D. scott Dobbie
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The “crash” makes me feel there’s something wrong with the computer. But eliminate the obvious, first: have you checked your connections for any loose wires? Next I’d try process of elimination – can you use the Dual Adapter successfully with a different Mac? If so, the problem is with your Mac. Try repairing your permissions on the Mac and also running a disk repair utility. If that doesn’t work, perhaps reinstall any software that the Dual Adapter needs (I don’t use the Dual Adapter, so I’m just guessing here).
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[todd reid] “Do the cards have a lock function like a cassette?”
Yes, the cards can be locked by flipping a little switch on the end. For safety, you want to lock the cards whenever you’re downloading footage. But that lock wouldn’t affect the results of the download – only prevent anything being written back to the card. You’d need to unlock the card before reformatting it or, if using a computer, dragging items to the trash and emptying it.
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[Steve Eisen] “Rental rates for P2 cards run around $80 per 16GB card.”
I guess it depends on who you’re renting from and in what part of the country. Best price I’ve found in Hollywood is 32GB P2 cards for $75 each from a known rental house.
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Haven’t heard of this myself. Can you duplicate this? How are you offloading? (i.e. through a PowerBook G4; using a Dual Adaptor with a MacBook Pro; etc.) If you’re using a Mac, have you tried repairing the permissions using Disk Utility? Can you unlock the folder?
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Actually, this is mentioned on the DV Film site for Raylight. It’s a known issue. Raylight works fine with Leopard, EXCEPT that you can not use the “Write to P2 Card” feature. This feature is new for the latest version of Raylight, by the way. I’m assuming it’ll be supported at some point for Leopard – I just haven’t seen when.
-S.
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Regrettably, the P2 Contents Formatter for the Mac is not yet supported under Leopard.
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Jeremy Garchow started to address a similar issue which you can find here:
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/193/870384Are you in Device Mode? If you’re in Host Mode it won’t show up, it seems.
-S.
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It’s very possible. USB has a “Full Speed” transfer rate of 1.5 MB/sec. This would give you just under 5.4 GB/hr.
Now, if you’re referring to USB 2, it’s “possible” to achieve a High Speed transfer of 60 MB/sec., however not all USB 2 devices are certified as High Speed (I have yet to experience anything even close to that with any USB 2 connection I’ve used).
Best sustained transmission rates are with Firewire 800, when you should be able to transfer 14 GB in about 12-13 minutes. Firewire 400 takes twice as long, and USB 2 is generally a little longer still.
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[Sam Waldorf] ” can you edit different ones if you either render or switch the setting back n’ forth?”
Yes and no. Once you establish your Sequence settings you can’t change them. You’d need to start a new Sequence.
It is possible in FCP 5, just as your editor is now doing, to take different formats and slap them on one timeline, but not only do you suffer the time it takes to render, you actually change the format of what you shot to match the Sequence you just set up. So it really doesn’t make any sense.
Best to just use the proper settings to begin with.
This isn’t an issue in FCP 6.
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[Sam Waldorf] ” I mean just set it to DVCPRO 720p at 24p and it won’t need to render initially right?”
Absolutely right. He just needs to just pull down the Final Cut Pro menu (right next to the “Apple” icon on the far left). Then he selects “Audio/Video Settings…,” and in the next window he pulls down to the proper “Sequence Preset.” In this case it would be “DVCPRO HD 720p24.”
-Scott