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HDV print to video problem
Hi,
I just got myself a Sony V1E and tried to edit some HDV material I shot with it. It went fine using fcp6 on a PowerBook G4 1.5Ghz with 1.5 Gb RAM.
My problem is that I can’t print back to video. It seems to slow… or is the tape kind crucial? It’s quite strange that the PB G4, even if a bit old now, can’t handle HDV orint to video…
Any idea?
Thx!
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6 Replies
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Are you using an external drive for the media storage? If not, I’ll bet that’s your problem.
You might export your sequence as a self contained QT movie, then print that to tape playing back from an external hard drive formatted Mac OS Extended.
Jerry
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The HDV needs to conform, because of the GOP structure of HDV it needs to create new iFrames. This can take a while especially on slower computers like yours.
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I use HDV, but I work on a MacPro. I love my 12″ G4 PB (a.k.a. the best notebook ever made), but I wouldn’t try to edit HDV on it. Zrb123 is right, you’re just going to have to sit and let it conform. And exporting to a self-contained QT file if a must. I don’t trust my Mac Pro to play back an HDV sequence to tape, let alone a G4.
Good luck. Patience… she is a virtue.
Zak
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I captured with the easy set up HDV 1080i60 on my regular LaCie firewire400/800 drive and after editing and rendering, it played smoothly on the time line.
The problem focuses on exporting it to tape. It even comes out smoothly on tape, however the 16:9 picture appears about 3/4 the size of the original in the viewfinder with a black border all the way around, not the size the original was when shot.
That is the mystery. It could be the computer is too slow (ImacG5 Intel dual 2.1) but playback is not a problem, only exporting so it looks like the original tape picture.
Jerry mentioned hardware needs. Any guesses.
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That sounds like you’re recording to anamorphic DV instead of HDV. Please don’t take that as condescension, it’s just the first thing that I thought of. Also, maybe your camera display is just set to underscan. Print to Video isn’t going to scale your video if it can’t play it back, it’s going to drop frames. Assuming you don’t have an NTSC or Professional HD monitor, you should at least hook the camera up to a TV when you’re mastering. If you have an HDTV, that’s even better. Send bars out of your camera and “calibrate” the TV the best you can.
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What kind of camera are you capturing from and what is the setup of the camera?
You might have a 1280×720 image in a 1920×1080 [1440×1080] timeline which places the image in the center and you get a black border all the way around. This is a guess, but I’m guessing your using a JVC or another HDV camera that captures 720P.
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