James Sullivan
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Two years ago I never dreamed I could say ” hey I am going to put a davinci in my studio”. Now I can and will because I want to learn and practice using the tool I will need to get a good result for my clients. Just because I will have a system does not mean I will be able to grade a show with multiple horribly exposed cameras with 1500 shots in two days. Here is one of mutliple catches. I am also paralyzed and commuting to various post houses and using their systems creates logistic and ergonomic hassles that do not make me any more money.
Rejoice you now have the power to make images sing from your house. Work get home on time and be paid! More importantly feel free to share knowledge. Nobody learned how they do everything they do by themselves. We are all in the together.
Keep your stick on the ice,
James Sullivan
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Use it as an offline machine. A dual G5 will cut DV like it was made for it. If you use a proper offline online workflow you can be cutting up a storm and conforming on your fast machine.
Start transcoding today,
James
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My biggest recommendation is to bring a hood or an external monitor with HDMI to be able to pull focus. Trying to look at the back of the camera in daylight is really difficult. You cannot look through the lens when you are shooting! Also make sure to check out prolost.com to back off the sharpening and contrast as well as to turn on the highlight smoothing features to get a good exposure to grade. I am in love with everything the 5D represents thus far and it is only going to get better. You will need ND filters to keep the right shutter angle in bright daylight.
One of our local documentary crews have been using 5d’s abroad for their next film. Thanks Canon! (Please feel free to make it 10bit raw or turn on the HDMI so we can all buy Kipros)
good luck,
James
Also if you have not seen synth eyes product for syncing your dual system you will be very happy as you life will be much easier.
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I was looking at this product the other day. Does anybody know what happened to the company? The website is frozen in time and I could not get the demo version to actually do anything.
James Sullivan
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I have had the same behavior with our Harris legalizer. One trick that seems to calm the box down is making sure that your base setting of the kona card is the same flavor of video you are laying back. We are on an Xsan and the users we log into do not have root permissions. This can cause the kona to revert to a different set of settings when you open edit to tape. By logging in under a different user I can set the kona to “Stick” and then the legalizer craps out less. There needs to be a hardware fix or something because having to reset the legalizer every time you have to insert sucks. It is really bad if you are laying back 24p.
Good Luck,
James Sullivan
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Great. Glad I could help. FCP is really touchy about the OS, Version of Software, Version of QT and, Kona drivers all being in sync.
James
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The DS is still a great box. It has not been updated which sucks. Now that Smoke is coming to the Mac could that have killed a newer DS? Final cut needs help from other applications like After Effects and Color. The math and quality that a DS artist can produce inside that one box is great and has been the standard for some time. I still have not sat in front of one to this day. In my opinion lack of access to that box is what has ultimately undermined the product. Because I could on my own Final Cut system that is what I learned how to use. Is shake officially dead? I guess it is between Nuke and Smoke at this point.
Let’s go back to beta and retire,
James
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Which version of the Kona drivers are you using? We were having issues until we upgraded the firmware on the card itself as well as downloading the NDD driver. It removes the desktop display function and plays better. Do you have the Kona Breakout box? How are you monitoring the audio? Analog or digital?
James
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Is the kona card receiving house reference or is it in freerun? I have heard the crackles when you are having sync wierdness.
James
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I have a similar setup. Final cut just renders slow. Until we get to a 64bit version of OS and Final Cut that is bulit to be multicore aware we are going to be taking render breaks!
James