Blinkofaneye
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i should have been much more specific, i suck. It is a commercial dvd recorder …
it isn’t a dvd writer like something from lacie that you connect to a computer. Hopefully that sheds more light, it is specifically designed to receive 4pin firewire in for video recording i just need to trick FCP into spitting it out via firewire since it does not recognize this random device that is not a camera or professional deck. Thanks!
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So under the assumption the firewire might be what is hindering me from capturing anything other than DVCPROHD codec footage i did “uncontrollable device” in conjunction with the 1080i59.97 8bit capture preset. Same deal drop frames. Now i am running a FW800 gtech pro 5 disk sata array and the black magic design disk speed test clocks it at being able to handle 7 streams of 8bit-
So now i am perplexed as to the cause of my dropped frames… are there a difference between sdi and hdsdi cables? The link above is to the BH cable i am using now so… I am perplexed. -
Oh and sorry if i was confusing, they are hdcam tapes that were captured over a hardware downconverted firewire on the Sony J-H3 deck. Does that affect your statement in “#1” or am i just confused?
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Would the firewire deck control be the issue behind my not being able to capture anything other than dvcprohd without timecode and dropedframe errors? That is one of my biggest issues and may be due to the internal deck setting you mentioned? Is 1080i59.97 the correct, or most advantageous, way to capture f900 footage shot at 1080p23.97? I have tried the 1080p23.97 easy setup and i cant even get video to play through, where as the 59.97 setup plays through. I am having the issue that my newly uprezed sequence is being automatically conformed back to 4:3 to match the original letterboxed dv sequence. Here is my work around i devised and tested but shall try your steps and post back my results, thank you SO much for your reply!
SO, i have this DV sequence of downrezed letterboxed footage that is my feature. I needed to take that and recapture it all in the original true 1080 hd quality and aspect ratio. I can only get capture to work with the dvcprohd versions of the various codecs, so i decided to use these. When i select my test sequence and enter the media manager to create and offline sequence there is not(i have no idea why there isn’t) an option for a dvcprohd sequence, just jpeg, 8but 10bit and 10bit 4:4:4. So this is issue #1, my solution, simply select 8 bit 1080i59.97, and create the offline. Once i am in my new project i change back to the easy setup of 1080i59.97dvcprohd and commence my capture. This brings me to issue #2 when capture is completed FCP has taken the HD aspect footage and automatically conformed it with the distort tool to 4:3 to match the original DV footage.(that and i have dvcprohd footage in a 8bit sequence that is all red.) So since i am already in my dvcprohd easy setup i just create a new sequence, apple+a then apple+c in the 8bit sequence and then apple+v in my dvcprohd sequence. Now it is still squeezed up to 4:3 so apple+a right click remove attribute, and uncheck distort. BOOM uprezed sequence, granted in a convoluted and i imagine semi dangerous way. Please tell me there is an easier way, or from my above post you can tell what i am doing wrong. UGH
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Richard Peine D/B/A Southwest Media and Resorts, Inc?
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Okay, i get what most of you are saying, and for the most part that makes sense. As for a real meat of it, I
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I think i really have undercut myself, i am very confidant in the work we do and i think it looks great (usually your own work can look stale etc. after looking at it for a long time). It’s just very hard as college students starting a production company to garner the respect and wages i think we deserve. (I