Chris Brown
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What you might want to do is incorporate the cost of a drive for each project, that way you have a separate drive for each project. We do that, and it works out well, and makes it easy to grab what we need later instead of searching through files that aren’t related to the project we’re on.
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Completely agree. It’s the cheapest solution, and takes less time. Plus, when you need the footage or project again, you haven’t already degraded your sources footage.
Everyone tackles this differently. At one point, CBS had a contract with (now out of business) Southwest Television for sports archiving. They were doing encoding to MPEG2 and storing footage to DVD discs. Hopefully they kept the bitrate fairly high.
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You might have some success with a utility called MPEG Streamclip. It’s free, and opens almost anything, and transcodes to almost anything.
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Download the free utility MPEG Streamclip. You can open the VOB files (which are from DVDs) and transcode them to any format you want. I would suggest transcoding them to a DV stream at 25Mbps. If you know the aspect ratio, you can set that as well. The only issue would be if the video is 23.98fps on the DVD. Then you should export to a QuickTime movie – and I would recommend DV/DVCPRO or DVCPRO50 as the compressor. You can then import the clips into Final Cut for editing.
One other note – make sure you have Apple’s MPEG2 Playback plugin installed – it’s $20 from the Apple store online. It lets you view MPEG2 files, such as those from DVD’s.
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Ok I see. You know I’ve never tried playing back the proxies before above 1080i/23.98fps. I import the proxies I want, and I can do instant playback on mine without render. However, I have never tried that at 2K over HDMI yet. Good point.
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I’m glad they were able to help you. I have to power down and plug back in my MultiBridge every few weeks – I think it just hangs after a while.
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It’s one single path at one time. So a signal is going in…and then it’s being spit back out…well wait a minute…
Have you tried hooking it up via USB to a Mac or PC and using their configuration utility? If not, do that and see if you can activate the different inputs and outs to specific signal flows. You might be able to configure it to do that…but you need the software. It’s on their website and it’s free.
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And they weren’t even willing to lead you to a supplier? Hmmm…that’s a bit shady.
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I had an issue “like” this when my video card got hosed in my MacPro. I had to reinstall Tiger, and I tried to transfer the drivers in…didn’t work. So I was out of date anyways, so I ran the upgrade…I had no video out…
I ended up doing a complete uninstall of all BlackMagic files. I did a couple of restarts, and then I ran the new installer from scratch. I got it working at that point.
Do you have to be on Leopard? Have you done an uninstall and reinstall from scratch with the BlackMagic installers?
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I have a Multibridge Extreme, and I can do 2K via the DVI/HDMI out. What connections do you have on the Pro? Do you have a DVI or HDMI out on the Pro?
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