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Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agoCraig, your suggestion worked perfect. If your not game moving the folders or files in finder, it's just as easy to drag and drop the Event from the external HDD to your laptop HDD in FCP X, then delete the High Quality Media Folder on your laptop HDD via finder. Do keep in mind you've selected the "Use Proxy Media" in Playback Preferences. Also keep in mind, doing the drag and drby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agoCraig, sorry if I'm a little naive. let me try simplify my question. I start by attaching a portable HDD to my MacBook Pro. I open FCP X, choose start a new Event, and select Import Files. I navigate to the folder that contains the H.264 media, and transcode them to the external HDD (WD FW800 2 drive), in a Events folder called TEST. I choose both transcoding options Create optimizedby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agoCraig, further testing your suggestions I now strongly believe it's not possible to have the Optimized or High Quality Media on an external HDD, and the Proxy Media on the laptop HDD. Reason being: When you select to transcode on import, FCP X places both the optimized + proxy media in a transcoded media folder. Example: This then allows you to select or switch between the two optionsby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agohmm.....ok thanks craig, I'll play around with it and try grasp this new way.by blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agoQuoteTom Wolsky Though not sure why you would optimize and proxy to start unless you have a small system Though the laptop I use is probably fast enough to work with native media (2011 17" MacBook Pro 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Memory), I thought i'd safe guard myself to avoid any hiccups. Being a freelance editor and working off a laptop I use this method a lot. Myby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Switching between ProRes Proxy & ProRes 422 - 12 years agoI just want to make sure I understand this correctly. I've imported a whole bunch of rushes (Native format H.264) and selected to create optimized and proxy media, also copy media to the events folder. Once the transcoding has finished, I go to Preferences/Playback/ and select Use proxy media, Correct me if I'm wrong this should allows me to edit using the proxy media. Upon complby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Remembering In and Out points (ranges) in the Event Browser - 12 years ago@Tom: Video Machine.... now those were the days, the classic way @Alex: I've been trying to put in a few hours every night on FCP X (after using FCP7 all day), but let me tell you boy has it been hard. I tried your suggestion: QuoteCreate New Project called Rushes Select your clips in the Event or any folder or collection. Dump them in to the Timeline. Cut away. which seems to woby blimpmedia - Café LA - X Re: Remembering In and Out points (ranges) in the Event Browser - 12 years ago@Jude Cotter : I'm with you all the way on this one.... I've been cutting on non-linear suites since 1993. Started with VM-Studio Plus (produced by ////FAST Electronics). 2. DigiSuite LE bundle with Speed Razor 4.0RT. 3. Adobe Premier 6.5. 4. Sony VEGAS 7 and last but not least, Final Cut Pro which absolutely chuffed me from version 6 till version 7. Honestly speaking I thought Sony VEGAS wby blimpmedia - Café LA - X iPad & iPhone - 13 years agoNeeds some encoding advise. I've just been asked if I could encode a few short clips for an iTunes application. From I understand these need to be encoded as h.264 files, however what I'm not sure off is: The data rate Do I encode x3 version? if so what fame size do I set. What do I set the keyframe too?by blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoI was talking the the expresscards, anyhow I've noticed the Sonnet is widely spoken about on forums, seems to be not much information about the CalDigit. Look I couldn't agree more, getting the same brand expresscard makes perfect sense, it's that I've hit a wall with the Australian distributor after telling him I bought the CalDigit VR 4TB enclosure from B&H, he kind of got pissed and nowby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoHmmm sorry Joe must have missed it Speed wise there as good as each other...?by blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoI'm now awaiting my CalDigit VR 4TB enclosure from B&H. What would be the best way to go: Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34 CalDigit FASTA-1ex SATA ExpressCardby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoQuoteChristoph Vonrhein 1 MB/s (MegaByte/sec) is 8 times more than 1Mb/s (MegaBit/sec) So the actual Mb/s speeds of the hard drive is: - Read 641.6 Mb/s - Write 539.2 Mb/s Christoph, that's why I feel so confused...! If this is true, then the Taurus enclosure shouldn't even flinch at ProRes 422 (being 105 Mb/s), but that's not what I'm experiencing. Also from what others have mentioby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoQuoteStrypes There are 2 bottlenecks here- the drive interface and the processor. You are asking for scrubbing. That requires more processing power and faster throughput. Simply getting an esata adapter may help isolate the cause, it may help the scrubbing, but the issue may very well lie in simply not having enough processor power on a 2 core MacBook pro. Hmmm.... ok what I might do is take mby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoWill do Dave, thanks again to all for your helpby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoI finally found a company that deals with HDD solutions (here in Sydney Australia) for video editors. Explaining to him what hardware I have and what I'm trying to achieve, he technically explained the downfall in using the Taurus enclosure. The Taurus uses software solution to create RADE 0, as the CalDIGIT VR enclosure stripes it's RADE 0 using a hardware card. He strongly suggested for iby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoDave, right now I feel like hiding in a dark hole I can't believe I skipped that whitepaper graph, That's a slap in the face Dave correct me if I'm wrong, so if I go ahead and purchase an eSATA PCI card, and get a CalDigit VR enclosure, It's safe to say I'll solve my problem...? Dave the whitepaper says Mb/s, is that Megabit or Megabyte?by blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoQuotegrafixjoe Video Podcast? Dude...you have gone above and beyond already...you are spending a whole lot of time and effort on simple troubleshooting. Are you trying to get answers or teach us something? Guys I'm sorry If I've come across as being a little too thorough. The last thing I wan't to do is invest in a new enclosure, to only find similar results. Quotestrypes I haven't watchedby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoQuotestrypes Not sure why you don't get eSATA Strypes have no problem in forking out some extra $$$$ to buy a suitable enclosure, I just want to make sure it will do what I'm wanting, that's scrub smoothly with 422 files. Quotegrafixjoe That looks like an old unit. What RAID these days does not come with an eSATA port? I totally agree, I bought it x2 years ago when I had to cut 10bit uncby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoQuotegrafixjoe I personally have never heard of "Taurus" so I do not know what type of drives are inside Opening the Taurus enclosure I found the following drives: x2 Barracuda ES.2 SATA 3.0-Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drives SPECIFICATIONS ON THEM HERE And here are some detailed pictures of this enclosure. Quotegrafixjoe BUT...the OP is saying they have a RAID "0" set-uby blimpmedia - Café LA MacBook Pro External Hard Drive Question - 13 years agoI need some advise on external HDD enclosures. I recently downscaled my iMac 27inch (Quad i7) to a late 2010 MacBook Pro 17inch (2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB RAM). I only ever work with HDV tapes (1440x1080 50i) & Canon 5D MarkII files (1920x1080 25p), which I religiously capture or transcode to: HDV Tapes get captured as Apple ProRes 422 files Canon 5D get transcoded to Apple Prby blimpmedia - Café LA Speed Ramp Problem in FCP 7.0.3 - 13 years agoI've added a clip to my timeline and adjust the speed to 50% by doing a command+J. I then selecting the Ramp Speed Tool and added two keyframes, one where I'd like my ramp to begin, and a second where I'd like my ramp return to the 50%. I then dragged the second keyframe to the left to increase the speed of my ramp. So far everything seems to be working just fine, but where I struck a problby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: iMac 27 - 13 years agoStrypes that's what annoyes me about Apple, was it that hard or costly to just add an extra FW port?by blimpmedia - Café LA iMac 27 - 13 years agoMy new 27inch iMac is due to arrive in a week, but I'm a little confused! On my current 20inch iMac I capture HDV tapes using a miniDV to FW400 cable, and at the same time have an external HDD that's connected to the other FW400 port. Correct me if I'm wrong, do I now get a minDVi to FW800 cable and dasychain?by blimpmedia - Café LA Re: Render Time - 13 years agoSorry that was meant to be TIFF not UFF lol.... I've just changed all the jpg's to tiff's and guess what! render time is now estimating 46min I can't believe I made a stupid mistake like that BTW Strypes, I tried re-saving the png overlay as a TIFF & a TGA, however when I re-connected it in FCP, it came up as white, any idea why?by blimpmedia - Café LA Re: Render Time - 13 years agoThanks for the advise Jeff & Strypes. I think you've just pointed out where my problem is. The background jpg being used is 5120x3390 in pixel size, i'm guessing that's the main problem! Just out of curiosity will a TGA or UFF retain the alpha channel? BTW: Storage space left on the working HDD is 355GBby blimpmedia - Café LA Render Time - 13 years agoI'm confused, I'm working on a simple project and don't understand why it would take so long to export. Sequence is DV-PAL 4x3 Main material DV-PAL 16x9 Powerpoint Slidshow overlays all exported a jpg's Overlay logo created in PhotoShop and saved as a png. Here is what it looks like laid out in the canvas window: And this is a timeline snapshot: I'm now exporting it to a fiby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: Render Time - 13 years agoA lesson to learn Derek! I'll make sure I do so next time roundby blimpmedia - Café LA Re: Render Time - 13 years agoHi Jude, Thanks for the advise. The guy I'm editing for uses Sony Vegas and brings his rushes already captured as AVIs on a HDD. So what your saying I should regardless convert these to .mov? won't that loose a generation in? quality?by blimpmedia - Café LA |
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