[Jeremy Garchow]

This is a result of uprading to tiger and not doing a clean install. It has to do with quicktime

Apple tells you how to fix this here:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301852

Hope this helps.

Jeremy

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G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Make sure you have a PAL or Multi-format monitor. As I’m sure you know, don’t rely on your computer monitor for your critical monitoring.

Make all of your titles/graphics form various programs at 720×576.

[Jeremy Garchow]

There’s only one more step or two to get it into the timeline. First, in the timeline put your playhead to the end of the last clip. Select all of the clips in the bin (or select the clips that you have just digitized) and hit f10, which is a keyboard shortcut for overwrite. It will put them in numerical/alphabetical order in the timeline if you select multiple clips at one time.

[Jeremy Garchow]

i would like this feature too, but I’d also like it built into the finder with folders. Select a bunch of files, and with a keystroke, put all of those files into a new folder and have the new folder highlighted to be renamed.

Apple, if you’re listening, please heed our requests.

Thanks

[Jeremy Garchow]

Yeah, you can master audio and video through firewire (in Final Cut Pro), but what i was talking about is using firewire as deck control, and having audio and video outputting through HD-SDI. This is the only workaround that has even some sort of success laying off to tape on the 1200A. It’s kind of messy, and not frame accurate. If you do a search for 1200A over on the varicam forum, you will see the responses from Panasonic as to how the 1200A “never was and never will be” an edit deck.

Having said that, people have had some success in laying off the way I described above (a/v through HD-SDI & deck control through firewire), but it’s a workaround and not a solution. If you look over in the AJA kona 2 forum, you can see some of the discussions that happened their as well.

For the record, I am not slamming Panasonic or any of their products. DVCPro HD has been good to me. I just want you to know what you’re buying. 30Gs is tall dollar for something that doesn’t work like you thought it might. Rent one first and see if the firewire deck control solution is good enough for you.

Hope this helps.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Please be aware, there are no RS-422 deck controlled, frame accurate, assemble edits to tape with the 1200A. You can forget about insert edits entirely. You would be better off renting the 1700 which is a fully enabled edit deck. you can probably get by with an old 150 deck provided you have an hd-sdi equipped capture card. Save your $30,000 on the 1200A if you are planning to do masters. Some people swear they can get by on using the firewire protocol for the 1200A and use that to layoff masters, but it’s not dead on accurate. I’ve tried it and it sort of works, but it’s a lot easier to use the 1700 and not worry about modifying your settings to use firewire.

At the very least rent the 1200 once and master a project with it before you make a decision to buy. if i were you and need to master to DVCPro HD all the time, i would figure something else out rather than buy the 1200.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Sort of. Drag your entire 16×9 sequence from the browser into a new 4:3 sequence, then scale up the nested sequence to your liking and render.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

Is the original format HD?

If yes, then yes. Go in to the Kona 2 control panel put a downconverter on one of you sdi and hook that up to your digitbeta.

Click on the format tab and change the down conversion drop down menu to ‘crop’.

Hope this helps.

Jeremy

———–
G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do you know which version of the K2 drivers you were using? I think the previous version (to the most current) of the drivers fixed this audio mapping problem (the Kona 2 used to reverse the order of the audio channels). Maybe I’m wrong, and this wasn’t your problem, but it sounds like a driver update was in order. Also, there’s a BNC ‘harness’ so you don’t have to use the BNC to XLR adapter with the Kona 2.

Jeremy

———–
G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

I take it these are for window dubs? Do you have a deck? Run your downconverted analog component or composite into a professional sd deck (beta sp, DV, Digi Beta or whatever) and the rs-422 into that same deck. Set your deck’s timecode to your final cut timecode and do an edit to tape. Make sense? If you need window burned VHS dubs, take the super out of your SD deck into your VHS.

Jeremy

———–
G5 Dual 2Ghz <> 4GB RAM <> FCP 4.5 <> Kona 2

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre