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Jeff Davidson
September 27, 2010 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Final Cut vs. Edius

I guess my biggest concern is graphics. I have read that the graphics associated with Edius are sub par. If you or others have comments on this I would appreciate any input. It seems to me that for editing only Edius would be quite capable.

As far as training I agree with you. However the company is looking at it another way. Using Edius over several station allows users to come from other stations ready to roll. I must say that I can only remember someone coming from another group station a time or two in the past twenty years. Seems much more likely that you would be correct in that new people would have more ramp up time.
Jeff Davidson
June 17, 2010 at 7:48 pm in reply to: capture save question

I had a friend come over to take a look. After nosing around through settings and such we discovered that the decklink was a version for Final Cut 3. Apparently any updates to the software had been lost with the drive crash. We updated the decklink software and everything is working fine. Probably something I should have caught earlier. Thanks for the tips on the ProRes. I will stick with that.

I do appreciate all of your help. It is very nice that you would take the time to assist me and I am certainly grateful.

JeffD
Jeff Davidson
June 17, 2010 at 4:10 pm in reply to: capture save question

I changed the capture/input to DV50 NTSC 40KHZ and I am getting video but no audio.
Jeff Davidson
June 17, 2010 at 3:54 pm in reply to: capture save question

Now when I try to log and capture I get “unable to initialize hd device. make sure deck is connected and try again.”

Here are my current settings

Sequence preset: Apple ProRes 422 NTC 48KHZ
Capture Preset: HDV-Apple ProRes 422
Device Control Preset: Blackmagic Decklink NTSC- RS422
Viceo Playback: Blackmagic NTSC-*Bt (720×486
Audio Playback: Built In Audio
Jeff Davidson
June 16, 2010 at 9:33 pm in reply to: capture save question

Source is a Sony SX DNW-A75. Capture preset is Blackmagic Decklink NTSC SDI to DV.
Jeff Davidson
June 16, 2010 at 7:06 pm in reply to: capture save question

Let me add one more piece of info. Just tried a capture now and got “ERROR. Final Cut Pro was unable to read the movie file just captured.” hope that helps.
Jeff Davidson
June 16, 2010 at 6:39 pm in reply to: capture save question

I’m sorry I wasn’t as clear as I needed to be. The hard drive was replaced and then I re installed final cut using the original disks. then any updates were downloaded.