[Dan Riley]

Re: Lyric Photo Zoom Pro.
I downloaded their demo, and I think I like it better than Photo to Movie
because it’s within FCP, which save some time.
I’ll have to test it on my office system with the uncompressed 10 bit
card, but it looks good.
This is why I love forums.
Too bad we didn’t have them in the 70s.
Nobody would have bought RCA. (TK76 etc.) 🙂

dr

[Dan Riley]

David,
Here’s a link to the 2-pop forum where we just had a discussion
a few days ago. Photo to Movie isn’t a plug in, it’s a separate app
you make your moves in, then export the quicktime movie
and bring into FCP. It is very good and easy to use.
Costs only $49. Check out this link for more info:
https://www.uemedia.net/CPC/2-pop/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=106907&an=0&page=0#106907

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Great info Mike.
Your digging could have saved Brian and many others quite a bit of time
and expense. But if the station requires it no matter what, then someone
might have to ssplain to station management, “that’s ok, we can run it somewhere else” 🙂

Dan

[Dan Riley]

There are two parts to CCing, the first part where someone spends
8 to 12 hours actually writing it all out for the screen ( I don’t want
our shop to do that) and then there’s the encoding. I’d like to see
about doing the encoding in house because many times I have the
cut-to-time version of the show done a week before it’s actually ready
for the dub house and CCing. (audio mix, color correction,
titles etc.) It could save us a few days if we had the CCing done
ahead of time and I just added it into the show here.
We do new national shows for air about 12 times per year.
They run hundreds or thousands of times after that (infomercials).
I think $3000 is overkill in this situation. Getting a plug in
for FCP that runs around $100 or so, that’s doable.
Who ever makes this thing will sell many of them. Remember,
every single show that airs on local broadcast or national cable
must have CCing starting in a month. We’ve been putting it
in our shows for 3 years, through the CC company and the
dub house, (where they make the dubmasters and add the
800#s).

Dan

[Dan Riley]

actually, I read the price sheet wrong.
It’s $3000.
MacCaption -NLE/MPEG Lite (encoding only)

This is not a cost effective solution.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

You think $2000 is cost effective?
This process can’t possibly be that complicated.
Making the actual text file…, now that seems like a big
time commitment. So just have that process done
at the CC house. But I want a file I can then add to
show revisions without having to go through the
CC process every time at the dub house.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Thanks Debe.
Since I posted I did some googling and learned a few things.
There seems to be a need for some kind of plug in or whatever,
for FCP, that would take the finished file the caption people make,
and put it on line 21 of the sequence when you edit to tape.
I don’t see anything like that out there.
In DVCSP there seems to be a process for this when making
a DVD, but not when outputting to tape.

With all broadcast and cable shows now mandated to have
CC beginning Jan 1, you’d think someone would see this
as a business opportunity. The only encoder I see is $5000.
Of course that’s absurd unless you are doing it as a business.
I wonder what makes the process so complicated.
If someone would make a Plugin for FCP, a filter, I could just
drop on my sequence, that would be the ticket.
Then I’d just take the file from CaptionMax (or whoever)
and add it in there.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Debe,

After you get the file from them, how do you take that file
and put it into your DigiBeta master? That’s the thing
I don’t see explained at their site.
Yes, I know THEY can do it. But I just want to know
what’s involved.

We do shows every month that have to
go through the CC process. The dub house has it handled.
(where they make dub masters with 800#s).
But I’d like to see what’s involved in doing it ourselves.
Mainly as a time saver. The dub house always needs
the show two or three days early to do the CC.

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Mark,
The interesting thing about what you just said is you are using FCP 4.5.
I had no trouble with any decks when using that, plus my Pipe Studio.
And even since upgrading to 5, the only trouble is with our DVCPRO
deck. The DigiBeta and BetaSP decks are fine. And right now,
except for batches from that DVCPRO 455 deck, my setup with
FCP 5.0.3, OS 10.4.3, QT 7.0.3, Aurora Driver 5.0, Firmware 2.0
is very solid. No crashes for weeks. Using a dual 2.5 gig G5
and a 4 drive external SATA RAID with the Sonnet 4+4 PCI card.

As for your install, I would have serious reservations about doing it
that way. If I were you, I’d start with a fresh hard drive and install
the OS and FCP or FCS. You can migrate your other apps and
documents. But I would not transfer one OS from one computer
to another or FCP that way either. And FCP5 is nice, now that the
bugs are out of it at .03 version. I’d recommend upgrading.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

What happens if you try capturing to an internal drive, just as a test?
Do you have two internal drives., with one that isn’t your system drive?
Even if you capture to your system drive, it would still tell us if it is
indeed a problem with your RAID. Of course the capture would
need to be DV level or DV50.

dan