Frank Nolan
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If you import the footage via firewire you will have to render at least one of the formats as FCP does not allow mixed formats on the timeline. Your best bet would be to work in the DVCPro HD codec, which is the native format of the varicam, and use a capture card to capture the HDV footage into the same codec. If your frame rate is 23.98, the space required for this is only about 32GB per hour. Then you wouldn’t need to do an online.
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Wow, that’s the exact same drive enclosure I got but it’s about twice the price by the time you add in the power supply and all the cables. Check it out here at $109 all inclusive. Add some hitachi 7200rpm sata drives from mwave.com for $75 a piece and you’ve got pretty cheap archiving storage.
https://www.cooldrives.com/esata-firewire-800-enclosure-case-external.html
https://www.mwave.com/mwave/viewspec.hmx?scriteria=AA34700 -
Here’s a forum dedicated to it.
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[Buddy] “Obviously this is such a vague question, but if you can chime in on one product that you absolutely can’t edit without,”
A nice comfy chair:-)
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400gb of media on a 500Gb drive is over 80% full being that the capacity of the drive is really only about 470gb, and you said that is just from one project. Do you have any other projects on that drive as well? Most drives tend to bog down as they approach their capacity so this is probably normal. On the other hand get a g-raid!
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[Joanie] “The aif files are on an audio CD, 44.1
I shot on standard dv on a sony pd150, 48 khz samling rate, 16 bit”That is the root of your problem. Have the audio guys burn a cd of aiff data files not an audio cd. Tell them to leave the files as the original 48k sample rate and just burn them as data to a cd. Then you just import the files into your FCP 48k session and it should match.
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How much recording time you get is going to de directly affected by how much set up and standby time you have, so it is hard to say. For instance if you put a fresh battery in the camera and loaded up a couple of P2 cards and kept recording you would probably have to have quite a few cards or a way of offloading the footage to kept the cards in rotation. I have filled about 8 cards off one battery with set up time, standby mode etc.
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I have heard of people being able to carry cameras on but not in bags, then of others that had to check everything. I would prepare for everything having to be checked just in case. You could always keep it with you until you get to the gate and have them place it in the cargo hold at the last minute. At least that way you retrive it in the jetway as soon as you get off the plane and it doesn’t have to go through the regular baggage throwing, ahem…handling route.
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[Steve Denn] “It’s like reading a print ad for GM & half way
down the page there would be a photo of a Ford Mustang, it’s just Bad placement!”Firstly the FCP forum on the cow isn’t an add for FCP, it is a FREE resource for users and second as others have said why would avid bother putting an add on an avid forum. Stop complaining and be happy you dont have to pay for all the free tech support that is offered here on the cow!
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[avideditor420] “So how would this work? I have everything on the hard drive, so would I have to transfer everything back to the P2 cards, then to tape on the camera?
Yes![avideditor420] Is the down convert to mini dv tape a menu setting?
Yes. Read the chapter on dubbing Page 86 of the manual[avideditor420] What is the workflow?”
Well because you already unloaded the footage off the P2 cards on to a hard drive it would be a waste of time copying them back to P2 and down converting in the camera. You can always work in a offline RT mode that would mean converting all of your footage which would be pretty time consuming. Here is a link to how that would work.
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/offline_rt.htmlHowever, if at some point you would like to have a HD master of your project, I would suggest simply buying enough hard drive pace and cutting the project using the 1080/24p files. 1 hour of footage in this mode will require about 43gb of space so with a 500gb drive (around $200) you would get about 10 hours of footage.
Then when you are finished cutting, just down convert the final cut to SD and archive your HD cut.