Joe Murray
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This is a Quicktime problem. I tried retro-grading back to Quicktime version 6 on the graphics computer and that fixed the problem. Of course it creates other problems if you don’t have Quicktime 7. If you do a google search for “Final Cut Pro Quicktime gamma shift Mac PC” you’ll come up with several threads in this and other forums with speculation and solutions to the problem. If only it hadn’t been broken in the first place. But it is what it is, and that is broken.
Joe Murray
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compared to the Kona 2 on a dual 2.7 system, yes I do have more audio static. I’ve gotten pretty good at hitting option F12, or whatever the quickkey is for “Refresh AV Devices” under the View menu.
Joe Murray
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I just rendered pulldown with After Effects and it does look much better. It’s not that I want this new footage to look like the old, I want it to look better, more filmic, so the new footage accomplishes that. And actually shooting DVCPro 50 uses up more P2 and drive space than 720p 24pn. 8G card gives you 20 minutes at 720p 24pn and only 15-16 minutes on DVCPro50.
Joe Murray
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Is there something that Shake does that After Effects, Combustion or Twixtor can not do? All these programs can deal with frame rate conversions pretty well.
I used to add pulldown all the time working on a Discreet Smoke system and it was incredibly fast and easy. I know I can do this with any of these desktop graphics programs as well, all of which I have except Shake. I’ll do a test and report back.
Joe Murray
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>>>Why did you shoot 24pn if you knew you were going to be cutting it into a 29.97 SD project? Why didn’t you shoot the same format that already existed? That camera shoots 81 different formats.
I’m aware of the formats the camera shoots. Why shoot 24pn?
1. Storage space on P2 and P2 store
2. Had to render down to SD anyway
3. Adding pulldown to 24 frame footage is not a new or difficult technique
4. Have tested this on other projects and it works
5. For effects shots or graphics comps, easier to deal with progressive rather than interlaced footage with pulldown
6. Again, storage space on P2 and P2 store
So this time the only difference is a few shots that have more camera motion than in the previous test projects. The client hasn’t even said anything about the pulldown issue, but I know it could be better and want to get some ideas on how to improve certain shots.
Joe Murray
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I had a solution going for a while and it was to use Quicktime 6 on the PC side instead of Quicktime 7. But this causes other issues because we work with DVCProHD and DVCPro50 files sometimes and couldn’t get Quicktime 6 to play those on the PC. But you might try retro-grading your PC version of Quicktime and see if that works for your situation.
Joe Murray
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Ramona, that’s an almost helpful post…if there’s information “out there” can you point us to it with a link? Or elaborate? Would be nice to learn from your experience –
Please?
Joe Murray
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I’ve been using one of these:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812104062
with bare drives for temporary backup. $69 for a 250 Gig drive plus $25 for this little adapter makes it easy to backup to hard drives and there are definitely no screws involved. But I don’t really trust hard drives for permanent archive purposes. Up to this point I’ve archived everything to DVDs, but with more HD and P2 I am going to have to find a better solution. For me hard drives are not the answer, but I have had success using the above device to move stuff back and forth easily between drives and as a P2 backup device on location, tied to a laptop.
Now all I need is an inexpensive, padded storage case for these bare drives. Any takers?
Joe Murray
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I ordered the Caldigit S2VR 3.75 TB unit from Ron today. Thanks for the introduction to MaxxDigital and Ron. I may still build a Sonnet RAID 1 setup for protected project backup space but right now I just need more space and I need to plug it in and turn it on and start working. Sounds like the Caldigit is the ticket.
Joe
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I agree with you when it comes to protected RAID storage, but with RAID 0 I figure I’m relying on the reliability of the drives I buy anyway since one failure means a total loss of data. Also I’ve built several RAIDs myself over the years, including SCSI RAIDs and they’ve been reliable. SATA makes the job even easier.
Joe