[Dan Riley]

Go down the post list a bit for a discussion I started on this very subject
just last week. I think you’ll find it very helpful.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I’m with Boris above.
Set your GOP for 7 (the lower number).
This made all the difference for me.
Now I have no problems on any pans or transition effects.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

What about using the Blackmagic Intensity card? It’s only $250 or $350 if you want
component outputs. If your camera has an HDMI connector, this may be an nice choice.
I haven’t used one though.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Decisions decisions….
Steady speed is important of course.
I notice their graphs for their 5 drive line are also pretty steady.
Could it be the CalDigit card is the key to this?
The Fasta 4e card could be used if I bought a Burly 8 drive set up too.
But the new HDPro, that’s a different card, one that does multiple RAIDs.

They have told dealers they are shipping the HDPro so hopefully
someone will get ahold of one and do some comparisons.
We won’t be buying until July.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Oh, now Shane, new info there.
The HD Pro is networkable?
And it’s not eSATA?
What is it?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

The Sony 570 is DVCam and you can select drop or non drop frame timecode.

The good news is, your footage is probably fine.
The bad news is, you will have to sync up all your multiclips using
in-points instead of just having it match the timecode of all your
cameras. It takes MUCH longer to make your multiclips, but
you still have all your video. When this happens to me I just find a spot
on the start of each segment or take, where the first word or sound
is easy to match. Then I back up an equal number of seconds from each take
and set my in point. It works, but simultaneous timecode is obviously
much easier to deal with.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I’ve always been successful by setting the capture to “warn after capture” but
you say you did that and it caused timecode errors. This suggests it
may very well be the timecode generator. Have you tried recording
a segment with one of the cameras using record run internal timecode
then try capturing that? And what cameras are you using?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

What bothers me is you say if you tell FCP to warn after capture,
and then the timecode in your captures is somehow different from
the timecode on the tape, well now this is interesting.
Non drop or drop should make no difference, so don’t worry about that
as part of your problem.

What deck are you using?
How are you getting video/audio into FCP?
How are you getting timecode into FCP?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Todd, how about posting that link.
Thanks,

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Shane.
I’ll be one of your first batch of sales.
I truly did not expect controversy over my comment.
I guess the spirit in which it was intended got lost somewhere.
I apologize for this whole thing taking away from your product intro.

Regards,
Dan