Aynsley Baldwin
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I am storing media on a Glyph 500 GB external raid drive connected by FW800. …Perhaps I’ll swap out that 500MB RAM card for a 1 GB.
Thanks!
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Forgive me, why is the MXO needed? Why couldn’t I hardwire an ACD directly out of my 17″ Powerbook?
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I’m about to start cutting DVCPRO HD 1080p30 footage on my 1.67 GHz G4 Powerbook. We did some tests today and FCP was dropping frames all over the place on playback. I do only have 1.5 GB total RAM… you say that extra 500 MB will really help?
Either way, if I turn off the dropped frames warning, I can’t detect the dropped frames. Or at least I couldn’t today in our somewhat rushed tests…
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We’re shooting to Firestore w/ tape back-up. I was wondering if there was some way to bypass the Firestore and record directly onto a computer hard drive through FCP, but it seems that there is probably not. Which is fine.
As for your question about which 1080 format, I’m curious about all of them. We’ve decided to shoot 1080p24A but I am still interested to know the inner workings of all these settings. You can never know too much.
For example, when doing our camera and ingesting tests today, we fumbled around a bit in FCP to get the right sequence settings for our footage. The compressor listed in the Clip Settings was “DVCPRO HD 1080p30” @ 23.98 (after pulldown was removed). I had no idea why the compressor was listed as 1080p30 instead of 1080p24, or even 1080i60. The DP especially was surprised not to see the compressor as 1080i60. But in the end what worked for our sequence settings was setting the compressor to 1080p30 @ 23.98 fps, but then going into the Advanced Settings in the Sequence Settings window and choosing 1080p24 (an option that wasn’t available in the initial Sequence Settings window, though 1080p30 appeared twice). This was the only way we could drag clips into the timeline without needing to render them.
I find that working with DVCPRO HD codecs is always somewhat of a crap shoot as I don’t have a fundamental knowledge of how they work or what the naming conventions indicate. I’m sure it’s probably fairly simple once explained… I hope.
I’ve also heard all kinds of things about how some of the progressive settings aren’t really all that great because they are shot on an interlaced medium etc etc. I’m curious about this as well.
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Is it possible to record in a PN format to Firestore whilst recording a backup in the corresponding P mode to tape?
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Ok, so I’m not crazy. I have this problem, too. What gives? it’s so strange. the only solution i’ve been able to come up with is to re-export every clip as a quicktime from teh timeline but, especially as i need to have accurate tc for the clips that are created, this will be painful…
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ok, looks like it has to do with an iTunes update:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4961687
EVerything seems to be a-ok now. Will write again if that changes.
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Hey, thanks so much for the tip!! Looks like I found the file:
Macintosh HD/Library/Logs/Console/my user folder/console.log.2 @ 6.2 GB.
I want to delete this right away, but I would like to know what happened to create it in the first place. Any one have any ideas?