Baz Leffler
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Michael – FWIW I have (amoungst other things) a MXO2 and a HDW1800 in one of my edit rooms and don’t have problems but as stated earlier you have gotta get those deck menu settings right. The other thing that I occasionally had trouble with is that the MXO2’s RS422 deck control wasn’t that great in older driver versions as it would not communicate to the deck as often as is should do.
Baz
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Peter – less than 2 years ago I made the switch from PC Adobe to MAC FCP. It was about 12 years, like you, on Premiere, but I had to do it due to the massive failings of Premiere and client pressure.
Once you get the gist of it, it will be all smooth sailing from there on. I also had never owned a Mac and publicly ridiculed the whole format. Now I am totally converted having four FCP systems and just one CS4 room which I dread having to use but occasionally a client walks in with a Premiere project.
Patience is required and just try and learn it bit by bit, prioritizing on what you need at the time. You are lucky having the Blackmagic stuff there too as its one less thing to have to worry about.
I have just finish 5 major HD series in FCP and believe that I am much faster at it than I ever was with Premiere; and I am self educated on it. I just had a request from my last projects producer to provide a 4:3 FHA of the HD series and in about 3 button clicks had it ready to go; well almost; it wasn’t all shot 4:3 safe so I had to do a shot by shot reframe but somehow it just all came natural. 2 years ago I would never had thought!
Baz
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In the deck control preset settings you can set how many audio channels are available.
Baz
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FWIW – I have a Mojo SDI/MC 3.1.2 which I use on both MacBookPro and a Vista Quad core system. It runs more reliably (and I think faster) on the Mac but I haven’t really done the tests; just a feeling.
But I have been a PC user most my life and have really had enough of Gates’s flawed OS and once I got use to Mac’s Leopard I was hooked. So maybe I too am a little biased.Baz
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Paul – I have a MBP and an ADVC1000 in my facilities here. If you haven’t sorted it out yet I can hook them up here and see if I can replicate your problem.
Just let me know.
Baz
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Have you got the ADVC1000 set to DV-SDI? (right hand side button). It should display DV timecode in the display window.
Baz
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Well Craig – I am in Australia and when we see a date 10.20.2009 that to us is US time as we have the day BEFORE the month so down under won’t find out until 21.10.2009
Baz
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Wouldn’t it be nice if they announced a remote CCU for the EX line of camera’s that connect to the USB port via a wireless network. I know it is possible thru the ‘secret’ USB port on the EX 1 cos i’ve seen them do it!
Just think… I could go and do multi camera events and match them on the fly… oh…ummmm…. then they would lose a lot of their hi-end market…. hmmmm….
Baz
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I pondered long and hard about long term storage and as Bob has said, the technology on which you based your storage on may not work or exist in 5-10 years time.
So my rationale was to use something that would have the best chance of maybe being there in later years. So I thought of the word ‘consumerism’. The more of a product that exists the more likely it will be supported in some way or another in the future. So it all came back to simplistics – optical storage; namely Blu-ray discs. Not the fastest approach but on a standalone machine who cares. And whats more the cost of the 25g media has dropped so much over the last year. I just purchased a 100 BD-R discs for $200 so soon I bet the discs will be $1 each.
As consumer electronics advances so will the Blu-ray format evolve so I predict it will remain backward compatible. Have you ever tried to put a 25 year old CD into a Blu-ray player? Guess what… IT WORKS!!! So, if you get my drift, what you do with Blu-ray today would more than likely be able to be accessed in 25 years.
Then take that one step further; 50gig Blu-ray discs are becoming more freely available and then when they release the backward compatible ‘Orange-ray’ (hypothetical) with 250g capacities you can invest in that technology and use it for your ‘Blu-ray’ archives. I remember way back in the early 90’s I use to back up on CD’s (640 meg) when the discs were $10 each, and I can still read the data on those with my Blu-ray drive. Me think it AMAZING!
Currently I store ‘Media managed’ FCP projects complete on Blu-ray which equates to about a half hour program on 25gig which includes every single component of the show which will enable me to re-version at any time; and they are HD programs! But I am also assuming that FCP’s evolution will enable backward capabilities. Also I backup all my camera stuff, in my case XDCAM BPAV folders, onto Blu-ray as well as a single HDD.
The only thing I see making optical discs obsolete is solid state storage but I still think Blue-ray or some sort of ‘ray’ will exist for a very long time.
Baz
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Callum – I spend a lot of my free time helping (advising) colleges with Blackmagic products (which I initially recommended) and I have had a flurry of phone calls recently regarding this matter, and I have told them what you explained above.
But most (if not all) have said that they do not use Color BUT always use the extended desktop feature. Couldn’t the installer have this feature as an option with the appropriate caveats? It would sure give my phone a bit of a rest!
Baz
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