[Dan Riley]

Thanks very much for the feedback.
Very good news about the speed tester spikes.
And I’ll try the setting change you mentioned Walter, because we won’t be
doing much uncompressed HD I don’t think. Probably DVCPRO HD and
Pro Res. But I haven’t editing ANYTHING in HD yet, so I don’t know for sure.
Right now, our first project on the new system will be an SD show
with SD footage. Of course THAT show will use uncompressed, but
10 bit SD, not HD.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I got the Sonnet D800 8TB unit on Friday. With the AJA speed tester it shows
500 MB/s uncompressed and lower with DVCPRO HD. I wanted to ask someone
like you guys if I should worry about the spikes I see on the testing chart
that show some very low speeds for a frame or two, then it’s back up at the
high speed again. Is this something that’s normal? Do you see similar
charts with your Maxx unit?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

It ran fine today during testing. Maybe those spikes aren’t as big a deal
as it seems. I’ll ask around first of the week and post what I find out.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks.
I’ll be installing my new system this weekend and see how it goes.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

We could use a bit more info first.
What’s your system and what OS?
Which version of FCP?
How are you capturing…. SDI through AJA or Black Magic card or Firewire?
Which deck are you using?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Walter.
When you say small yellow cassette, do you happen to mean the medium size
cassette? That’s what I’m told to buy. The medium 66 min, AJ-P66M.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

You should be able to go firewire to firewire, yes. But every DVD recorder
is different, just like DV cameras. Some DVD recorders will recognize FCP directly
and others won’t. You just have to try it. How do you get video into your
DVD recorder now?

And doing it this way, you really shouldn’t have to render. If your clip is DV and your timeline is DV, dropping the timecode filter on the sequence will probably give you that light green (full) color not the bright green (preview) color. So the quality should be fine. The “preview” color means it might not be full resolution going out, however the “ful”l color means it’s ok.
But if you were doing an edit to tape or exporting a quicktime, then you’d have to
render in both cases. You need all blue lines for any exporting or editing to tape.

dr

[Dan Riley]

You don’t do anything different as far as FCP is concerned.
If you can play your timeline out to your DV deck, I’d run e to e, out of your DV deck
into your DVD recorder. Use the composite out of your DV deck into your DVD recorder.
You can’t input component into DVD recorders, only the composite inputs.
Monitor the output of your DVD recorder while doing this so you know what you are recording.
As for editing to tape at the same time…well you’ll have to render your sequence
before FCP will let you do that, so you really are losing the advantage of real time
playback into the DVD recorder.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Yeah, going HD is nice for that type of thing.
The stills the print people want for their marketing pieces (like you mention)
are pretty good from 1910 by 1080 pixel video.

dr