Today is Wish for More Disk Space Day. To fully render the project in uncompressed QuickTime so that I can pull it into Cleaner 6 to compress as MPG2 (using Cleaner’s nice gamma adjustment and sound leveling features), I need 22 Gb of disk. I only have 19GB. Argh. I have three disks in varying degrees of fullness. Must figure out out whether there is any way to move things around and make just a little bit more space…
It is also Order Final Cut Pro 4 Before the Half-price Offer Runs Out Day. Since they won’t ship to Japan, and Apple Japan doesn’t sell the English version, I have to “game the system” and lie about where I live, have them mail it to my mother, and ask her to send it along to me.
And in the US, it is Labor Day. I’d completely forgotten.
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- I did the same thing with a copy of Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro ($100 for both via a Microsoft employee discount!) Had them sent to my NYC address and had my mother bring them to Japan along with some mail and other knicknacks.
- I love email statements from creditcards! Paper statements suck!
- Once this long-delayed 15” Powerbook launches, I’m probably going to do the same thing. Buy it in the US and have a relative send it to me. I doubt that Apple Japan will have an English OS/English keyboard Powerbook at launchtime at the same pricing as in the US.
Posted by: Gen Kanai on September 1, 2003 05:39 PMKristin,
I’m no FCP Pro guru, or Cleaner guru for that matter, but can’t you save your movie as a QuickTime reference movie (i.e. don’t flatten it), which will reference you’re original media
(DV, I assume?) and Cleaner should be able to eat that directly, without you needing to render the movie in some uncompressed format.
If you do need to rerender it, there probably won’t be a huge advantage in rendering it uncompressed, from what I understand there’s not that much of a quality loss in an additional DV encode/decode.
If you need guru help the quicktime-talk list at lists.apple.com is helpful with questions like that.
Regards,
Andrew
Posted by: andrew on September 1, 2003 10:46 PMIf you desperately need to free up a few GBytes of disk space to complete a project, how about temporarily moving some of your stuff to DV tape?
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10521
DV is *definitely not* a very reliable archive media, but if a “restore” attempt works, then it might be a quick way to free up these critical few GBytes at 22:00 when your local hardware dealer is closed.
Kristen, We have a QuickTime server with a HEAP of bandwidth if you are interested… Either for a short time or a longer “rental” period we can do a contra deal or something!!
Posted by: Tracey on September 2, 2003 04:17 PM