Jeremy Doyle
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[Shane Ross] “Kona LHe doesn’t up and cross convert. You need to compare the MXO2 with the Kona 3.”
I’m pretty sure he was referring to the Kona LHI which does up and cross convert. It doesn’t do dual link or 2k though.
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Chalk up another vote for the EX series. Bigger chips offering sharper, more vibrant pictures and low light superiority. Better viewfinder. Cheaper media, especially when using adaptors for SD cards.
Shane is right though, an ergonomic nightmare is almost an understatement. And if you don’t have a good DP the GOP format is not very forgiving. Although I think that DVCPRO HD falls apart pretty fast as well once you start pushing it around.
I’ve never tried it, but I think the EX1 fitted with the AJA KiPro would be a real winner.
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[Todd Terry] “How many times have you been to a public place (doctor’s office, restaurant, bar) where there is a 16:9 set displaying a 4:3 picture all stretched out? I see that all the time and it drives me nuts.”
And what about the TNT, TBS, USA, etc… HD channels where the network takes the old SD shows and stetchs them. I actually have to turn from my HD channel back to my SD channel to get it to look right. I’m with you. This is a big pet peeve.
On the other hand is my father-in-law “why would I want to waste the space on my tv”. He’ll even change the settings on my TV when he’s in town!
OK, I digress. But I could rant about this for hours and probably have been known to do so.
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I’m level 1 certified in FCP. I didn’t take the class. My employer paid the testing cost. At the time I had roughly 6 years FCP experience. When I went to take the test, everyone else there had taken the class together. I was the 1st one done and passed with 95%. I didn’t stay around to see how those who had taken the class finished.
With your experience, I’m sure you’d have no trouble passing the tests.
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Personally if I tell someone “thank you” it really annoys me if they thank me back. I’m thanking you for a reason, it’s Ok to accept it and and say you’re welcome. Accept the thanks unconditionally. I’m not saying it to get thanked back.
Even if you are “just doing your job” its Ok to accept a thank. I was raised the the appropriate way to accept a “thank you” is to say “you’re welcome”
It’s so engrained in me that I actually have a hard time understanding why it bothers you.
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The deck is fine as long as your working with 60i footage. As we do outdoors programming (hunting, fishing, shooting), we have really abused our deck pretty good and it keeps ticking right along.
We used the DV clamshell decks before moving to HD. I believe, (but I could be wrong) that the transport in this deck is the same transport as in their camcorder line, Z1, Z5, Z7.
You’d probably be as well off buying a cheap HDV camcorder and using that as your deck. Then you’d have the added benefit of being able to use it as a camera in pinch. Both would have component outs that you could run through your Kona card.
The bigger screen size of the deck is nice in the field though.
Like I said in the early post the biggest thing to worry about would be what flavor of HDV are the tapes coming in. This should dictate what you get.
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We have one, but we only use it in the field. If you’re getting a lot a HDV you might want to look at the Sony M35U. That deck will play all flavors of HDV including Canons 24f mode. Since all HDV isn’t the same this is the only deck currently that is a swiss army knife capable of playing back all HDV derivatives.
I can certainly understand your reluctance in investing in the format though.
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I had this happen to me once before. What happened in my case was using a quicktime version that was too new for my version of FCP. Once I upgraded my FCP everything worked fine.
This won’t help you if all your stuff is current however.
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I did not take the class, but I did take the level 1 certification test passing with a 95 percent. Everyone else in the testing room had taken the class and were mostly college students. I was the first person to finish the test. My advantage was having worked years with FCP in the real world.
If you’re on FCP everyday, you’d probably pass level 1 without needing a class.
I have found that I learn way more by reading the various posts right here on the cow. Much more useful information anyway.
I only took the test because at the time my employer paid for it and they viewed having certified editors the same way they look at awards such as Tellys, good for showing off to clients.
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[Brandon Carter] “what exactly does the capture card do, whether we are talking a Kona or Black Magic etc… On the capturing side I mean…I know the purpose for the card in regards to using the Beta Recorder, but what does it do for the capture end of the process?”
It will do a realtime transcode to other formats freeing your computer from long software transcodes. It will give you a better monitoring connections. I’m assuming because you’re using dv you’re just hooking your deck up to a monitor and feeding the deck with the firewire. With a capture card you can go right from the computer to the monitor avoiding some latency issues. The higher end cards also allow for realtime upconvert and cross-converts.
Then there’s the whole output side which you already understand.