[Dave Kulawick]

everyone who cashed the check from Avid, edited on Avid; and everyone who cashed the check from Apple, edited on FCP. Right?

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Dave Kulawick
Instructional Media
Carleton University

[Dave Kulawick]

Weirdness. That’s Sony deck, right? You can see video and hear audio and control the deck using the capture tool?

I’ve seen that message before; I could control the deck, preview media, see video and hear audio. But when I tried to capture I got the “no data” message. I was trying to capture Panasonic DVCPro media from a Sony DVCam deck.

<tin-foil hat on mode>
How hard would it be to engineer some sort of “you’re not allowed to use this device with a competitor’s tape/codec/DRM” lockout function? Isn’t that what DRM and Trusted Computing and HDCP are all about? Knowing what Sony was prepared to do to their customers with root-kit installing DRM software on almost-Audio CDs ….

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Dave Kulawick
Instructional Media
Carleton University

[Dave Kulawick]

Hey, that’s an excellent reference. Thanks much.

Dave Kulawick

“I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but someone has to.”
David Fincher

[Dave Kulawick]

Not this specific problem but; I wrote some movs out of combustion using the DVCPro 720 60p codec, but set the frame size at 1024×768 as the clips were intended for use in a Keynote presentation. They played beautifully on the targeted hardware in QT and in Keynote, until I added transitions to the presentation.

During a dissolve the head frames of the mov appeared to be at half resolution, when the transition finished the resolution would “pop” to correct. Not the desired effect. Also strange, monochrome movs did not have this issue. On a hunch, I opened one of these movs in QT Pro and changed the dimensions of the video track from 1024×768 to 960×720. When re-imported into Keynote the transitions looked fine.

All of which is to say, I don’t think QT should let an app write a file at a resolution QT and/or the codec and/or Core Image cannot handle. Also, shouldn’t QT Get Info display an “anamorphic” flag for video tracks that are?

[Dave Kulawick]

yo, troll, see the discrete editors thread wherein you posed the self-same question, without the “professional” dig and you’ll read the following.

you could export a QT reference file from FCP and using something other than compressor to do the encoding. Can your Opteron box convert QT to MPEG-2?

[Dave Kulawick]

QuickTime Pro?

[Dave Kulawick]

it’s not very hungry

[BigMac:~] macadmin% ps -auhx | grep qmaster
USER       PID %CPU %MEM      VSZ    RSS  TT  STAT STARTED      TIME COMMAND
root       272   0.0  0.1    31000   1216  ??  S    12:31PM   0:00.06 /usr/sbin/qmasterd
root       295   0.0  0.1    31540    964  ??  S    12:31PM   0:00.03 /usr/sbin/qmasterd
macadmin   594   0.0  0.0    18172    336 std  S+    3:33PM   0:00.01 grep qmaster

dbk

Dave K
Instructional Media
Carleton University

[Dave Kulawick]

Why do you say “You should normally monitor the audio directly from the camcorder or deck you are using to capture.”

It has always been my practice to monitor the recording device, whatever it is.

“NOTE:
Many people have reported that noise or “pops” appear in the captured clips if the Mac’s internal audio is left on WHILE capturing.”

That sounds like a bug to me, but almost explains why one has create a new capture preset to enable audio monitoring during capture.

[Dave Kulawick]

Ok, Richard, I’ll say

Thank you

on behalf of the lurkers and others