[David Eells]

Insert edits will do in a pinch, although if absolutely necessary a 1400 could be procured (I think).

So here’s what I’ve been handed:

A project in HDV that needs to go out to DVCPro HD.

Every time I output I can expect a two-hour conform.

When I go to edit-to-tape, I get no response from the system. I’ve never used edit-to tape, so one I’ve marked in and out points on the sequence, enabled all the tracks, set an in point in the edit-to-tape window, what’s left to make it happen? Am I supposed to drag and drop from the timeline? Do I drag the sequence from the bin? (I’m away from the facility until tomorrow so I can’t try things until then).

The interface looks like it should be really easy, but I just can’t make it go…

[David Eells]

So the tape has finished black and coding, but I can’t get the edit to tape happening! I’ve set in points and outpoints, tried to drag to the edit-to-tape window and drop on the insert tab.

Nothing. No response at all from the deck or Final Cut.

That’s it for tonight.

[David Eells]

Jeremy G, my old friend. You’ve become a Cow Leader since that long thread all those months ago. Well-deserved, to be sure.

The project you first helped me with is still going! But it will air November 13 on most PBS stations! That show is finishing up, and seems to be in ok shape, if a little late.

The reason I’m writing today is I’ve been asked come in and help out another project.

It’s another Avid editor cutting on Final Cut (5.1.4). The show was shot and edited HDV, and now they want to output to a Panasonic AJ1200A at 720, 30p. It seems like a lot of people have issues with HDV so I read around to see what the process was going to be like.

It’s a one-hour show, so I went to do a test on edit to tape.
It conform for about two hours, now it’s just about done blacking the tape, and I’m trying to judge the probability that the system will fail – cpu crash, digital dropouts, who knows. The room was even functioning when I walked in tonight, so my confidence in the equipment isn’t high.

Could I have just blacked the head of the tape and done an assemble edit? What is a conform? I know it’s not a render, but is it a file saved somewhere? Will I have to do a two-hour conform and a one-hour tape stripe for every output, even if the shoe doesn’t change?

Anyway, it’s awfull good to hear from you – I was hoping you’d chime in!

Bud

[David Eells]

I’ve just been tracking down this very problem – on a Mac. Tech support at G-Technology tells me you can’t have more than three FW drives daisy-chained – in fact, they recommend installing a separate PCI-e card just for their device.

Hope that helps.

[David Eells]

So I imported the omf files and had a look, and sure enough a number of clips are missing, and they are all from the original footage, normal tape ingest. In Final Cut the the clips had no effects, no obvious weirdness.

I’m stumped.

[David Eells]

Hi John

I have Soundtrack Pro 2 at home (but not at the facility). I imported the OMF files on my home machine, and got this prompt about 5 times:

One or more files used in this document could not be located.

Where is “/Users/myname/Documents/Soundtrack Pro Documents/Edited Media/PROJECTNAME mixername omf A5-8/23

[David Eells]

Arnie –

That sounds plausible, but everything here seems to be 16-bit. I do have a mix of 44.1k and 48k files – would that have anything to do with it?

[David Eells]

Thanks to all of you for your responses.

John – I suspected a problem with unsupported formats, but from what the editor tells me, it’s main program audio, captured through firewrite (DVCProHD). If I had been present when they discovered this problem, I think I’d have a better idea of what’s going on.

I’ll be back at it tonight, and I’ll post any new clues as they become available.

[David Eells]

Hey Walter

Here’s some trouble *I’m* having with Compressor. I think I’ve found my way through the new user interface ok, but I get the same problem with the Compression hanging, and then telling me I’m about to overwrite an existing file. When I look in the log and the monitor, it looks like Compressor has more than on instance of the compression running.

It’s quite odd. And seems to be slow, too.

[David Eells]

I got an email from Kristian last Friday. Problem’s unresolved, and no word since. Hope everyone’s ok…