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Kona2 HDV & P2
We just installed a Kona 2 in our dual 2.7 G5. A client brought in a firewire drive with HDV footage he had captured through FCP on his own G5. When I import the clips into FCP on our G5 and place them on the timeline all of the footage requires rendering. What am I doing wrong? (this is the first time I have had to deal with HDV footage)
Secondly, we have been performing P2 workflow tests for a long term (six months) shoot which commences on Monday. Our process has been to download the P2 cards into a P2 Store; then transfer the contents of the P2 Store via a MacBook Pro to an external Firewire drive (for archival purposes); then we open the clips in FCP on the laptop to check file integrity. We then transfer the files (.txt file and Contents folder)to the RAID in the edit suite. When we import the footage into FCP on the G5 and place the clips on the timeline ALL footage requires rendering??? Again, what am I doing wrong here?
Sorry for the long-winded question. ALL help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Bill
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Easy setups are your friend!
However, because you are using 2 non Kona native clips you will have to do some tweaking. So just use the FCP easy setups for the HDV and the DVCPRO, basically for the timelines and then you can use the corresponding Kona Easy Setup for the output for monitoring. This works like a charm.
Jared
Idea Spring Editing, Inc.
Denver Final Cut Pro UG -
[Bill Marcellus] “We just installed a Kona 2 in our dual 2.7 G5. A client brought in a firewire drive with HDV footage he had captured through FCP on his own G5. When I import the clips into FCP on our G5 and place them on the timeline all of the footage requires rendering. What am I doing wrong? “
IF your Setup is correct however you should not need to render the HDV content to be seeing the footage playout via the Kona Card. Next time use the Kona card to capture the footage direct from the camera as DVCPROHD and save all that render time.
Make sure the footage you received is truly HDV Native content (captured via FW) and NOT the Apple intermediate codec. then choose the easy set up that matches your footage.[Bill Marcellus] “When we import the footage into FCP on the G5 and place the clips on the timeline ALL footage requires rendering??? Again, what am I doing wrong here?”
Same same… your setup is not matching your content.
Open FCP
Choose the Easy setup for the content you are editing. (remember there is a show all check box in the Easy Set up dialogue box)Create a new project / new sequence
gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows
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Something else to check…I have run into this multiple times.
I will check the setup…all presets are as they should be and the footage stills wants rendering.
Double click the clip once you drop it into the timeline and look at the distort setting…odds are it is not set to 0. I run into this all the time…don’t know why…can’t find anyone that can tell me why…it just is, but it has fixed a lot of frustration…I automatically check the distort setting now when I edit HDV…and I capture straight from my JVC HD100 using the presets.
Tim Baker
Chameleon Mobile Video Productions
(239)849-3295
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