Andrew Commiskey
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What is the source footage? What deck? There are alot of variables.
Drew
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This is just theory… FCP takes control of in and output when it is active so the only thing I can figure is that it is looking for video along with audio. Do you have a video deck hooked up? Like I said this is just theory and it solved my problems with Soundtrack Pro.
DrewChaos is the beginning of everything.
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Make sure everything that is pluged into the camera is on the same circut or try ground lifts (the ugly grey things that you plug onto extention cords to work in older houses). The ground lift is a last resort because it produces a few hazzards. Other things can be happening (I once had to deal with an alarm system in the floor that caused a buzz. We had to go all battery and the camera guy was not happy because his monitor was not battery operated. We would et up the shot then unplug the monitor to shoot.
*** Also dimmers on lights cause buzzes make sure they are on a different circut.
Good luck,
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Is your Mixer battery or wall powered? Have you tried going on battery for everything? ground loops can come from anywhere and this includes anything hooked up to the camera and a wall outlet such as monitors, mixers, speakers, teleprompters etc.
Andrew
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If you are recording audio on the camera it is a non issue just go straight in. If not it depends on your posting process. I would go with 30fps and at 48.048 K (this will play back at 48 K in video world). I would check with your post dept. most problems show up when everyone is not on the same page.
Best,
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It sounds like a 2gig file limit problem. (possibly from Pro-tools) try breaking it up into 2 sections. I do not know the details but I remember that files were limited to 2 gig in older Mac OS and Windows systems.
Drew
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Some weird things that happened with the same set-up (dual 1gig G4)
in playback make sure the timeline is selected if the browser or effect parameters are selected playback was jerky. I cannot figure out why, You can deselect the drop frame warning which alows it to play throughthe dropped frames. also, because FCP 5 offloads alot on the GPU (videocard) an upgrade is very helpful.
http://www.macsales.com has options.Good Luck
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A SATA set up will be quick but you will need to get SATA cards for all three systems. FW800 will be plenty fast for dv and will not require add on cards (hopefully). OWC, Granite digital, Graid, Sonnet, Lacie and many more are all available. I built my own with cases from OWC and drives from fry’s outpost. 1T came out to 470 or so. I have been very lucky with minimal failures (one caused by my dog pulling a drive off the desk while it was running).
Just remember as you fill the drives up they will slow down, and a 500 gig drive should never be filled more than 80% (465 formated x .80 = 388.8) so add extra room.Good luck
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Make sure you are updated at least to 5.0.4, there were quite a few bugs in 5.0. also make sure the timeline is selected or highlighted and no effect parameters are in the viewer. For some reason this caused strange playback issues on my Dual 1K G4.
Good luck
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I don’t think so, Q-master is not dynamic so it will split the job 50/50 between computers and take alot longer.
You can chop up the piece and have the mini just do credits or opening title. (small sections that open and end in black)
It might save you a little time.Good luck
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