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btdig

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Greetings,
Newbie here, toast now has 10, 2 versions. Any ideas which I should get
for downgrading my footage for my old mac?
Thanks in advance.
My cam is being shipped and will have it today.
This board has been very helpful.
btdig
 
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "downgrading", but you could export as "Apple Prores" from toast and that will be a very high quality SD file. Be sure not to pick the "HQ" prores, as that is HD.
 
I would spend the extra money and get the pro version.

Blu ray authoring and some great bundled applications that you couldn't buy for anything near the extra $50.00 or so
 
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I guess downgrading was the wrong word. What I need to do is be able to work with the footage in fcp 5 and a dual g5.
(Cant upgrade fcp until I upgrade to a new mac.)
Thanks...
 
AIC or DVCproHD will work. I personally use AIC with my FCP5 G5 system. No need for ProRes as 1 I dont have it on my system and 2 I dont really see the point unless you were planning on doing some major FX or coloring work as the ProRes codec may be better for that with its 4:2:2 color space. Also make sure you are running 10.5 if you going to use Toast 10 for that is part of its sytem requirements. IM still on 10.4 so Toast 9 has been working well for me.
 
Thanks, went to roxio last night and they had 9, this morn only 10...should have bought it last night.
 
Thanks again, just found 9 , ups just delivered my cam. Charging batt.
I am sure I will talk to you soon.
btdig
 
enjoy the cam. one thing though toast has problems transcoding 720/30p footage. I only shoot 720/24p no problems with that. I was successful in transcoding 1080/30p.
 
I like AIC. No one ever seems to talk about AIC on here. I was using DVCPROHD but I think it took a quality hit and my AIC transcoded footage looks much better and sharper than my DVCPROHD. I would probably use ProRes if I had it on my system but really I dont see the point unless you need the 4:2:2 color space it provides for FX work etc.
 
I've been playing around with AIC and ProRes. My audio is off with the video on both. Video looks fine, audio not syncing. Any specific setting to fix that? Thanks!

I'm using FCP 6 now, toast 10, hmc 150.
 
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