[Earle Nichol]

Hey Steve, He used a Xpress Pro 5.7. His tapes were 29.97 downconverts from the original DVCProHD 59.94 tapes.

What am I missing?

Thanks
pearl

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[Earle Nichol]

Hey Michael, thanks for answering in the early morning hour. Thats exactly what I did. When I create a composer sequence from EDL manager, it asks what kind of project..I say 720p 59.94…it creates a sequence for me that matches my cut list. But when I go to batch dig the sequence..it introduces tc numbers that are outside the range of the tape.(ie..tape 1 only goes to 32 min…but list wants shots at 1:34:00) Let me know if you think of anything else.

Thanks
pearl

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[Earle Nichol]

I think I’ll go with the SMPTE route. All our masters are SD and stations get beta dubs. We’ve never had a complaint, so we must be doing ok. I just wanted to see what that setting was meant for. Thanks to you guys.

pearl

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[Earle Nichol]

Hey Jeremy,

That’s exactly what I wanted to hear…thanks for the quick response. Makes sense, I just didn’t think it was that simple. Appreciate your time. Awesome! Take care.

pearl

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[Earle Nichol]

I’ve been around to long for it to be that easy…are you serious?, because beta decks I believe are based on the SMPTE setting?…thoughts?

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[Earle Nichol]

Hey Walter,

I have been a proponent of this for a long time. My question for you is, when you say “all media available” do you mean, OMFI media files from an AVID online, or the QT files from a FCP edit?
We have a folder structure established for our edit suites called “User Projects” Inside is “audio in”, Audio Out, Graphics, Movies, & OMF’s. That folder is archived with our AVID or FCP projects folders. Our animation department has a similar situation, but depending on the size of the project we do not usually keep our renders, as if there are revisions we re-render anyways. In regards to filebased aquisitions, we have been getting clients to purchase drives for those types of projects.

Thanks for listening

Earle

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[Earle Nichol]

Hey guys, I just went thru a similar situation with our HDW-1800. Ours was an issue of getting a 59.94 timeline out of a 29.97 offline that had 23.98 source tapes. We should have just done the offline in HD(learned lesson) but with budgets and stuff and graphics to take into consideration, it is, what it is. Anyways, now with our 29.94 timeline and our 23.98 source tapes I thought we were in for a heap load of pain,(and I did try to figure it out over the weekend, with no luck) Anyways with the info that you posted I was able to walk in this morning, tweak our deck and get a 59.94 timeline for our client. After all my blithering, I just wanted to say thanks for the posting Adam, it saved our(my) butt. I LOVE THE COW!!!

pearl

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[Earle Nichol]

Hey gang, just my two cents after reading the initial Apple announcement on Thursday. As a general overview of what’s been discussed, 3 things come to mind. 1st – Without the COW there would be even more uninformed creators. For sure there is some misformation, but the last time I checked this forum was created for discussion(no different than sitting down at a table and hammering a problem out with respected friends)
2nd – I agree with all of you it’s about the people..Walter Tim, and the rest of you are honest hardworking guys that have chosen to share their education(which cannot have a price put to….unless you hire them directly as consultants)But that said, getting to meet people like this at NAB and touch equipment, for myself has been a great experience. I know for alot of people taking those 4 days off for NAB is a cost factor, but I also look at the same people and think “man you work so hard…take some back, go laugh with a few friends, a nurture a few friendships, it’s well worth the time.
3rd On the other side of the coin, I totally agree that NAB is taking advantage of the industry…15 million!!! Come on, work with us, not against us! Maybe the companies are a victim of their own greed to be “Bigger than the Competition” thats another posting altogether.

In the end NAB to me is the COW packed into 4 days with the chance to touch some toys…call me wacked, but hopefully neither one goes away. Thanks Ron & Kathlyn for giving us the chance to speak our minds, other wise I’m sure there would be a lot more brain splatter in this industry.

take care

[Earle Nichol]

Hey Alper,

You have to use a encoding program like Sorenson or Cleaner, to turn the MPEG into a QT. MPEG is a long GOP stream that is compressed an AVID is not a MPEG editor.

pearl

[Earle Nichol]

Hey Jeremy, you’re right it’s not cut and dry, but you also get what you pay for. Scaling up through software, changing framerates, rendering out multiple QT’s, almost always equals “soft video” Hardware does it in one pass, and has much cleaner results…especially if you’re going to be putting said video through more FX on the timeline.

I love softeware too, but hardware kicks butt in this game.

pearl