Brandon Kraemer
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I believe Toby answered this question, you can’t color trace one sequence to another within the same project… you have to save as first and then color trace from the pervious version into the new. Honestly I haven’t found an instance when ColorTrace worked. However if I have grades already in the project before I copied remote to local (which I almost always have to do) the mater sequence grades auto populate onto the new sequence I’ve added… with mixed results.
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here is the thread about the FCP drop frame issue with BMD cards: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/124/882831
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Great info Paul and Bob.
Purpose of these scopes is for our edit assist room where versioning and broadcast compressions are made, as a way of QC-ing levels. We also do our conversion work in this part of the facility so the Teranex is a desired component, so this might be “good enough” but I will look into your suggestion of ScopeBox. I ran the demo a while ago and wasn’t impressed with it’s stability but it’s worth a re-look before I pull the trigger.
Separately for the Resolve suite we are looking to add the SmartScope Duo.
Sure wish BMD would fix the FCP/Drop Frame issue however… don’t feel great about buying more of their products when I am dealing with issues like that every day.
bk
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No I havent, trying to get some end user info on it before I pull the trigger on the Teranex. We could use a Teranex but it’s not as vital as scopes, thought I could kill 2 birds since we have a mini lying around.
Thoughts?
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Something like LaCie’s eSATA hub or Belkin’s Express Dock (which has 2 thunderbolt ports + USB 3.0 and eSATA ports) so we could use thunderbolt for both the Ultrascope connection to the mini and add on a fast hard drive at the same time.
I ask because our mini is only USB 2.0 but has a single thunderbolt port.
thanks,
bk
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Bob,
Do you know if it’s possible to hook up the Teranex to the Mini via a Thunderbolt hub?
bk
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I’d like to say again, if BMD is listening, that as a Resolve user who has to do more than just use resolve in the suite, that you have hamstrung my ability to do an important and critical part of my job. Something as simple as playback audio and picture in sync in a conform situation, with frame accuracy, is basic. By forcing my hand with your card and then essentially taking the position that the fact it doesn’t work isn’t your responsibility is underwhelming to say the least.
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No, it’s the ATI Radeon HD 5870, 1024 MB.
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Either uncompressed media or changing sequence settings and then rendering in uncompressed plays back with less frame drop than prores. Uncompressed doesn’t require any processor overhead, it’s just raw video and that is probably why it plays better, even through it has higher bandwidth requirements.
I’ve also noticed with uncompressed once you can get a sequence (say a :30 spot) to play through one time it tends to play fine from there on… until you make a change or relaunch FCP. I have not been able to play even :30 of pro-res with out issues.
(I had 10.8.1 installed with my Kona 3 card with no issues for about 2 weeks before I installed the BMD card which was required hardware for the DaVinci Resolve.)
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Turning off drop frames warning still results in a barely playable sequence. It’s far worse with ProRes media than Uncompressed-10 bit for what that’s worth.
If I switch the audio output to the line out of the mac vs audio follows video it solves the drop frames issue but the audio then plays about 3-5 frames out of sync which is unacceptable.
Premier doesn’t have this issue so I agree it seems that Apple induced something that caused this issue but it seems like something solvable if history is a guide and that makes me too wonder if BMD is looking at this issue in the rearview mirror.
Having filed and followed up on a support ticket, BMD told me it was unlikely to be fixed and couldn’t be consistently recreated on their end.