Best TV setup in FCP

I recently took delivery of a Mac Pro with Cinema 30 display. I have the ATI 1900 dual DVI, video card. I have the Cinema 30 attached to one DVI port and a 20" television attached to the other port, via an apple DVI to SVHS adapter. Can someone tell me the best way to set FCP up to display work on the TV. As I create, I like to look at my work on a TV instead of a monitor. Do I need to print the project back to tape and preview it off of my deck or camera to see it correctly? Also.. is there a way to duplicate the Canvas or other FCP windows so that I can have them show on both the Cinema Display and TV?
Appreciate any help I can get on the optimum setup.
Thanks,
VW

as ken says:
"You need to run firewire out to your deck or cam and connect your TV there"
then run about 5 minutes of colour bars from your timeline and read this:
http://www.execulink.com/~impact/bmonitor.htm
this is for broadcast monitor's not tellies but should help
ian

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Video Codec: AVCHD 720p 60FPS
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Is this is the best setup would the frame rate be problematic with the video codec at 60FPS and the Easy setup showing only 30?

As it is a totally different app, vaguely similar to the latest iMovie but with more power than all the previous FCPs you will probably need to learn how to use it.
If so go to Izzy Video where you can watch/download over 2 hours of free video tutorials.
http://www.izzyvideo.com/final-cut-pro-x-tutorial/

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You can't use this camera with FCE without converting the material. Canon tried hard to make a great little video camera, but stupidly, in my view, chose to record at 30fps. Also it's in a H.264 proprietary video format that has to be converted to work smoothly in Final Cut.
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I have a MacPro, 2 x 3GHz Dual Core, 16GB ram, 4 x 500GB drives and I work in FCP 5.1.4 and with my Hardware setup I feel it should be faster and I've been wanting to set up a RAID but not sure how to do it, or the best way way to do it.
Out of the 4 drives I have, Drive one is my main drive (boot drive, apps etc.) Drives (2 & 3) which is a TB combined, I'd like to turn those into a RAID) to speed up rendering, editing etc. In FCP and Motion. Drive 4 is where I keep all my working files.
My files are backed up regularly onto external harddrives and kept offsite.
Can I leave everything I have on my entire system the way it is and just turn Drives 2 & 3 into a RAID that's best for this application? People who work in VIDEO I know do this all the time to speed things up but I can't find the steps for the best way to do this. Bits and pieces all over the place but I can't put this puzzle together.
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Detachable Drive: No
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My advice would be 'yes' to what you are saying... with the exception of the Softraid stuff - not that I think its wrong, but I've never used it, so I can't comment if you need it or whether the Mac OSX raid is sufficient - but others here say they prefer it so fair enough. You can see some comparisons here http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/softraid/351/
amug always have indepth benchmarks of stuff.
I wouldnt call myself an FCP guru, but I think that your suggestion of putting the FCP scratch disk and client, video files on the raid are the best idea. The scratch folder is essentially where the temp-rendered clips go, so its audio and video - you want that folder to be on a really fast volume. You also want your source video files to be on a really fast volume, so they can be streamed fast enough to play in realtime too when playing unrendered areas, or building a preview.
Some might say in FCP you get bast performance when your scratch disks and video files are on seperate disks. Thats totally true, so it can read from one disk and write to the other at the same time. But in your case you have a 3disk stripe, which is roughly 3x faster than either of your disks! So it would still be faster to have them all on the same stripe.
You can leave your FCP app on the sys drive, keeps things cleaner (drive1 for sys and appsm raid for data). You can keep your project files where ever you want, they're not very big and are kept in memory so dont affect performance at all. Though to stay clean I would keep it on the raid, so again the raid is for data, and you can back it up accordingly. The system drive is only for apps and system so you can back that up accordingly too (less frequently probably).
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(I dont wanna confuse you any more, but raid5 is a good option if you want more security and don't mind paying extra :P, you'll need more hardware for that, and more drives to make it worthwhile - but I would say skip that for now, as you can build your raid0 for free or almost free and use that until you think you need more)

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Not quite sure what this question has to do with Qmaster, but what the heck.
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If you go the swapable drive bay route, you'll pay more for the mechanism but you'll recoup the cost as you can purchase additional bare drives for a fraction of the cost of another whole mechanism.
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x

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I believe, and still do that desktop are faster than laptops. I have a 4 year old i7 920 Windows desktop that is faster in Photoshop than my late 2011 MB Pro. I just went portable because I travel too much and I hate lugging around my desktop.
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I currently have it as:
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Yup,
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http://www.clipwrap.com
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I have been going nuts trying to troubleshoot what's going on with my system for a while without understanding what's wrong.
I am editing some HDV footage and all is well the first hour of editing. After that the system becomes so slow that clicking anywhere in the timeline takes the slider 10 to 30 seconds to react, not to mention playback just halts. I do not have the spinning ball, I can move the mouse but I cannot do anything with it (nor acess dock or finder when this happens). The system goes so slow that it basically is impossible to continue working on it. Not even a full reboot of the Imac gets the speed up.
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I am getting worried that this may be an issue caused by the new iMac's graphicscard (as many new iMacusers are having problems with freezes) but apart from this I have never had a single real freeze of the system.
if you have any idea what might be going on I really appreciate any, ANY, feedback.

Be sure you're using the latest drivers for your Decklink...
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Good day everyone!
I read some posts here on some concerns with DSL modem/router w/ Airport extreme and would like to ask for the best setup.
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