Upgrading from v4- what gets better?
by Chris Zwar
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Feb 23, 2007 at 11:19:49 am
Hi all,
I am not a FCP editor so please excuse what may be a basic question.
The facility I'm working at has 2 FCP suites running FCP v4. I'm told that they haven't been upgraded because the video cards are Cinewaves, which don't work on newer releases of FCP, and which is also why the suites are still running OS 10.3 and QT6.
The 2 biggest recurring problems the suites have are they they're not frame accurate, and when onlining they rarely get any clips with time-remapping or speed changes correct. In fact most of the time, any clip that was either slo-mo or sped-up in the offline usually displays as a freeze-frame in the online.
So the big question is... if we upgrade everything and change to comething like a Blackmagic or AJA card will these problems go away? Or are we doing something else fundamentally wrong?
Re: Upgrading from v4- what gets better? by Plunder Hallow on Feb 23, 2007 at 12:33:15 pm
As I recall from my days with FCP4 the time remapping was pretty much hosed (much like media manager).
I use FCP 5.04 and the time remapping works ok for me although to be honest I think I've used it once. Overall FCP 5 gives a wider range of feature (like multi cam, rt-extreme, etc) but it's still the same rock solid cutting station that it always was. The last time it crashed I think Nixon was still in the Whitehouse!
