[David Battistella]

EXport an XML file of the project and open it in 4.5

David

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[David Battistella]

In the AJA control panel in the ANALOG OUT TAB swicth it to secondary for the SD to SD to work.

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It has to be the real thing. It can’t a cholate “candy” bar. It really has to be fine chocolate from Belgium or Venezuela.

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I am so happy for this thread. we have all been able to vent our good nature.

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Ok.

SO now I know that it takes chocolat and not just a nicely worded kind request. 🙂

Thanks guys,

David

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Locate your Autosave vault folder.

Open it.

Find your project.

The most recent version that the System saved will be in there.

It seems as though you might be opening the wrong or old version of the file.

David

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Try using an easy setup to get the right settings for the codec you captured in.

Your mac audio pane in system preferences.

Read this before you post:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/battistella_david/good_grazing/index.html

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Joe,

How are the levels on the D-Beta downconvert?

David

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Jeremy,

It was the conents of additional third party QT components in the QT folder.

Thanks for the help.

David

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The Reality is that HDV is a pretend HD solution. It’s not HighDefVideo is some sort of monster that is pretending to be HD but in actuality it is HighDigital Video. It should not be confused with professional HD codecs like DVCPro HD, which are optimized for use in FCP and operate with SMPTE based timecode and in the 4:2:2 color space.

As for the recompression. You are already dealing with an Mpeg 2 constant bit rate 20 or more to 1 compression ratio in a format that needs rendereing on output to recreate the LONG GOP structure. Best case is to work completely in HDV output your master to HDV and let a dub house provide what you need from that tape.

Many people are getting around the issues of HDV by capturing it uncompressed or recompressing it to a suitable format for post production.

David

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Mactrix,

HDV is a bit of a nightmare to deal with once it is inside the FCP environment.

1. It is long GOP i frame. Mpeg 2 constant bit rate stream.
2. Consumes a ton of system resources because it needs to be rendered
3. It is in the 4:2:0 color space

Many people have take to capturing HDV as DVCPro HD because both FCP and the KONA products are accelerated for dealing with these codecs.

They are also in the 422 color space (much preferred) and require less rendering and system resources than HDV. HDV is great on tape but very much a pain when you introduce it to a post workflow.

In response to the initial post

Capture firewire.
Use the Kona as a monitoring device.
Output firewire after you render the sequence.

David

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