[Colin Mcquillan]

I have an AJA card, so all my monitoring goes through that,, but a while back, before i got the card I rented a M15U for a project, and had the same problem, no playback, only still image when playback stopped. After “reading the manual” I found that you cannot watch realtime NLE playback of HDV material via firewire to the deck until output or the timeline is conformed or something of the sort.

[Richard Clark] “I have the same set up and was using it with P2 a month ago and it worked seemlessly. I will dig out the deck, I am moving house as I edit a short film, and check what I did,R.”

Perhaps you can with P2 material. I imagine you convert the P2 material to something other than HDV?

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

If I understand correctly there is no real time playback monitoring of HDV VIA a firewire deck. You need either a AJA/BM capture card or an MXO

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

reformat your drive to OSX extended

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

there are a few ways, and depends on whether the shot is locked off, and how much the boom moves around.

If shot is locked and you have a piece of video where the boom isn’t in the shot you should be able to crop/matte that video and throw on top of the boom affected area. If the shot is handheld I’d be looking at motion tracking in Motion or AE.

Aswell, cloning and feathering works great in some situations, and key action isn’t passing behind the area in question.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

where is the media playing back from on each system?

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

I’ve been running a pair of KRK Rokit 5’s through a Mackie 1202-VLZ3 for the passed 6 months or so and am thoroughly impressed.
It would be nice to have the $$ to throw down on some gelelecs, but at about $300 a pair, the KRK’s are great. Exceeded my expectations for sure.
And I understand they have recently released generation 2 of the same speaker at the same price-point. I haven’t compared the gen1’s I have to the gen2’s, but they claim improvements over the previous generation. I however prefer the look of the gen1’s

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[ed sully] “Actually the problem is quite simple, you bought a mac. “

ha,, still sour-apples about you’re impossible problem of FCP altering your source files?

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

[Matt Kerstein] “All three of our AJA LHe systems are doing this..”

Doing which?? freezing on playback in the canvass, or strobing green frames? If freezing playback in the canvas is your trouble, this will have nothing to do with your Kona cards. It will be either a system performance issue, or a disk drive throughput issue.

If you are experiencing strobing green fames, and it’s only happening on your external monitor, and not in the canvas, which is happening to me, then have a look at your reference signal. If you are not sending a reference signal to your Kona and other external equipment, make sure the ref signal in the AJA Control Panel is set to “FREE RUN” Otherwise you will see your external monitors jump around a bit here and there.

If you are sending black burst/colour bars to your kona card, be sure to send it to your external monitor, and be sure your Kona card is set up to accept the reference signal in the AJA Control panel.

As for my solution, well,, I shut the system down for lunch, came back and everything was running normal again…

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Whatever the issue, it’s gone away and playback is back to normal again….

Hopefully for good!

There must have been something going on in the background eating up either throughput from my raid, or processor power,, but I couldn’t find the cause….

Doesn’t look like the plugs i’ve installed are the culprits either,, I hope…

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.

[Colin Mcquillan]

Rendering gives me perfect playback, but, rendering all the time not really an option here, as I would be rendering all day… I leave finished sequences open for render when gone for lunch/dinner, overnight when needed. None of the open sequences I am currently working on have previous renders attached unless occasionally going over certain precision edits.

Sequences are pseudo multi-cam. 5-7 ISO’s with layers not on set 100% transparent, some PIP here and there, and 2-4 layers of GFX over top (pot totals, hand cards. percentages)
(oops, guess i lied in my original post, not all footage is ProResHQ as I stated, GFX are Animation .mov’s rendered out from Motion**)

It’s the GFX that cause the orange line. Green line over all the prores only parts.

Once picture is locked, I will delete all the 100% transparent clips, but need it there until then.

Any hu, the fact that the orange line is there isn’t of concern. I expect it to be there. But the way playback hangs all of a sudden without anything in the sequence being different.
Before this started happening, the sequence would playback fine for preview purposes, happily skipping frames as it needs to playback. Now it plays a couple seconds (2-6) then hangs on a frame for 6 seconds or so before jumping to the next, then another hang… add in the strobing green and pink frames every so often,,, hum…..

** Side note, GFX were originally all going to be made as motion projects, so they could be dynamically altered, and imported as such into FCP, but FCP crashed hard when I tried to import a couple hundred little motion projects into one FCP project, crazy ram filling failures.

Colin McQuillan
Van. B.C.