[Francois Stark]

Thanks Gary
Francois

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[Francois Stark]

Hi

Have you found any solution to this problem? Did these six suites run without any sync problems before?

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Francois

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Just an example of the recording program in action – we recorded six takes. They are all packed out in a 3×2 array. The operator can directly choose any clip and it will play out to HDSDI. AJA TV has frame stepping and JKL control exactly as used in FCP. Great.

Our control user interface, with a running record counter,record indicator, and local/master/slave selection is visible above and below AJA VTR Exchange, which does the actual recording for us. Big record button, big stop button.

If the image below is too small – right-click and select “open in new window”.

Now if we can just get the pesky timecode in AJA TV to indicate correct frames…

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Hi Joshua

I have just bought two new PC’s with decklink cards for our new studios. We need to have a simple Character generator to display slate info in HDSDI between scenes.

However, we installed Windows 7 and the decklink SDI drivers and found that the extended desktop functionality was removed. We wanted to use MS Powerpoint to drive the second monitor with simple text. It looks like we will have to purchase Photoshop to do this now – serious overkill.

Most studios with ongoing drama recordings use a simple CG to display slate info between scenes. This normally gets distributed throughout the building so all crew get continuous status updates between all scenes.

Please bring it back – or give us a simple way to get text out on HDSDI?

Mmmm…. hopefully by this time you realize that people in this industry are creative – technically – and found many more uses for features like extended desktop than you ever thought of…

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Francois

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Hi

The 24″imac would work if it can get the data off the drives in time. The key is sorting out your video storage. FW800 would be good enough for external video drives when working with compressed HD like DVCPro HD or Prores HD.

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Francois

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Highlight a clip on the timeline. Apple-9 shows the clip info. Go to logging. If you don’t see a path to the clip or its filename, it means the project has lost any reference to the file. In this case each clip must be connected individually, and usually it’s a mess.

If you can see the path and filename, all is well. Close the clip info window. Select multiple clips on the timeline. Right click (or cmd-click) on one of them and select reconnect. The clips should be found automatically. Click connect to finish the process.

Good luck
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[Francois Stark]

I still have no idea why the avid crashed when we did a non-transcode consolidate, but I have found that we can import the P2 footage to FCP by just connecting the avid media drives direct to the FCP system. Then we do a recompress media manage in the FCP system to get it to Prores.

However, the HDV and XDCAM footage just would not work this way. We had to convert all of it to DNxHD in the avid first, then import into FCP and convert to Prores.

So, that’s how it works. Isn’t it amazing that you have to learn a new workflow for almost every job these days?

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Hi Howard

Thanks for the info. I also found that Ciprico is selling old ADTX stock, with a three year guarantee, in my part of the world. They keep support spares as well.

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

Thanks for that, Bob. I knew you wouldn’t let me down…

It seems that I may be lucky. Still investigating. Will let you know as soon as I have the facts.

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Francois

[Francois Stark]

According to this, ADTX was ranked number 1 ATA/SATA Storage Market in terms of terabytes shipped and in revenue for 2003 and 2004 in Japan.

And according to this annual report of Ciprico, they were a reseller of the ADTX ArrayMasStor range in the USA since August 2004.

Why is it then so hard to get any support on these products?
Did ADTX fail so miserably? C’mon Bob, even you should have some sarcastic comeback on this one… Maybe I’m touching a nerve somewhere.

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Francois