[Jeremy Doyle]

I can find the matching time code, but the imported clips have varying lenths than the
DV clips. Since I’m not in a hurry to get an HD version I decided I’d just wait since we’re having another 4 suite install and a bunch of equipment coming in a month. Then we’ll have a deck and the FCP upgrade. I’ll just use media manager to make and offline then I’ll bring it in through the kona using the Pro Res codec. It will give me a good chance to play with that codec then.

I didn’t think there was an easy way of doing it, but thought I’d ask anyway. I’m just glad to have a fun non time sensitive project so I can try to figure things out in my free time. That way I hopefully won’t be blindsided when the time comes when a client project calls for it.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Doyle]

For what it’s worth I installed FCP 5 on agp g4 mac without quartz extreme support and it wouldn’t even start FCP 5. I kept getting an error saying the graphics card wasn’t quartz extreme compatible.

I didn’t even try to install motion for obvious reasons.

With FCP 4.5 it will cut DV footage all day long though.

[Jeremy Doyle]

I just got one of these last week. Actually the first one I recieved was DOA and I returned it for the same unit. I’ve been editing 35Mb XDCAM HD footage with it. Well more like reviewing it as the combination of firewire 800 and my powerbook g4 1.5 doesn’t really have the juice to edit it. I have had some luck logging and marking the footage.

For me its just a stop gate for a couple of weeks as we have more editors than suites at the moment. (New suites are coming…Can’t wait to give the 8-cores a run). All the footage that I’m logging at the moment also resides on the xserve. I don’t think I would do anything mission critical with this drive.

It might be fine for DV50 footage though especially if its only for a few weeks till you get your RAID solution.

On the other hand Walter had one go down in a week and my first one came DOA….

So I guess there’s really only one question. “Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

Jeremy

[Jeremy Doyle]

After talking with sony on the phone this is what I learned. The XDCAM transfer software can/may conflict with SAN software.

I restarted the computer than opened just the XDCAM transfer software and the disc worked. Then after it worked I started my san software logged into my volume opened FCP. Now I am able to use the import XDCAM footage.

The downside is in my XDCAM transfer program I lost all relation to proxies and discs that I had previously loaded.

I was told that Sony was working on their transfer software to make it more compatible with SAN software.

In our case we are using SANMP although I was told the problem also exisits with XSAN.

Anyway I’m now off to having a more productful day, altough I did learn a few things this morning.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Doyle]

After talking with sony on the phone this is what I learned. The XDCAM transfer software can/may conflict with SAN software.

I restarted the computer than opened just the XDCAM transfer software and the disc worked. Then after it worked I started my san software logged into my volume opened FCP. Now I am able to use the import XDCAM footage.

The downside is in my XDCAM transfer program I lost all relation to proxies and discs that I had previously loaded.

I was told that Sony was working on their transfer software to make it more compatible with SAN software.

In our case we are using SANMP although I was told the problem also exisits with XSAN.

Anyway I’m now off to having a more productful day, altough I did learn a few things this morning.

Jeremy

Thanks Wayne for your suggestions. I’ve been watching some of your shows on TOC. Nice job. I work for Intermedia Outdoors (formerly primedia outdoors) and we have several shows that air on TOC.

[Jeremy Doyle]

I have 1.46T free drive space. I’m still waiting for a call back from sony.

Thanks for the suggestion. I think I will cross post in the sony cinealta and see if anyone there might have an idea.

[Jeremy Doyle]

8 Gigs of ram is recommened for the octo so you can have at least 1 gig of ram per core.

If you’re using after effects a lot then you’ll really notice the difference according to the reports at barefeats.

[Jeremy Doyle]

Select all in your sequence > control click > remove attributes > distort. Done. No rendering need if its an anamorphic timeline. We do this a lot as different editors touch projects and forget to set timelines to anamorphic instead of 4×3.

[Jeremy Doyle]

OK I will rephrase my statement. We never had that problem with DVCAM plugging a dsr-45 in and out of studio machines as well as 570’s into laptops to check footage in the field. DId that for several years no problems. Started using HDV not doing anything different and all the HDV decks firewire’s are fried.

I guess we just got lucky all those years with the DVCAM equipment.

[Jeremy Doyle]

Besides the license fee of $400/year for google earth there is also a per use fee of $200.00. That’s per use not per show. That fee is also to be paid for broadcast reruns. Works great for heavy popluation locations. Not so great for the boonies.