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COW Reviews: CalDigit: S2VR HD
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[Danrnw] “You master out your project at DVCPRO HD?”
Yep.
[Danrnw] “So this is an acceptable format for your cable network client?
That’s good news. I”Yep, Discovery Networks were the first to accept DVCPro HD as a Mastering format and that opened the doors for us to petition other networks to accept it. Our international network client was floored by the quality of our DVCPro HD master and they have since installed several Panasonic 1400 decks for server ingest.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[Danrnw] “You master out your project at DVCPRO HD?”
No, I master out my projects to HDCAM or D5. History Channel was toying with the idea of DVCPRO HD masters, but decided against it. But they, and Discovery and most other networks accept DVCPRO HD as a source format.
[Danrnw] ” Kinda like BetaSP to acquire
and DigiBeta to finish. Not a good analogy with DVCPRO HD to D5
for instance?”That is the perfect analogy. Yes, it is like shooting beta but delivering digibeta. We shoot DVCPRO HD, but deliver D5. And the Kona 3 upconverts it on the fly.
The beauty of this workflow is that we could edit using firewire 800 drives. But now I move to the more reliable eSATA enclosure solutions.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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[Shane Ross] ” But now I move to the more reliable eSATA enclosure solutions.”
What happened to the popsicle sticks, Shane!
😛
debe
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Are there issues with green screen chroma keys with DVCPRO HD?
We are doing more and more of that for our testimonial shoots.
When I offline at DV the chroma key didn’t look too good, even when I
used the Nattress 411 filter. Then after the uprez to uncompressed timeline,
the keys using Boris Continuum looked very good.
Would I get better chroma keys in an uncompressed HD timeline versus
DVCPRO HD timeline?Thanks,
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[Danrnw] “Would I get better chroma keys in an uncompressed HD timeline versus
DVCPRO HD timeline?”Yes but ONLY if the footage is uncompressed to begin with. If it’s shot DVCPro HD, it makes no difference in my experience. DVCPro HD is 4:2:2 unlike DV being 4:1:1 so this makes for a better key.
We can pull a very nice key using DVCPro HD though I prefer to capture and perform the keys uncompressed when possible. The SDI output of the Varicam and HDX-900 are uncompressed so when possible, we bring our Kona system to the studio and capture 8bit uncompressed direct into our system.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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So Bob Zelin, is it alway that easy with you and SATA?
I’ve been trying for the last month to get a new 4EP to work with a new Fusion 500P loaded with 5 new Seagate 7200.10 500GB drives.
I can raid the drives and copy one or twice within the raid. Then the entire Mac locks up.
OSX is erased and reinstalled. All the drivers are the latest.
Sonnet tech support has been useless.
Any ideas, Bob?
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