Don Greening
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That’s what I was afraid of. Before you go any further you need to reformat your FW drive in Mac OS Extended using Apple’s Disc Utility. The path is: Macintosh HD>Applications>Utilities>Disc Utility. Start the program, select your FW drive from the list and choose to erase it with the formatting: Mac OS Extended – journaling off.
FAT32 is for Windows machines. Your computer can read a FAT32 disc but can only write files to it that are 4 GBytes or less. Always format any new hard drive before you start using it. If you want to keep any files from the FW drive before you do the formatting, transfer them to another dirve because they’re going to get erased during the formatting process.
– Don
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Sounds like FCP is trying to connect to either your hard drive or the camera and can’t.
You need to let us know how everything is connected. You obviously have the FW drive connected to the e-mac. Do you also have a camera/deck connected to the FW drive or is it connected to the e-mac via a second FW port?
What type of LaCie FW drive do you have? If it’s new then you first of all need to format it to Mac OS Extended using Apple’s Disc Utility program. Make sure everything is connected to the e-mac using FW 400 or 800, including the camera. You can daisy chain the camera to the LaCie and then the LaCie to the e-mac but this is not generally recommended for reliable video capturing. The camera and the FW drive should actually be on seperate FW connections, but the setup described above will do in a pinch, as long as you’re using FW and not USB.
– Don
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Start FCP with the project file that does open and do a “save as”. Choose a different name. If that doesn’t work then start making your media offline, starting with the most recent media you’ve imported. Keep going until you can save the project. The last piece of media you made offline will be the one that’s causing the crash. You’ve already trashed your render files so I don’t need to tell you about that.
If you’re still crashing after trying everything above then I’d suggest trashing the FCP pref. files to see if that’s the cause, otherwise you’ve got a really corrupt project file. Go to the Autosave Vault and open up an earlier version of your project that doesn’t crash when you try to save. You actually might want to trash the FCP pref. files first before you try anything else. This is a quick and easy way to find out if it’s FCP that’s not allowing you to save or it’s the actual project file that’s the problem.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
– Don
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[Matthew Ingram] “thanks for your feedback, hope going with the other brand hasnt made me seem ungrateful!!!”
Not at all. The Panny DVX100B is a great camera. You’ll have fun with it.
– Don
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[Matthew Ingram] “Do I really need progressive scan if i’m not considering transferring to film?”
No, but it’s easier to do good green screen work if you don’t have interlaced fields to contend with.
[Matthew Ingram] “Is the Microphone really so bad for interviews and the like and is the motor noise really a problem on the sound?”
The mic is actually pretty good when you consider the GL2’s price point, but any on-camera mic is not the best thing to use for getting quality interview audio, unless the camera is less that 3 feet or so from the talent.
There’s definitely motor noise present when you use the GL2’s stock mic and it’s more noticable during lulls in the conversation. There’s nothing you can do to change this fact but you can go aftermarket and get a good mic that fits on the hot shoe, along with a mic isolator that virtually eliminates motor noise.
As far as answering your overall question about whether you should get a GL2 or an XL2, it boils down to what you’re going to use the camera for. If you don’t need to shoot in low light, or need to shoot progressive or in widescreen format then by all means get the GL2. The GL2 has a great 4:3 interlaced picture and will serve you well in most situations.
But don’t let all those buttons on the XL2 scare you off. It’s drop-dead easy to shoot with and If I can learn how to operate an XL2, anyone can.
– Don
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Not that I own one, but wouldn’t takaing out the memory battery do it?
– Don
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Happens to me too when working in the audio timeline, even with the track height set to the largest view. So you’re not alone.
– Don
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It might be a Quicktime thing. Try this:
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852
– Don
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[eleventwelve] ” I am assuming that if she sets her camera to shoot at 60i and 4:3 that her DV tapes should work for me. Am I wrong here? I need some solid advice before she shoots.”
I combine footage from my PD170, GL2 and XL2 all the time. You got it right. Tell her 60i in 4:3 with her XL2. There is no setting on the XL2 for recording in DV Cam mode.
– Don
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Wow. Never heard of that before. I don’t think it’s a software thing. Maybe get your student to reomove the attributes of the clip(s) that was colour corrected and then watch what he’s doing when he trys again to make sure it’s being done correctly. If the same result happens then by all means trash prefs and restart FCP.
– Don
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