[David Smith]

[Alfred Guzzetti] “I tried setting my deck to NDF but that doesn’t work (I suspect the menu item refers to recording mode). “

Hi Alfred,

Yes, you’re correct, the menu is for setting the form of timecode for recording. In playback mode the deck will pass whatever flavor of code the tapes were recorded with. Sounds like yours are drop frame.

You can change the timecode flavor of your sequence to match the media files. Take a look at volume 1, page 26 of the manual.

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

[PaulJBis] “Should I upgrade to 10.4.8 anyway?”

Any reason you wouldn’t upgrade to 10.4.9?

[David Smith]

You can do it via analog component if you have a setup that will accept that. Set the deck to downconvert to DV over iLink then use the appropriate machine control setting, NTSC or PAL Firewire. The analog component outputs will remain HD and your machine control will be done over Firewire.

There’s an excellent White Paper about this on the AJA site, and numerous threads on this forum describing the process.

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

mortimer,

Just curious what version of FCP you’re using. I had the same problem with Z1 tapes but was running 5.0 at the time. I thought I had read here that later versions lessoned the lost time when it starts new clips. Maybe that was a wishful dream.

If you have critical dialogue that you can’t capture that way, you could try getting it via component out instead of over firewire.

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

[David Roth Weiss] “put three Hitachi SATA 500gb hard drives inside your new MacPro and stripe them together.”

Hey David,

I did just that (well, four 250GB Hitachi SATA II drives actually) when I got my G5 and they’ve been rock solid. One disappointment I had was that the Hitachi SATA II drives came set to SATA I, and the only way to reset them was with a dos utiity which I couldn’t run. Do you know if that’s still the case with Hitachi drives?

Thanks,
David

[David Smith]

[Michael] “Since HDV is impossible to edit,”

If you do a Cow search for HDV over the last couple of months you’ll find plenty of disagreement with that statement. Some agreement too.

I don’t know what your timeline is for this project, but the io-HD hasn’t been released yet. You could use another HD analog capture device for now, like AJA’s LH or LHe.

I’d suggest reading Tim Wilson’s just posted article about PreRes 422 and HDV:
https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=35&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/ProRes02/index.html

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

Perhaps Kenyon was asking about acquisition formats, not delivery?

[David Smith]

[Bret Williams] “Maybe, I just want some coffee and a good movie. And I’d like to drink it without feeling guilty”

Well then Bret, I’m sure it will be a cup of Fair Trade Certified, shade tree and organically grown coffee, right? 😉

David

[David Smith]

[curraheee] “I tried changing my RT options but apparently my MacBook Pro isn’t powerful enough.”

Curraheee, what are you trying to view? Your MbP should be plenty fast enough for most playback. Are you sure your sequence settings match the settings of the clips you put into it? I play back on a G4 Powerbook quite easily.

Regards,
David

[David Smith]

[chiahawk] “Will this send display info through AV cable without going to tape? In other words,can I monitor TC,audio levels etc while shooting and still get a clean record?”

Assuming you mean a clean recording on the camera’s internal deck, yes indeed. The internal recording will be clean, while the A/V output will be dirty.

I’m pretty sure the firewire output is also clean (so this wouldn’t have helped Chris make DVD window dubs over Firewire), but I would certainly do a test record before trusting that. The analog component feed I have not checked.

Regards,
David