[David Rodney]

…additionally, should I use TIFF files seeing as they are better quality, or will it make no difference for video?

Cheers

[David Rodney]

Ok, thanks! I wasn’t aware it made a difference.

Cheers.

[David Rodney]

Yeah, I see why. Although no probs with USB until I started with HD.

[David Rodney]

Thank you.

You know, I think it might be the drives. My video is on external USB 2.0 drives and they are pretty full.

For a test tonight I copied some of the files to an internal SATA drive with plenty of room and the files played back just fine.

Thanks, people, I might have found my answer.

By the way – for arguments sake – would a new 24″ intel iMac be satisfactory for commercial HD production? My thoughts were that these new models would blow my G5 away and would be worth every cent to upgrade, but would this indeed be the case?

Cheers!

[David Rodney]

Ok, so you are saying I am doing everything right if I set up the project and sequence as DVCPROHD 108050i and just import the camera files into the project and drop them onto that 108050i timeline and edit?
I gather then I am getting the equivalent resolution as a 1920 x 1080 file purely because the 1440 pixels are not square?

Am I on the right track here?

So to export as a full-quality self-contained file, do I just use the “Same as project” settings for the output and as a self-contained file for delivery or re-compression for the net?

By the way…should the “frame size” settings remain as 1440 x 1080 or should I do a custom setting there as 1920 x 1080?

[David Rodney]

Walter, I am having this same dilemma at the moment.

If I am editing 108050i vision on a 1440 x 1080 timeline sequence, how do I get the 1920 x 1080 file (as you say) that occurs by exporting to a new file from the timeline?

I don’t “play back” to anything from the timeline…I always export to a new file and need that new exported file to be 1920 x 1080. How does FCP stretch anything to 1920 if you are exporting from a 1440 timeline?

Obviously I am new to this and missing something important.

Cheers,

David

[David Rodney]

Yeah, tried the search thing first Matte…a whole lot of irrelevant reading to be done there.

Thanks all.

David

[David Rodney]

I used to use BetaSX in a local news network and now I use DVCAM (DSR570WS) for my own work.

I still prefer the look BetaSX gets over DVCAM. The shots look ore colourfull and crisper. Just wish I could have afforded SX when it was time to buy my own gear. I couldn’t, so that is why I opted for DVCAM. It’s very good but not as good as SX in my opinion.

DVCAM’s viewfinders are awful, BetaSX’s MUCH better.

I do like the look and feel of the DSR450, though!

David