Jim Calahan
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Three grand and it’s probably more than you need at this time. B&H.com is a place you can go to get prices for these kinds of things. You should get something so you can watch your video on a real monitor and AJA does make products that will accomplish this for less.
Jim Calahan
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If you trashed your prefs did your system start capturing to the boot drive? That’s what I found last time this happened to me.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
The 1400 will tell you on the display what the tape is shot at.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
You don’t have enough drive space or speed for uncompressed. Just import the files using log and transfer.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
At KVIE we are waiting for some sort of database solution for P2 (Final Cut Server or HD log maybe) but for now we just put everything on LTO 3 and are moving to LTO 4 in the next year or so.
I just put 5 pallets of Beta tapes (half the tape library) in the landfill because nobody wanted used Ampex tape. For $50 to a $100 you can store all the files for most shows on 1 or 2 LTO tapes but at $3,000 or more for a deck it’s a little pricey.
We just bought an HDCam 1800 deck to handle our deliverables to PBS. PBS has been promising a file based delivery system for a few years now and we have sent DVCPro100 tapes out to a dub house to make HDCam masters but with the shipping things back and forth messing with deadlines we decided to buy one to keep it in house.
AVC-Intra is looking promising as it is full sized 1920 by 1080 all I-frame MPEG so it’s easier to edit than Long GOP MPEG but Final Cut imports it as Pro-Res, so I don’t know how universal it would be for sharing with other edit systems and servers.Jim Calahan
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Makes me want to go the itunes route to distribute our HD productions to the home user as long as Apple stays with Apple TV and other DVRs gain market share. SD DVDs will continue to be the most practical for the next couple of years or so. Solid-state media will continue to get larger and cheaper and win out in the end (silicon is cheap and a lot more reliable). We already have stopped shooting on tape (P2) except when we use outside contractors, still doesn’t make since for them yet.
Jim Calahan
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I used it on my powerbook to fix Compressor after it quit working. I deleted it from the apps folder and time machine restored it. That’s on my personal powerbook I haven’t switched any of my work stations at work to 10.5 yet.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
All the DVCPro formats play on the 1400 deck if you are using firewire the DIF menus up in the 800 numbers were possibly set to up-convert to HD.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
Were the QT files acquired in QT 7.4? You may have to recapture the footage or fix the files with something like Imagineproducts.com QT repair program.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento -
We have 4 or 5 a week right now out of 6 systems I think XSAN is our issue until we can re-deploy in a few weeks. We are a little slower now in between series and need to do a lot of backing up. We were crashing a lot more than that when we were in full swing. One system in particular seems to have a problem importing P2 files form a NAS.
Jim Calahan
KVIE, Sacramento