Kerry, I've been using an ezRAID from DatOptic for backing up my footage. 2 drive Mirrored SATA array. http://tinyurl.com/32uffo First one I got was no good,

... Drobo is not "unbelievably" slow. Here's what to do: stick it on an old computer using USB put that computer on the slowest network (save $40 on gigabit

Re: AVC Intra footage
FCP 6 will import AVCIntra as ProRes. Just install the AVCI plugin from Panasonic. FCP 7, while it will import AVCIntra into FCP in it's native codec, like

Re: AVC Intra footage
Andy It is late here but, apart from the correct comments about folder structure etc., I am under the impression that only FCP 7 will play AVCI; FCP 6 wont. So

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
I will admit that I don't do tons of Roto work, but for the stuff I do the Roto Bezier seams to work fine. I am certainly hoping that the orange frame issue in

Re: AVC Intra footage
Found out we have FCP 7 on a hard drive sled ready to load in tomorrow morning. We did download and install the Panasonic plugins and rebooted. Footage was

Final Draft... Favour needed!
Anyone on the list have Final Draft? I need to reformat a Final Draft doc as a pdf for a friend who is hospital and I don¹t have FD software. Would be v

Re: Final Draft... Favour needed!
I am not familiar with Final Draft, but anytime I have trouble to open/edit a file format, I try Document on Google online. Document allows you to open a wide

Re: AVC Intra footage
Doesn?t really matter, since if the folder structure is missing, you?re ******. First hand experience. The only solution I know of in a situation like that

Re: AVC Intra footage
Nope...the REPAIR won't work for missing files and folders. It just isn't the directory structure, but the ICON folder has still images of the first frame,

Re: AVC Intra footage
Thanks you all for chiming in. Rupert: using FCP 6.0.5 I think we have a copy of 7 somewhere on one of the beta systems, but not hooked up to our editsan. I'm

Re: AVC Intra footage
Ahhh...sounds like they might have encoded to AVCIntra Native QT files, and since you are running FCP 6 and not FCP 7, you can't seem them. Still, that is an

Re: AVC Intra footage
If you are missing the file structure then you need to look to third party solutions. Raylight MXF4Mac Calibrated And you need to chew the asses off or

Re: AVC Intra footage
... Imagine Systems have P2 Log Pro which can "repair" MXF. don't know if it can create missing files.

Re: AVC Intra footage
Version of Final Cut you are using? Rupert Watson www.root6.com +44 7787 554801 From: FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FinalCutPro-L@yahoogroups.com] On

Re: Final Draft... Favour needed!
Hi , I have FD ver. 7 I can possibly do this but am not familiar with various formatting issues FD files have at times but could try. email me at

What version of iDVD do you have? I could try to duplicate your problem on my iMac at home, but honestly I haven't used iDVD in years. I found it quirky, slow

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I'm going to weigh in here and have to agree with those reluctant to compress the audio files. As some have said, it isn't about what is presently audible or

Re: Add points to garbage mattes?
What is the difference between B Splines and Roto Bezier? A google search just reinforced how much my math skills have atrophied. I'm use to Bezier points

OT: iDVD question
OK, I teach a couple classes and my students use iDVD for presentations. They are shooting on HDV and when using 'Export to Quicktime" many times we will see

Re: Sending audio file via internet
I don't want to sound like I am arguing because I am not. I can hear the difference with 128k mp3 and 128k AAC also 256k each. Beyond that it gets much harder

Re: Sending audio file via internet
... That's my experience. A similar thing happens in video. I could create a compressed video file from an uncompressed Quicktime that would be practically

Re: Sending audio file via internet
If you?re talking music, which I am/was, then consider yourself *extremely* special, especially as far as the 256 are concerned (128 was guessed correctly

Re: Sending audio file via internet
Well, first off, I wasn?t suggesting the audio be compressed for *processing* but rather for *sending*, which we are talking about. I?d say any