[Erik Lindahl]

Okej. The problem is the same as with After Effects. I have to set the footage field-domninace to NONE or it gets 50% lower resolution. Irritating, but it works.

Now I noticed that Motion won’t respect filters but on clips in Final Cut. This REALLY sucks I must say since Final Cut has the three-way color corrector and motion doesn’t

[Erik Lindahl]

The big pitfall that I’ve noticed with 10-bit is substantially less RT-effects. This alone can cause some (me) to use 8-bit. Even Color Correction needs rendering at 10-bit, very annoying.

However, for the master I’d opt. through everything into a 10-bit sequence and re-render it. You can also “hack” FCP and capture at 10-bit. Set the rendering to 8-bit YUV and you actually get alot more RT during the edit-process.

Hope this get’s fixed in a future version (or that Apple releases a PCI-e card with 14 G5’s on it ;))

[Erik Lindahl]

Got ya

[Erik Lindahl]

That a later version of a software breaks compatibility with and older version is quite “standard” I’d say. What Apple could do, as a “bonus” or what ever, is having a “save as version X” and then just discard whatever features that are not avaliable in the previous version.

As someone stated though you CAN do this, sort of, with the XML-export (worked between 4.5 <-> 5.0 for me on a project perfectly).

No-one know if FCP6 is just around the corner

[Erik Lindahl]

Wouldn’t a Multibridge Extreme be some-what overkill?

A Kona LHe would do fine, alsomst all the SD/HD analog and digital i/o you can ask for. However:

– No SD > HD UPCONVERSION
– No Dual Link HD

Or perhaps a Kona 3 if you’re going all digital

[Erik Lindahl]

Make sure you have an EASY SETUP for Blackmagic SDI > WHAT-EVER-FORMAT-YOU-USE. I’d recommend at least DV50 or better.

It sounds like you have a different input format compared to your sequence settings.

If you go IMX > SDI > Uncompressed 10-bit you will not see any loss. You could also go native IMX but then you need a special IMX-tapedeck.

[Erik Lindahl]

Oh, good question

[Erik Lindahl]

Yes you get composite out. However, you have to set the analog out to “composite” as to “component” (or component RGB for that matter) in the AJA Controll-panel. That’s it, works very good for output to a TV-set. Sadly you do loose component out when doing this.

[Erik Lindahl]

What was the problem with AVID|DS not importing QTs? I thought DS was the business!?
This is, you could say, an AVID|DS problem put more a windows-problem. We delivered 14 uncompressed QuickTime on DVD:s to the post-facility. Since they came from a Mac they actually didn’t have the extension “.mov”. This made Windows and AVID|DS clueless to what kind of files we we

[Erik Lindahl]