Bret Williams
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I’m still trying to figure out how he’s going to spend 6 grand without buying monitors. Is he including the price of the software?
Get some good off brand RAM, don’t pay Apple for it. In fact, I’d probably get it all at Mac Mall or one of those places where they throw in double Ram and other goodies. No sales tax either. Free shipping sometimes too. Update the card. Maybe get another SATA internal and raid them together. What are we up to, $4000? $4500?
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Yeah. You can fix that with a camera adjustment when you’re shooting. Ask that director. That’s the kinda stuff he should know about. It’s called clearscan I think, and basically it’s a setting on the camera where the shutter is adjusted until it matches the frame rate of the monitor. But you can’t pan the camera during the shot usually. A better solution is to set the monitors at 60khz, and set the camera at 1/60th shutter speed. You might get a very slow roll that you can often shoot around. The camera can be panned with this setting.
I don’t know how you fix this one in post. But I’m sure it can be done. Might take as long as reshooting, but you can say you fixed it in post. Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe there’s a magic filter.
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No surprise there. The standard specs for SATA are much higher than FW800.
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DV footage and IO footage always looks crisp to me. There’s latency and some strobing, but that’s all really. Maybe some minor softness, but it’s not like watching DV in QT without the high quality setting.
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Such a bizarre question. Wouldn’t a better question be… “Why would you use compressed video?” To which the answer used to be “because we couldn’t use uncompressed, the machines are too slow and the drive space would be too expensive.”
Jared, the simple answer is it looks better. Why do you shoot DV instead of VHS?
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Dave, don’t worry. FCP supports the feature. Just not your card, that’s why they’re greyed out.
And FCP records the settings for each individual clip, so this WOULD be the correct way to do it if Decklink permitted. Unless a tape is royally screwed, the incorrect way would be to adjust gain with a mixer manually for each clip. That is a sure fire way to make it impossible to batch capture.
That all being said. I generally capture everything normalized. The way it was shot. Then do all mixing within FCP. I use dv or IO. Neither supports changing the gain upon capture.
I too used Avid and Media 100. Those are turnkey systems. One system fits all. With an open system you get rapid development and more options. Not everyone takes advantage. I think Cinewave took advantage of the audio gain. Cinvewave was most similar to the older systems like media 100 and avid where the effects were performed by the card.
Even back then I captured everything normalized.
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Well yes, that part should go unsaid since those are edit marks and you’re performing an edit. All the standard rules apply. You’re just performing a regular old edit. Just happens that you’re getting the source for the edit FROM the timeline.
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Are you always placing your text or animation on a whole number y coordinate? For example 102, not 102.37
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SATA is faster than FW800. Pretty much the same price. For me, it’s a no brainer.
You’ll get 5 min per gig with DV video. Uncompressed is about a minute per gig and 10 bit uncompressed even less.
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Are your settings the same in both? Notably the height. 720×480 or 720×486.