[Doug Beal]

I know these people we use them when we’re slammed and have for years
https://www.captionlink.com/

I have talked with but never done business with Aberdeen captioning

rates I don’t pay attention to. I just work and deliver. I tell accounting what I did. They bill

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

You’re not going to get 2 Konas in 1 machine. You’ll need another macPro to install the second Kona Card. If you’re using the breakout cables that come with the Kona card you’ll need a BNC “barrel”
Not recommended in the HD world but it will work due to the short distance.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

I guess I didn’t get what you are trying to accomplish. Are you expecting the comments to show up in the reconnect? in some window or column? I don’t recall that as a capability on import. it’s just the edit number, reel number, edit type, tracks, duration & TC I/O master I/O that translates on import.

I come from the linear days so if we are working with EDLs we do a printout and verify the hard copy against the import. comments are printed as you show in your example.
we still deal with EDLs in a red workflow using Assimilate Scratch and FCP or Avid. We still print them out to verify, in addition to visually matching against a ref QT w BITC.

To move between FCP and Avid MC or DS automatic duck gets it done but the only way I trust comments to translate is a printout. Auto duck generates an HTML that looks similar to an EDL.
Because of the different code used for DVE, text gen, speed ramps etc between edit softwares a lot of this won’t translate so comments are quite useful, but must be printed out from a text program or database like filemaker.
with Scratch, notes can be attached to the footage or placeholders in the slots on the construct so shots destined for VFX can be kept up with prior to final conform. helps us old guys to remember what’s happening and allows someone to follow the breadcrumbs.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

Not at my machine right now but is there not a check box as to include comments and which field of comments to retain?
I remember four comment fields. don’t remember which one sticks with the edl or if all can

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

AJA makes several cards. I’d look at the LHi just released being it has HDMI and it does cross conversions 720P>1080Psf 23.98 and back a lot cheaper than a Kona3. Go to AJA.com talk with someone there. they have great tech support. Perhaps there is a VAR in your area with a good rep can help you out. surely one of your post house buddies can as well.
I would expect the same level of RT enhancement but I can’t say for sure. Storage did I mention fast storage? you’ll want that.
the high end places with security offer a different kind of security as well. That of support if something goes wrong, and that non of the babies will be mistreated or go missing before they debut their little shiny faces.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

Well Kimberly this is one of those where whatever can go wrong will, and most of that is from folks not paying attention, causing grief for whoever follows them, in this case you.

1. is there anyway to get editor #1s project or sequence he used to generate the BITC?
Obviously it would be helpful to have the media to generate new BITC

2. Can you do the same for editor #2? Get his project or sequence.

Having the info will help determining the course of action.

having #1 is ideal. duplicate the sequence(s) and fix the error, generate the appropriate BITC and compare to #2. You can edit an EDL in a text editor, been there done that. It’s not fun it takes a lot of concentration and you’ve got to make notes for yourself along the way.
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If not and depending on what you are doing, sounds like a conform of some sort, add handles to the appropriate length and recapture and rebuild. Aaron sussed this out. at least the decisions have been made all you need to do is eyematch, which depending on how many takes for each scene there were could also be some hell

If you could establish with certainty the first frame of each clips TC, a TC calculator could give you the numbers by converting non drop to drop based on duration, but that’s a painful ride

Best of luck.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

Storage is the key to speed. Raid5 also gives the edge of protection.

DVCProHD cuts real easy, XDCam we don’t do that much, and we’re kinda old school so as much as file based material is preferred by many, most projects get bumped to tape and new code created. project files will link footage back to original shots if necessary as the shots are laid out on a timeline used to create the new code. typically this means bring in footage, lay out timeline, print to HDCam at the appropriate frame rate, that becomes the new source and all references are made to that.
this gets all footage to a common standard before cutting and leverages the use of multiple systems since we have DS and FCP stations. Of course all this is based on workflow per project. some things are so immediate and short shelf life and those may not go that route.

RT is helped tremendously by the Konas. for most projects multiple layers maybe 10 or so and 12 audio are not a problem. renders are fast because we get stuff to frame based formats, not GOP or intra. A lot of our clients will offline their own stuff and email the project where we’ll media manage then recapture full rez from tape. others we’ll just sit down and cut full in SD, DNXHD or DVCProHD for HD offline, uncompressed for conform

$3K for a system is cheap!

A non shared storage system is at least $4K. put that with a stressed out box, konas, and monitoring ($10-12K for non critical with scopes) and you hit $50K pretty easily. add shared storage, real monitors, tape machines and you’ve got to run a lot of product to make a living.

I think your prospective box would benefit from another 2 gig of ram to get a number divisible by 4.
seems to be magic math, ram times by 4 per app expected to run.

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

I’m running an 8 core clovertown day in day out with everything from dv to uncompressed 10 bit HD with a Kona3 card. we also have an 8 core harpertown, and some older boxes. even your old one will be good for something, offline or digitize station etc

One would hope snow leopard and a 64 bit version of FCP will take advantage of all cores in FCP.

Compressor on the other hand in combination with Qmaster can leverage all 8 cores and significantly improve those times. search for setting up compressor or maybe someone here will send you a link to that info.
so the rub becomes, how much more throughput can I achieve? and do I really want to work with said director?
If you’ve been on a G5 for this long you’ll love the 8 core.
I would research the forums on the decklink extreme regarding OS/FCP/ Quicktime/GFX card updates to find the most stable system and what issues people are having. All our stuff here is AJA, so I can’t comment

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

If they have BITC park on the first frame and modify>timecode
If there are colons in the BITC it’s non drop if there are semicolons or a comma it’s drop frame

counting just happens in frames, but counting drops frames in drop frame so TC counter and the time on a normal clock agree.
non drop frame counts every frame

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN

[Doug Beal]

You’ll need to either find a Panasonic deck that is an “editing” deck or find a local post house with the appropriate machinery. another option would be get out to dbeta, clone via SDI back to DVCPro50 if that is your delivery format

Doug Beal
Editor / Engineer
Rock Creative Images
Nashville TN