Al Bergstein
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Ok. Understood. That could be it. The one Tiff is 17MB (!!) and the other is 995 KB…hmmm that’s a good starting place!
Thanks!
Alf
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
I’ve been suddenly encountering the same thing, mainly after adding TIFF images to the timeline. I’m working on a 3 minute promo video, all Pro Res timeline, it played fine today, until I started adding the TIFFS. I take them out and it then plays fine. I did not change the RT, but I’m now outputting the file to YouTube ‘format’ in FCP7. I have an audio voice over track we did today, things seemed to be running fine after doing it. I’m somehow convinced that the Tiffs seem to be a problem.
is there something that changes after a while with doing tons of Tiff additions, and moving things around? Not sure what ’causes’ the dropped frames to happen, since the same timeline seems to start out fine and start experiencing it. How do I avoid it?
Thanks in advance.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
A friend of mine and I recently ran side by side comparisons of our jVC and my 150 using the same lighting. The HMC seemed to be 1 stop underexposed though the lcd seemed to say it was right. I did not use zebras or WF. It may have been that I needed a different scene file from the standard settings.
I would spend some more time in trials before shooting live. As Noah said, your two samples are way underexposed. Maybe do a trial using autoexposure, then switch over and drive off your zebras and waveform. See how far off the two are. Believe the zebras and waveform rather than your lcd or your monitor. It’s all very disheartening, because I, like you, expect to see the results on the card and in FCP match my LCD, but that apparently is not going to happen. A problem with the 150? I think I might argue that it is. But it is what it is. Work around it. Calibrate everything before heading into the studio.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
Log and Transfer
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
Steven, I have a Panasonic HMC150. The SD card I use in it, I simply pull it out and plug it into either my Mac SD card reader, or my Windows machine (HP) and it’s built in card reader. Then I copy the entire contents of the top folder of the disk (i.e. if the disk is named PROJECT1 then open it and copy the entire folder structure under that SD card icon into a folder on the machine. Do Not change anything! Then point your L&T to see the TOP folder of the entire thing, and say OK (or whatever). It then knows how to read it. Do Not drill down into it. FCP will find the files you need to transfer just fine. Worth using AVCCAM Viewer or something to rename the metadata before transfering. Hope this helps! It works fine for me (now). Transcoding on a machine like a Mac Pro with quads and enough RAM isn’t much of a pain.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
I’ve got a MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz. It’s fine for Logging and Transfer, but the main problem is that it is only capable of 2 GB RAM. The newer Macs go beyond that but you lose the Express slot, which is very useful for many add ons. I agree that you need more than the 160 GB HD. Not sure that you will save that much by buying used, since if you get a 160 GB drive you will probably need to upgrade it quickly with HD footage needs. I found I needed a quad core desktop Mac to really do the job right, but a MB Pro might get you down the road for a while, and prepare you for doing more taxing work later.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
Maybe I don’t clearly understand what you are asking, but if you only have the m2ts and not the whole directory structure, you may well need Clipwrap. But to be clear, if you have the entire structure the disk doesn’t have to be mounted. I use AVCHD (I use a Panasonic HMC 150), and just went through this. You just need to create a folder, call it your project raw video or whatever, and dump the contents of the file structure in it’s entirety, into it. So I just finished creating a “foobar” raw footage folder, dumped the entire PRIVATE/AVCHD/and on and on folder structure into it. Then I simply L&T by pointing the L&T to the top PRIVATE folder only!. This should then bring in all the clips. Don’t go below that folder or it appears not to work. L&T must be looking to read an entire directory structure that has been laid out for it as a template. If it doesn’t see the PRIVATE it croaks and errors out. Spent a week trying to understand that, as it’s not documented anywhere.
But, as alternative if you had the SD card, you can also copy them all across like I just described, then L&T them from the SD card, if you want to make sure your ‘backup’ copies are all in place before attacking your primaries. But you mentioned you didn’t get an SD from the person. Also, some people LOCK the card before reading… I don’t. Just a thought.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
Ok. I solved my problem on this (got the answer elsewhere and am sharing it). My particular problem was that FCP only needed to be pointed to the top level directory on my external hard disk. I apparently was digging down into it and trying to capture the clips directly, which I believe is how I was doing it with Sony Video Vegas. Anyway, once I simply pointed it to *private* it took everything. Not well documented, if at all.
John, not sure why your l&T stopped working. Have you tried this with a reformatted card from your camera? See if it’s card specific?
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
I also use the DVTech and love it. It folds up very small, fits in a camera bag. Well worth the money. I consider it a must have item. I shot with it doing some simple nonsense (all DRAFT footage) this weekend with my HMC-150. We got shut down on using a tripod and lighting (damn!) so I just shot a few songs they did. But you can get an idea of what can be done with it using HD. While there was a bit of bounce, the video of the band was all hand held with the DVTech. I also have a Varizoom for zooming off the handle of the DVtech rather than going to the camera. Can’t recommend it enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFtSLDkJ_nk
(I’ll be tearing this video down within the week, as it really is only for the band to see for comment, so they can see why I argued for lights).Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2 -
Have you tried importing directly off the SD card? I am having similar problems when I copy my files over, no matter what I do. But I can L&T off my SD card just fine.
Alf
Panasonic HMC-150 & FCP on MacPro Dual Quads, 12 GB 7.0.1 on 10.6.2