Brett Nelson
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David,
How’s it going? I haven’t talked to you in a long while… I was talking to Ron Shook who said you were in Chicago (that’s where I am) for a gig recently.best,
Brett
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Eric,
I’m glad you brought this up. I have similar problems and I’ve tried many fixes. My big problem, however, is getting clean text when I export for playback on progressive monitors, e.g. a DVD that plays on a laptop. Do I simply need to buy a better deinterlace plugin? The FCP plug doesn’t cut it for clean text. Or can anyone running FCP 6 tell me if you can set your graphics to no field/animation codec and then keep the rest of your timeline interlaced?Thanks!
Brett
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Don,
That works. So, if I need to work in 60i, I need to capture 24 and then export that footage to a 60i movie. Thank you!Brett
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Daniel,
Thanks for the response! So to make sure I have this straight…does the A1 always output 1080p when shot with 24 and 30f and 1080i when shot with 60fps? Which means the A1 is a true 24p camera, although it records something slightly different in the process of getting there. This is the most confusing thing to me when reading about the camera. Some people seem to say that it’s 1080i shot at 24fps.Am I correct in assuming that I can’t output 1080i60 when I’ve shot @ 24f? If so, when and how is the best place to do the pulldown?
Thank you again.
Brett
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Try closing your sequence(s), then re-open and re-export to Compressor.
Brett
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George,
After reading and comparing, I’ve decided to give up my Firewire ways. Thanks for the Barefeets comparison. What I’ve concluded is that even if I only run one eSATA, I will probably get as good or better performance than a single FW800. The option to run off the bus is attractive, but I can live without it and it’s probably not a great idea anyway.Thanks again!
Brett
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George,
Thank you for the input! The G-Raid looks interesting. It claims it doesn’t need an external power supply. Do you think this would cause the MBP (which already runs hot) to run even hotter? I would think doing a lot of high-res cutting using a RAID would put extra drain on the power supply. I’ve burned out several power supplies over the years powering RAID arrays.regards,
Brett
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George,
I know eSATA has a lot of merit, but firewire is nice for maximum portability… I like the idea of at least occasionally running the drive off the bus. If I run with an fw800, any idea what quality level will run without too many headaches? HDV?Thanks!
Brett
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Hello,
Thanks for the very helpful thread! I want to see if I’m getting this straight… How well will it work if I capture DVCPro50 using only the onboard firewire ports? Would I still be able to capture using a FW400 drive?I’m currently working on two projects, one is a 60-second spot, the other is a 10-minute promo cut from 10 hours of footage.
Thanks!
Brett Nelson
MBP 2.16
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Nick,
Thanks for the info! I doubled the number of RT audio tracks (to 16). I think that solved it. The merging I talked about was FCP mixing down my tracks to get to the default track number. Your telling me that I would need more RT tracks than actual tracks was a big help.The copy/paste method is probably the most reliable, but one of the biggest values in using nested sequences for me is audio. I don’t want to have 9 audio tracks in my final program if I can avoid it. I’m creating my project in about 6 segments. The ability to easily move those completed segments around is huge.
Thanks again!
Brett