Jeff Carrion
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Well, it’s early 2010 what’s the verdict now everybody?
We have the oportunity to upgrade everything we have to FCS3 and Snow, what do you say, is it finally time to just dive in with both feet?
Jeff-
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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Ok, thanks guys that make sense. One more thing, how then can I use my card to input audio for other applications like Skype, Garageband, Soundtrack Pro, or Screenflow? Do I just need to have a video signal feed into the card?
Jeff-
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[Chris Borjis] “I’d estimate you could fit a maximum of a 15 minute video in both formats on a single layer DVD-R”
Ahh, that’s the deal-breaker. The final project will be upwards of 2 hours.
And Walter, you may have misunderstood. I was asking if a DVD that has an HD VTS folder AND a SD VTS folder could be played on either a SD player or an HD player depending on what the viewer has.
Jeff-
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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Great, thanks for the info! I already had “never” selected for putting the computer to sleep and the hard drive box un-checked but I have the monitors set to shut off after 30min. I wouldn’t think that that would be a problem.
Although I have noticed that my MacPro (OS 10.4.11) will sort of pseudo-go-to-sleep if I leave it on over night or some other very long duration without any activity. I’ll need to hit a key to wake it, moving the mouse won’t do it, then the GFX card fan whizzes to life.
Jeff-
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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[David Roth Weiss] “So far everything is running quite nicely, although I did get a crash first thing this morning. However, I attribute the crash to my mistake of forgetting to to turn off all of the energy saving features in System Preferences. Keep that one in mind… Its one of the very first things you should do after installing from scratch…”
I’ve never heard of this! Is this something I should be doing with my systems? If so, do you keep the energy saving features off all the time or just during an install?
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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“Screwuped-ness!”
“Codec’ed!”
You’re confusing me with all this technical jargon 😉
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[Wayne Carey] “Have you checked to see if your monitors are switched to Optical Input?”
Yes, I have flipped that switch back and fourth a zillion times, no dice.
[Wayne Carey] “Make sure that the Mac Pro didn’t reset itself to an analog output.”
Huh? What I’ll do is open iTunes, start a song playing, open Sys Prefs, and toggle the audio output back and fourth from the Mac speaker to digital. It plays through the speaker but not the optical out.
BTW-there IS a red light comming through the optical cable into the Behringers.
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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Just about everything we create is output to a DVCAM offline master so there’s no need for bars and tone. When we Online we add all the broadcast header stuff.
One thing I’ve noticed is that if you put your first clip right at the beginning of the timeline, with nothing before it, and add a dissolve up from black the very first frame is not black. It’s the first frame of the dissolve so the picture is like only 90% black, therefor, we add the 1sec slug so the project starts from total black.
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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Hey cool, your “faking it” idea worked! For the first time in years we have a non-rolling signal!!!
On thing though: We’re using out DSR-45’s composite out as the ref signal in the 1800’s and even though the picture no longer rolls we are now getting the REF NON-STANDARD message. I know that this really won’t hurt anything and it will still record and playback fine but it’s just annoying. I guess it’s one annoyance or another: rolling picture or ref non-standard.
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”
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Interesting update:
Just talked to Tech support at Horita, started to explain my situation and about halfway through the guy stopped me and said “You’re using a UVW-1800 right?”
He explained that he gets called almost daily with this problem and that there is some sort of issue with the way the 1800’s internal TBC connects with its Ref input. The bottom line being that we are doing nothing wrong with the Horita and that the issue is with the 1800 and, furthermore, to his knowledge there is no known way to fix it.
So I guess we’ll just have to continue to live with it.
“No TV and no beer make Homer something, something…”