Chris Paul
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Hah! I started at a station in a town so small you couldn’t see it if the wheat was too high. I edited on 4 RCA 2″ quads arranged in a square. Editing consisted of rolling a large reel on the record machine while running (I mean physically running) in a loop. I would load the first player by throwing the tape in heads while they were spinning without “zinging” them, cueing up the spot by audio (no video preview), back timing by turning the reels by hand, rolling the player, dashing to the recorder to punch the player into it via the attached switcher, dash to the the next player, load, cue , play, dash to recorder & punch in, dash to the 1st player & rewind, dash to the 3rd player etc. I did this every night from midnight to 8am, in addition to running audio for the news, maintaining the production van and sweeping the floor. If one or more of the VTR’s broke down (as they often did), I would paint the tape with magnetic slurry and cut between the sync dots with a razor blade. If the Chryon broke, I would stick letters on a resaurant menue board. I was eventually fired because the station manager’s nephew wanted my job. Looking back on it, he was welcome to it.
Now that equipment is vastly cheaper I own my own business and have time for the really important things, like raising my son. For me the god old days are great for stories but I would never go back.
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Thank you for the personal response. And a big thank you to the Cow!
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Wow- I don’t know if it was you or if they finally got their act together but I just got a call from Boris sales and they gave me the correct code. Now we will see if object cache issue clears up…
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The 100 has a bug resulting in these seperate clips if you capture 720p via firewire. JVC has a free upgrade program to fix this. All currently shipping models have this fixed (model 100a). You could also use a capture card with analog component HD input like the ones from Blackmagic & AJA- I have had good resuts with this.
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The Blackmagic Multibridge extrme also works for this in the same way as the Kona LH- that is, converting the component analog HD output of the deck into the format you want. Not as good as direct support of 720p24 or 25 but flexible & fast.
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While FCP does not take full advantage of more than 4 gigs of RAM or even all 4 processors, the G5 quad really shines when running several things at once. I am particualarly happy at how well it runs FCP and Motion at the same time, especially if you have good graphics cards ( I went with the 7800 in the 16x slot and the 6600 in the 8x).
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Magni Systems keeps saying that they will have a rasterizing HD solution. Perhaps at this NAB… There are very nice folks to deal with and their products are comparatively affordable. If they finally come out with an HD model it would certainly be worth a look…
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Just wondering if it wouldn’t be simpler to export from FCP directly into WM9 via Flip4Mac. I send 384k WMV’s to my customers every day this way and they love it. Since Flip4Mac works as a quicktime plugin you can also use Compressor to batch process if you prefer.
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Ahh-
Once again, it would help if I read the documentation more carefully. Yes, it works exactly as you describe. As I am doing a lot of 720p, it looks like it’s time to set my CRT monitor aside for a while as it does not do progressive display. I’ll use a cinema display on the DVI port instead (which is what I should have been doing anyway- I’m just used to setting colors with the CRT).
Thank you for the good advice!
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A couple of helpful things- the Convention Center is on the monorail line and you can often get cheaper rooms in hotels that do not have casinos. I got a mini-condo with kitchen & living room for $103/night. It’s in the middle of the strip and has direct access to the monorail. I fould it via Hotels.com. I also find it helpful to look at several on-line maps to get an idea of how to find things, including the hotel map and the Las Vegas visitors & convention bureau map.
The rates at the Las Vegas Hilton jump to $600 a night during NAB- that’s gouging if I’ve ever seen it.
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