Gunner Jones
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Set Device Control to Uncontrollable Device.
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Have you used the drive successfully before? Is it properly initialized with Mac OS Extended?
It’s stories like this that make me avoid FireWire drives for mission critical work. Good luck though.
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[Steve DSV] “What i wanted to know is can i edit and just mark IN/OUT and then export a MPEG2 file direct from the timeline in the background without having to RENDER everything first?”
Well, I render effects and all that first prior to sending it to Compressor. I’m not sure if that’s necessary or not. It’s my paranoia getting the best of me: I ALWAYS want to check high quality renders before outputting to tape or DVD.
If you want exceedingly high quality encodes using Compressor and Optical Flow 2 Pass VBR, then no, it is not real-time at all. It’s fairly slow actually. Lower quality encodes go faster though, and keep in mind that you can hook up multiple macs to the work for you faster.
[Steve DSV] “will a G5 2.7 Dual and Firewire 800 RAID (prob miglia 500mb raid disks) give me bags of RT? (with 4 or 6gb of RAM)”
I really don’t like FW drives, but if that’s what you’re stuck with, so be it (internal drives are much more reliable). You should get several streams of DV in RT preview/Dynamic. You will have to render these prior to outputting to tape, of course.
[Steve DSV] “is this OK?
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Looks fine. Even in Dynamic RT, DVCPro HD looks damn fine.[Steve DSV] “is this really true!! sob!!! how on earth and i going to carry on doing my superb quality dvd’s??!!!
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Total Bull Hockey. Encodes look awesome. You just need to know how to set up Compressor for high quality. 2 pass VBR with Optical Flow has fantastic quality. As I mentioned though, it’s fairly slow.O&O-Gunner Productions
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I’m still not getting it. Seems like a waste of time and money….
Can you enlighten me as to why you would need anything but the project file and master tapes?
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Lee,
You might try these suggestions for high quality rendering: -
[Dominic] “Point taken Gunner, and I do view my timeline as I cut. But sometimes stuff looks fuzzy on my Mac monitor but then on printing to tape and to disc it is fine as can be. And you’re right about self-taught FCP users!!!Cutting on a 2.5GHz G5 8Gb RAM, 30in Studio display. Shooting on an HVR-Z1. Losing my mind in London.
“Hey Dom,
Hope you don’t think I was comin’ down on you personally good brother. It’s just that so many people just slam their systems together that they don’t even think they could be set up wrong. It comes from the “plug-and-play”, download it now mentality. I come from the old school where system setup and other important tech issues were severely banged into my head. I wish all editors could take 6 months off and go to digital video trade school like I did. Although it was in Avid, everything crosses over to FCP.You are actually exempt from cutting with a video monitor because you’re working with HDV. The only way you can monitor that stuff at full frame IS on one o’ those mighty fine computer monitors you have.
If you are having issues with softness, see my post below and follow all those steps to avoid the “fuzzy” look. Still, you probably won’t see the true quality of your stuff on the computer monitor unless you do the following:
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You know what sucks? If you output a MPEG4 file, Windoze people simply cannot view it. I don’t know what the hell the deal is, but it ticks me off, ’cause MPEG 4 is a great format with small file sizes.
I suggest you go with a more universal codec. Encode a .mov using Sorenson 3 instead. You’ll have much more success.
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Is that the way it looks on the video monitor? If not, check it there.
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[Mark Ziekert] “One of the things that I want to task him with, is laying down timecode and black on our MiniDV blank tapes. Simple,right?.
“For Edit masters? You’ll need higher quality DV Decks for that.
I hope you are not blacking tapes prior to shooting with them. That is a total waste of time.
[Mark Ziekert] “We have a Canon GL1, a Sony DSR-20 DVCAM deck, a Sony 1500A DVCAM deck and a Sony DV Walkman model DV G900.
“The 1500 is the only deck you can preset TC to 58:00:00 with. All the others won’t help you.
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Either do all your work in Avid or in FCP. Don’t mix the two environments.
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