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Caleb Crosby
January 25, 2009 at 1:29 am in reply to: delivering for broadcast- looking for advice

Craig,

I’m with ya on the miniDV aftertaste! sorry mate. I was shooting S16 film until last year and TKing on Spirit! then I went with EX1 (and sold my XTR 🙁 I’m actually not all that sorry but that’s another story..

No HD at station for local origination. They request to deliver on DVC. It’s the CW, I think they are national, but this is just a regional show. I’ve tested mpeg program streams but it was awhile ago
for another workflow. if it’s mpeg2 is it an advantage over a dvd?
would you think I’d just go to dvd as a QT file?

The station has a FCP suite but will charge me an hour to run from file to tape. They say they have to have tape!! I don’t know why.
The best format to deliver as a file would be dvcpro50 pro rezz?

it’s all so complex. I’m just a DP who can edit!!

Caleb Crosby
Caleb Crosby
January 25, 2009 at 12:37 am in reply to: can two editors work on same project – simply?

Shane,

Thanks for the steer. Can you advise on the project naming convention for shuttling to and fro between the two edit stations…?

Having a distinct names for each send is all that comes to my mind.

if you’ve done this in the past were there any gotchas or sleight of hand
tricks?

again,
caleb crosby
Caleb Crosby
January 25, 2009 at 12:16 am in reply to: can two editors work on same project – simply?

Thanks guys!

Walter I’ll look for that article. may upgrade.. if we stay on the air!

I’m going to buy the drives right away. I am looking at a sans digital hot swap, two enclosure Esata unit. Make sense? I figure I can mirror them and then remove when filled and keep just buying low cost sata drives.

Also “mirror” you mean that in a manual sense, right? I set them up with same name and directory path, I don’t need any special controller or what all eh?

appreciate it, Caleb
Caleb Crosby
December 5, 2008 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Exporting EX1 HD timeline to SD DVD in DVDSP

To follow up. This question of “dragging the sequence” vs. “copy and pasting” is in conflict on different forums. I don’t have the names at hand, but experienced people specifically suggest one or the other method and caution to only do it one way.

My question is why!?

Does anyone know what the difference actually is in the FCP engine?
Why should “copy and pasting” create an advantage for repositioning a clip?

Isn’t either method pointing to the exact same original media?

Many thanks,

Caleb
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Caleb Crosby
December 5, 2008 at 4:47 pm in reply to: HD looks like crap on youtube – what am I doing wrong?

I’m working on exactly the same issue today.
Right now I’m compressing as Craig suggests. You can view
it later today- I’ll provide the link.

It is 4 min of 1080P/24fps (EX1)422 color space. I’m compressing at 720P at 5000K DR. One question: Craig writes

“If you add &fmt=22”

Where exactly should this be added? At what point to I access this command string on the youtube interface? I’m pretty unfamiliar with the tricks there.

I’ve loaded clips at youtube before but never tried to do it right.
Heck, a year ago the was no right!

Caleb Crosby
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Caleb Crosby
July 21, 2008 at 1:55 pm in reply to: need to restore whacked sequences

Thanks for clarifying Gary.

I guess the world remains in Atlas’s hands for another day.

Tell me can you… I shoot 1080p but often mix off sync 720p footage in the same sequences. I’m currently using the XDCAM 1080p VBR setting.

Is there any advantage to using 422 over the XDCAM presets for mixing footage/rendering etc…?

I thought FCP 6 was supposed to handle mixed formats better. You could always do it with long renders!!

Thanks Caleb
Caleb Crosby
July 21, 2008 at 1:09 pm in reply to: need to restore whacked sequences

Jeremy,

thanks but everything I’ve read about the EX1 says it records in full res 1920×1080. the word “true” is bandied around a lot.

so i should be editing in a 1440 timebase?

what are others using?

I’ve read the manual. i read online. how screwed up can things get?
Is the english language still valid? Hell I’m recording at the setting of “1920” in the menu. and I know I have a 1440 (HDV) capture option.

I’ve not heard the 1440 size of the EX1 before now.

Dude!! Say it ain’t so.

Caleb Crosby
Caleb Crosby
July 20, 2008 at 9:34 pm in reply to: Projecting next week – any advice?

Thanks Dave,

The s300 looks like a great fix… just what I was hoping to find.
can I ask if you know a place I can send a firewire drive to have the file burned to a blu ray? I need a quick turnaround.

thanks, Caleb Crosby
Caleb Crosby
July 20, 2008 at 1:00 am in reply to: Projecting next week – any advice?

Turns out the Ken Stone trick is for dvd playback in a mac drive not as I supposed an HD DVD player (for 7 bucks on close out!)

So my revised plan is to buy a PlayStation which plays commercially replicated blu ray dvds. Assuming it will also play “burned” blu ray one offs- can anyone here burn a blu ray from a file I mail to you?

This might work….

Caleb Crosby
Caleb Crosby
July 19, 2008 at 5:32 pm in reply to: Projecting next week – any advice?

Steve,

Ken Stone has an online tutorial that shows how to master an HD DVD
disc on a dvd 5 (regular minus R) with DVDSP. My thinking is grab a dedicated player cheap (you can still find them online). Who cares if it’s “dead” technology if it can do the task at hand, eh?

I’m just not sure if I can get 45-50 min on one.

Blu Ray is my 1st choice but it’s really not here yet. Is it?

caleb

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