[Jeremy Garchow]

M Audio ‘Flying Cow’ DA

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ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre

[Jeremy Garchow]

That’s Ribbit Films

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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]

Read the io faq here:

https://www.aja.com/support_Io.html#faq

It gives you what aja has tested to be the minimum system requirements and what you need to buy for using the io on the powerbook.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

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

Hope this helps.

For the record, and any one else that is reading this, I think this is one of the reasons why doing a totally clean install is the best way to get to FCP5 & Tigger. It’s really easy. Buy a decent SATA drive, put it in slot 2 of your G5 and load tiger and all of your other apps on to it. When you need to, boot back to Panther and run from there. As you get more and more comfortable with Tiger, drag all of your impotant docs to the Tiger SATA and make sure to reinstall plugins and anything of that nature.

Jeremy

[Jeremy Garchow]

If Graeme releases a plug in then I would definitely check it out. He gets nothing but praise around here. I have been point to a website before that tells you how to get slow 24p out of 60i footage using after effects tricks. You can read up on it here: https://www.rarevision.com/articles/slow_motion.php#

There are a few quicktime example of what it looks like. I would also email Graeme.

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]

[David Battistella] “Are you saying that the Kona 2 is a smooth 60i to 24P downconverter”

Nope. Varicam has the ability of shooting variable frame rates. It is a rather long technical explanation of how it exactly works that is not appropriate to go into here. I’m sure you can find technical details around the web, maybe a varicam manual to start, or perhaps over at ken stone’s site for some plain english http://www.kenstone.net. In fact here’s a link after a quick search that will help explain the varicam workflow (without the kona 2)

https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/dvcpro_hd_workflow_balis.html

The Varicam shoots 60p (not 60i). It also shoots frame rates between 4 and 60 frames per second progressive which you can then convert to slow down or sped up footage.

You can capture uncompressed using the Varicam specified easy set ups (for instance 8 bit 23.98 Varicam), but you won’t be able to use the software frame rate converter because it only works with the DVCPro HD codec and the embedded rp-188 stream. Capturing uncompressed can only happen when your shooting frame rate matches your playback frame rate. In order to get the full functionality of the over or under cranked footage you must digitize at 60p (59.94) in the DVCPRO HD codec and then use the software frame rate converter plug-in (which is free from Panasonic’s website) to get you to the intended speed. Hope this is a good starting point.

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]

Yes.

What Graeme says, and you also get a Kona 2 card that will convert your 60p footage to slo mo 23.98 upon digitizing.

Otherwise you digitize the 60p footage at 60p and run it through the free frame rate converter plug in that panasonic provides. Digitizing on the fly with Kona 2 saves you some steps. You have to use the DVCPRO HD codec in order for this to work.

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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]

Redownload and install the 1.2.1 update (or update to it if you haven’t already). This always fixes this annoying problem for me.

https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/compressorupdate.html

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]

What are your system specs?

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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]

Fetch. Used it for years and it works very well.

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

ATTO 42XS <> Huge Systems 1.25 TB 4105 Fibre