HD outout

[Walter Biscardi]

What’s your original format?

What’s the “rendered format?”

What’s the storage you’re using?

What’s the computer you’re using?

What’s the video card you’re using?

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

[Mark Maness]

Walter is correct… we need more info.

The big issue seems to be what computer do you have? It sounds like that you may be using a G4 if your still running FCP HD. If so, the G4’s are quite up to spec for HD work and will have problems working with it, even DVCProHD has issues with the G4.

I had similar issues with my G4 (which is now a compressor station) on a DV project that was an hour and half long. I had to break it up into 10 minute segments to write to tape. I was using FCP HD 4.5 at the time.

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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
http://www.schazamproductions.com

[Htwhyppe]

What’s your original format?
F900 at 1920×1080 and XD Cam at 1440×1080

What’s the “rendered format?”
24p NTSC

What’s the storage you’re using?
Scuzy

What’s the computer you’re using?
G5

What’s the video card you’re using?
Black Magic

[Htwhyppe]

Thanks for your input on my output. It’s a G4 (or 5, I’m really not sure — it’s a dedicated editing machine purchased about a year ago.) We experimented today and wound up bypassing Final Cut Pro and playing the rendered movie directly off the Black Magic card. This works 95% of the time. The 5% will kill us when we output unless we output and insert like crazy on the HD recorder. Is the Black Magic card calibrated fine enough to go to the exact time code frame?

Somebody else looking at the problem is convinced we don’t have enough band width on our hard drive array. The movie is about 600 gigs. We have a terabyte of storage space.

[Walter Biscardi]

[htwhyppe] “What’s the “rendered format?”
24p NTSC”

8bit? 10bit? DVCPro HD?

[htwhyppe] “What’s the storage you’re using?
Scuzy”

What manufacturer, what unit?

[htwhyppe] “What’s the computer you’re using?
G5”

G5 What?

[htwhyppe] “What’s the video card you’re using?
Black Magic”

Which one?

You’re not making this any easier. Filling out your profile with complete system information or putting your complete system information in the posts makes it easier for us to help you. Minimal information means no help on our end.

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

[Htwhyppe]

Understood. I’ll gather this data and return with it. Thanks.