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Major Player
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: San Antonio
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do I need Tiger and FCP 5?
I shoot DVCAM, an Ikegami 7.
I shoot/edit an in-house commnication program twice a month, Shoot/edit VNRs dubbed to Beta SP, shoot/edit/produce in-house safety videos to DVDs. We have to input our in-house video communication program as mPEG 1. Dont ask. My in-house show is shown on company wide on Windows 2000. Anyway, Do I need FCP 5 to use/create H264? Can H264 be used in place of an mpeg1 file? My boss is hesitant to get the upgrade and I really cant seem to justify it although i would like to upgrade. |
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: San Antonio
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Its decided then...
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mays Landing, NJ
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Sorry Gary, I suspect the silence means that not a whole lot of us have taken the plunge yet. I know I haven't, because I don't need H.264, HDV, or dashboard widgets at the moment, but I do need to get some projects done :-)
I'm not sure whether H.264 will work on your Windows machines without some 3rd party software since Quicktime 7 has not yet been released for the PC. I would take my time with this upgrade if you're on any sort of schedule, unless you have a separate system to use as a test bed. You could spend a lot of time troubleshooting otherwise. You might have a look at Apple's forum for FCP at http://discussions.info.apple.com/. There are plenty of issues being discussed over there with the Tiger/QT7/FCP5 transition. |
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Thanks for your reply Boyd.
The h264 issue would be the driving factor. I'll be waiting as well then. |
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