Chris Brown
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You’re 100% right there. We haven’t handed over a DVD daily/cut/anything during an edit for almost 2 years. Just finished a spot today, and the entire client review process for sound and picture was done via the internet.
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For standard definition work, we ingest everything on our Blackmagic system as DVCPRO50, even DigiBeta material. Unless you’re doing visual effects work, or doing lots of multi-generational renders/dubs, there’s no need to go Uncompressed. Even ProRes 422 would be fine. DVCPRO50 holds up well in Apple Color as well. If you use ProRes all the way through, you will have great results in Color also.
There’s just no reason to work Uncompressed unless absolutely necessary anymore – there are well seasoned, and a few new codec stars out there that are absolutely outstanding, keeping the quality there, and reducing file size.
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If I do a P2 ingest from DVCPRO HD 720p24PN, I just use a straight DVCPRO HD timeline. No render, no problem. Why are you sticking it in a ProRes timeline? Are you using lots of effects and multigenerational copies? DVCPRO HD should hold up fine.
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You can use compressed codecs, but they are more editing related codecs, and are based around tape formats.
DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50 and DVCPRO HD can be used natively in the timeline, and displayed on your Decklink Card without rendering.
However, distribution types of codecs (ones usually meant for content delivery – i’m stressing usually, because a couple cameras acquire in PhotoJPEG and JPEG2000, and Panasonic P2 is using a varient of H.264 called AVC) such as h.264, PhotoJPEG, Sorenson 3 and MPEG4 have not been supported by most editing I/O cards and systems. Even on an Avid you have to render out these types of codecs.
This is normal. Annoying at times, depending on what you’re doing, but normal.
Videographer/Editor
Creative Director
Union Digital, Inc.
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Well it depends. Are you running a RAID? If so, did it include drive management software? If not, I don’t believe there is any way at all to kill the drive’s write-cache. If you’re using an XServe-RAID, it’s in the RAID Admin Utility.
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Union Digital, Inc.
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Like it was mentioned before:
TV: Make sure your DVD Player is set to display for a 16:9 display. This is a setting in your DVD player. You have to tell it what kind of TV is connected to it.
PC: Your DVD player software will render the video appropriately based on your screen resolution dimensions. So if your PC display is 4:3 – you will see a letterbox. If it’s a “widescreen” PC display (most are 13:9 or 14:9) you will see a slight letterbox as well.
Videographer/Editor
Creative Director
Union Digital, Inc.
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You might want to check your hard drives. What kind of drives are you using? Is it a RAID? Can you turn off write-caching? I’ve had this problem before on captures of any format. Deck and tape were fine. Audio and video would get out of sync like you mentioned. It turned out that I had write-caching turned on. The Mac would fill the cache, then dump the data, effectively rendering the disc inaccessible until the process was done, and then getting my capture stream out of sync. This was on a XServe RAID. Once I turned off write-caching, I was able to do a direct data dump to the disk constantly.
If you’re not using a RAID, your drives might be slow, or need to be defragmented to open up large blocks of free space.
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Union Digital, Inc.
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With digital recording using formats such as XDCAM or P2, it is the proper thing for the camera to create separate clips when you start and stop record – that’s what you’re doing on tape, starting and ending. It’s doing the logical thing.
The one drawback is that you can’t just play straight through as you can on videotape.
The best solutions are stated above, throw it all in a timeline – hopefully one that has matching timecode, so you can log footage at the same time.
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Can you control the deck successfully from FCP? Is the 9 pin remote cable connected to your input card in your Mac?
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So you’ve laid back to this deck before via “Edit to Tape”?
Sorry to ask stupid questions:
1) Have you already pre-laid video and a TC track to tape (blacked the tape)?
2) Checked to see that you can get signal to the deck (video and audio)
3) Verified that your control signal is working properly on your remote cable?