[Geoff Addis]

Hi Justin,

I’m using a Z1 at present although I intend to get separate VCR deck in due course. The HDV format is being converted to ProRes on capture as to do this conversion in FCP is very time consuming as is the process of spliting a long ingest into individual clips – it seems that it is not possible to do this automaticaly post capture as with dv. Is there a better way?

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

Thanks for the info Justin. I had rather hoped that there would be a way in which the time code carried down the firewire could be used to create individual clips when using the Intensity Pro.

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

Does the Keyspan Serial Adaptor approach allow scene detection and auto clip split functtionality?

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

Is there any way in which footage can be split into individual clips at timecode breaks when capturing via HDMI/Component input to the Intensity Pro with Firewire deck control?

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

David,

Thank you for your quick response, much appreciated.

As regards your suggestions, I quite understand that additional memory is desireable, but I’m still rather surprised at the general slowness of rendering a single 20 second ProRes clip having only the sharpness filter applied; in this case I would have thought that having a three drive SATA RAID is unlikely to make any difference since we are only dealing with one file.

I have tried using my three 500GB drives in a Mode 0 RAID, but the performance was not greatly improved when previewing or rendering a sequence of four (ProRes) Pictures in Picture over a background clip. At present the third drive is now used for capture when running Edius as this results in much better real time performance.

Are there any performance tweaks that are recommended for improving the performance of FCP?

Again, my thanks

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

Kristian,

Thank you for your advice. Following your instructions I can control my HDV player from FCP, but I’m unable to split the resultant clip at time code breaks. In FCP selecting Mark/Timecode Break results in a message stating that ‘the clip that has been selected does not reference a movie that can be analyzed’ so I am unable to split the captured file into individual takes as I would following standard (SD) DV Capture. Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation that I will have to live with?

Apologies for the basic nature of my questions, but I’m still getting to grips with FCP!

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

I’m having the same problem with deck control via firewire; I believe that I’ve tried all combinations in the audio/vidio set up menue. Any suggestions welcome,

Geoff

[Geoff Addis]

Ah! The sweet smell of success wafted finaly across the studio floor when I discoved the BM Intensity Icon in the Applications/System Preference folder (under Other)found on the MacHD drive. This provided the software input selection switch that I had expected to see in one of the Intensity apps. Being a newcomer to MAC, this was a little different to what I was used to on the PC; perhaps BM should provide a pointer to the software setup in their instruction,or have I missed something?

Now trying to get ProRes capture….

Good luck, geoff

[Geoff Addis]

I found this paper quite interesting, the bit about tapes in particular as it confirmed my own experience. The only dropout problem that I experienced in 100 or so ‘standard’ tapes was with the the one HDV tape that I had!

[Geoff Addis]

You may find this interesting, it is a pecis of a lecture that was given at this year’s video forum in London:

HDV & DV Myths

Andy Benjamin, DV Mentor, BBC DV Solutions

Myth 1