Arnie Schlissel
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[john] “And could you or anyone else with a IoHD tell me if you can see a blinking green LED inside after it has booted up and is pluged in with FCP running? Mine has 1 sometimes 2 blinking LEDs inside.”
Those are the traffic lights for the hamsters.
Arnie
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There’s a firewall built into Mac OS. Turn it on & use it. It’s not a good idea to keep antivirus software running in the background on a video editing workstation because it interferes with the editing software. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do periodic scans, though. I run a virus check every month using Clam AV. Clam AV is used by many ISPs. It’s open source & actively maintained by an industry consortium, much like the Apache web server.
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[ianfreeze] “I threw my two cents on the table and they can take it or leave it.”
Smart move. I sense that this is yet another indie opus that will never see the light of day.
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You should not use square pixels. DVCPro HD codecs all use anamorphic pixels. In your sequence & clip settings, there are pulldown boxes for pixel aspect ratio. Those should both be set to DVCPro HD 720. I can’t recall the exact wording, but I think you’ll find the right option!
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Look up “Batch List” in your FCP manual.
Arnie
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I think there’s a list in the manual. I seem to recall that it’s an appendix? You can print that from the PDF.
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[Rick Dolishny] ” You can’t expect to be paid in full on delivery in this business.”
Bull poopy. This business is full of new operators who will be out of business inside of 12 months.
It’s perfectly reasonable to expect payment upon delivery. It’s unreasonable to expect someone to shoot something for you & then mail you the work & wait for your approval before they get paid.
There’s always some minute thing (his hair wasn’t combed! And he wasn’t wearing a tie!) that can be picked at random to reject the work. Which you’ll use anyway, because it wasn’t really a problem with it in the first place (it’s a video about lifeguards).
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[adelena] “I’ve exported portions of the original clip in DVCPROHD720p60 (960×720 at 59.94fps), AppleProRes422 (1280×720 at 59.94fps) and DVCPROHD1080i60 (1280×1080 at 29.97fps) and they all play out from the same 720pVaricam project just fine? All the other 720p options (not Varicam) do not work for all of the clips and none of the settings will play the original.
The mystery continues. “Andre, this is not a mystery. Panasonic’s DVCPro HD codecs are anamorphic. They are not full raster. If you try to encode full raster material as DVCPro HD, it won’t play. Simple as that. If you want to use DVCPro HD, you simply need to conform to Panasonic’s standard.
Arnie
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At least it’s an established workflow. There are people who have done it so often that they can just do it without thinking about it.
And if they rent a digital field recorder for the shoot, they can easily get a 4 or 8 track recorder, rather than the 2 tracks that they can get on the HVX. Or where they planning on using the onboard mic to save on rentals? 😉
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I’m sorry, but these people are really working very hard to screw this up. Someone should ask them, point blank, how important this project is to them? Is it important enough that they actually want to get it done? Important enough to do it well?
By mixing 50hz & 60hz cameras, they’re creating a tortured workflow. Not even counting whatever “hack” they’re using to make the 50hz camera shoot 24fps.
If they already own 1 50hz, & they want to shoot dual cameras (which is probably not going to make things easier for them, either), they should simply buy a matching camera. That will make things much easier, & let them concentrate on telling their story. If they insist on shooting half their footage in a different standard, they’ll wind up spending a lot of energy simply on getting things to work together smoothly.
They’re going to wind up rendering nearly half of the shots in their timeline. Or they’re going to wind up converting half of their material to match the other half, wasting time & disk space. Or they’ll wind up downconverting all of their material to some single, lower standard, and then find out that they can’t easily match back some (or, probably, all) of the timecode to make their online.
Run away! RUNNNNNNNN!!!
Arnie
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