Barry Ford
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That did the trick, thanks Chris Borjis, and I will double check them after they encode, I have also had a few issues with encodes being shorter than should have been!
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Thanks for the help!
We have used HDV successfully in the past as a space saving measure when we were running out of drive space. Typically though we use DVCPro HD.
Yes that record was over 12 hours, I started it as I left at 4pm and stopped it the next morning at 7:30.
Any thoughts on the red we are having on VTR Exchange? I am also now experiencing this on AJA TV, though the video plays fine at it’s destination point. It makes monitoring VTR Exchange a problem as we really can’t see the entire image, not to mention the red flashing give quite the headache!
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That did the trick!!!
Thank you Jeremy Garchow and AJA Sales Department!
Now to update our master image and all the computers. This will save us much time and hastle as the TIFF’s it creates look mush better.
Thanks,
Barry
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Interesting, and I had a similar thought so I plugged an old hard drive with 10.5.8 on it and it is also missing the TGA and TIFF as options, though that system does not have Final Cut installed.
This then brings up a discussion I had previously with our IT dept. I had been told that QT Pro came with all Mac Pros, this was back in the G5 days. Our IT guy insisted that was not the case.
I only have QT Player on the machines, and FCP Studio 3 is installed.
I have installed QT 7 directly from the OSX install disc and still have only QT player. No change in compression choices either.
Has the QT Pro component been eliminated in FCP Studio 3 maybe?
Barry
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I did, and nothing as yet from them. I may have to call them…
Two thoughts:
We use a master image for all six machines which is based on the retail OSX 10.6 disk. Could the missing TGA and TIFF options be due to that rather that using the original disks from the Mac Pro box?
Or could they be part of QuickTime Pro? We use player only.
Thanks for your feedback!
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Yes that is an option, but, we really just need the “Grab Now” option to work so we can take stills of just what we want and not have to sort through the frames when capturing to a folder of numbered files. I was hoping the TGA or TIFF would work as per the pop up message:
To do a single frame grab, open Video Settings and make sure you have selected:
– an 8 bit video source.
– Photo-JPEG, TGA or TIFF compression.
I have no option in the video settings for either TGA of TIFF and the JPEG’s, which do work, are not very high in quality and I am hoping the other formats might be better, if I can get them to work.The doctors medical devices can do this and that is what they want as well as the immediate turnaround – they have no patients, bad pun there;)
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I don’t know about other people, but, when I switched to MC 2.7 from Xpress Pro 4.8 I could not get the Mojo to accept the older firmware Xpress Pro wants after reprograming it for MC which made it unusable with Xpress Pro 4. I did upgrade my Xpress Pro to 5.7 and it would accept the firmware for that release. The annoyance is that every time I switched between XPro 5.7 and MC 2.7 I had to reprogram the firmware, I have since eliminated Xpress Pro because of this.
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I have used Xpress Pro 4.x to 5.x and now Media Composer with Premiere Pro to PP CS3 without any problems, though I really only use Premiere infrequently. I just can’t use them at the same time for capture, Avid tends to win the fight for the 1394 connection.
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I always export QT Ref files and convert them to what I need in Procoder. The reference file allows Procoder to use the original files avoiding multiple compressions/conversions which will degrade the final quality. I am not immediately sure if Procoder or Sorenson will make an uncompressed .AVI, maybe even try Adobe Premiere if they wont, it will also accept the QT Ref file.
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Thank you. I get it, finally. I had struggled with this issue when I was shopping for a camera recently, I decided that HDV and I are not ment to play together, yet, because I couldn’t find a viable explanation of the HDV workflow. Now I understand why it isn’t a cut and dry issue.