Arnie Schlissel
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Logging & capturing should be your standard workflow. Even if you want to capture whole tape rolls, it’s best to log the head & tail of them 1st. You’ll find that all sorts of little (& not so little!) problems will simply disappear if you take the few minutes it takes to find the head & tail of your tape.
I find that something like 95% or more of tapes come to me tails out, so I just mark an out a second or so before the tail, then rewind to the head & mark an in at the end of the color bars, log the clip & click the batch button. I routinely do this with DVCam tapes that are 3 hours long & I don’t have any of the synch or media problems that most people who capture whole tape rolls seem to get.
Arnie
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Freeze frames have always been a problem with the Media Manager. I once had to have a client email me a couple of dozen freeze frames for a project he brought me.
What I’d recommend for your online is to make a list of your freezes & recapture each as a single frame of video that you can insert manually. Yes it’s a pain, but that’s kind of what onlining is about.
Arnie
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In the user prefs, you can change the pulldown to “warn after capture”. That will ignore TC breaks & capture across them. Of course your TC won’t match after you hit the 1st TC break, so if you need to recapture you may be hosed.
Question is, why are you getting so may TC breaks? Time to service the camera, perhaps? (or at least run a head cleaner through it!)
[Steve Wargo] “It’s a dry heat!”
Yeah. Like a convection oven! 🙂
Arnie
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You can use a chat program, as I mentioned above. Or just get set up your own website with enough space to post files yourself. My website costs me less than $100 a year for 15GB of space & 250GB/month of bandwidth.
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If the camera has a crystal sync setting for 23.976fps, then you don’t need to do anything special. If it only has a sync setting for 24fps, then you need to slow the audio down by .1% before syncing in post. The lab that does the transfer may be able to do this for you, or the sound recordist may be able to.
Arnie
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[Ben Holmes] “what’s Gelato? Wow – must spend MORE time on the web instead of working…..”
Yes, you really must spend more time surfing the web!
https://film.nvidia.com/docs/CP/4825/gelato_2.0_product_overview.pdf
Arnie
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You would need either a hardware keyer, or a switcher or mixer that has a keyer built in. There are quite a few on the market, check you local rental houses to see what they have available for you.
Basically, you’d take the output of the camera, plug it into the keyer (or switcher, or mixer), then plug that output into your VTR, and the deck’s output into FCP. The keyer should be able to output either the original signal, the matte only, or the mixed signal with your live talent keyed over your background.
Arnie
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A lot of ISP’s mail servers won’t deliver mail with attachments that are over a certain size. For some, the size may be as low as 1 meg or as large as 5, it varies with the service.
You might want to try sending the file over iChat, AIM or Skype. I recently had a client send me some files from AIM on his side him to iChat on mine. It worked pretty well & was easy as pie.
Arnie
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You should back up your system drive to an external drive. You can use Carbon Copy Cloner or PsyncX to make a bootable clone on an external FW drive, both are free. BTW, it’s a good idea to make regular backups, regardless. I run a backup (and an assortment of utilities) round about the 1st of every month, whether I need to or not.
Arnie
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