On 15/08/2005, at 12:52 PM, Ken Woods wrote:
Hi all,
I have a query for the video/film gurus!!!
We have some film footage that was shot using a Canon XL1 camera and
captured on a windows pc using Avid software. The video clips were
saved as
.mov files.
You most probably will be losing quality as NLE (FCP/Avid) utilise DV
or higher codec, not to mention the loss of timecode. I would re-
capture to your G4 it would be faster than trying to copy from USB
and almost 100% guarantee of acquiring all your footage. Set-up as
per this bit of advice about backup. If really must you can use the
USB drive as your capture device as mentioned in paper.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/basic_archiving_movie.html
The video clips were then copied to an external USB2 hard disc
which is set
up using NTSS format.
In my experiences even with Windows machines utilise Firewire as USB
or USB2 will drop frames and is so slow it is a joke, besides it does
not transfer and synchronise with machine and camera. But you have
mentioned it is captured, So, Just dump all captured footage to G4
folder or desktop and work from their it will take a while and don't
forget to check footage once dumped to see it has transferred all
files correctly.
The editing is to be done on a Power Mac G4 (running OS
10.3.something), the
external HD is plugged into the USB2 port on the Power Mac and we are
attempting import the video clips into Final Cut Pro version 4.
Check it is USB2
The import is working, but is terribly slow (painfully so). Is there
anything that we can do that anyone is aware of to speed up the
process.
Re-Capture to G4 through Firewire. The other solution edit in Avid as
most of the editing seems to be done, so why not continue within that
environment. Save having to transfer huge files running the risk of
losing some captured clips or damaging it.
Cheers!
`Rob...
