[Adam Smith]

You want to shoot HD for future use, but edit with and deliver to SD, right?

What about dropping all the HD footage into a sequence in timecode order – with the sequence timecode set to match the footage. Then do a realtime downconvert to Digibeta and you have a great quality SD master tape with TC that matches the original HD media. Archive the HD media for future use and capture the SD footage you desire back into FCP, along with whatever older SD elements you desire.

It sorta blows a lot of the benefits of the P2 workflow but it’s an answer.

On the other hand, if having analog inputs isn’t important and you’d like to work in full HD, then Kona 3 upconverting would be a much more elegant process.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

Just to rule out alignment issues, I’d try recording something in each camera and then swap those tapes around in each other camera or deck and see exactly who plays nicely with who.

If you notice a pattern or definitive culprit you know who to get serviced.

Of course it could just be finicky gear, but I’d think DV should be the same across them all.

Do you plan to use HDV in the future? I know JVC HDV is incompatible with Cannon/Panny, and not sure if the latter two will cooperate or not.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

Could your first deck have a head load?

I’d check that, or like Matthias said, it could just be the deck is out of alignment. Sometimes I really miss that old Tracking adjustment…

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[Jeff Pierce] “he issue improved — albeit slightly — with with time, and no other changes.”

Yeah… that’s funky. =/

-Adam

[Adam Smith]

[Jenn LaMay] “I have a class that we have to post this question on a forum website”…

You have a class where instead of doing simple research for yourself you’re required to post it on a forum and wait for people to tell you the answers?!? Wow.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

I don’t have Leopard yet so I can’t say whether this is the answer, but it’s worth a shot!

https://avidtechnology.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/avidtechnology.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=75079&p_created=1201627416&p_sid=HG*fJg_i&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=69060&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NzcsNzcmcF9wcm9kcz0wJnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZWFyY2hfbmwmcF9wYWdlPTEmcF9zZWFyY2hfdGV4dD1kb3dubG9hZCBjb2RlYw**&p_li=&p_topview=1

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[Jeff Pierce] “You should be able to find instructions on the internet on how to map the wheel to whatever function you want.”

Thanks for the reply!

Yeah, I’d considered remapping my mouse for just FCP, but wouldn’t that break all other existing mouse-wheel commands? If I remap wheel-up and wheel-down to match my keyboard zoom keys, then every wheel spin would zoom the timeline and I’d lose all the other wheel commands such as vertically scrolling tracks or shift-wheel to scroll the timeline.

-Adam

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

Are we being graded on a curve?

[Adam Smith]

I helped a friend with a similar issue – his tracker points didn’t match with where he dragged the mouse when trying to set an 8-point matte. It sounds like he had placed his HDV footage in a SD timeline – in the motion tab the video was scaled to somewhere around 51%. He started a new HDV sequence and it worked fine.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte

[Adam Smith]

[Jeremy Garchow] “know with SOny decks you have to put them in DV mode, then FCP could recognize and control the deck.”

Yeah, I tried that. I set the JVC’s firewire out to DV and suddenly FCP had control and everything was happy… until I noticed the camera had started flashing a helpful “SWITCH 1394 OUTPUT” message over the analog out! (grr!)

There may be some way to do it, but for this project I think we’ll survive.

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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte