Final cut real time editing

hi for all
am ayham from Saudi Arabia ...am working as video editing with Avid and i would like to convert to final cut pro for color correction and video editing for drama
i need it to work real time like other editing softwera
any one can help me about the hardware and Video card(aja kona3...or any other)
and the storage should i need raid storage like promis VTrack ????????????
plz help me

Hi Ayham,
You need a Mac pro,
Aja Cona LHE (with break out box),
The Apple's fiber optical card (2 or 4 Gbit),
one NAS like this http://starline.de/en/index.html ,
Final Cut Studio 2,
and this http://www.automaticduck.com/products/options-avid-user.php
for converting projects from Avid to FCP.
Hope this heps

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Hello Karen,
If you are using Final Cut Express, then look for camcorders that are AVCHD camcorders. Look especially for the AVCHD logo and specific mention of AVCHD in the specs. Most of the major manufacturers produce good quality camdcorders - Canon, Sony, etc.
Also, be aware that there are a lot of "not quite AVCHD" camcorders on the market (sometimes they say they record video as MPEG4-H.264/AVC) - buyer beware!
Most everything you are going to find on the market today is HD, which stands for "high-def".
Regarding your question about the Panasonic camcorder, it's best if you post that as a separate question, and please identify the specific model camcorder and the Easy Setup you are using in FCE.

Real Time Editing while Shared

is there anyway to unlock the script
while another person is editing, so that it shows in real time... also is there an in program CHAT option..?

The document is locked with the person who is editing it and its released when user saves the document. Then anyone else can acquire it. At a time lock for the document can be only with one of the authors.
The chat program, its already in our list of items but it might take substantial time for us to reach there.
How did you like the sharing feature? Do you suggest any improvements? How important is real time editing for you?
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Real time editing hardware spics ........color correction

hi for all
am ayham from Saudi Arabia ...am working as video editing with Avid and i would like to convert to final cut pro for color correction and video editing for drama
i need it to work real time like other editing software
any one can help me about the hardware and Video card(aja kona3...or any other)
and the storage should i need raid storage like promis VTrack ????????????
plz help me

Hi Ayham,
You need a Mac pro,
Aja Cona LHE (with break out box),
The Apple's fiber optical card (2 or 4 Gbit),
one NAS like this http://starline.de/en/index.html ,
Final Cut Studio 2,
and this http://www.automaticduck.com/products/options-avid-user.php
for converting projects from Avid to FCP.
Hope this heps

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We're thinking about purchasing Final Cut Server, but I'm not clear about whether we'll need to put it on a dedicated system or if we could run it on an edit suite. We're rarely going to have more than 3 users at a time using it, and probably 75% of the media is already on one Mac Pro in a combination of internal and external drives and an Xsan. It would be a big advantage in terms of both cost and convenience to be able to run Final Cut Server on that computer, but is that a reasonable thing to do? Would it have a significant impact on editing? Would it use up too much CPU time and memory?

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Final Cut Express Time Code Breaks At Random Intervals

Ok, so i use final cut to edit my videos that i use a Samsung miniDV cam to film. When i hook it up(through firewire) and start capturing footage, final cut tends to create time code breaks randomly, usually while i am in the middle of talking, so after the time code break search finishes, i end up loosing a few seconds of footage. Is there a way to get around the time code breaks, or does anyone know why this happens and has a solution(preferably the later). Thank you in advance.

I think the problem may be with the Samsung sc-d382 camera during taping. I have the same Samsung and the same problem. I also have a Canon gl2. I tried putting the Samsung-recorded tape into the canon and loading the tape into FCX that way. It still had time code breaks about every two minutes, never breaking at exactly the same time or frame count. Forty minutes of recording becomes 24 different little films. This does not happen on tapes recorded in my Canon gl2. Only on tapes recorded in the Samsung. I don't know if this info will prove helpful. For me, it proves frustrating.

Final Cut Pro Problem - editing between different computers

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I created a final cut project on another computer but no longer have access to clips. So every time I try to open the project the video it doesn't render the footage on the timeline and it asks for the location of the original clips. My question is, how can I edit the project without having access to the original clips?
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If I understand you correctly, you have moved the project but not the media the project used?
Then the answer is - you can't.
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I just purchased my Hauppague HD PVR and I am given only three options for recording (btw I record from my Xbox 360). The first option is TS. The second option is M2TS. And the third option is MP4 (this option only records in 720x480 instead of 1280x720 so I do not get the entire screen and thus is IMPOSSIBLE to record with).
So I take these files from my PC (in my living room next to my TV) into my bedroom (onto my iMac) to edit in Final Cut Pro X. The problem is that Final Cut Pro X does not read TS or M2TS files (I also tried Compressor 4). So my question is, is there any way (short of re-encoding) to get Final Cut Pro X to read the files? I am dealing with files that are upwards of 1hr+ and to re-encode them into MOV or something similar it takes 5x as long as the video itself, then I have to render the final product again (total time from recording to finish product could be 12hrs). For me this is just too much time, can anyone help?

I second the recommendation to use MPEG Streamclip. It is free and very flexible.
It will let you export parts of the video separately, if you want - by setting in and out points, nondestructively. This will make it easier for you to handle things, as:
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2) You can handle smaller clips inside FCP X, which will likely be less memory intensive and result in better performance.

Final Cut Rendering and Editing

So I just got Final Cut Pro 4.0 and I am a total newbie at it. I have used it before at a friend's house, but I find the rendering long and HD consuming. Is there a way around this so that I can preview my content in real time without eating up HD before I can export the project? Thank you.

It's been a long time since I used version 4 and I can't remember whether or not it has Unlimited RT support. I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. Unlimited RT allows you to play back your timeline in real-time IF your system is fast enough to handle it. With some effects and filters, you pretty much have to render though because they are very processor intensive.

New to Premiere, from Final Cut. Help editing native RED r3d

I am one of the many new converts to Premiere Pro CS5.5 from Final Cut after many years using the Apple software. I want to dive right in and start editing with Premiere, but I've run into an immediate snag.
First, I have heard endless discussion about Premiere Pro's abillity to edit raw RED footage natively. Just drag in the r3d files and go. Yet, I haven't even been able to get Premiere to get me this far in my editing workflow. I have worked extensively with RED footage, and in the past I was transcoding in Final Cut to a Pro Res (Proxy) and conforming/onlining at the end using log and transfer or RED alert. Naturally, I was excited to be able to drop in native RED files and never have to online at the end. Here's where my problem comes in: I drag in the r3d files from a recent shoot. 4k 23.967 shot on RED. I double click the clip in my project to open it in the source monitor and all I get is black. I can't scrub, I can't playback video or audio to make my cuts; all I get is timecode. HOWEVER, if I drag the r3d file straight to the timeline, I get picture/sound and everything. Of course, this is no way to edit and I can't just be dropping full clips into the sequence and trying to trim from there. Like any editor, I want to be able to double click my clip, scrub through it in the source monitor, and find the particular take I want to use. THEN, I add it to my timeline.
WHY am I not able to see/edit the raw r3d files in my source monitor? Has anyone experienced this problem? Frustrated and unable to start using this highly touted Premiere (which I wholeheartedly want to believe in). Please instruct me so I can get up and running with my RED footage. In the meantime, it's back to Final Cut 7...
I should mention that I am using a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz Mac Pro with 15GM Ram and an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card. I have heard NVIDIA is the way to go, but we aren't upgrading/changing graphics cards in the immediate future. So for now, this is what I will be using. Hopefully this is not the sole reason I can't playback/see anything in my source monitor with my r3d files.
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Daniel

Excellent! Changing to the Adobe player solved that problem (although, of course, it presented new problems, all related to Blackmagic card). Also, to answer your question-- yes, the pro res proxy files were working fine in Premiere.
Now I can see and edit my r3d files, which was paramount. However, now I can't get either the source monitor or program monitor to output playback through the blackmagic card to my external monitors (42" LCD and a smaller 17" Sony color correction monitor). I should note that both of these monitors are routed through my blackmagic card so they don't show up as options under the "playback settings" tab in the source/program monitors. Do I need to rerout these monitors differently so that Premiere Pro recognizes them and will utilize them as external monitors? I need them to playback for clients, bosses, etc.
Another note-- If I make my sequence a blackmagic preset, it will output the program monitor but only playback a few frames and then freeze. If I make it a RED cinema preset, it will playback fluidly but won't output to my external monitors.
The freezing, in my assumption, is due to the fact that the only blackmagic editing mode available is uncompressed 10bit, which doesn't playback well (it uses an editing mode of uncompressed 10bit even when I pick JPEG for the sequence preset).
I guess, in summary, my question is-- does blackmagic not integrate well with Premiere Pro CS5.5? Should I re-rout the monitors not using a BNC cable into the blackmagic card, but instead DVI them into the back of the Mac Pro? Thanks again Colin,
Daniel

What is the best way to match clip and sequence settings for real-time editing?

I am a long time FCP user and trying to make the After Effects workflow a little smoother by utilizing the Adobe suite.
One of the most valuable things I miss about FCP is that when I drop a clip in a blank sequence (no matter what the settings of the seq) it will ask if I want to match the settings of the clip. This ensures that no rendering is required to quickly edit the video in real-time.
Is there a plugin or function in Premiere CS4 that I am missing that will afford me this feature? Currently i am doing everything I can to match the clip settings when creating a sequence, but sadly i'm still having to render the timeline to preview the edit.
lh

And in CS4, if there is not a matching Preset, you can choose the Desktop Preset, which will allow you to customize nearly every attribute to match your source footage. The name is a bit of a misnomer, but has been around for a long time. I would have called it the "Custom Preset," but Adobe never called.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - I just learned something new about CS5 from Curt, because of your question - thanks!

I have extended video footage taken on my ipad that I need to burn to dvd. Tried imovie and final cut. Final Cut rendering time was extremely long. What is easiest way to accomplish my goal?

I am a video technology teacher and coach at a high school in NJ. I have footage of a basketball scrimmage that I need to get from my iPad onto a DVD. I tried importing it into iMovie without success. I have imported it into Final Cut Pro but the rendering time makes the process very cumbersome with 7/8 hours of rendering time to create a quick time file to then use with iDVD. Is there a quicker way to accomplish this.

The Mac does not come with a Blu-ray burner. So you would be burning a Blu-ray compatible file to a standard DVD-5 or DVD-9. Neither of which are ideal for authoring Blu-ray content.
Do an exhaustive search online about Blu-ray authoring and disk creation. This is not something for the hobbyist video creator (and I say hobbyist in the sense that you're not creating thousands of copies for mass distribution, so no one take offense.)
Blu-ray is expensive and requires a lot of planning and prep to do it right. But you can't burn an official Blu-ray disc on a Mac as they stand. And, Compressor doesn't burn discs, it only creates files. DVD Studio Pro would be the app that would burn the Blu-ray disc, and DVDSP has not been upgraded since long before Blu-ray came on the scene.

How do I get a burned DVD (the only copy) back into Final Cut to re-edit?

The project is long over, the files gone. What do I need to do to re-import this into Final Cut, or even i-Movie to do some other editing?

If you have original DV tapes and the FCE Project File, Capture Project will do it all automatically.
If not, you will have to convert the Mpeg files on the DVD to one that FCE can work with and bring the converted file to FCE as one clip.
Search this forum for how to, there's plenty of info here.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9067811&#9067811
Al

Can I capture with Final Cut Pro and edit in Premiere Pro?

Since it appears that Premiere has issues with capture - at least for me but as I see it for others as well - and that I can capture with iMovie, can I consider using Final Cut Pro for capture - then cross to Adobe Premiere and the suite for editing, finalizing ? Or is there a problem to copy the shots/files from one program to the other (would they remain identified clearly so I could just import shots into Premiere afterward ?)
Thanks
Rob

Hi Rob,
When you capture HDV in FCP it creates a specific Apple HDV codec. This is a codec that is only available if FCP, Motion or Compressor is installed.
The two workarounds would be to use Premiere Pro on the Mac with one of the above mentioned apps installed on the same system or convert to a codec that can be read in Premiere.
Best,
Peter Garaway
Adobe
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