Morning Kevin,
On 27/05/2005, at 8:53 AM, Ken Woods wrote:
Thanks to all those who took the time to provide much appreciated and
valuable advice on this subject.
I have tried to convince the client about the benefits of the Mac,
I even
used the reliability of his new purpose built Windows XP machines
(both
Premiere and Avid machines), which keep crashing (this is the
reason he has
come to me to get the project completed) funnily enough. But to
know avail.
Does anyone have any experience in transferring data files and
captured
video clips back and forth between Adobe Premiere pro and Apple
Final Cut
Pro?
Both read standard video files, my choice would be DV or DVCAM <
DVCPRO or captured format they are working with keeps the quality.
Problem is size transferring these around. A dual layer DVD with
rewrite-able media an option, also acts as a solid backup device.
Method I utilise is edit to tape or from, this is also my backup
scenario with FCP which is a huge reason for utilising FCP. http://
www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_archiving_movie.html
But, it depends on following scenaros.
Lots of scenarios, each has similar solutions and each operator has
differing ones also Depends on knowledge of FCP and Video processes.
The clients structure and operating knowledge and devices within his
studio setup. What is the input, what is the output required? Access
too a VTR, format of choice..
Otherwise it is same situation for both with the exception of
Photoshop to NLE premier is a straight up copy with gotchas to follow
in output. FCP makes you jump through some hoops with the gotchas
usually sorted out on the way, but a complete and what you ordered
finished product. After Effects seems to work with both quite well
although I find it behaves and enhances with FCP although most
reasons for After Effects these days is already in FCP Studio?
GraphicConverter program on Mac will help with those pesky window
file formats and naughty Photoshop images and I utilise Painter an
awful lot these days especially working with Quicktime sequences for
importing Illustrator or Freehand Vector imagery. This is all on Mac
I would not even attempt this with XP. Do all major conversion work
on Mac and output for XP.
Quicktime Pro on both platforms a must and the FlipvMac could be very
handy in this scenario.
Http://www.lafcpug.org wonderful site to bookmark great links
exquisite newsletters.
I would experiment to find an equitable file format from both NLE
scenarios most common I have found is work within captured tape
structures or Quicktime MOV without extravagant compression scenarios
Keep It Simple (KISS), windows will then understand??.
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC," he said.
"Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they run
(Gates 05)." If it does Welcome to Mac OS X! (RJDarts 05).
