[James Mulryan]

Jeremy:

The HDcam material is 23.98
The DV material is 24P, some 60i material as well.
Will need to present final material at 1080 24p. Don’t want to upres the SD material twice, nor downres the HDCAM and bring it back up again.
Thanks in advance.

[James Mulryan]

Shane:

It is going to be a mixxed timeline,
40 percent P2 720 24pn footage,
15 percent DV 29.97
20 Percent DV 24P (DVX100),
10 percent HDCAM,
15 percent Beta.
Entire show is 90 minutes.

Planning to go to an 8 bit uncompressed 1080 24p timeline, final output to D5. Innital run for festival digital projection, possible film out. Final color correction tape to tape at a Hollywood post house.
inputs:
HDCAM through HDSDI,
DV footage through Sony 1500 SDI
Betacam through a component to SDI AJA converter.
Talked with AJA said the conversion from 29.97 to 23.98 might be a problem, A frame issue? Might have to transfer several times to make sure it works out right.
Seems like a nightmare.
Think Pro-Res has too many problems.

Does the resizing of the P2 footage in the timeline result in pixelation? What about transfering the P2 footage to an 1400 deck with HDSDI and letting the Kona card upconvert on ingest– would this give a cleaner image rather than using FCP software?

Also would it be better to use a 720 p timeline then uprez to 1080 when color correcting? Did not want to upres the non 720 footage twice.

Thanks.

[James Mulryan]

Why did I spend 3K for a 17″ hi res laptop and have a horizontal tearing problem?
Apple should resolve this asap. Not the best way to show off your beautiful shots to a paying client.

[James Mulryan]

I am getting the same horizontal tearing on my MB Pro 2.4 17″ Hi Res screen 2Gig ram. Any rapid horizontal movement induces this problem. It’s as if the vertical lines do not match up with each other. If you have ever used a 35mm SLR with a split focus circle, when out of focus the vertical lines do not match up. This is what the Hi Res display looks like.
Using DVCProHD 720 24p, FCP 5.1.4 QT 7.1.6 OS 10.4.10 with a FW800 external drive rated at 69MB/s on the Kona test. Does not show up on an 8 core system using the same drive and a Dell 24″ monitor, nor on one of the original Intel Imacs.

[James Mulryan]

Could it be that Panasonic and Apple are direct competators, they both build laptops?
Could it be that Panasonic is pissed at Apple for going to bed with Red?
All conjecture on my part.
Pretty happy with recent items such as the dual adaptor and 16G cards.

[James Mulryan]

Getting 8 minutes for 16G using the dual adaptor also. What a difference.

[James Mulryan]

Dual Adaptor rocks, Panasonic helped out on drivers, if you use Firewire 800 external drives with a Macbook Pro, your load times are 8 minutes for 16 G ingesting as MXF file, then you have to import into FCP, another 8 minutes, still a screamer.
Wish Apple would have a direct ingest, rather than going through MXF files. Always load your MXF files onto a separate drive and then import into FCP on another separate drive. Might get hosed if you rely on FCP import only. QT and OS issues

[James Mulryan]

I have a MBP 17″ hi res . Having trouble playing older P2 material imported through a
G4 macbook. DVCPROHD material breaks up on playback. Think it must have something to do with the Nvidea card or the hi res display?
Ideas?

[James Mulryan]

Noah:
New update, played the material from my firewire drive to an 8 core FCP 2 system, no problem with playback. Must be something about the hi res screen on this macbook.

[James Mulryan]

Thanks Noah will do.
I just tested the same footage on an 8 core with OS10.4.9 FCP 2 the same firewire drives, no problem. Must be something with the Macbook Pro or OS 10.4.10
Jim