editing digibeta in FCP

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watson

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Hey, so i'm shooting a music video on old school B&W reserval and i'm doing the transfer to digibeta then having the post house capture the footage for me. I have never edited a project in Digibeta and wanted to know what the sequences setting should be in FCP. Is there an easy set up option? (i looked and i dont think so) any suggestions or problems i should watch out for? Once i'm done the edit, i'm renting (or going back to the post house) and mastering a digibeta for the record company.

Thanks!
andrew
 
Depends what they capture to. You could have them capture to 8-bit uncompressed 16:9 for example. Then create an offline RT version in DV-NTSC 16:9. Then you can relink to the original uncompressed footage when the cut is complete.

-Noah
 
would the point of doing a offline edit be to save disk space? or for FCP to run faster? I'm not worried about disk space as i'm not shooting tons and tons of film.
 
Get an uncompressed QT movie from them. You can always "down grade" into another format later if you should need it but you can't go the other way round.

I think you can edit 8 bit uncompressed SD right away if you have a more or less up to date Mac and as long as you use normal dissolves and hard cuts. I used to work with uncompressed footage on a dual 1.25 G4. In case you need several video streams to playback at the same time you might run into problems, your internal HD might be to slow to handle it.
 
Thanks! I'm using a (kinda older but still working good) dual 2 gig g5. The footage will be on an external drive, i was kinda worried about that causing a problem. What do you think (it will be a lacie firewire 2.0). I figured if i run into tons of post problems, i'll just have to downgrade the footage, which i really dont want to do, but i have a kinda tight time frame for the edit.
 
watson said:
Thanks! I'm using a (kinda older but still working good) dual 2 gig g5. The footage will be on an external drive, i was kinda worried about that causing a problem. What do you think (it will be a lacie firewire 2.0). I figured if i run into tons of post problems, i'll just have to downgrade the footage, which i really dont want to do, but i have a kinda tight time frame for the edit.
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See how it goes. Not sure what Firewire 2.0 is but if you mean FW800 than 8-bit uncompressed will be ok but possibly some frames being dropped. in which case you'll want to do an offline version in DV for performance. Otherwise cut at uncompressed.

Noah
 
A LaCie bigdisk F800 works just fine, just make shure you have enough free disk space for uncompressed footage.
525 NTSC uncompressed;
8 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 720 x 486 @ 29.97fps = 27 MB per/sec, or 94 GB per/hr.

625 PAL uncompressed;
8 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 20 MB per/sec, or 70 GB per/hr.
10 bit @ 720 x 576 @ 25fps = 26 MB per/sec, or 93 GB per/hr.

Regards,

Michael
 
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