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I’m using a Sony M10U.

Mike

Michael G

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Dear David,
Thank you for Tim Wilson’s article. It is exactly what folks need who are wandering into the dimly lit wilderness of HD,HDV and ProRes.

We have a dual G5 and the AJA LH because for some jobs we had used lots of Beta SP archival stuff At present, we tried shooting a short form job in HDV, downconverted it with our M10U deck, edited it, and then tried to recapture in HDV. To remain Kosher, we had a good tech person with us. However, the deck seemed to suffer a psychotic breakdown and went all over the place. Some timecodes were the same, most others were pure fantasy. It became clear why everyone wants to get out of HDV as soon as possible and into an editable HD format.

We do long form documentarys and we were thinking of getting the AJA io HD when it comes out, but It seems to me that the present state of affairs is that this stuff will cost a lot of money with no guarantees. Fortunately, we can still shoot and downconvert.
Thanks again

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Hi, Thanks for the info. but more puzzling, is that just today, it suddenly started working smoothly and at its normal speed.
The problem was only in FCP and I am using a Surevault with 745gb capacity, and it has 427.37gb available on it, so that should be ok. I did try killing the wavefforms on the audio tracks, which didn’t improve the speed. This slowdown lasted for several days and I had shut everything down several times, done all the mantainence tricks, etc, but it continued to work slow, then suddenly it sped up. I want to check out the AJA, but I don’t know why it would effect editing on the timeline. This is definitely an intermitant. Thanks again.

Michael G

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Thanks to all,
This makes sense with what is happening. Before our HDV adventure, I was outputting DV25 to an analog DV50 signal, so this also would have stripped off the camera cut signal. Too bad. The drill now is to capture everything and put the markers in manualy.

Thanks again,
Michael

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Thanks Gary,

I am outputing a component video signal out of the M10U into the AJA, but I’m also directly outputing a firewire time code into the G5. When I capture, I set the device control to “Firewire NTSC” which controls the deck. I had thought that this made the FCP happy with a digital time code signal.

Michael

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Thanks David,
This is new information. Are you saying that it is possible to use the firewire for time code and deck control only and still out/input a component video signal? Unfortunately the Rosendahl cost about $800.00, which is big bucks for us.
Our next excruciating system upheaval is switching back and forth from Beta, DV, and HDV. We just got two Sony HDV cameras and the M10U deck, so we will, I understand, have to get the Kona transcoder and keep switching the preferences in FCP according to which format we are using.
By the way, I’m a refugee from Discreet Edit* and I have fallen totally in love with FCP.

All the best,
Mike Gilligan

Mike

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HI Dvid,
I don’t have the Kona, I have the AJA IO-LS.
I have a Beta UVW-1800 hooked in because we’ve got tons of archival stuff and we also send out Beta for our PBS shows, and I have a switcher to go back and forth between the UVW-1800 Beta and the DSR-1500 digital deck. I’m going in and out component, because I can use DV-50, which, to me, makes a lot better picture.
I was told that the firewire was quirky by an apple consultant who does a lot of FCP, (including editing.) We’ve worked together a lot, and I trust him totally, (so that’s not an issue.) Also, he didn’t sell the Rosendahl. I bought it from a different company, so he wasn’t trying to sell me something.
It would have been great to just go with the firewire, because it would have saved us a lot of money, but when I compared the DV (with firewire,) and DV-50 with a component signal, I thought there was a big difference. That’s why, when I hooked in the HVR-M10U, (outputing standard def.,) I am outputting it as a component signal, which also works with all the other stuff.
Am I wrong?
Thanks Dave,
Mike Gilligan

Mike

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I was told that the firewire control was unreliable.

Mike

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I had assumed that the captured picture would be the same artifacts I saw in the window, so when you asked the question, I went in and called up log and capture, and surpriseingly, all was back to normal, even though I didn’t change anything, the picture comes through fine. For how long, I don’t know. I had tried everything I could think of before and nothing doing.
I’m still puzzled.

the best, Mike