Chadwick Chennault
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David, I too have a Spyder(3elite), and I would be interested in how you used yours to set up your monitors. I have a 2407 rev2. I have calibrated it several times using the NTSC profile that came with the Spyder software. Everytime I calibrate I get something RADICAllY different.
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I am going to jump in on Walter’s side here. 😉
I have pulled good keys from EX1/EX3 footage… BUT… the Panasonic Footage is VERY superior when it comes to pulling easy, fast keys.
The EX footage will create a nice key, but with a lot more effort and monkeying than the Panni stuff requires. I find that chroma blur is an absolute requirement for EX footage.
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The switch I have is a GS108v2.
The special ethernet cable I referred to in my previous post is called a crossover cable. Duh!
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I am inclined to believe that the problem is with your network set up. In my personal uneducated and frequently incorrect opinion, RAID tuning is a bunch of hooey that vendors dish out to get us to spend $10,000 on $2,000 worth of equipment. Sorry Walter… no offense intended.
Here are a couple of things to check. First, are all your systems connecting as Gigabit? I have one machine in my set up that has to be coaxed to connect to my switch at Gigabit speeds.
Secondly, does your switch support what you are attempting. There is a special cable you can use to connect your two systems without going through the switch. I forget the terminology for the cable, it’s basically a standard Ethernet cable with two of the internal wires switched on one end. The guy at the computer shop should be able to help you if you do not already know what I am speaking of. If your set up works minus the switch then Bob’s your uncle.
I use a Netgear switch, but it is one that I thoroughly researched before purchasing. Typically, Netgear sells consumer grade crap that you do not want anywhere near a pro editing set up.
Specifically, you want a switch that will support Jumbo Frames. To work with DV, you won’t necessarily need Jumbo Frame support, but it won’t hurt things either. To use Jumbo frames, you will have to manually configure all your Ethernet connections in System Preferences.
Finally, all are your Ethernet cables absolutely known good Cat-5e or Cat-6 cables. Poor quality, incorrect, or worn out cables are the source of many networking headaches.
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There is also a setting in Sequence Settings under the Render Control tab for rendering all XDCAM footage as ProRes. This allows you to work in native XDCAM but render effects and transitions as ProRes.
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My 2¢… stay far, far away from Leopard. In my humble opinion, it’s the OS 9 of OS X.
I run FCS 2.0 under 10.4.11 on hardware similar to yours. I run FCS under 10.5.4 (had to downgrade form 10.5.6 to get things functional) on a late 2007 MacbookPro with nothing but heartache and headache.
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Thanks. I haven’t worked with DVCproHD since ProRes came out. I appreciate the update.
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Kyle’s suggestions are excellent.
What format does the footage exist in right now? In most cases, I keep my footage in it’s native format when moving from FCP to AE as AE can read pretty much any format FCP can read.
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Another trick that may get you through until you have time to “downgrade:” Turn thumbnails off on your sequences. You can do this by setting “Thumbnail Display” to “Name” under the “Timeline Options” tab in “Sequence Settings.”
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[Andrei Bocharnikov] “I am sorry… how I downgrade to 10.5.4? Do you mean to reinstall whole system from the scratch?”
Yes.