Eli Mavros
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What do you mean exactly about not a getting a “good signal”? You are seeing picture though? Is is soft or is there noise or something?
Best,
Eli -
Thanks for the response Ben. I guess since this is actually going to be for the web I have a little more leniency with the levels. I would love to learn more about audio, but it always seems to be the last thing on a very long list of things that I want to learn more about.
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Eli -
Okay then, assuming that you have an HD Black Magic card, make sure in your Easy Setup window that you have the little box checked that says “show all”. Once you do this, in the Easy Setup pulldown menu, you will get a whole bunch of choices for different flavors of HD. You want the one that says “Blackmagic HDTV 720p 23.98 Varicam-DVCPRO HD”
When you bring in your footage as DVCPROHD (rather than as 10 or 8 bit), you must make sure that you choose the setups that end with the words “Varicam-DVCPROHD”, otherwise you will have to render (I guess not an issue in Final Cut 6? I don’t know though, still using version 5, and going to assume you are not using 6 either). All of the Easy Setups that use the Black Magic card to monitor will start with the words “Black Magic”. There for, if you are using footage that was shot in DVCPROHD at 1280×720 (or really 960×720 animorphic) at a frame rate of 23.98, then you would use the setup I listed above “Blackmagic HDTV 720p 23.98 Varicam-DVCPRO HD”.
Cheers,
Eli -
Are you trying to lay something off or are you just trying to see it on your broadcast monitor?
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What is the frame rate of your footage/timeline?
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Eli -
Yeah, I definitely don’t want to jump the gun and play the blame game, because as time has shown me, whenever I blame the other guy it usually turns out to be my fault 🙂 Unfortunately, I may never find out the reason behind that problem, as I am no longer freelancing at that company, and I don’t even know which audio house it was that they were using. Hopefully I don’t ever run into that problem again, but if I do, the next time I will get down to the bottom of it, unfortunately there just wasn’t the time to figure it out…just had to get a the spots out the door.
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Eli -
Hehe…Thanks for the love guys. Yeah, that is exactly what I ended up doing, having them email me the mix and I just layed it off again with the final audio. It seems so weird to me, but it also seems like it is a problem on their end, and not my end. But I am done freelancing at that place, so guess it isn’t my problem any more…oops, did I say that out loud.
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Eli -
No love from The Cow today.
mmmmmmmooooooooooooooooooooo
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Hey Thanks Arnie,
That makes sense, forgot about the whole non-squareness thing of the DVCPROHD codec, or rather ignored it. As far as the photoshop droplet goes, yeah I thought of that (and think I even did it once), but it just seemed messy to me and no easier than my other method of making exporting first as animation or 10bit and then making an image seq from that. -
I am asking about the latter.
Thanks,
Eli