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HDV – ProRes via FW capture error
I have been doing this for a while and never saw this, pretty much sure my workflow was correct. I shot some VERY slow pans and tilts with my Canon A1 shot 30 F as usual. Captured via FW to ProRes on my MBP 2.4 ghz machine. Very slow and smooth pans, which developed hiccups in the pans after capture. Checking the tape on a big monitor, footage is fine. My assistant had been watching the monitor as I shot, he says they were fine too, he couldn’t believe the hiccups.
To check further, I captured the same pans on my G5 with Kona LH via component, and the footage is fine.
BTW my device control was HDV FireWire, then tried HDV FireWire Basic with same result.
I’m stumped, I can use the 8bit component capture, but I would prefer ProRes, the 8 bit is not quite as sharp. Plus the 8bit files are HUGE!
Have a wonderful day.
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[Chris Poisson] “I can use the 8bit component capture, but I would prefer ProRes, the 8 bit is not quite as sharp. Plus the 8bit files are HUGE!”
Why can’t you capture component to ProRes?
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Hey Jeremy,
I don’t think my Power PC G5 can do that, or is that something I can after 6.0.2? As I recall you need an Intel machine or an IOHD to do that, no?
Have a wonderful day.
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[Chris Poisson] “I don’t think my Power PC G5 can do that, or is that something I can after 6.0.2? As I recall you need an Intel machine or an IOHD to do that, no?”
Crap. Chris, you’re right. Sorry about that.
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Hey Chris,
Sorry, I didn’t see this until just now at 3am.
Is it possible that your machine needed a reboot? The ProRes capture needs as much RAM as it can get as a framebuffer, and as you’ve probably noticed, some apps glom onto RAM even after they are shut down.
David
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David,
Does that mean every app I had been using needs to have their caches flushed? Could also be that the MBP I did it with only has 3 GIGS of RAM to start with.
Have a wonderful day.
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David’s thought about RAM may have been the answer. I used Leopard Cache cleaner, did a restart and re-captured to ProRes, it’s all perfect now.
Have a wonderful day.
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