[Dan Riley]

Thanks guys.
2-pop has been great over the years. Nice to hear it’s not over…yet 🙂
I haven’t been coming here to the Cow for FCP stuff (I go to the Aurora cow everyday
because of my Pipe Studio) but kept the daily 2-pop habbit.

Hey I’m west coast, (Seattle).
2-pop not working up this way yet.

Regards All,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

I have a MacGurus 4 drive box. It has 4, 400gig Hitachi drives in it.
I have the Sonnet 4+4 card in the dual 2.5 gig G5, only using
the 4 external connections. Room to grow I guess.
You hardly know it’s on. Very quiet. The G5 is much louder,
especially when you do rendering and it ramps up the fans.

However, if I had it to do again I’d do a 6 or 8 drive setup.
Why? Well, although the tests people post show very fast
data speeds, in real life, they aren’t as fast as that, at least
not in my experience. I get some dropped frames now and then
and also only get 3 or 4 video tracks (if that) before I’m red lined.
If you look at the graphs that are displayed on these drive
tests that are available, you will see downward spikes every now
and then on SATA drives. Seems like they aren’t as consistent
with data output as SCSI. Not to say I like SCSI at all.
I really like my setup, I’m just saying 4 drives may be the
lower end for an uncompressed 10 bit SD setup.
For HD, I’d definitely do 8 drives.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

That’s what I thought, but since you only said OMF….
Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Walter,
Is this using the Automatic Duck OMF translation software
or just a straight OMF2 to FCP ?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

Question from someone who doesn’t have a Kona2 yet…
when it downconverts from HD to SD real time,
is there a preference to let you either crop for 4 by 3
or show the full 16 by 9 picture and have the black at top
and bottom?

Thanks,
Dan

[Dan Riley]

I don’t mean AJA marketing, I mean, well you know.

dan

[Dan Riley]

That’s very interesting Walter.
I wonder what the story is there.
Certainly isn’t what the marketing would have us believe is it?

Dan

[Dan Riley]

I guess it depends on the market. Here in Seattle the NBC and ABC
affiliates are already doing local news in HD, although newsgathering
is still SD, but 16 by 9. They are also producing local shows HD as is
the PBS Station which does their fund drives in HD
and local show production as well. The FOX, CBS, UPN and WB stations
all pass HD but don’t do local HD. Like I said previously, it’s gonna change really fast
from here on out. As far as delivery goes, it’s really going to depend
on the station so you need to ask. D5/HDCAM are probably going
to be the most likely choices. But as we know here, DVCPROHD
looks very good and is cheaper and easier to deal with bandwidth wise.
So I’m sure some stations/networks will go that way as well.

File delivery…while it makes a ton of sense to us, broadcasters
will see it as a pain, at least that’s the way I remember my days
at stations. Bring up something that make sense but isn’t the way
they do it now, you are a bad, disruptive person.
Just bring me a tape, they’ll tell you. They’ll start the
sentence with “the only way we….”

dan

[Dan Riley]

There are very many stations and networks that accept and broadcast
shows on HD. The standard delivery tape, at the moment anyway,
is D5. If you finish your show onto DVCPROHD or something else,
take it to your local production house and have it transfered to D5
before you send it to Discovery Channel or PBS or WXXX or KYYY whatever.
Better yet, call the place you are finishing for and ask what they want it on.
Could be they accept various kinds of HD tape.

30 second spots are another matter right now. But that will change
quicker than you can say three quarter inch.

Dan

[Dan Riley]

Does HDV have timecode?
I heard it did not.
Or is there different versions, consumer and pro
and the pro has timecode?

thanks,
dan