David Jahns
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SYNC as in audio drifts out over time.
about 3-4 frames per minute. When you stop and restart the timeline, it corrects itself – but when digitizing, the quicktime file is actually out of sync if the capture is more than 20 seconds or so.
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we have upgraded a few Quad G5s to MacPros, and have simply moved the KONA LHe cards, and everything has been fine. (re-install software, of course.)
The Quads were the only ones with PCIe cards, if you have a Dual-Proc G5, it will have a KONA LH (PCI-x) card, and it’s about worthless now. 🙁
That being said, I’m itching to get an LHi for all of the conversions it does!
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Thanks, Bob.
I did look into Glue Tools, and have downloaded the demos of both packages.
For this project, the Camera Tech will handle everything and deliver us both QTs and DPX’s with matching timecode. I think he’s using Glue Tools, actually… 😉
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Ah, yes. Thanks, Gary.
These were DPX files created from Red 4K files. I created some 2k DPX’s from Color, and they work just fine with the KONA Translator. Thanks for your help!
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Hi Gary. Thanks for your suggestions.
We’re doing NTSC-24 offline because the creative team is more comfortable with an offline/online workflow when dealing with 35mm film – they’ll inevitably want to see the entire 4×3 full gate frame, reposition & blow up, etc.
A few projects back, we did the dailies film transfer to SR 16-9, but when we wanted to reframe some shots, we didn’t know what was in the top or bottom of the 35mm frame, and we had to retransfer anyway – and then rent the SR deck again, too.
We still shoot 35mm film and do this off/online workflow quite often, it’s just the Phantom Cam footage that we’re trying to figure out the best plan for.
Since it’s just short format TV, we’ll just get TIFFs, create QTs with frame burn-ins, and manually re-conform later, but if anyone knows why the AJA DPX translator didn’t work with Color’s DPX files, I’d love to hear about it.
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Where is the firmware update?
I’m on the pana web site and there’s no link from the product page, and the support page search for “E-series” yields no results.
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Well, that’s good to know.
Did you export an XDCAM format quicktime, or was it XDCAM source footage, rendered out to ProRes? Did you notice any frame stutters from the duplicated frames? Or did you figure out how to make Toast encode at 24 fps?
One of the other problems on the Mac is that we have no way to look at the raw file on the BR-disc once it’s encoded, so I’ve sometimes had trouble figuring out what Toast was doing during the encode. One an SD-DVD, you can open up the .VOB file and check it frame by frame – i haven’t figured out a way to do that with the BR discs yet.
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Yes, it’s really simple. For the menus, I basically just picked out the least obnoxious button style, change the background to our company logo, drag in the QTs, choose thumbnail images and a name each clip, and click BURN. It will also allow you to burn to a 4.3GB DVD-R, but playback compatibility is quite sketchy. Our Panasonic player reads them just fine, but on a PS3, the playback stutters if the bitrate is over 6.0 Mbps – at which point you might as well just downres and make a standard def DVD.
It can be any quicktime format, (within reason – I would stick to the editing formats, no H264’s, etc. It would probably do it, but the triple encode would degrade the image quality substantially.)
And HDV, since it’s already MPEG-2, would probably suffer from another re-encode.
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It’s decent, especially if you give it 1080i material. Like I mentioend before, 1080p24 material will duplicated every fourth frame to get it to 30 fps.
When Toast 8 was released, it’s MP4 encoding never worked, or at least, wouldn’t playback on our player, but in Toast 9, the “auto-encode” preset works surprisingly well, and it can do MPEG-2 or MP4, and you can even tinker with the bit rates if you want to.
I have had a few errors when it tries to encode something with single frame edits, but for the most part, it’s OK for making VERY simple DVDs.
Some things are completely frustrating, like all of the thumbnail buttons are 4:3, even in the 16:9 menus. Come on, ROXIO, how hard would that be to fix? But for $100, and 5 minutes to learn it, it’s not bad – at least if you can live with the iDVD like menu options.
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Thanks, Walter.
I forget there’s a technical spec difference between authoring burned discs and ones designed to be professionally replicated.
That makes complete sense, that it’s the high level replication that incurs the licensing fees, and Apple wouldn’t want to release DVD-SP that isn’t capable of “Pro” level authoring – in which case it would cost a lot more.
How about they release DVD Studio Lite (burning only – no replication option)!