[Charles Wannop]

While I totally agree with the spirit of your argument Phill, as has been stated before the actual discrepancy is only a few bucks and in my opinion not really worth fighting.
Contrast that to say, the thousands of dollars difference between the cost of a certain automated tape backup system (US vs Aussie street price).

As a business owner, the GST is a matter of cash-flow. Yes I have to pay it, but the Tax department give it back again (sorry – an overly simplified description of the input-credit system I know) so as long as I have something with Tax Invoice on the top I can claim it.

Oh and the Aussie App store is quite clear on the tax thing…

“The amounts payable for Service transactions are expressed inclusive of GST and each such amount includes an amount equal to the GST payable in respect of the supply to which the amount relates. If the rate of GST payable changes before the licensed Product is downloaded, the new tax rate in effect at the time of download will apply and the total amount payable will be increased or decreased so the economic benefit to Apple remains the same, irrespective of the change in rate of GST. No customers are eligible for tax exemptions for transactions made on the Services.”

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

Thanks Brent,
The crazy thing is the “Tax Invoice” title on the receipt…
I think Apple *may* have other things on their mind atm. but I will ask the question 🙂

Charles

[Charles Wannop]

Go for it 🙂

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

Thanks Doug,
Ok so they do still exist on the Sandisk site… but that seems to be the only way to see them in captivity. My usual suppliers are all listing them as “Discontinued”
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/617061-REG/SanDisk_SDSDX3_032G_A31_32GB_Extreme_SDHC_Memory.html

It is just too hard! Is the new “HD Video” branded card the same thing?
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/757925-REG/SanDisk_SDSDRX3_032G_A21_Extreme_SDHC_Class_10.html

So back to my question 🙂 What are people using (other than Sandisk Extreme C10)?

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

Yeah I meant to mention the PAN setting 🙂
I might pass this over the FCP experts – it looks like the clip’s audio settings take precedence over the sequence sequence pre-set.
Funny thing is, my KiPro does the opposite (leaves the clips with dual mono centre panned) and it drives me nuts 🙂 But in the long run it’s a pretty small inconvenience compared with having to trans-code or log and transfer.

c

[Charles Wannop]

It sounds like a Final Cut trick… click on the audio tracks then deselect “Stereo Pair” under the Modify menu. Tracks should now be separated.

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

Well maybe not “exactly” then…
I use PC/Mac vga or dvi/hdmi into scan converter (Hall research version of the Lindy) => KiPro and then I record it on the KiPro in either SD or 1080 ( I use a single audio track from the house PA to sync the slides and speaker).
After the conference I dump the sessions into Final Cut as a straight file load and the comp the slides with the speaker on a 720p time-line . My final outputs are mainly DVD or web based so the reduced res on the slides is acceptable when dealing with hour plus long presentations. Other wise a four day conference just produces too much data for my poor brain to handle.
Is your KiPro still saying “No Input”? What settings for the Macbook? If you plug monitor straight into back of Lindy – do you get a picture?

C

[Charles Wannop]

When you say “Didn’t work” … which bit?
I am doing exactly what you describe (except that I take a vga split from the projector feed…
So what are you getting out of the converter? I found that using the 720p50 output from the SC and down-verting with the Ki Pro so I end up recording SD slides at a reasonable appearance/file size tradeoff.
I have played with recording 1080 or 720p but found it wasn’t worth the pain.
I did have to play with the various SC output settings (remember the HDMI monitor?) to find something the KiPro was happy with (and I am in Australia so 25 or 50hz was necessary).

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

That one looks like another clone (or maybe the original) of the Hall Research converter that I bought. They work just fine BUT remember that you will need an HDMI input on your monitor – or else you can’t see the on-screen-menu to set up the conversion (guess how I know).

Charles.

[Charles Wannop]

I had some problems when I formatted the card in my Mac before loading into the camera – really spooky, but the fix was to either NEVER format in my Mac OR when the camera wants to re-format it , re-format it twice! As far as recovering the clip – I was able to sneak up on it with MPEG-Streamclip, I only lost a few seconds around the corrupt point in the file.
I also had “un-finalised” clip issues when I swapped cards too quickly – resulted in an unrecognised QT clip (as you have experienced) but the fix was just to put the card back into the camera – it recognised that the clip was un-finalised and prompted to fix it – which it did just fine. Have you tried using a USB link to the camera instead of reading the clip externally?

Charles.