Charles Roberts
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old rev of the card was causing the problem.
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Kristian is checking on another factor for me right now, so my issue may have to do with an early version of the card. Will report back if its related.
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Intensity prefs don’t allow anything other than HDMI in for the card. Resolution and rate are matched 720P59.94. Deck is outputting the signal. Intensity is only getting intermittant frames through to its own app and FCP not at all.
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Back in FCP 3, the scopes showed you the active window, Viewer or Canvas. Current frame is all that mattered. Then they “fixed” it so that it was always the canvas unless you went to a teeny tiny pulldown and went all the way to the bottom of that menu and changed it to Viewer, and then went back and changed it back to canvas when you are done. What a hassle. And it was obviously possible in the beast three version numbers back on a graphite G4 in OS9!
Its not stupid when you just don’t like a feature. Its stupid when a feature you like is taken away without apparent reason.
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The feature you’re looking for is in FCP 6. I think probably in FCP 5 you’d get nothing, since it has to scale and reformat to output via that pipe and FCP couldn’t do that. But in FCP 6, you can output HDV right out the SD Firewire pipe with three caveats:
1) it looks like, how shall I put it, crap… The scaling is almost arbitrary looking. Still, its a realtime preview with no green or red bar
2) the frame rate of the HDV must match the frame rate of the output device. That means 30P or 60i going to NTSC and no 24P (since there’s no pulldown to make it work)
3) You’ll get a headache looking at the rippling lines from the mismatched vertical resolution and any high contrast diagonals. I can’t imagine how bad it looks on a consumer monitor.
Seriously, the feature is there, but skip pizzas for a few months and buy an MXO o.r other cheap true downconversion device. Your eyes will thank you
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find out what you need to deliver on and figure a good way to get to that. HDV is not a mastering format. Its an acquisition and (sometimes) editing format. No facility I know of will take HDV, and for good reason. Generate a QuickTime Movie of the thing (lossless, not conversion) then find a way to get it to the format you need. Find a nice person who owns either an AJA or BlackMagic or Matrox box and get them to output it for you to the tape format you really want.Or stick with a QuickTime Movie file that can be re-purposed in nearly any way you can think of
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Log and capture, do not capture now. When you log clips, make SURE you don’t create a clip that spans a start/stop camera pause and give yourself healthy number of frames (seconds) from any sort of timecode break or start of tape.
If you get a “stream error” write off that section of the clip on the tape and re-log it, you’ll never get those frames back no matter how many frustrating hours you put into it.
On the set, slate your takes and you’ll always have enough head at the start of your shots to avoid problems.
BE REALLY CAREFUL WITH YOUR TAPES!
Clean your tape heads and then NEVER mix tape stocks! EVER!
If you have the money, get a Matrox MXO for monitoring. Its worth it in ways you won’t understand till you work with it (because there’s no other native way to look at the HD version you are cutting than DCDP, and DCDP kinda blows for anything other than roughing.
You don’t need the raids for speed, but a mirrored drive set aint a bad idea with this stuff.
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yeah, I agree which is why I’m running through a Matrox, but the dude did ask the question. Not everyone has online quality monitoring for roughing content.
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720P24 HDV in the easy setup. You have to do it that way, or you won’t get the HDV capture window. Do this for Firewire capture. Also, if you are shooting with that camera and you want to be able to edit do NOT shoot principle photo in 720P60 or you will cry. Effects shots sure, but you can only edit 24P or 30P in a sequence. And record lots of head and tail on each shot. Trust me.
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Paul mentioned this feature at the supermeet, and here’s from the new features list:
“External Video Monitoring
You can now output to external video interfaces whose settings don