[Dave Beaty]

Hi Warren, in the true sense of DIY, it’s determined by what components you use. In my version, I opted for some nice Carbon Fiber parts and 5208 180 motors. With everything tallied it’s around $1600, but I think you could get it for less now. More hobby companies are offering CNC Carbon gimbal kits for less than $500. Boards are around $250. SmallHD monitor is around $500, Okii controller – $250, Joystick, $60..and so on.

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

I was able to fix this problem in two ways – both temp fixes…

One option, if you have a system that will still play them, is to open the files on that system. Then open all files in FCPro – select and batch export back to the system with the issue. This will simply resave them with a new wrapper. Or open them one by one in Quicktime and save as, self contained back to the problem system, the files will then work.

The other is to revert QT by loading the Snow Leopard install disc, selecting optional installs and choosing the Quicktime 7 installer. Then run the OS 10.6.8 Combined Updater. This resolved the problem on my Snow Leopard system using JVC HDV from the Focus Firestore drives. It shows Quicktime player is still 7.6.6 but I’m not sure which component caused the Atom errors.

Perhaps it’s related to the iTunes update.

HTH dave beaty

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

I’ve been working on this problem today but for another reason. I have been shooting with the Canon 5D and recording audio on our Firestore in DV Quicktime with timecode synced to a Denke Timecode Slate.

So I have about 500 DV Clips I want to convert to audio, as I don’t need the video, and I need to retain the Timecode.

Compressor does not retain timecode transcoding to AIFF. Also, if I select Quicktime, and “Disable” the video track in the settings, the timecode is also dumped in the output Quicktime audio file.

I looked at all the settings in compressor, but can’t see anything that would change this. Any ideas how I could keep the timecode, but ditch the video – (to save the disk space)

Dave

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

I am pretty happy with the options in the list view mode. I use this when I need the extra info. Of course with thumbs turned on.

The other Sort in the Large Icon View I wish Apple would add would be Sort by Timecode Start, Sort by Reel, Sort by Comment…Media Creation Date…

Then add an option to choose the size of the icons, 2-3 times the large size would be nice. But really, just sorting them by the order from the shoot is the biggest thing I’ve been wanting…in Large Icon View.

Once you get used to editing with this mode – it grows on you.

Dave

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

I have the same problem here. Livetype and FCPro started exibiting this missing Object and Texture problem a long while ago. I have the latest OS, and app updates. Intel mac.

If I create a project in Livetype, add a texture from the Media Browser, then save the project and import into FCPRO, everthing is there except the texture. Does not matter if it’s in the background or foreground position, nor does the render background pref have any effect.

If I render within Livetype, everthing is fine. But then, the whole point of editable projects living within FCPro is lost…especially helpful for CG based effects.

Dave B

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

[Jeremy Garchow] “I would suggest getting an Express34 card and Shoutput Pro. That should take care of the weirdness. Also, there are mac drivers for the PCD20, I would use those as well.”

I didn’t think of that. It works without a driver, so I wonder if there’s anything in that that would correct it?

1394b Driver ver1.2.0 Mac

[Dave Beaty]

I just don’t have a sense of how many people with the AJ-PCD20 have the digital drop out problem. We thought we had it beat with last year but it cropped up again.

Is it all hardware, or was there a lot of these that had a IC chip that causes it or something. But I suspect it has something to do with Firewire and Mac OS. I am posting a link to a 1 sec clip showing a frame of drop out. Remember the clip on the card seems to be OK visually. Also, when I switched the interface cable to USB on the PCD20, the clip then exported from P2CMS correctly…always choose the “compare” option! (I found it will transfer with errors the you do not know about when this is not checked in the “export” dialog)

In the case of the Error it was a G5 with an external FW800 harddrive using DVCPro50 material. The P2 reader was also via a FW800 cable daisy chained to the FW800 drive.

example
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com/p2/0042IK2.mov

Perhaps someone with technical knowledge can examine them and know what is causeing this error.

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

Buck,

Hi I have the SAME problem. I have called Panasonic support and was told they are unsure about it, but perhaps it may have something to due with Firewire bus overhead or overload when using a firewire hard drive to save too. Because the clips on the cards are fine, and it was appearing with the PCD20, we suspected it was an issue with it’s firmware.

If you use a firewire harddrive AND the PCD20 connected via firewire on a Mac, you will eventually have digital drop out. Have seen it on an iMac running 10.4 and a G5. If you erase your cards before you know about it, you’re screwed. So the suggestion of having a utility to compare the files is crutial if you own the AJ-PCD20 card reader.

We have been using P2CMS, which has “export” with a “compare” feature. This will fail on those corrupt clips we have found.

Next thing to try, hook it up via USB. I know it’s slow, but the slow transfer to an external firewire harddrive should allow you to export from cards without this corruption. This is the only way I got it to transfer a few clips when we first got the PCD20.

We are shooting with an HPX500. I don’t know how rare this is, but given the same set of gear, and mac computers, I bet every one of the PCD20’s from the same era, have this problem.

Dave Beaty

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

I don’t use High Precision YUV rendering that much. When I did, using DVCProHD 1080i, that when it started. A 60 minute timeline with numerous color correction effects.

I do not have Aja. Only Multibridge.

I had to open Console and monitor it during renders. When the errors start appearing, I cancel the render, save and restart the render. This was the only way I could get through the entire render. As the crash would effectively lose the entire render up to that point, and AFAIK, it doesn’t autosave during a render.

Believe me when I was having this issue I sent feedback everytime, and also used the send report to Apple. I don’t know if they actually use those reports, but I certainly sent my share.

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com

[Dave Beaty]

Just an update on this issue. I never found the bug causing this. But I now know this: Changing the rendering settings to 8-Bit fixes it.

Setting them to High Precision YUV crashes during renders.

The black magic drivers didn’t seem to make a diff.

FIY

Dave

Dave Beaty
Dreamtime Entertainment
1625 SE 46th St
Cape Coral FL 33904
239-549-4081
800-446-7575
dave@dreamtimeentertainment.com
http://www.dreamtimeentertainment.com