Ernie Santella
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Tony, thanks for posting that link for finalcutprotemplates.com Nice stuff I’m going to purchase one.
This is why I love the cow!!!
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Of the fellow pro editors I know that have tested Premier, none have said they want to switch. Nuff said.
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J,
I just did with my gear. You cannot connect both the Camera and the HD on the same FW400 buss. No good. Both the camera and the drives cannot be on the same FW buss.But, you can connect the camera to the Mac with a FW400 cable to that port and a your FW400 HD with a 400-to-800 conversion cable and use the FW800 port for the drive. That worked fine for me on my MacPro laptop. If you only have a FW800 port, the only other option is to connect the camera with the FW400-to-FW800 adapter cable and get an eSata 34 Card and run eSata drives. (That’s what I use – an eSata Raid.)
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You post is confusing? Are you trying to digitize directly to Final Cut Pro? And are connecting your HDX900 to your Mac with the FW400 port and digizing into FCP. This is with the FW800 drive connected to the Mac for storage?
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You can’t plug a firewire drive into the port on the camera. That’s not what the port is for. It’s only for connecting to a computer for capture, not for a standalone FW drive.
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I sounds like you had dirty heads in the camera, not the digitizing deck. Did you try to play the tapes back in the camera? If they won’t play there either, then it’s not a good sign.
I’ve lost a few HDV tapes due to dirty heads. Most HDV cameras don’t have a confidence head to let you know. Since then, I now always spot check in the camera to review scenes every now and again.
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You might want to consider creating 3-4 different frames and loop them to add motion to your frame edge.
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You can export right out of FCP to H.264. Just use ‘Export-Using Quicktime Conversion’ under File. Then, select your quality/frame size/frame rate etc. I do this all the time and it looks excellent.
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Save the project as a new project, then you can change the links.
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It’s easy, click on the link, then copy the text to an SD card and load it into the camera.