John Christie
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Try changing the battery, that worked for a friend of mine a few weeks ago on a G5. (Actually she just jiggled the battery and that worked) I had the same problem on a Dual 800 G4 and it was because of a dead battery.
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John Christie
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Josh
Did you ever find a solution for this problem? I have a near identical set-up and I’m getting exactly the same problem with my Digibeta
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The benefit is improved graphic reproduction and improved colour reproduction (when you use the chroma smoothing filter)
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It’s only better if you’re going out to a higher quality deck such as Digibeta or DVC pro 50 or your encoding to DVD straight from FCP. If you’re outputting back to DVcam then there’s no benefit.
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John Christie
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You’re right, I’m not adding anything to the existing colour. There is no more info than what’s on the original tape. But I am now colour-correcting and working in an uncompressed colour space which looks much better than DV.
The only thing I’m adding is the all-important “u” in the word colour 🙂
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Let me throw in my workflow. I deal with a lot of clients who offline their shows in DV. They media manage the finished show to a firewire drive and bring it to me. I load up the project and duplicate their finished sequence, changing the sequence settings to Uncompressed 10 bit. (I have a Blackmagic card in my on-line system)
If the material is interlaced, I move it down one line in the motion tab to align the fields correctly. (This is because of the difference between DV 480 frame height and uncompressed 486 frame height) I then colour correct the shows and add the chroma resample filter included in the free Too Much Too Soon filter set (But make a donation, it’s a great filter set). Then I output via SDI to Digital betacam.
I haven’t seen a better workflow for material that originated on DV. Some people say you can get slightly better images capturing from a DV deck with SDI output, but in tests I’ve done, I haven’t seen a difference. The chroma resample filter takes care of DV vertical chroma banding in dark intense colours like red. I’ve deliverd hours of material to broadcasters using this workflow without any complaints
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Mike
Have you tried turning off overlays on your Canvas window?
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John Christie
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Open a clip from your sequence in the viewer and check inside the motion tab to see if any scaling or distort has been added to your clips. I find that’s an issue when reusing media in different rez timelines.
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John Christie
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Hi Sean
As a former Cinewave owner, I feel your pain. Keep in mind the Multibridge Studio isn’t shipping yet, but I spent a lot of time at the Blackmagic booth at NAB. The Multibridge Studio is designed around PCI Express, The card that goes in the computer is a very simple interface card, all the video processing happens in the MB itself. They mentioned 2 lengths of cable that could be used between the interface card and the MB, and I think the longest one was over 3 meters (but don’t quote me on that) Grant Petty was saying that the cable has to be spec’d very carefully and there is a limit on the length. Blackmagic spoke as well about an interface card for existing Powermac owners that will convert PCI-X to PCI-express although you won’t have the speed of PCI Express.If I were you, I’d hang on until the Multibridge and the new quad-processors Powermacs ship. The combination of the two is going to be very powerful.
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John Christie
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Matt
How does the Dell look vs using an HDLink and the Dell. I assume your connecting the Dell via component?
[Matt Dowling] “But if you want to monitor in true 1080/24p, HDLink and or a Dell 24″ LCD is the way to go. We all use the Dell 24″ in house – fantastic monitors and great value for money.”
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