[John Barnard]

The Componant analog always works fine. I have them both hooked up to the monitor and I switch to the analog input on the monitor when the problem happens in the middle of a session.

OS 10.4.3
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 5
Sony DSR-45
QT 7
Decklink drivers 5

[John Barnard]

It was the drop shadow on a motion tab. Apparently I’m no longer able to use drop shadows in 10 bit mode. What the?

[John Barnard]

So then in theory, I could just bring by z1 camera into the Varicam online suite, hook up the firewire cable and have the editor batch capture the HDV into final cut using HDV easysetup, then switch back to the varicam easysetup (at which point the HDV would become unrendered) and hit render on the varicam sequence. How bout that?

My problem is that the HDV will be intercut with the varicam. This seems like it might best cut my time in the online suite.

Will there be any resizing of field rendering issues putting HDV into a Varicam sequence?

[John Barnard]

Just do everything normally, but after you’ve captured your anamorphic footage check the “anamorphic” column of the clip in the browser. The clip expands out to 16:9.

Make sure you check the anamorphic box in your sequence settings too.

I just use the blackmagic easysetups and the two steps listed above

OS 10.3.8
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45
QT 6.5
Decklink drivers 4.8

[John Barnard]

Okay, but I’ll have to be sneaky. My wife is pretty tight with the foil.

OS 10.3.9
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45

[John Barnard]

Happy. I have two CRT computer monitors beside my video monitor. Switching the video monitor on causes a big disturbance in the one immediatly adjacent, but none whatsoever in the further one. I guess I should try to keep everything one monitor length away.

OS 10.3.9
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45

[John Barnard]

In answer to those questions –

Yes, I just take the dv sequence (the whole sequence) and drop it into 10bit uncompressed sequence. Using the motion window I think you have to more it down one pixel. If you’ve got a sharp image on screeen, you’ll see the difference right away. But I’m working in NTSC, so it might be different for you – either way, you’ll know it as soon as you’ve got it.

THen I take the final mix from the protools guy (2track stereo) and drop it into that 10 bit sequence, erasing the audio from the DV sequence.

THen I export a 10 bit verion of this and a photojpeg version. For a 22 min show (again in NTSC) I get about a 35 gig file from the uncompressed and a 4 gig file photo-jpeg. I NEVER use the media manager because like many others, I’ve found it doesn’t work at all.

Or, instead of exporting, you can just render the 10 bit sequence.

John

OS 10.3.9
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45

[John Barnard]

You’ll end up doing all your offline in DV, then onlining to 10 bit. It’s good. The card outputs the DV signal through the SDI and analog outs at the same time. I’ve never used the offline RT

I use the photo-jpeg codec for keeping a rendered output of everything on my system, but I’ve found it useless for editing. You have to render everything and I’ve found it causes sequences to get buggy and hard to work with.

When you’re cutting a DV source, you can capture through firewire, then just drop the DV sequence into 10-bit sequence, more it up or down by a pixel to make it sharp and hit render. I’m no video engineer, but it seems to look good and you don’t have to re-dig.

As far as I’ve disovered, if you output an OMF, the protools dude won’t get any of your levels or filters. You have an option to include crossfades and handles. It sucks.

The card has served me well for about 9 months and I’m usually able to solve my problems on this forum.

OS 10.3.9
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45

[John Barnard]

Thanks Bob. That’s actually a relief – I thought something was wrong with the remote. It’s funny, I’ve had the Decklink since october and I guess this is the first time I’ve tried to do a proper layback to my own deck.

OS 10.3.9
G5 1.8 single
Huge Mediavault
Atto ul4d2
final cut 4.5
Sony DSR-45