Gary Adcock
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[Benjamin Disinger] “Our 64GB cards mount and transfer just fine but the 32GB cards don’t show up at all. “
did you make sure that all of the SXS and UDF drivers on your laptop are current? that would be the first place to look.
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It was designed at a time that FCP7 was the dominate player. It worked fine in my experience. I would stay way from the later drivers until you can test them.
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[Alyssa Ryvers] “Not to worry that I will make artistic decisions that I shouldn’t be;”
We are not talking about artistic, these points are about technical issues.
“are you saying there is something lossy about leaving the file as 4096 × 2160 in FCP while cutting in a 1080p timeline”
1) The bandwidth difference between 4K ProRes and 1080 ProRes is more data to handle.
You are not going to cut 4K ProRes files easily from a Firewire or eSata drive and that is going to be the biggest issue to deal with.2) IF you have to scale the content to 1080 before the edit.
YES it will.gary adcock
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[Alyssa Ryvers] “do I understand correctly that you’re recommending that I re-size to 1080p before starting the edit?”
Alyssa, you need to talk to your editor before you make any decisions, some of the steps you are taking will seriously affect the post process. You are trying to crowdsource knowledge from people that are not doing the post and guessing at solutions for you.
ALL video compression engines are based on the standard SMPTE frame sizes, and since 4K currently considered as 2 frame sizes the 4096×2160 you are working with (4K DCI) or the more universal 3840×2160 (QuadHD) which is exactly 4x the pixels of the 1920×1080 HD frame.
QuadHD is recommended for a couple of reasons.
Not all 4K displays can show the 4096 pixels but all can show 3840px, and secondly that extras 256px create unwanted artifice when downscaling, reducing quality when creating online or other compressed content.What your editor needs should be solely their decision.
While JG points out that he cuts 4K in a 1080 timeline, he assumes that you ability to handle that much data in post and yet that alone may be beyond the available editing hardware and facility capabilities,gary adcock
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[Oliver Peters] “Is it as fast on a single machine?”
depends on the storage when you are moving big files.
I have been converting 4K in to ProResHQ for “offlines” in real time as a test between 2 – Lacie LBDv2 units.
IMHO keeping rather than trimming the extra 256px from the 4096 width to make a 1080 file can lower the quality of file compression on any platform. Compression math is developed around specific SMPTE frame raster sizes.
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[Oliver Peters] “f you need to batch-process a bunch of ca”
Actually I prefer the latest version of Compressor for this task over Resolve.
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[Adam Cravens] “m I only able to crash record a downconverted sequence onto digibeta this way or is there a way to lay down a sequence with proper timecode from a 1080PsF timeline to a 29.97 digibeta? How are other people doing this?”
have you tried using AJa’s VTRX app to do this. That was my workflow in the early days of HD.
It should allow you the ability to define the output TC correctly with it. It is available on their website.
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[Emin Urundas] “There was a company named as S.Two but now they gone, and nobody know anything about arri OBI-1 onboard to LTO record systems…whe stuck
“It is not an STwo problem ( I am in contact with the former employees)
The issue has to do with the way the LTO was made, sounds as if the tape was created using a proprietary system, the only way to retrieve the data is to know the type of LTO drive and system used to create it.
This was an issue with many of the early LTO systems, not creating the files in the .Tar format that is viewable by tape units on all platforms.
Where are you located?
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[Emin Urundas] “but now we buy a HP LTO 5 ultrium 3000 to read cartige back but we couldnt reach our shots back”
Emin
sounds like the files were not handled to be universally usable, best bet is to contact someone from the original production to access and transfer the media to a different devicegary adcock
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[John Davidson] “*Pegasus2 R8 32TB model is populated with 5900 RPM SATA drives. All other Pegasus2 models are populated with 7200RPM SATA drives.”
I have the 24TB P2R8 and it uses 7200 RPM Barracuda drives.
It is ONLY the 32T model that uses the slower drives (not currently shipping due to a issue with drive performance)gary adcock
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