James Sullivan
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I work for discovery where we shoot our shows on HDV. When tapes come back we make dubs to HDCAM and the ingest those at offline resolution for editing. For the smoothest ride through HDV and its crappy Timecode I think you have a good Idea. Whether you decide to layback to DVCPRO HD at 1080i is something you might want to consider. HDV entusiasts will insist you can edit HDV natively and will try to pursuade you otherwise. I think making selects and then laying those back will be ultimatly smoother for your finish. Depending on the volume of tape you could just make dubs first but it sounds like you will be swiming in footage of peoples toes. By the way the consumer Canon should not look as good as it does. It is scary. Be carefull of the audio as the mic is right on the camera.
Good luck,
James Sullivan
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Howdy, There are two ways as I see it.
1) When you install studio you can choose not to install the templates for the various studio apps. Soundtrack pro in studio 2 has tons of surround files that eat up some major hard drive real estate. You click on the custom install button and twirl down each app and de slect the media associated with it.
2) If you have already installed studio. Navigate to either the main library or your user library and go into app support and look around. You are looking for samples and templates. Do a find info and see the size of things. Once you get into the multiple GB range your getting close.
I can sympathize with the amount of room studio takes up. I have an intel based laptop that I like to use motion with but after working on several graphics pacakages and multiple renders of things my hard drive fills up and the performance of motion goes from “dismal” to “really pissy” to finally “you will no longer do anything until you free up room for me to contemplate the intricacies of the universe and or actually function at all.”
Good luck and happy hunting,
James Sullivan
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There is a magic checkbox for the emitter. Check out the free samples at ripple training for there dive deeper Motion DVD. It shows you where it is.
James
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I have been following your posts Walter about this exact workflow. We too pounded out the math on a TC calculator and the numbers match. The layback however does not. It is very frustrating and should work. Fortunately we are done with the shows that were cut this way and will be onlining at 1080i from here out. I know that Shane Ross had reported having to retime some of his acts for a project of his that he wrote about. Especially to get things back into snyc. If only Broadcast masters could be “Frame acurateish”…. I took his original advice on timing out the show in a DF timeline and everything matches but for some reason it comes out messed up. Go figure.
Happy new year,
James Sullivan
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Howdy, we have had this exact same problem with 720p 8bit uncompressed rendered out of Color and timed in a NDF timeline. There are gremlins somewhere. One answer a local post house suggested was that there could be longframes due to quicktime not keeping up while editing to tape. (or from the renders?) For example, one act of our show was one length in FCP but when we layed it back the duration changed. The act got longer!!! Very wierd. We were playing back of a fiber based X-san so I cannot fault our storage too much. For some reason 720p has been very wierd and does not act like 1080i. I know it has something to do with 59.94 frames vs fields and my brain is just mush from trying to reconcile the numerous posts on the cow. At this point are next shows are being conformed to 1080i for the online. That will circumvent the 720p debacle all together as well as match are final dilieverable. There are some major gotchas that we have not had time to figure out. Maybe I should have gone to school at panasonic University?
James
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For shows longer then 30 minutes the fastest way to layback cuts is to a consumer DVD burner. 3-7 minutes to finalize and you can duplicate from there. Avid takes for freakinig ever to make Quicktimes. Play and Record wait 50 minutes and your done..
James
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I think we are missing one minor thing. Apple has been improving their product every year. Avid although nice and functional and proven in the most time demanding schedules has done what? We now have a freaking Da Vinci in a laptop…(almost)
How cool is that?
James Sullivan
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Bob, When you say that the miranda control is bad what does that mean? Does it create unrepeatable captures? Should you be using a Keyspan adaptor for machine control or Firewire on the smaller HDV Decks ?(M10U, M25 etc)
Thanks for the info,
James
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I do not know if this applies to Motion but FCP does not interpret the Alpha channel right. Perhaps you have to switch it to Strait instead of Black or the other way around.
James
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I have heard that Audio Mixed at -20db from a professional VO Session brought into FCP did not line up at -20 and I think we are onto something in the Scale of the FCP meters VS. the rest of the world.
Interesting
James