Archive for May, 2007
Final Cut Studio 2 on MacBook
Final Cut Studio 2 full set install requires 55GB of Hard Disk space.
Limited edition of Final Cut studio 2 except Motion 3 (which require graphics card support either Nvidia or ATI present in Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro and not intel 945GMA graphics present in MacBook) works well. As reported by Mike Curtis of hdforindies.com fame final cut pro 6 installed in MacBook works well with the clips 720p24 with real time playback of cross dissolve. Color 1.0 seems to open in MacBook.
In MacBook Final Cut Studio 2 limited installtion of 6.7GB requires 35-40 minutes and in MacPro it installed in less than 15 minutes.
More information regarding running Final Cut Studio 2 apps except Motion on MacBook soon.
Final Cut Studio 2 Tidbits from Mike Curtis
Mike Curties in his blog hdforindies.com has posted early tidbits of using Final Cut Studio 2.
“Some preliminary tidbits: Media Manager SEEMS to be improved in its handling of some issues – Recompress To does NOT clip IRE values over 100 IRE at the moment. Sending clips with >100 IRE to Color works (no clipping) presuming you turn off the default Broadcast Safe filter (I need to study its behavior a bit – I’m guessing that with the filter on, you can dial back and the highlights are still there, just being clipped by the app @ 100 IRE – but I need to verify that myself).
keep in mind that Color 1.0 that comes with Final Cut Studio 2 @ $1300 includes ALL the functionality they used to include in the $25,000 Final Touch 2K – yes you CAN do 2K 10 bit log DPX film scans in this thing – WOWZA.
My main box, a Quad 2.5 GHz G5, has 10.4.8 with FCP 5.1.4 and Media Composer 2.6 on it (they SEEM to coexist so far OK), and 10.4.9 with FCS 2 on the other internal drive. I’ve got the Blackmagic Design Multibridge Extreme card in it at the moment, but I plan to test it and my Kona3 to see how they compare with FCS 2.”
from blog post on hdforindies.com by Mike Curtis
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I am Gopal Balaji living in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. This site talks about HD workflow, solutions and Consultancy as well as Apple Pro Apps Final Cut Pro, Sound Track, Motion, Encoding, DVD Authoring and Avid Edit and post production apps for HD, SD and Film workflow. I will be talking about Avid and Apple Hardware and Software products, dealers list and product availability india centric.
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Gopal Balaji, Digital Cinema Consultant.Graduated from IGNOU in Bachelors in Computer Applications and finished Advanced Diploma in Multimedia from ARENA. Worked as Stereoscopic 3D Compositor for a R&D project to MRT and also involved in R&D for encoding and exhibition of stereoscopic 3D content.Digital Cinema Projects:
- Currently signed for 2 feature films as Red One DIT / DAS / DAM / Post Workflow Consultant for Escope International titled “Ethirmarai” and untitled Real Image film.
- Project: Film Test Shoot (2008) | Client: Real Image & Sathyam cinemas | Shot on Red One | DOP: Sudhir Chaudry | Worked as DIT / Post Workflow Consultant / Conformist
- Project: Dindugal Sarathy (2008) | Client: JD Jerry | DOP: Thiru | Shot on Red One | Worked as DIT / DAS / Post Supervisor
- Project: Isha (2008) | Client: Isha Trust | Shot on Red One Camera | Conformist
- Project: Marghazi Ragam (2008) | Client: Real Image & Agal films | Shot on 7 Red One Cameras | DOP: P.C. Sreeram | Worked as DIT / DAS / DAM / Post Production Supervisor / Conformist
- Project: Lucky Silks (2008) | Client: Manimaran | Shot on Red One | DOP: Vincent | Worked as DAS / Conformist
- Project: &Nuts TVC2 (2008) | Client: Escope International | Shot on Red One | DOP: Omprakash | Worked as DIT / DAS / DAM
- Project: &Nuts (2008) | Client: Escope International | Shot on Phantom HD | DOP: Chris Oben | Worked as Post-production workflow consultant.
- Project: Ujjaini Music Video (2008) | Client: Raghu | Shot on RED ONE | DOP: Soundar | Worked as DAS / DAM Onset.
- Project: Syndicate Fashions (2008) | Client: Mitra Media | RED ONE | DOP: OmPrakash | Worked as DAS / DAM Onset.
- Project: Untitled feature film (2008) | Client: Escope International | Shot on RED ONE & Phantom HD | Digital Cinema Consultant
- Project: Channel Signature (2008) | Client: Later | Shot on RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera | DOP: Fawzia fatima | Worked as DAS / DAM Onset & post work(flow) supervisor | Shot at 3k 2:1 @ 50fps later speed down to 25fps for PAL Broadcast output
Film Projects Worked
- Gummalam ( Tamil Feature Film)
- Kaalatpadai (Tamil Feature Film)
- Student No 1 (Tamil Feature Film)
- Jore (Tamil Feature Film)
- Manikanda (Tamil Feature Film)
- Patalam (Malayalam Feature Film)
- Melvilasam (Malayalam Feature Film)
- UDAYANANU THARAM (Malayalam Feature Film)
- Insaat (Hindi Feature Film)
Mobile: +91 98402 24733 | Email: gbalaji@gmail.com