Bret Williams
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I don’t need to read the links. I can do basic math. And I’ve NEVER heard the specs Tom mentioned. They in fact, don’t add up. They’re incorrect.
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Well it does compute. Very simple math. SD is 4:3. 4/3=1.3333 720/540=1.3333, 648/486=1.3333 and therefore working in SD (720×486) is 720×540.
If you want to work in DV which is 720×480, you’re working with 6 less lines. The ratio is easy to figure out. Since 648/486=1.3333, then DV ratio in terms of square pixels would be six less lines, 648/480=1.35 and 720/534=1.3483, which is close enough.
But I didn’t know there was any controversy. I thought everyone knew that DV was 1.35 aspect pixels, and that SD was 1.3333. Heck, it even says so right there in Photoshop when you create a new doc. SD 601 NTSC 720×540. Or Standard NTSC DV 720×534.
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You can get 20+ minutes of DV25 material on a DVD. Why not just put full quality DV quicktimes on the DVD. I know you mentioned one “chapter” might be 30 minutes, but find a way. Or if they can reconnect 2 parts. But that alone seems to be your problem. You can 5 minutes of DV25 material into every gig. With 4+ gigs on a standard DVD-R seems like you could take them 3-5 DVD-Rs. Each with 1 or 2 sections on it.
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So what if you DO, and it doesn’t work. Wasn’t that a try? :/
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I think you’re confusing the investigation about the samsung deal with apple for the flash rom chips for the nano. I heard they’re being investigated for that as well.
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Or highlight the sequence in the bin and do a find (cmd+f) and find all unused footage in sequence. Then, in the resulting bin, highlight all the footage and choose make offline, and select to delete it.
HOWEVER, be careful. If you have nested sequences, you’ll need to highlight them in the bin as well. The “find unused” command ignores nested sequences for some reason.
And like anything else, double check and make sure the clips you’re about to delete aren’t used.
Alternatively, a neat trick is to do a “find used” command and label the clips with a particular color. Then, in all your bins, if a shot has been used, it’ll be labeled that color.
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WD is a brand. You still haven’t mentioned if they’re ATA, SATA, FW, FW800, etc. If they’re external Firewire, then that’s your problem. I’m surprised you were able to capture DVCPro50. The internal would be faster, but I’m not sure of the exact specs. You’re going to need FW800, SATA, or UltraSCSI raid most likely.
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In your post you twice said you were only using DV25 (DV-PAL, DVCPro are both DV25 formats). You only mentioned DVCPro50 once at the end.
If the formats are confusing you then yeah, somewhere in there that’s probably your issue. For example, if you’re really using DVCPro50 then your drive speed is probably your issue. What drives are you using? Standard ATA or FW drives are probably not going to cut it.
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Everybody says that but my canvas always matches my NTSC monitor. I have never understood these comments. Never has it occurred to me that it looks good in the NTSC, but bad on the canvas. If anything, photoshop files and titles look crisp on the canvas, but on the NTSC monitor they’ve been subject to DV compression and start to look like crap, whilst in the canvas they are full rez RGB.
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Skip Tiger and just install QT 7, then FCP 5 and you’ll have a rock solid system. I can’t speak for Tiger, but it seems that not doing a clean install of Tiger has caused many probs.
I’m rock solid with 10.3.9, QT 7, FCP 5, and a dual 1GHZ G4 MDD.