[Glenn Grant]

Thanks Curtis, I thought it would help save energy if I could turn it off. What about at the end of the day if I know I am going to use it the next day should I leave it on?

I will just leave the internal drives alone. I was hoping to take them out so I could add a new drive for a clean instal of the OS and FCS 3. But I can remove one of the other drives for that.

Thanks,
Glenn

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[Glenn Grant]

If your timeline settings match the source settings, you should not need to render anything. The output might take some time.

Hey, I just figured out how to get ride of my Legacy Name!

[Glenn Grant]

Hi Dominic,

I had a similar situation with DVCPrpHD footage. When I captured the footage, I had lots of dropped frames and time code breaks that resulted in lots of individual clips. I assembled each camera angle onto a timeline and set the starting time code to match the source. I then exported these timelines as quicktime movies and brought them back and grouped them together for multi-cam.

This worked great and made my life much easier than trying to sync up all the shorter clips. It is important to make sure your time code matches up, even if you need to add a slug to fill in some gaps. The down side is it adds another step if you need to recapture the footage.

Glenn

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[Glenn Grant]

Thanks David. I think that will work. Should be close enough for this project.

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[Glenn Grant]

I am using the plug in as well.

I will try the DVCpro 50 timeline and see what happens.

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[Glenn Grant]

So I tried sending a clip to Motion, and applying the PAFx plug in there. The results in motion are much better.

However, back in final cut, the text is upside down on the imported motion file???????? It looks clean, but it is upside down.

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[Glenn Grant]

What time line settings are you using? I have tried a bunch different time line settings and and nothing looks nearly as good as the projects in motion.

The HD timelines are OK, but not great.

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[Glenn Grant]

Check out this article from Dustin Lau in the COW library.

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/lau_dustin/mediamanagement.php

It is pretty good to get you started. But as the others have said, what works for someone else may not work for you.

[Glenn Grant]

Unfortunately, I don’t have any other SDI gear to try out. I will go back to convergent design and see what they think.

Thanks for the help guys.

[Glenn Grant]

As for work flow, I am trying to establish a new work flow.

Typically I shot with the Sony Z1, capture via firewire to ProRez and output to DVCam, DVD or FTP for broadcast commercials. I also ingest via a DSR-20. I usually have Beta tapes dubed to DVCam or get someone with a Beta SP deck to capture the clips for me.

I just added the Kona 3 card so I can start adding more high end gear. Might be over kill for what I currently do, but I got a good deal on one. I am also planning on installing a Kona LH or LS in my G5 so I can get more use out of that and I will be connecting a Sony 1800 beta sp to that. That way I can capture and output to Beta.

I edit a lot of projects that come to me on hard drives, and usually go out the same way so IO has not been much of an issue. Most other projects I do end up on DVD or I upload them to an FTP site so HDV via Firewire has been working. I’m starting to move up the food chain and I need to have the gear to handle the bigger projects.

When I can, I would like to upgrade to a better camera, and get an HD deck, but not quite yet. Now with the Kona cards I can at least rent an HD deck when I need one.