[Jay Curlee]

I somehow thought I could place in and out points and export that way. I guess that doesn’t work.

Thanks,

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

Thanks, guys. With any luck I might break through at one or more of the following festivals:

Hollywood
Ft. Lauderdale
Austin
Hawaii
Indy Memphis
Woodstock
& Chicago (all of these notify within the next 2 weeks)

BTW, I noticed that if I used the Kona DVCProHD codec it looked crappy. If I use the one that comes with QT it is fine. I wonder what is up with that? I have a G5 Quad and Kona LHe.

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

Jerry,
I wanted to report that after going back to QT 7.01, my associate was able to send the Cinewave HDCAM files through Quick Time Conversion to HDV. The resulting files play on my time line and can print to tape. One caveat is that I had to add the gamma filter and 3-way color corrector to get my blacks and highlites to match with the rest of the footage.
If anyone else gets stuck, this is one way out that worked for me.
Aloha,

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

The frustrating thing is that it worked before. Just 6 weeks ago. My associate is now trying to export the clips using quicktime conversion and its default HDV settings. His early test seems to work (on his system). He is on another island so I will not know for sure until tomorrow.

Thanks for weighing in, Jerry. I’ll post our results tomorrow.

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

Thanks for your response. The speakers are connected to the card.

And the sound is only a small part of my problem now. Evidently an update of Quicktime has affected its relationship with Compressor. A vendor sent me some clips shot on HDCAM that he sent to compressor for HDV encode (default settings). (I am editing a movie in HDV native with some clips coming in from HDCAM) This process has worked like gangbusters up to this point.

All my new imported scenes have serious motion problems that weren’t there on the previous transfers he did with an older QT version. He didn’t upgrade Compressor since his last successful transfer. Just Quick Time. All of my software versions are unchanged since receiving the original clips that worked.
FCP5.0.4, QT 7.1

The sequence that has the new clips is having all sorts of problems. Stuttering playback, intermitent audio drop outs, and horrible motion artifacts. All problems happen where the new clips have been put in. If I open those clips in QT and look at the format info, the attributes look the same as old clips. The one exception is that the aperture “clean” box is checked. It isn’t on my older clips. All of my sequence and project settings are unchanged.

I tried re-encoding to my version of compressor (2.0.1). No dice. I think I need to post this to a different topic.

[Jay Curlee]

They are just saying that you don’t have to convert the HDV to 8bit first. Make a reference movie with same settings. Drop THAT file into compressor and do your bit rate settings. My latest caveat is that my freference movie file managed to lose its video/sound synch.

There is always one more button.

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

when I play the exported self contained movie in QT it goes out of synch. Any ideas? The original timeline plays fine.

[Jay Curlee]

Thanks guys. Almost home free.

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

Thanks for your suggestion of compressor. It is working like a champ. One night of compression and all of my HDCAM stuff will be good to go. You are the man.

Aloha,

Jay

[Jay Curlee]

Trust me, I have pretty thick skin regarding HDV at this point. No harm no foul. I did a fair amount of research and made some difficult choices. I probably should have rented the HDCAM deck and gone uncompressed much sooner in my process. There was lots of advice encouraging the native HDV choice, but none of those folks were trying to incorporate 30 minutes of HDCAM footage into a 2 hour movie with my kind of deadline.

Or more to the point, maybe I should not have had the 900 on the shoot. The glass was the attraction.

The guy with the 900 who did the After Effects transcode was capturing it via Cinewave. Will Compressor handle Cinewave”s flavor of uncompresssed?

Thanks for your advice.
Jay