM. I have numerous Seagate external Firewire 800 drives. We will be finishing at 29.98. From all my research on these boards, people suggest the DVCPROHD codec as the highest quality compressed codec out there. But woulby Flabasha - Café LA Re: If you were gonna buy? - 17 years agoYeah, Mac Pro's the way to go, IMO. They're actually almost as fast at Photoshop and AE as most G5's, just because they clock so much higher... i.e., a 2ghz g5 is faster at AE than a 2ghz Intel, but only slightly faster than a 2.7ghz Intel running under Rosetta. Plus, in less than a year, when the universal versions of AE and Photoshop are out, they (like Final Cut is now) will likely be MUCHby Flabasha - Café LA Re: What is it like being an LA indie filmmaker? - 17 years agoA 90-minute feature for 50,000? I'm sure you know stuff I don't, but when I shot a 15 minute 16mm thesis film at UCLA ten years ago, final cost after negative cutting and optical track print was $10,000 (and that's including heavy student discounts through FotoKem, and FREE cameras, lenses and flatbeds at school!). And 35mm was far more expensive. How on earth do you shoot, edit and finishby Flabasha - Café LA Re: Gtech drives 250 vs 500??? - 17 years agoNo, using Intel chips will have no effect whatsoever on viruses. All that matters is the operating system (OSX, OS 9, Windows, Linux, etc.). If the operating system is vulnerable (Windows), then you get viruses. If it's less vulnerable (OS X, Linux) - and has less marketshare to attract virus writers (OS X, Linux), then no, or fewer, viruses. Chip makes zero difference. Unless you use Afteby Flabasha - Café LA Re: EXPORTING TO DVD STUDIO PRO - 17 years agoAlso, for what it's worth, I had a low-res sequence (in the Motion JPEG A codec) that I output as a Quicktime at "Current Settings"... but when it went to MPEG-2, it was an absolute disaster... with strobing on every movement. I re-exported at "Uncompressed 10-bit", brought that into DVDSP, and the resulting MPEG-2 looked great. Moral? If you're working at a lower resolby Flabasha - Café LA Create New Master Clip? - 17 years agoSo I input a feature, and was sent audio stems in aiff format. I've synced them up, but now here's my question... Is there anyway to turn that Audio Splits sequence into a "master clip" without exporting and reimporting the whole darn feature? The problem is, if I cut from the Splits sequence into another sequence, every time I matchframe or double-click a clip, it opens up the Splby Flabasha - Café LA Re: Quad 2.5 GHz G5 Now, Or Wait For Intel Equivalent? - 18 years agoNot to throw wood on the fire, but MacIntels are no more prone to viruses than G5's... it's the operating system, not the chip, that viruses attack. As long as it's OSX, and Mac market share stays small enough that virus writers don't want to waste their time on it, macs will remain (relatively) virus-free, whether running on a Motorola chip or Intel or anything else. Now if you use BootCampby Flabasha - Café LA Re: Quad 2.5 GHz G5 Now, Or Wait For Intel Equivalent? - 18 years agoSeeing the recent test results, I'd say wait. The current MacBook is beating my dual 2.0 G5 in rendering. And that's a first gen laptop! In fact, this test shows the new laptop THREE TIMES FASTER than my huge dual 2.0 at rendering an effect. (It's a German page, but babelfish translated) So much for "Altivec", huh? In other words, I'm already looking to sell my ten-month old cby Flabasha - Café LA Re: macbook pro - 18 years agoInterestingly, not only does the MacBook run Final Cut 5.1 well, it's better at it than my dual 2.0 G5!! So much for the Altivec acceleration beating Intel at rendering tasks. I'm definitely unloading my G5 before the Intel towers come out, or this this sucker will nosedive in value. Post Edited (04-11-06 14:02)by Flabasha - Café LA |
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