Apple Video support

Apple Mac Video Specialist support

Final cut pro

Description:

  • Set up and advice to others on cheap solutions to uncompressed and DV workflows
  • Troubleshooting MacOS system and FCP
  • Customised training. Idvd for making dvds, colour correction, output to tape, managing assets
  • Colour correction setup with graded monitors and scopes
  • Lab set up and maintenance
  • DVD Studio Pro advice for larger organisations and single users e.g. Mark Szazy
  • Suggesting reliable backup strategies
  • Recovering damaged firewire harddrives
  • Device control using RS422 and mac serial port adapters
  • Wiring for BetaSP deck to uncompressed capture solutions
  • Outputting to tape 

Hardware/software used:

  • Apple Mac G5
  • Apple Mac Ibook and powerbook
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Firewire leads
  • DV Camera or DV Deck
  • Mini DV tapes
  • Firewire harddisks
  • Idvd
  • SATA drives and RAID systems
  • Gigabit Ethernet networking for shared rendering in lab situation
  • Uncompressed Video Capture cards such as the component Cinewave card
  • SCSI cards and Medea drives
  • Graded monitors

People involved/Organisation:

Ellen Cantor, Douglas Newman, Luke Fowler, Film and Video Workshop, Space Studio Media department

Date:

ongoing

Players DV and beta spbreakout video box