Christopher Wright
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Also make sure you select the panasonic HD varicam 23.98 easy set-up and check remove duplicate frames on import. This has worked for me for 6 months now without fail!
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See my post further down. It is a Quicktime bug introduced again with 7.13.
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This is the old Quicktime bug. Go to Library/Receipts folder and select all the quicktime 6-7.13 entries and delete. You then have to go and download the latest version of Quicktime (7.13) and your firewire machine control will come back!
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I have been using the Firestore since March and have had no problems with any “stuttering” footage when using 720p24fps within FCP. I am using the Kona LH card and the footage plays out flawlessly, (whether I use a 720p23.98 or 720p59.97 Easy setup for DVCPROHD!). No rendering is required. The only problem I ever had was the “missing frame” problem with longer continuous clips when importing 720p24 into a FCP timeline (BTW, always check “remove duplicate frames”). There was never a problem with the 1080i clips. This is supposedly fixed in the latest patch. I just shot a long form piece tonight using all 111 gigs of storage at 720p24frames! I’ll let you know soon if the latest patch fixed the 720p24fps import problem!
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No Panasonic will milk the high price of the P2 proprietary cards as long as they can, until the other more affordable solutions finally surface. Grass Valley has the right idea with the REV drive data solution. 1.3K for 8 gigs of storage really is absurd in todays market. That is why I went the Firestore route until the Cineporter comes out!
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I’m not sure if this is what you are referring to, but all old professional broadcast decks, (1″ Sony BVH-2000’s, Betacams) have a floating/moving black sync bar (horizontal hold in your words??) during dubbing, the signal is fine during playback. This has freaked out many clients (and several video production newbies) if they were in my studio while I was outputting the final Masters to either Betacam or 1″ tape, but when viewing the actual playback off tape, they are of course very happy!
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How does the jimmy box help you with sound dampening?? It looks like a nice mount, but I have had the FS-100 cable 6 ft. away from the camera and you still get the fan noise. Is there another piece to the jimmy box that insulates the Firestore??
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I guess my main question is the quality of the HD-SDI out using the DVI output on the Macbook Pro. My application would be playing back HD footage downloaded from a HVX-200, so I need no ingest. I am wondering if the output quality would be as high as the Kona LH, and could be output fine to an HD deck. I have both the IO and LH and of course use them for all the reasons you listed above, it would just be great if this specific application with the Macbook Pro would work.
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Leif,
Definitely shoot and edit in the 1080I, 24 frame preset, especially when working with the Firestore drive. I have found that the missing frame issues when recording in 720p24 with the Firestore do not occur when using 1080i. Definitely keep with that workflow and you should be fine.
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I know PBS won’t accept any HDV material for an HD broadcast, and will only accept a certain amount of B-roll from the HDV format cut into true HD shows, but there is no issue with the HVX-200 as it is not mpeg-2 encoded. Here PBS accepts it as true HD for broadcast.