[Buck Kahler]

I’m not positive this will work, but it might:
1. Export your edited audio from your 29.97 timeline at 48kHz
2. Bring that back into your 23.98 timeline

In theory it should sync up, but check it carefully. Let me know if this works.
-Buck

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN

[Buck Kahler]

Thanks Rolf, if it had been a snake it would have bit me.
Thanks to Robb too: my problem was not making a proxy path for EACH folder I was creating in the proxy media folder. We’re trying to keep it all organized and since we’re just starting out I think we’re on the right track. CatDV is an amazing product, but I wish the documentation was more robust. The reference guide is more “it can do this” rather than “this is HOW you can do this.”
Buck

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN

[Buck Kahler]

We’re using the default settings for making the proxies (Motion jpeg).

I’m just trying to get a good archiving workflow going. Basically, it’s something like this:
1.)Take finished project folder with all media associated with it and break it into 300gb “backup folders.” (We have a Quantum DLT, so that’s the size limit.) I name the backup folder the same as the Quantum cartridge it will go onto.
2.) I take that backup folder and ingest it into CatDV, then make the proxies.
3.) The editing drive containing the backup folder is then ejected and hooked up to the Quantum and away we go.

The idea is we’d always have proxies of our footage online and quickly be able to find what we’re looking for and later pull the full-rez versions from the Quantum tapes.

(Were you ever able to upload the tutorials you were hoping to put on the Cow? That would be so excellent!)

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN

[Buck Kahler]

I used Path, but I’m not sure I’m doing it right. I’ve created a folder on the Promise RAID called “CatDV Proxies.” That raid is always connected to the Mac Mini system that has CatDV on it, so it’s not offline.
In the “Old Proxy Location” I connect it to the drive with the original media on it. In the “new proxy location” line I connect it to the CatDV Proxy folder on our Promise raid. Is that the right way to use this preference?

What’s strange is that even using the “Find proxy in finder” doesn’t work. CatDV doesn’t even see the proxies when I can look directly at them, open them and play them.

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN

[Buck Kahler]

I’ve noticed that I see the grain quite a bit when my scene is too bright and I try stopping down on the HVX. Keep the lens wide open and make your adjustments on the HVX. I find that if you’re trying to stop down below f4, you probably need to put on some ND. If the ND on the HVX is too much, look for some cheap ND for the lens itself.
-Buck

[Buck Kahler]

Yes, we always protect the card before offloading it. The footage on the card is fine, it’s just the footage from the “exported” files that has the dropout. Shows up both in P2CMS and FCP as dropout. We use the AJ-PCD20 card readers hooked up with Firewire 800 cables. The card reads fine; we can make disk images from them this way and the footage that comes in is okay. It just seems to happen with the export function out of P2CMS. It’s pretty consistent, I’ve seen it with footage from both our HVX200’s and the HPX500’s we have.

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN

[Buck Kahler]

Yeah, I have HDLog at home and it works for offloading. Here, however, I’m limited to freeware. The way we’ve been trying to offload the cards using P2CMS is by using the “Export” function. This results in a new P2 card-like file structure in whatever folder we desire. However, the dropout issue won’t go away when we do it this way. (Not allowed to post still, sorry.) What is the preferred method of offloading cards using P2CMS?

Buck Kahler
Oak Ridge, TN