[Greg Newman]

Video was shot on the HVX, captured on P2 and imported into FCP. The material plays back in sync in FCP and in the full resolution quicktimes converted from the original MXF files.

[Greg Newman]

Ok, so far most recommend the hardware card route for upscaling, which of course makes complete sense. One response suggested that upscaling through FCP (or presumably outside FCP in Quicktime) would be fine.

I currently do not have any hardware cards for this conversion, and Advanced Format Conversions are not available in my copy of Compressor. While those are obviously the better paths to follow, am I still going to be ok upscaling my 1280 to 1920 in quicktime? Final thoughts on this?

Thanks.

[Greg Newman]

Thanks. Is there any advantage/disadvantage to scaling up in FCP vs outside of FCP in Quicktime? My previous workflow specified not using FCP, but exporting from FCP to QT then using QT to do the conversion to 10bit uncompressed.

Thanks.

[Greg Newman]

Unfortunately, the “Ignore Permissions on this drive” checkbox does nothing. I’m still presented with simply “You have custom access” and no users to adjust settings for.

I did do this: I accessed this firewire drive from another computer and found that I was then presented with the normal options to add/modify users. It read that the admin, me had read/write, “unknown” (with a question mark next to it) had read only, and Everyone had read only.

I changed Everyone to read/write but could not change anything on this Unknown user, nor could I delete it.

I then accessed the drive on the original computer and finally had access to these user settings, however once again this Unknown user remained, with a question mark and read only access, and I am unable to delete it.

I could then write to the drive, but not always. The bizarre saga continues:

I could do all finder functions on the job fine, and I exported a quicktime from Final Cut Pro straight to the drive successfully. But, for some reason, I could not export an EDL from Final Cut Pro to the drive. It simply never showed up. I could export the same EDL to any other drive attached to the computer, but not to this drive.

After exporting the EDL to my desktop I could then copy it to this drive in the finder. So, some bizarre permissions issues still exist, and the likely culprit is this Unknown user.

No one else has access to this computer.

Partially solved, but still frustrating and puzzling…

[Greg Newman]

Tis true… it’s been said clearly before. Sometimes there’s no accounting for what it takes to get it through some people’s heads (me.)

Couldn’t get it to work yesterday, but now it does. Thanks for the help. Stand by for the next exercise in repetition.

Greg