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Jim Finn
July 27, 2007 at 12:06 am in reply to: tom wolsky chroma key HDV question

So it’s a compression issue. It’s not caused by the text bc it appears randomly. The footage looks fine with the blue screen. The artifact frame happens seeming arbitrarily. When I tried to reimport the footage, FCP is acting up and isn’t responding. Going to trash the prefs.

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Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
July 26, 2007 at 9:03 pm in reply to: HDV blue screen rendering issue

Thanks, No simpler way? you think it’s the i-frame issue?

If I do convert, I am not sure the best way to do it. Can I do it in FCP? Frankly I don’t really understand ProRez. I do have FCS 2.
yours, jim

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Jim Finn
July 16, 2007 at 11:57 am in reply to: compressor issue

Thanks, I was confused. I thought it was going to change the format of the picture. But i made the dvd and it looks great.
yours, jim

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
July 6, 2007 at 3:00 am in reply to: aiptek GO-HD and FCP

Was thinking of it for throwaway stuff.

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
July 5, 2007 at 7:55 pm in reply to: FCp on 8-core Mac Pro

The card i bought was the middle option on the MAC PRO, not the multiple cards or the one that cost $1000. It has worked fine but i’ve only had the computer for 3 weeks. I edit HDV and use lots of subtitles and some motion effects in FCP. I do titles in Motion and bring them in and i want to learn Color soon to mess with that. This computer has been great so far. Not sure exactly what is doing what: processor, ram, graphics card though.
yours, jim

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
July 5, 2007 at 1:53 pm in reply to: FCp on 8-core Mac Pro

It is fast. I was editing DVcam footage on my Macbook Pro, which was fine but when i switched to HDV, it was painfully, 1990’s-ish slow. With the octocore, things are cruising right along. I have 4gigs of RAM and the Radeon x1900 graphics card.

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
June 24, 2007 at 7:22 pm in reply to: hard disk recorder for final cut

I have the hv60 i think it’s called. The one made by Sony to work with the camera and it’s been great. Only problem is that FCP does not recognize the HDV compression file so i have to capture it as if it were tape. Or convert it via MPEG streamclip which i don’t like to do.

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
June 14, 2007 at 9:24 pm in reply to: stereo pair

Thanks Ben!

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
June 11, 2007 at 5:31 pm in reply to: HDV tapestock — Sony V1U

I bought the DR60 hard drive which has been great but I have used Sony DVCam tapes that are more than a year old and they have been great. Haven’t had problems with them.

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p
Jim Finn
June 9, 2007 at 5:24 pm in reply to: Capturing From A Sony DR60 HD

My suggestion is to do an HDV 1080i easy set up in FCP and then capture the footage from the log and capture window. Name it one thing and when there is a pause or stop break it will automatically name it _2, _3 etc…

The other option is to convert the footage via MPEG Streamclip into HDV. That’s a free downloadable program. It looks fine but the double compression aspect of it makes me nervous so i do log and capture.

macbook pro intel dual
Sony HDV-V1U 24p

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