[Cable Guy]

Thanks guys, most helpful.

To answer your question about HD, I do have one of the decks, but the main issue is that the client needs to get 500 DVDs pumped out by Thursday. They are having someone else crank out a quick edit and DVDs (user guide). Apparently they can only ingest Beta or MiniDV. I am tackling the demo, show floor version. To accomodate timeline and other guy, they are recording in DV on the Z1. Normally I would get HDV and go from there. Where is the logic police?

Since you opened the can? Capture Native HDV, into HDV timeline, then ? self contained QT again (1440×1080?), compressor to get it down for SD widescreen?

Thanks, I love this place, I could read posts all day…but it would get me fired.
The help is greatly appreciated.

[Cable Guy]

I know I am just getting started with all this video stuff, but there is a product Ultra2 https://www.seriousmagic.com/products/ultra/index.cfm that I have used a little.

Via Firewire to a PC it allows you different virtual sets to use. You just need to create your own, background set if there is a specifc one you want.

Might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but it does let you swap live.

Again, I am a novice, but my cameras have a firewire out and I just pump it into a pretty good laptop, them out to a monitor.

Hope this is what you’re talking about.

[Cable Guy]

Thanks for all the great info. I think the clap/slate will work well for me. Sync on the audio and video. Although a wired/hardware solution is interesting and follows our current path of buy gear to figure things out, I probably should rely on, and improve my skills to do it in the edit process first. Having done some audio editing prior to jumping into video I should be OK.
Great points, direction, and process. As the jack of all I better learn to solve it through practice.
Thanks a ton.
The cable guy.

[Cable Guy]

Decks: Sony DSR 11, and M10U (the HD match for the Z1U camera)

No capture card, as all the footage on tape is coming from the Sony HDV tapes, and anything else is VCR/DVD into the same deck, Non controllable device, via S-Video input.

I only have the DSR 11 in case I use some of the bigh 184min DVCAM for loading historical stuff.

The problem occurs as such:
Succesfully working on a standard def project, diging, editing and everything. I open an HD project and immediately I get the warning of device not connected and it shows the setting as DV 48K NTSC.

The only way to get control of the deck, or capture back is to blow away the FCP prefs and then when it starts up, prompted for preferences, put in HDV 1080 settings.

The machine is a G5, dual 2.5, 4 Gigs, fiber to a Raid with 3.9Tb of space left.
I thought by plugging in both decks and using the DSR11 for SD and the M10U for HD on different Firewire ports I would get around it. It seems to be right at the app launch level.
Latest FCP, OS X 10.4 (I have the SD Kona I/O sitting Idle)

Thanks in advance for the help.
Mac.

[Cable Guy]

Thanks all. I guess I don’t really need it. Both VTRs I use have firewire. Anything I am pulling from anything else can go into the inputs on those.
Thanks.
Mac.

[Cable Guy]

Cool. Thanks, doing that now.

Mac.

[Cable Guy]

OK,
I have got it playing, and have Window Media Encoder on my PC. What I have done is export through Quicktime Conversion to AVI and then it will play the AVI either in QTime or Media Player. The color is still a little crappy.

So do you think using the suggested Flip4Mac product will provide a better result.

Mac.