Jim Mcnally
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These are great suggestions for larger scale lighting plans. This installation is for a museum and for a portion of the exhibit. The lights would be low wattage bulbs inside shadow boxes which would illuminate the object inside. Is there anything that would work for something of this nature?
Jim McNally
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Ralph, I’ve looked into Qlab and it has the features that I believe may work. I think the lighting may be more simplistic though than running through a lighting controller.
The museum plans to have several shadow boxes mounted on the wall with artifacts in them that would light up as the actor hits key lines in his dialogue. I’m thinking they would be just low wattage bulbs wired into the boxes.
Is there a hardware device as simple as a USB to light socket, or some such thing, that can be controlled by Qlab?
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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Thank you for the suggestions, I’ll look into these further.
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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Thanks for this information Ralph, I’ll check it out.
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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I see in FCP’s Log & Transfer window there is an “Archive to Folder” feature for renaming and moving cards to an HD. How does this feature stack up in offloading the data files and verifying?
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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Bill thanks for your comment.
I’m running FCP on a PowerPC so my first dilemma was that P2CMS only runs on Intel machines and I would need another machine to ingest the footage. If I went with Shotput Pro, that runs as Universal, my problem would be solved.
This is what I am thinking of for my setup and would appreciate any comments on problems that you forsee.
If I use ShotPut Pro I would have it running on my G5 and use firewire to grab the P2 footage to a SATA 1TB internal drive in a USB adapter. This would become my primary backup and would be used until full and then replaced with another drive. As a backup to this I would also copy the footage to a Dlink network storage device configured to RAID 1.
With the original footage safely duplicated I would then export my selected clips to a working firewire drive used as my FCP capture drive.
Does Shotput Pro create database files of significant size that I need to take into account for storage as well?
Or are the database files actually the original footage that I plan to store on the SATA 1TB drive at the start of my planned workflow?
Or do I need another program to actually keep a database of the material? Maybe I hoping it works like P2CMS?
As I look at my rows of tapes on shelves I hope that this migration to P2 is worth the effort!! lol
thanks,
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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Okay thanks guys for the info on this. The next question I have is with databasing the ingested footage.
Does the P2CMS program track everything that goes in and allow searching the metadata at some point in the future?
I have the program loaded and would think that is the intent of it but without any actual P2 data I can’t check it out.
If that is the case is that a good way to database footage or are the Imagine Products better suited to that?
thanks,
Jim
Jim McNally
The Commercial Factory
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The animation codec will give you very good results.
Jim
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I encountered this as well. I found by altering my sequence setting to 44.1 instead of 48, allowed the qt file to be converted to wmv without the error popping up.
Jim