[Anne Martin]

Ah…what a relief! What is causing it to pop like that in QT? Could I be missing a codec?

Post house requested ProRes so hopefully when it’s laid out to tape the problem will be ok.

[Anne Martin]

Thanks for the responses,

Dave, it is also 640×480 but with square pixels aspect ratio.

By the way, everything looks right. Our client just asked for 720×480 and I’m a little worried if they open it up in QT and see that “actual size” as 640×480 they won’t understand that the frame size is just adjusting for the display ratio. But it sounds like that’s what I’ll have to say.

[Anne Martin]

Thank you everyone for all the responses. It is enlightening.

To answer the easiest question first, our footage is primarily HDV with a little bit of DVCPro HD.

Matt’s description of the set up is far better than anything I could probably write. We were looking for a very low budget solution (under 5k) for two editors to share footage and work on the same project. We’ve had some problems with the set up – mostly due to my lack of experience with networking and some bugs in 10.5.6 – but now that the whole thing is set up properly it does seem to be working well, for our needs. I have done things just with file sharing to access firewire drives on shared computers and I do not think it is as fast.

I think for our purposes, two project files will work and we can just pull sequences into a master project when we’re ready to combine scenes.

Another question though – If both editors want to do something with the same clip… say both end up editing parts of that clip into their sequence… would that cause problems?

[Anne Martin]

I started using easy set up HDV – 1080p30 FireWire Basic. I also tried the 1080i60 set up. And I tried tweaking things on the set up, like drop frame vs. non drop frame.

I don’t think it’s the tape because it’s happening on a lot of tapes. Like 15-20.

-a