FCP-L: Re: [FCP-L] Re: Media Manager question (FCP 7)

Hi Mark,

I misspoke. I said compressing when really what I meant was scaling as
opposed to cropping the video. I do know what actual compression is. Of
course, for this project even media managing to 8 bit uncompressed would
reduce file size by about 25%. But I do believe that they would benefit from
even greater economie of disk usage.

As I mentioned, this is a new client with a new edit system. Going forward I
am going to have them change their workflow, however, I need to get better
performance out of this system without asking them to start replacing a
bunch of hardware that they purchased in ignorance. Also their project was
set up by somebody that clearly had little experience with FCP. It's
unfortunate but that's the case. Of course, were that not the case, I
suppose they wouldn't have been looking for a new editor.

Kerry

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Kerry Soloway
http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com
201-247-4110
ksoloway@gmail.com

Fred Friendly Seminars' "Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness" is airing
in October. "Consuelo Mack/WealthTrack" airs weekly. Both on PBS. Check
your local listings.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Mark <markraudonis@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> "Is there a way to get it to crop the six
> > lines of video instead of compressing the whole thing?"
>
> That won't help. Compressing does much more than change the frame size. It
> "throws out" picture information to create a much smaller file size. This is
> done within the frame and has little to do with the six lines of video".
>
> Be careful going down this road. If you're doing critical GRFX, this
> seemingly small frame size difference can turn out to be a huge problem when
> reconforming.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Mark
>
> --- In FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com <FinalCutPro-L%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Kerry Soloway <ksoloway@...> wrote:
> >
> > I was consulting with a new client today that has been editing a show on
> FCP
> > 7 having captured the video as 10 bit uncompressed. Their system and
> drives
> > are far too slow to edit uncompressed video, especially 10 bit, so I
> advised
> > them to start working at DV 50. I opened Media Manager and set it to
> > recompress the files to a new drive and create a new project when a
> window
> > popped up asking whether I wanted to keep the original pixel aspect ratio
> > and frame size or not. I cannot recall ever getting a message like then
> when
> > working on FCP 5 (where I have done a lot of media management) or FCP 6
> > where, frankly, I can't recall whether or not I ever used the Media
> Manager.
> > This was my first experience with FCP 7.
> >
> > What are the ramifications of each answer? If I answer "yes", will it
> > actually create a project where the compression is DV50 but with a frame
> > size of 720 x 486? I didn't think that DV codecs would work properly at
> that
> > image size. If I answer "no", is it going to simply scale the image to
> 480
> > pixels and recompress the media? Is there a way to get it to crop the six
> > lines of video instead of compressing the whole thing?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kerry
> >
> > -------------------
> > Kerry Soloway
> > http://www.NightingaleEditorial.com
> > 201-247-4110
> > ksoloway@...
> >
> > Fred Friendly Seminars' "Minds on the Edge: Facing Mental Illness" is
> airing
> > in October. "Consuelo Mack/WealthTrack" airs weekly. Both on PBS. Check
> > your local listings.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>

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